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The Rough Guide to Corfu By Nick Edwards
2003 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1843530384 | PDF | 38 MB
INTRODUCTION Dangling off the northwest coast of mainland Greece, at the point where the Adriatic meets the Ionian Sea, the lush green sickle of Corfu (Kérkyra) is the closest Greek island to Italy and almost brushes against Albania to the north. Historically, the island has always been on the margins of mainstream Greek history and at the mercy of northern invaders, whose cultures, particularly those of the Venetians and the British, fused with that of the island. Although not the largest of the Ionian Islands, it has long been the cultural heart of the group and the best known to foreigners, especially as it was one of the first Greek destinations to attract large numbers from abroad. Corfu has some of the best beaches in the archipelago no fewer than 33 of them were awarded blue flags in 2002 with idyllic bays that still retain echoes of the "delectable landscape" Lawrence Durrell described in Prosperos Cell. In the last decade islanders have worked hard to dispel the questionable reputation Corfu earned with the coming of mass tourism in the Sixties. Although there are a couple of destinations on the island where visitors still come to party hard, the majority of the resorts are relaxed, family-friendly affairs. These days you are as likely to meet someone visiting Corfu on a hiking holiday, or renting a villa, as holiday-makers on all-inclusive packages. Even the busiest resorts are only a few minutes walk away from quieter coastline and the interior. A little exploration further afield soon reveals authentic villages and unspoilt rural areas, where agriculture the other mainstay of the islands economy thrives. Corfu is a holiday destination that people return to again and again; many northern Europeans have been coming to the island for twenty or thirty years. One of the reasons they return beyond the landscape, the sunshine and some of the finest swimming and watersports in the Mediterranean is the welcome extended at all but the largest resorts. The Corfiots friendliness and kindness to strangers the quality of filoxenía can still astonish with its generosity and grace.

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The Rough Guide Ibiza and Formentera By Iain Stewart
2003 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1843530635 | PDF | 122 MB
INTRODUCTION Ibiza is an island of excess. Widely acclaimed as the worlds clubbing capital, its a unique and almost absurdly hedonistic place, where the nights are celebrated with tremendous vitality. Thanks largely to the British tabloid press, the popular perception of Ibiza is of a charmless, high-rise party destination, but, while its true that high-octane techno tourism is central to the local economy, theres much more to the island than the club scene. Ibizas scenery is captivating dotted around its dazzling shoreline are more than fifty beaches, ranging from expansive sweeps of sand to exquisite, miniature coves beneath soaring cliffs. Many of the best beaches were insensitively transformed into functional holiday resorts in the 1960s, but plenty of pristine places remain. Ibizas hilly, thickly wooded interior is peppered with isolated whitewashed villages and terraced fields of almonds, figs and olives. The cosmopolitan capital, Ibiza Town, has most of the islands architectural treats, including the spectacular walled enclave of Dalt Vila, and a historic port area with hip bars, stylish restaurants and fashionable boutiques. Within easy reach are the small beach resorts of Talamanca and Figueretes, pleasant enough places to spend a day by the sea. However, for a better selection of beaches, head for the disparate east coast, dotted with family resorts such as Cala Llonga as well as beautiful undeveloped coves like Cala Boix and Cala Mastella, and the slender sands of Aigües Blanques, a naturist beach. The east coasts main town, Santa Eulària is an agreeable but unremarkable place, though youll find a decent restaurant strip here as well as historical and cultural interest on the Puig de Missa hilltop above the town. The isolated, remote northwest is Ibizas least developed region, with a rugged coastline ideal for hiking, the two small resorts of Portinatx and Port de Sant Miquel, and a smattering of spectacular coves including the cliff-backed bays of Cala den Serra, Benirràs and Portitxol. Inland, the scenery is equally impressive, dominated by the lofty pine-clad Els Amunts hills; between these peaks lie a succession of diminutive, isolated settlements such as Sant Joan and Sant Miquel, each with its own fortified whitewashed church and a rustic bar or two. Ibizas bohemian character, rooted in 1960s ethics, remains particularly strong in the north of the island, where youll find yoga retreats, ethnic bazaars and a large population of hippy-minded residents. On the western coast, Ibizas second largest town, Sant Antoni, is no architectural beauty, but can boast a dynamic bar and club scene, plus a selection of mellower chillout bars on its much-touted Sunset Strip, home of the legendary Café del Mar. Sant Antonis beaches tend to get packed in high season, but west of the town, Cala Conta and Cala Bassa offer luminous water and fine, gently shelving sands. The wildly beautiful south of the island boasts over a dozen beaches, from tiny remote coves like Cala Llentrisca and Cala Molí to the sweeping sands of Salines beach and Es Cavallet on the outskirts of Ibiza Town two of Ibizas most fashionable places to pose. Serene, easygoing Formentera, the other main island of the Pitiuses, is just a short ferry ride south of Ibiza. With few historical sights apart from some sombre fortress-churches and a few minor archeological ruins, Formenteras main appeal is its relaxed, unhurried nature and its miles of ravishing, empty sands that shelve into breathtakingly translucent water. Comprised of two flat promontories linked by a narrow central isthmus, the island is very thinly populated; even Sant Francesc Xavier, the attractive but drowsy capital, is little more than village-sized. Though Formentera is equally dependent on tourism, its much less developed than Ibiza; its best beaches Platja Illetes and Platja Migjorn have barely been touched, and the sole resort, Es Pujols, is a pleasantly small-scale affair.

