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 Jessica Gabriel Peritz, "The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy" English | ISBN: 0520380797 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 3 MB How did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Ultimately, music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound.  Chang Kyung-Sup, "The Logic of Compressed Modernity" English | ISBN: 1509552898 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.  Jane Aaron, "The Little, Brown handbook, brief version" English | 2017 | pages: 579 | ISBN: 0134679431, 0134123069, 0134123077 | PDF | 14,6 mb For courses in first-year composition.
 The Language of Yoga: Complete A-to-Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants by Nicolai Bachman English | January 15th, 2015 | ISBN: 1683644743 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 33.56 MB An in-depth reference guide to the vast majority of Sanskrit posture names, terms, and chants used in yoga.  Tim Wallace-Murphy, "The Knights of the Holy Grail: The Secret History of The Knights Templar" English | ISBN: 1905857225 | 2016 | 320 pages | EPUB | 31 MB Explains the heretical spiritual beliefs of the Knights Templar and the Rex Deus families and examines their role in the loss of the Holy Land. This book charts their achievements in a range of endeavours, from building castles and cathedrals to laying the foundations of the modern marketplace.  The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids English | 2023 | ISBN: 0760375690 | 386 Pages | EPUB | 18 MB This engaging guide offers a series of snapshots of 25 scientists famous for their work with ecology. Each lab tells the story of a scientist along with some background about the importance of their work, and a description of where it is still being used or reflected in today's world.  Karla Mallette, "The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History" English | 2005 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0812238850 | PDF | 18,5 mb When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular.  James Carlos Blake, "The Killings of Stanley Ketchel: A Novel" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0060554371 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.3 mb Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, whose brief and meteoric life burned with violence and tragedy in and out of the ring. The Killings of Stanley Ketchel is a sweeping and powerful literary adventure by one of our most daring novelists.  Penny Billington, Ian Rees, "The Keys to the Temple" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1801520275 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 4.3 mb How to use the brilliant insights from Dion Fortune's occult novels to master the art of the embodied imagination, discover your vitality, and open up to the clarity and love that arise from the root of your being.Dion Fortune's esoteric novels were written as guides to magic and inner development to be used along with her great nonfiction work The Mystical Qabalah. This book shows how to work with her most popular fictions, exploring how the stories and characters can help you integrate the secrets of the Tree of Life and discover what Fortune called "the keys to the temple."The book contains an exploration of Fortune's writings, experiential practices, and a hands-on workbook section, you will learn to utilize the wealth of esoteric wisdom found in The Mystical Qabalah, The Goat-Foot God, The Sea Priestess, The Winged Bull, and Moon Magic'."This wonderful evocation of Dion Fortune's esoteric novels offers initiatory and practical pathways to the neophyte and reader!" - Caitlin & John Matthews, authors of The Lost Book of the Grail  Miles Harvey, "The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime" English | 2000 | ISBN: 0375501517, 0767908260 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 4.7 mb "Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where Miles Harvey, acting as writer and sleuth, pursues America's greatest map thief. This is a riveting, hilarious book of twists and turns, unexpected confessions and deep human truths. You will not rest until the last page." |
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