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 Rick Steves Snapshot Northern Ireland, 7th Edition by Rick Steves, Pat O'Connor English | January 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1641715294 | 136 pages | True EPUB | 7.98 MB With Rick Steves, Northern Ireland is yours to discover!  Rick Steves Snapshot Dublin, 7th Edition by Rick Steves, Pat O'Connor English | January 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1641715278 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 9.39 MB With Rick Steves, Dublin is yours to discover!  Rick Steves Portugal, 12th Edition by Rick Steves English | January 31st, 2023 | ISBN: 1641715138 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 25.34 MB Stroll Lisbon's cobbled lanes, cruise the Douro River, and soak up the sun on Algarve beaches: experience Portugal with Rick Steves!  Claire Jowitt, "Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe " English | ISBN: 1409400174 | 2012 | 402 pages | PDF | 6 MB Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also translated major European travel texts, championed English settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections: 'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections'; 'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics, Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.  Retrieving Darwin's Revolutionary Idea : The Reluctant Radical by Samuel Grove English | 2021 | ISBN: 1793632499 | 301 Pages | True PDF | 28 MB  Christine Kooi, "Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620" English | ISBN: 1009073958 | 2022 | 236 pages | PDF | 6 MB This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, Christine Kooi focuses particularly on the political context of the era: how religious change took place against the integration and disintegration of the Habsburg composite state in the Netherlands. Special attention is given to the Reformation's role in both fomenting and fuelling the Revolt against the Habsburg regime in the later sixteenth century, as well as how it contributed to the formation of the region's two successor states, the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, bringing together specialized, contemporary research on the Low Countries in one volume.  Gabriella Safran, "Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century" English | ISBN: 1501766325 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 32 MB Recording Russia examines scenes of listening to "the people" across a variety of texts by Russian writers and European travelers to Russia. Gabriella Safran challenges readings of these works that essentialize Russia as a singular place where communication between the classes is consistently fraught, arguing instead that, as in the West, the sense of separation or connection between intellectuals and those they interviewed or observed is as much about technology and performance as politics and emotions.
 Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: The Joy Division Years By Stephen Morris 2020 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 147212622X | EPUB | 5 MB THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to keep us hooked, and his memories of Joy Division's Ian Curtis are poignant' Daily MirrorBefore he was responsible for some of the most iconic drumming in popular music, Stephen Morris grew up in 1960s and '70s industrial Macclesfield, on a quiet road that led seemingly to nowhere. Far removed from the bright lights and manic energy of nearby Manchester, he felt stifled by suburbia and feared he might never escape. Then he joined Joy Division - while they were still known as Warsaw - a pioneer of the rousing post-punk sound that would revolutionise twentieth-century rock.Following two landmark albums and widespread critical acclaim, Joy Division were at the height of their powers and poised to break the US, when lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide.Part memoir, part scrapbook and part aural history: Stephen Morris's innate sense of rhythm and verve pulses through Record Play Pause. From recollections of growing up in the North West to the founding of New Order, Morris never strays far from the music. And by turns profound and wry, this book subverts the mythology and allows us to understand music's power to define who we are and what we become.  V (formerly Eve Ensler), "Reckoning" English | ISBN: 163557904X | 2023 | EPUB | 272 pages | 10 MB A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season  Reasons to Pass by Birchmeier, Ralph; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231207085 | 317 pages | True PDF | 6.69 MB |
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