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 Daniel Ogden, "The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World" English | ISBN: 1107164788 | 2017 | 400 pages | PDF | 57 MB In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition.  The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes, James M.;Posner, Barry Z.; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119736129 | 415 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.1 MB  Ray Long, "The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer" English | ISBN: 0252044479 | 2022 | 312 pages | EPUB | 4 MB Michael Madigan rose from the Chicago machine to hold unprecedented power as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. In his thirty-six years wielding the gavel, Madigan outlasted governors, passed or blocked legislation at will, and outmaneuvered virtually every attempt to limit his reach.  Ryan Lindner, "The Half-Known Life: What Matters Most When You're Running Out of Time" English | ISBN: 1646636457 | 2022 | 166 pages | EPUB | 618 KB The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core-a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into a moment of clarity. Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them. Why wait until you're burnt out or for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life? Who are you when all of the accolades and accomplishments are gone? What does how you manage your time say about what's important to you-about what matters most? Get out of your head and get into your life, before it slips away.  The HBD Cookbook: Life-changing recipes for long-term health and perfect weight by Petronella Ravenshear English | May 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 0008600783 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 121.59 MB Change the way you eat to change the way you feel.  Payal Kothari, "The Gut: Story of Our Incredible Second Brain" English | ISBN: 9390547016 | 2021 | 232 pages | MOBI | 2 MB How does the gut affect immunity? What is the connection of our gut and mental health? How can we cure issues like acidity, obesity and brain fog? The good news is that almost any ailment can be healed. The key is not just managing the symptoms but treating it from its root cause-the gut! Your gut is a host to 100 trillion bacteria, good and bad, living in synergy with each other to help fight against pathogens, diseases and germ attacks. It also helps accelerate your weight loss journey as well as build and boost immunity to fight any virus. The gut is also the main reason you can remember and reason things; it is where your fight-flight responses lay. It helps builds your cognitive fitness and protects your mental well-being as it is also your happy hormone secretor. However, modern lifestyle changes have made our guts more vulnerable than ever before. Payal Kothari's The Gut is all about understanding your bio-individual needs. It simplifies ways to heal simple and chronic illnesses by eating the right foods and releasing stress from your gut. The gut is the core of who we are, and this fascinating book tells you how to start listening to your gut instincts-from simple things like what to eat to closing a million-dollar deal!  Tommaso Pavone, "The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe " English | ISBN: 1316513912 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 16 MB The European Union is often depicted as a cradle of judicial activism and a polity built by courts. Tommaso Pavone shows how this judge-centric narrative conceals a crucial arena for political action. Beneath the radar, Europe's political development unfolded as a struggle between judges who resisted European law and lawyers who pushed them to embrace change. Under the sheepskin of rights-conscious litigants and activist courts, these "Euro-lawyers" sought clients willing to break state laws conflicting with European law, lobbied national judges to uphold European rules, and propelled them to submit noncompliance cases to the European Union's supreme court - the European Court of Justice - by ghostwriting their referrals. By shadowing lawyers who encourage deliberate law-breaking and mobilize courts against their own governments, The Ghostwriters overturns the conventional wisdom regarding the judicial construction of Europe and illuminates how the politics of lawyers can profoundly impact institutional change and transnational governance.  The Female Turn: How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811971609 | 432 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy, reserved and sexually passive, to having active sexual strategies and often mating with multiple males. Why did it take so long to discover female active sexual strategies? What prevented some researchers from engaging in sexually active females, and what prompted others to develop this new knowledge?  Anne van Aaken, "The European Convention on Human Rights and General International Law " English | ISBN: 0198830009 | 2018 | 352 pages | EPUB, PDF | 907 KB + 2 MB The European Court of Human Rights is one of the main players in interpreting international human rights law where issues of general international law arise. While developing its own jurisprudence for the protection of human rights in the European context, it remains embedded in the developments of general international law. However, because the Court does not always follow general international law closely and develops its own doctrines, which are, in turn, influential for national courts as well as other international courts and tribunals, a feedback loop of influence occurs.  The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art By Eric C Rath 2004 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0674013972 | PDF | 9 MB Since the inception of the noh drama six centuries ago, actors have resisted the notion that noh rests on natural talent alone. Correct performance, they claim, demands adherence to traditions. Yet what constitutes noh's traditions and who can claim authority over them have been in dispute throughout its history. This book traces how definitions of noh, both as an art and as a profession, have changed over time. The author seeks to show that the definition of noh as an art is inseparable from its definition as a profession. The aim of this book is to describe how memories of the past become traditions, as well as the role of these traditions in the institutional development of the noh theatre from its beginnings in the fourteenth century through the late twentieth century. It focuses on the development of the key traditions that constitute the "ethos of noh," the ideology that empowered certain groups of actors at the expense of others, and how this ethos fostered noh's professionalisation - its growth from a loose occupation into a closed, regulated vocation. The author argues that the traditions that form the ethos of noh, such as those surrounding masks and manuscripts, are the key traits that define it as an art. |
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