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Free Download Rachel Orzech, "Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944 "
English | ISBN: 1580469701 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press's attempts to claim Richard Wagner's place in French history and imagination during the unstable and conflict-ridden years of the Third Reich.

Free Download City Lights (BFI Film Classics) by Charles J. Maland
English | June 27, 2007 | ISBN: 1844571750 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 18.4 MB
In 1967, Charlie Chaplin told an interviewer, "I think I like City Lights the best of all my films." Speaking of the film's famous ending, James Agee wrote that "it is enough to shrivel the heart to see." Although City Lights had a long and extremely difficult production history, the final film, in Alistair Cooke's apt words, flows "like water over pebbles, smooth and simple for all to see with no hint of the groaning pressure that had gone into it." It could easily have been otherwise.

Free Download Helen B. McCartney, "Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War "
English | ISBN: 0521848008 | 2005 | 294 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and official sources relating to Liverpool units, Helen McCartney shows how ordinary men were able to retain their civilian outlook and use it to influence their experience in the trenches. These citizen soldiers came to rely on local, civilian loyalties and strong links with home to bolster their morale and challenge those in command.

Free Download Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image by Paul Coates
English | November 22, 2010 | ISBN: 184457315X, 1844573141 | True EPUB | pages | 11.96 MB
Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and engages with a range of critical approaches to filmic colour, building on the work of such theorists as Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim and Stanley Cavell.

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by Collection, The Pinault;Wintour, Anna;, Condé Nast Archive
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1419766627 | 635 pages | True EPUB | 58.63 MB

Free Download Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis: The Chronicle of Anonymous of Canterbury 1346-1365 By Anonymous of Canterbury; Charity Scott-Stokes; Christopher Given-Wilson
2008 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 0199297142 | PDF | 13 MB
This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and diplomacy, written at Canterbury shortly after the mid-fourteenth century. The previous edition, published in 1914, was based on a manuscript from which the text for the years 1357 to 1364 was missing. Presented here in full with a modern English translation, the chronicle provides a key narrative of military and political events covering the years from 1346 to 1365.Concentrating principally on the campaigns of the Hundred Years War and their impact upon the inhabitants of south-east England, the author took advantage of his position on the main news route between London and Paris to provide a detailed account of a crucial phase in British and European history.

Free Download Chromebook for Dummies
by Gregory, Peter H.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394168802 | 483 pages | True PDF | 44.44 MB

Free Download Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann by Edward Blickstein, Gregor Benko
English | September 5, 2013 | ISBN: 0810884968, 1442252790 | True EPUB/PDF | 488 pages | 14/17.2 MB
Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest player of Chopin's works, Pachmann embedded comedic elements-be it fiddling with his piano bench or flirting with the audience-within his classic piano recitals to alleviate his own anxiety over performing. But this wunderkind, whose admirers included Franz Liszt and music critic James Gibbons Huneker (who cheekily nicknamed Pachmann the "Chopinzee"), would by the turn of the century find his antics on the concert stage scorned by critics and out of fashion with listeners, burying his pianistic legacy.

Free Download Johanna Schoen, "Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare "
English | ISBN: 0807855855 | 2005 | 352 pages | EPUB | 559 KB
In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired in part by the research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case histories and the papers of the North Carolina Eugenics Board.

Free Download , "Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts"
English | ISBN: 0295751223 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in the Chinese tradition. From poetry, letters, and diaries to statements in legal proceedings, these engaging and readable works draw us into the past and provide vivid details of life as it was lived from the pre-imperial period to the nineteenth century. Some focus on a person's entire life, others on a specific moment. Some have an element of humor, others are entirely serious. Taken together, these selections offer an intimate view of how Chinese men and women, both famous and obscure, reflected on their experiences as well as their personal struggles and innermost thoughts.