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Free Download Tom Blank, "The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise"
English | ISBN: 1609388852 | 2023 | 261 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Principles of Comedy Improv is an authoritative handbook for beginners and experts alike. More than just entertainment, improv’s tenets enable you to change every moment of your life. Your guide is Tom Blank, who crystallizes two decades of experience to convey improv in unparalleled scope, depth, and fun.

Free Download Rella Kushelevsky, "Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma’asim in Medieval Northern France "
English | ISBN: 081434271X | 2017 | 816 pages | EPUB | 152 MB
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover’s wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant’s daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma’asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories’ meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.

Free Download Rella Kushelevsky, "Tales in Context: Sefer Ha-Ma’asim in Medieval Northern France "
English | ISBN: 081434271X | 2017 | 816 pages | EPUB | 152 MB
In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma’asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover’s wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant’s daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma’asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories’ meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight.

Free Download Joseph A. McCullough, "Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago: Tales of the Lost Isles"
English | 2017 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1472824687 | EPUB | 4,1 mb
The Ghost Archipelago has returned. A vast island chain, covered in the ruins of ancient and otherworldly civilizations, the Archipelago appears every few centuries, far out in the southern ocean. At such times, pirates, adventurers, wizards, and legendary heroes all descend upon the islands in the hopes of finding lost treasures and powerful artefacts. A few, drawn by the blood of their ancestors, search for the fabled Crystal Pool, whose waters grant abilities far beyond those of normal men. It is only the bravest, however, who venture into the islands, for they are filled with numerous deadly threats. Cannibal tribes, sorcerous snake-men, and poisonous water-beasts all inhabit the island ruins, guarding their treasure hordes and setting traps for the unwary.

Free Download Ana-Maria Baciu, "Fairy Tales and the Shift in Identity Poetics from Modernism to Postmodernism"
English | ISBN: 1527522865 | 2023 | 179 pages | PDF | 898 KB
The book reveals the historical change in the function of the generic form of the fairy tale: at the beginning of the twentieth century, fairy tales are no longer written or read for their stimulus to the imagination or their nostalgia towards past times, but with a political end in view: to define a nation’s identity meant to justify and support claims to a unitary state (Romania) or an independent state (Ireland). As such, this book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics at the time of the rise of modernist nationalism at the margins of Europe.

Free Download Jessamy Hawke, Barbara Hillary, "Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventures"
English | 2019 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1465481575, 024134378X | PDF | 125,8 mb
Live and see the world through the eyes of 50 of the world’s greatest explorers and their trusty companions!

Free Download Alan Mintz, "Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S.Y. Agnon "
English | ISBN: 1503601161 | 2017 | 439 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon’s A City in Its Fullness is an ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed twice over-in the First World War and again in the Holocaust. Agnon’s epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz’s Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early modern Jewry. Ancestral Tales shows how this collection marks a critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight into Agnon’s fictional transformations. Mintz relates these narrative strategies to catastrophe literature from earlier periods of Jewish history, showing how Agnon’s Buczacz is a literary achievement at once innovative in its form of remembrance and deeply rooted in Jewish tradition.

Free Download Steve McMichael, "Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Bears Stories Ever Told"
English | ISBN: 1683581199 | 2017 | 392 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
More than just a football team, the Chicago Bears are a vital part of Chicago culture. After close to a century of play, the Bears have won more regular season games than any other NFL franchise. Here are tales all Bears fans should read. Here is a book they should all own.

Free Download L. S. Gardiner, "Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change"
English | ISBN: 1609385535 | 2018 | 170 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this most urgent emergency. Weaving scientific facts and research together with humor and emotion, Gardiner explores human responses to erosion, earthquakes, fires, invasive species, marine degradation, volcanic eruptions, and floods in order to illuminate why we find it so challenging to deal with climate change. Insight emerges from unexpected places-a mermaid exhibit, a Magic 8 Ball, and midcentury cartoons about a future that never came to be.

Free Download Mythology 5 Books in 1: Tales from Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, and Egyptian Mythology (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868731600 | 2024 | 8 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Adam Andino
Narrator: Tim Tidball
Unveil the intricate web of ancient civilizations with this 5-book collection. Journey through an expansive tapestry of myths, legends, and histories with this definitive collection of five of the world’s most enthralling mythologies. This bundle contains 5 different books, paired together at a greatly discounted price! Included are books detailing Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, and Egyptian Mythologies. Embark on a timeless voyage that spans cultures, eras, and worlds. The "Mythology 5 Book Bundle" beckons listeners to experience stories that have inspired, entertained, and imparted wisdom for countless generations.