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 Rhonda Dibachi, "Just Add Management: Seven Steps to Creating a Productive Workplace and Motivating Your Employees in Challenging Times" English | 2004 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 007143917X | PDF | 1,5 mb "Just Add Management marries solid, up-to-date productivity techniques with a mature, commonsense message refreshing to any manager."  Beth L Blair, "Jumbo Jokes And Riddles Book: Hours of Gut-bustingfun!" English | 2006 | ISBN: 1598690493 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 10.9 mb Presents young readers with a series of riddles, knock-knock jokes, crossword puzzles, and humorous drawings.  John Cage (Critical Lives) By Rob Haskins 2012 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 186189905X | PDF | 1 MB American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912-92) is best known for his experimental composition 4'33," a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4'33", as well as Sonatas and Interludes not only established Cage as a leading figure in the postwar avant-garde movement, but also cemented the enduring controversy surrounding his work.In this new biography, Rob Haskins explores Cage's radical approach to art and aesthetics and his belief that everyday life and art are one and the same. Scrutinizing Cage's emphasis on chance over intention, which rejected traditional artistic methods and caused an uproar among his peers, Haskins elucidates the ideas that lay behind these pillars of Cage's work. Haskins also demystifies the influence of Eastern cultures, particularly Zen Buddhism, on Cage, including his use of the Chinese text I Ching as his standard composition tool in all his work after 1951. Adding to our understanding of the art, music, and ideas of the twentieth century, this book provides an engaging look at a man who continues to challenge and inspire artists worldwide.  Jimmy Adams, "Johannes Zukertort: Artist of the Chessboard" English | 2014 | pages: 535 | ISBN: 9056914960 | PDF | 49,5 mb As one of the contestants in the first official World Championship match in 1886, Johannes Hermann Zukertort (1842-1888), is undeniably one of the great players of chess history. Despite a commanding lead in the early stages of that match, Zukertort ultimately had to bow for Steinitz, plagued by health problems that would cause his untimely death only two years later. The high-point of Zukertort's career was his triumph at the 1883 'super-tournament' in London. His dazzling win against Blackburne still stands as one of the greatest games of all time.
 Michael J. Budds, "Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th Century German Music" English | 2002 | pages: 229 | ISBN: 1576470725 | PDF | 16,9 mb Twelve essays focus on American jazz influences in Germany, where this musical expression was popular for much of the past century both in popular culture and in the arts realm. Contributions by American and German musicologists and scholars discuss how the sounds of ragtime, spirituals, the blues,
 Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919-1933 By Josephine Fowler 2007 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0813540410 | PDF | 3 MB Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific.Drawing on multilingual correspondence between left-wing and party members and other primary sources, such as records from branches of the Japanese Workers Association and the Chinese Nationalist Party, Fowler shows how pressures from the Comintern for various sub-groups of the party to unite as an "American" working class were met with resistance. The book also challenges longstanding stereotypes about the relationships among the Communist Party in the United States, the Comintern, and the Soviet Party.
 Joshua Warren, "It Was a Dark and Creepy Night: Real-Life Encounters with the Strange, Mysterious, and Downright Terrifying" English | ISBN: 1601633289 | 2014 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4 MB There were only three rules when Joshua P. Warren began collecting these stories from around the world: they had to be true, they had to be short, and they had to send a shiver down your spine.  Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, "Israelism in Modern Britain " English | ISBN: 0367376679 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK. Remarkably, this subject has had very little attention: remarkable, because at its height in the post-war era, the British-Israelist movement could claim to have tens of thousands of card-carrying adherents and counted amongst its membership admirals, peers, television personalities, MPs and members of the royal family including the King of England.
 Anoushiravan Ehteshami, "Islam, IS and the Fragmented State: The Challenges of Political Islam in the MENA Region " English | ISBN: 0367530104 | 2022 | 234 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book provides a pioneering and original study of the regional effects of political Islam. It sets out the multifaceted interactions between Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, focussing in particular on the so-called Islamic State (IS) organization in its broad discussion of political Islam. Utilizing a trans-disciplinary perspective, the book interacts with social constructivism and complex realism theories to analyse the clash between the modern notion of the state and that of identity in the region.  Buntzie Churchill, "Islam: The Religion and the People" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0134431197, 0132230852 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.1 mb For many people, Islam remains a mystery. Here Bernard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill examine Islam: what its adherents believe and how their religion has shaped them, their rich and diverse cultures, and their politics over more than 14 centuries. Considered one of the West's leading experts on Islam, Lewis, with Churchill, has written an illuminating introduction for those who want to understand the faith and the global challenges it confronts and presents. Whatever your political, personal, or religious views, this book will help you understand Islam's reality. |
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