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Free Download Mark Rowlands, "The Philosopher and the Wolf: lessons from the wild on love, death and happiness"
English | 2009 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1605980331, 1783784571 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his well-traveled wolf. After acquiring Brenin as a cub, it quickly became apparent that Breinin was never to be left alone, as the consequences to Mark’s house and its contents were dire. As a result, Brenin and Mark went everywhere together―from classroom lecture to Ireland, England, and France. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude to love, happiness, nature and death. By turns funny (what do you do when your wolf eats your air-conditioning unit?) and poignant, this life-affirming book will make you reappraise what it means to be human.

Free Download Yael Zarhy-Levo, "The Making of Theatrical Reputations: Studies from the Modern London Theatre"
English | 2008 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 1587296268 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Today’s successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators, who influence the whole trajectory of a playwright’s or a theatre company’s career. Critics and academic writers are primarily considered the makers of reputations, but funding organizations and various media agents as well as artistic directors, producers, and directors also pursue separate agendas in shaping the reputations of theatrical works. InThe Making of Theatrical ReputationsYael Zarhy-Levo demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory.

Free Download Zoë Bossiere, "The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins "
English | ISBN: 0814349609 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions in creative nonfiction, opening up space not only for new forms of writing, but also new voices and a new literary canon. This anthology features some of the best lyric essays published in the last several years by prominent and emerging writers. Editors Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold situate this anthology within the ongoing work of resistance―to genre convention, literary tradition, and the confines of dominant-culture spaces. As sites of resistance, these essays are diverse and include investigations into deeply personal and political topics such as queer and trans identity, the American BIPOC experience, reproductive justice, belonging, grief, and more.

Free Download The History of Dive Bombing: A Comprehensive History from 1911 Onward by Peter Smith
English | November 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1844155927 | 245 pages | PDF | 3.17 Mb
This is the incredible history of the dive bomber told from both official records and eyewitness accounts. It tears away the many myths and misrepresentations that surrounded this type of warplane and presents a truly original and detailed history, from the first true combat dive bombing by an RAF pilot in 1917 to the last stirring wartime actions. Interviews with the pilots who flew the combat missions in dive bombing aircraft of all the combatant nations give unique first-hand eyewitness viewpoints on many of the major actions and methods employed.

Free Download Mark Warren, "The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 042522757X, 039915499X | EPUB | pages: 328 | 0.3 mb
After a childhood of shocking poverty, Harry Reid completed law school, working as a policeman to pay his way. He faced death threats as the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission trying to clean up Las Vegas. Eventually he rose to become Senate Majority Leader in Washington-without ever forgetting the mining town he came from, or the battles he fought along the way. This is that rare book by a politician that is more than a glorified press release. It is an extraordinary American story-told in a voice that is flinty, real, and filled with passion.

Free Download The Gentleman From Peru by André Aciman
English | March 27, 2024 | ISBN: 0571385117 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 0.4 MB
We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we’re all crawling back, each in his or her own way.

Free Download Anna Bernasek, "The Economics of Integrity: From Dairy Farmers to Toyota, How Wealth Is Built on Trust and What That Means for Our Future"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0061774138 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.5 mb
"Anyone interested in understanding what makes our economy work must havethis on their bookshelf." -Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s

Free Download The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond by David Carlisle
English | December 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1394203195 | 288 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
Re-discover the crypto underground

Free Download The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 1 to 10: Foundations of the Buddhist Path By Choying Tobden Dorje
2015 | 976 Pages | ISBN: 1559394358 | EPUB | 2 MB
Ngawang Zangpo (Translator)In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational, and above all, practical. Its twenty-five books, or topical divisions, offer a comprehensive and detailed view of the Buddhist path according to the early translation school of Tibetan Buddhism, spanning the vast range of Buddhist teachings from the initial steps to the highest esoteric teachings of great perfection. Choying Tobden Dorje’s magnum opus appears in English here for the first time. In Foundations of the Buddhist Path, which covers the first ten of the treatise’s twenty-five books, the author surveys the scope of the entire work and then begins with the topics that set the cornerstones for all subsequent Buddhist practice: what constitutes proper spiritual apprenticeship, how to receive the teachings, how to make the best use of this life, and how to motivate ourselves to generate effort on the spiritual path. He then describes refuge and the vows that define the path of individual liberation before turning to the bodhisattva’s way-buddha nature, how to uplift the mind to supreme awakening, the bodhisattva’s training, and the attainments of the paths leading to supreme awakening.

Free Download Alister D. Inglis, "The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1438492545 | 2023 | 330 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Love stories formed a major part of the classical short story genre in China from as early as the eighth century, when men of letters began to write about romantic encounters. In later centuries, such stories provided inspiration for several new literary genres. While much scholarly attention has been focused on the short story of both the medieval and late imperial eras, comparatively little work has been attempted on the interim stage, the Song and Yuan dynasties, which spanned some five hundred years from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries. Yet this was a crucial developmental period for many forms of narrative literature-so much so that any understanding of late imperial narrative should be informed by the earlier tradition. The first study of its kind in English, The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century