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The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings (NYRB Classics) by Paul Lafargue, translated by Alex Andriesse
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1681376822 | True EPUB | 136 pages | 1.1 MB
Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production.

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The Revolt Against Empire By R. M. West
2013 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 1492341606 | PDF | 1 MB
"The Revolt Against Empire" is a nationalist novel depicting a war between a Chinese-led globalist empire and the European-American world.

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Jacob Taylor, "The Rebel Allocator"
English | ISBN: 173268832X | 2018 | 268 pages | EPUB | 426 KB
Good capital allocation is the secret sauce of business success and investment returns. How could what you spend money on inside a business NOT be of utmost importance?I looked for a business person's guide to effective capital allocation for years. I thought, "What a nice gift to send to the CEOs of my portfolio companies!" as visions of outsized returns danced in my head. To my dismay, the search came up dry. I decided I'd have to write my own.I started at the individual customer transaction level and built all the way up to M&A, share buybacks, and beyond. To keep from boring you, I wrapped the lessons in a coming-of-age story of a college grad crossing paths with a wealthy Midwesterner. Imagine if The Karate Kid's Mr. Miyagi was modeled after a certain well-known Oracle. (OK, it's not The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm not the most original guy.)This book is for you if:** You're a business decision-maker who was never taught good capital allocation and you're wondering what you're missing. These lessons apply to small business people and Fortune 100 titans, and everyone in between. It doesn't matter if you're public or private, this book will help. ** You're building or advising start-ups. Today's disrupter is tomorrow's capital allocator. Learn it early and save yourself a ton of headache. ** You're an investor who appreciates the studies finding good capital allocators outperform the S&P 500 by 20x (no joke), and you want an easy way to help management and board members make better decisions. This book will also aid you in spotting those doing capital allocation right-such a huge advantage. (This was my original itch I wanted scratched. Part of me wanted to keep this book to myself and only send it to the management teams in my portfolio.) ** You're fresh out of school and want to learn the good, and sometimes bad, sides of business. Or you might want to kindle an appreciation for the wonders of capitalism. (Please don't send a copy of this book to Bernie Sanders.) And perhaps most importantly, your journey will be less painful when mixed with a splash of humor and movie-like pacing. Even if you're like me and read non-fiction almost exclusively, you're going to be glad you took a chance on this one. This is fiction for the non-fiction reader. Yours in improving capital allocation,Jake

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Jenn Pelly, "The Raincoats' The Raincoats "
English | ISBN: 150130240X | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be. They had a violin player. They came from Portugal, Spain, and England. Their anarchy was poetic. Working with the iconic Rough Trade Records at its radical beginnings, they were the first group of punk women to actively call themselves feminists.

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The Practical Permaculture Project: Connect to Nature and Discover the Best Organic Soil and Water Management Techniques to Design and Build your Thriving, Sustainable, Self-sufficient Garden by Sophie McKay
English | May 18, 2022 | ISBN: 1739735625 | 158 pages | EPUB | 2.04 Mb
The freshest and most delicious food possible is waiting for you... and you don't have to have any experience to get started.

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Eva Mozes Kor, "The Power of Forgiveness"
English | ISBN: 1949481441 | 2021 | 200 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Eva Mozes Kor forges a path of reconciliation and healing as a Holocaust survivor, sharing her life-changing message that forgiveness frees us from the pain of the past.

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Filipe Carreira da Silva, Monica Brito Vieira, "The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas"
English | 2019 | pages: 273 | ISBN: 0271083425, 0271083433 | PDF | 2,0 mb
It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance, appropriation, and reception over time.

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The Philosopher's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook By Francine Segan
2004 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1400060990 | PDF | 18 MB
"It is the culinary legacy of the ancients that inspired this cookbook. . . Re-creating the cuisine of the ancient Greeks and Romans helps us connect in some small but wonderful way to their time, teachings, and lives."-from the Introduction of The Philosopher's Kitchen"Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily," said the Greek philosopher Epicurus two thousand years ago. Certainly the dazzlingly varied, subtly seasoned cuisine of ancient Greece and Rome measured up to the highest standards of eating pleasure. The Philosopher's Kitchen offers seductive, modern interpretations of these dishes using a variety of sources, from writings by Plato, Aristotle, Homer, and Cicero to the oldest known surviving cookbook.Here is a rich array of culinary delights, ab ovo usque ab malum, or "from eggs to fruit," as the Romans said. Mussels in Cumin Sherry Sauce, Chestnut-Mint Puree, Chicken Breasts with Hazelnut Pesto, Lamb with Pomegranate-Glazed Onions, and Walnut Cake with Fig Jam are just a few of the delicious, healthy, and gorgeous recipes in this book that will delight and surprise the modern cook.Francine Segan also allows us a glimpse into the ancient world by putting each recipe in its cultural context, taking us to Greek feasts and Roman banquets and revealing customs, expressions, and superstitions that are still very much a part of modern life. She shares tips on entertaining, even including sample invitations a host can use to summon friends to a Roman spread of his or her own.Organized for easy, efficient use and replete with Tim Turner's stunning photographs, The Philosopher's Kitchen is a glorious buffet for the senses, providing literal food for thought.

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