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Marilyn Yalom, "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0060090642, 0060090650 | 304 pages | EPUB | 0.3 MB
Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. In India, Persia, and the Arab lands, where the game was first played, a general, or vizier (chief counselor to the king), occupied the square where the queen now stands. Not until the year 1000, two hundred years after Arab conquerors brought chess to southern Europe, did a chess queen appear on the board. Initially she was the weakest piece, moving only one square at a time on the diagonal, yet by 1497, during the reign of Isabella of Castile, the chess queen had become the formidable force she is today.

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David Tossell, 'Big Mal: The High Life and Hard Times of Malcolm Allison, Football Legend"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1845964780, 184596330X | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.36 MB
Malcolm Allison is one of the most controversial figures of the last half-century of English football. Leader of the famed 'West Ham Academy', his playing career was cut short by the loss of a lung to tuberculosis. Disillusioned, he became a professional gambler before acknowledging that football was his calling. After humble beginnings as a coach, he began a celebrated partnership with Joe Mercer, turning Manchester City into one of the most stylish teams English football has produced.

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Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans By Frank Hoffmann; Andreas Schirmer
2015 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 3706908735 | PDF | 40 MB
In its first, almost book-length chapter, Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans provides a detailed account of Korean students, revolutionaries, and professionals in Berlin (of the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and National Socialist eras). Carefully researched and lavishly illustrated, the study provocatively exposes cultural and political connections that are often unexpected and disquieting. Two shorter essays analyze an artwork and mass-produced advertisement art to assess Germany's take on Korea and the East and what that means for the country's own search for identity and its stance on colonialism. The book challenges and extends established historical and art historical models regarding colonial modernity, the relationship between politics and modernism in art and dance, and the privileged status Nazism bestowed on international specialists. It makes exhaustive use of European, American, Korean, and Japanese primary and secondary materials and archival sources.

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Jeanette Winterson, "Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0679446443, 0099590018 | 192 pages | MOBI | 0.34 MB
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world-neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Anthology of Post-Tonal Music: For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music 2nd Edition by Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
2021 | ISBN: 036735540X, 0367355388 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 72 MB
This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, from pieces by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Bartok to works by Arvo Pärt, Thomas Adès, and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing the vast range of compositional styles encompassed in the post-tonal era, this volume offers a convenient compendium including hard-to-find scores. Designed for use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music by Miguel A. Roig-Francolí, which includes extensive analyses of the scores provided here, this anthology can also stand alone for study and analysis in other courses on the history and analysis of post-tonal music.

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Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature By Purdie, Rhiannon
2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1843841622 | PDF | 2 MB
Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way that no other verse form does. The first examples are recorded near the beginning of the fourteenth century and by the end of it Chaucer's Sir Thopas can rely on it to work as a shorthand for the entire Middle English romance tradition. How and why this came to be is the question that Anglicising Romance sets out to answer. Its five chapters discuss the stanza's origins; the use of tail-rhyme in Anglo-Noman literature; questions of transmission and manuscript layout; the romances of the Auchinleck manuscript; and the geographic spread of tail-rhyme romance. The individual entries in the Appendix present newly reassessed evidence for the provenance and date of each of the thirty-six extant tail-rhyme romances. RHIANNON PURDIE is Senior Lecturer in Mediaeval English at the University of St Andrews.

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Amazon Redshift Cookbook: Recipes for building modern data warehousing solutions
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800569688 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 21 MB
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale AWS cloud data warehousing service. It enables you to build new data warehouse workloads on AWS and migrate on-premises traditional data warehousing platforms to Redshift.

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100 Ways to Overcome Shyness: Go from Self-Conscious to Self-Confident by Barton Goldsmith, Marlena Hunter
English | August 18th, 2015 | ISBN: 1601633696 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.42 MB
100 Ways to Overcome Shyness is a powerful collection of useful information, case studies, and exercises on how to manage your shyness so you can communicate with people you don't know very well (or at all) in a wide range of personal and professional settings and circumstances.

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Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO: 50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work by Beverly E. Jones
English | December 21st, 2015 | ISBN: 1632650177 | 226 pages | True EPUB | 1.95 MB
Education plus experience once guaranteed a successful career, but no more! Today, success depends on your ability to adapt. You must be agile, willing to adjust your professional expectations, and able to respond quickly to opportunities and threats. In Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO you will learn practical ways to handle vexing workplace challenges.

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Gil Raz, "The Emergence of Daoism: Creation of Tradition "
English | ISBN: 0415778492 | 2012 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
At the core of Daoism are ancient ideas concerning the Way, the fundamental process of existence (the Dao). Humans, as individuals and as a society, should be aligned with the Dao in order to attain the fullness of life and its potential. This book presents the history of early Daoism, tracing the development of the tradition between the first and the fifth centuries CE.

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