Tag: Elusive

April 25, 2024

Equality The History of an Elusive Idea, UK Edition

By  E-Books  0 Comments

Free Download Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, UK Edition by Darrin McMahon
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 180418683X | 528 pages | True EPUB | 9.63 MB
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom?

(more…)

January 30, 2024

Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio

By  E-Books  0 Comments

Free Download Xavier Jon Puslowski, "Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 144223802X | EPUB | pages: 204 | 0.8 mb
Many scholars, concert pianists, and classical music fans deem Franz Liszt the preeminent pianist of the nineteenth century. In Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio, Xavier Puslowski engages in a detailed study of the links between Liszt, his contemporaries, and his milieu. Drawing on Liszt’s famous Saint Stanislas Oratorio as a focal point, Puslowski brings together the history of the Romantic period in classical music and the intersection of key figures and historical events in his story of Liszt’s achievements told from a distinctly historicist perspective.

(more…)

January 21, 2024

The Elusive Embrace Desire and the Riddle of Identity

By  E-Books  0 Comments

Free Download Daniel Mendelsohn, "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity"
English | 2000 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0375706976, 0375400958 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead.

(more…)

December 29, 2023

JACK KENNEDY Elusive Hero

By  E-Books  0 Comments

Free Download Chris Matthews, "JACK KENNEDY: Elusive Hero"
English | 2011 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 1451635087, 1451635095 | EPUB | 23,7 mb
€œWhat was he like?€Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. With the verve of a novelist, Chris Matthews gives us just that. We see this most beloved president in the company of friends. We see and feel him close-up, having fun and giving off that restlessness of his. We watch him navigate his life from privileged, rebellious youth to gutsy American president. We witness his bravery in war and selfless rescue of his PT boat crew. We watch JFK as a young politician learning to play hardball and watch him grow into the leader who averts a nuclear war.What was he like, this person whose own wife called him €œthat elusive, unforgettable man€? The Jack Kennedy you discover here wanted never to be alone, never to be bored. He loved courage, hated war, lived each day as if it were his last.Chris Matthews€™s extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those closest to JFK, oral histories by top po

(more…)

December 25, 2023

The Elusive Road Towards Effective Cancer Prevention and Treatment

By  E-Books  0 Comments

Free Download The Elusive Road Towards Effective Cancer Prevention and Treatment by Franklyn De Silva, Jane Alcorn
English | October 31, 2022 | ISBN: 1032351306 | 245 pages | PDF | 8.71 Mb
Cancer will remain a global major health problem unless new diagnostic, prognostic, and management approaches are discovered to address both loss of life and quality of life. Here we summarize the general physiology, pathology, heterogeneity, and evolution of cancer, current status, limitations and challenges associated with prevention, incidence, treatment, survival, and mortality, as well as future directions with regards to solid tumors. Perspectives are provided on how to improve pre-clinical understandings, outcomes, and patient care. Further, this comprehensive, timely overview of the literature has educational value as part of an academic course, seminar, or as a supplementary text.

(more…)

September 16, 2023

American Cryptids In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures [Audiobook]

By  Audio Books  0 Comments

Free Download American Cryptids: In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCWSBPV5 | 2023 | 4 hours and 15 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 109 MB
Author: Kenney W. Irish
Narrator: TJ Clark
Welcome to the United States of Cryptids . . . please enjoy your stay! Each year across the United States, there are mysterious and unexplainable firsthand encounters by average people. These encounters beg the question, do monsters exist? From east to west across the US, professionals are actively researching these encounters to prove once and for all that these creatures do exist. American Cryptids takes you on a journey across the country, visiting each state along the way. On this adventure, renowned "cryptopunkologist," Kenney W. Irish, reviews historical data of each state, detailing Native American lore and chilling creature encounters with such cryptids as Sasquatch, Mothman, and Champ the Lake Champlain Monster, to name a few.

(more…)