Tag: Tragedy

Free Download Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause: The Anxious Womb
English | 2023 | ISBN: 303127203X | 458 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and triumph"
English | 2006 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1846030382 | PDF | 45,6 mb
The first day of the Battle of the Somme of World War I (1914-1918) is still on record as having the largest number of deaths in any one day in any war. This book explores the myths of this infamous battle, and the use of mines, tunnels, gas and flame-throwers by the British in combination with innovative tactics such as smoke. Andrew Robertshaw analyses the first day of the battle, explaining how British tactics developed as a result of the experience of the Somme, and provides an overview of the events along the entire front line, examining the actions of two British Corps, VIII at Serre and XIII at Montauban.

Free Download D. G. Webster, "Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries (Politics, Science, and the Environment)"
English | 2017 | pages: 483 | ISBN: 0262534738, 0262029553 | PDF | 2,6 mb
An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the "management treadmill."

Free Download The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani by Michael Wolff, Audible Originals
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08KSHMCCL | MP3@128 kbps | 2h 8m | 57 Mb
From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury, comes the mesmerizing story behind the most bizarre melt-down in recent American political history.
The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from "America’s Mayor" to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he put himself at the heart of impeachment charges against the President.

Free Download The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy (Audiobook)
English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B093HYHDTQ | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 11m | 843 MB
Author: Michael Kulikowski | Narrator: Simon Shepherd
The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian’s rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited.

Free Download Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of ASA Flight 529 By Pomerantz, Gary M
2001 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0676793983 | PDF | 2 MB
"A deeply moving account of the extraordinary strengths that ordinary people can display when tragedy confronts them. As emotionally powerful a book as you are likely ever to read."-David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofBearing the CrossIn August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three board a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff they hear an explosion and, looking out the windows on the left side, see a mangled engine lodged against the wing. From that moment, nine minutes and twenty seconds elapse until the crippled plane crashes in a west Georgia hayfield-nine minutes and twenty seconds in which Gary Pomerantz takes readers deep into the hearts and minds of the people aboard, each of whom prepares in his or her own way for what may come.Ultimately, nineteen people survive both the crash and its devastating aftermath, all of them profoundly affected by what they have seen and, more important, what they have done to help themselves and others.This is not so much a book about a plane crash as it is a psychologically illuminating real-life drama about ordinary people and how they behave in extraordinary circumstances. Each of us has wondered what we would do to survive a life-threatening situation: Would I survive? How would I conduct myself-would I act to save others in need or only myself? Would others try to save me? How would I be affected by the experience? Judging by what is revealed inNine Minutes, Twenty Seconds, the answers are surprisingly optimistic.In telling the remarkable stories of these twenty-nine men and women, Gary Pomerantz has written one of the most compelling books in recent memory. Open to any page and you’ll immediately be drawn into the dramatic pull of the narrative. But on a deeper level,Nine Minutes, Twenty Secondsspeaks as powerfully about our capacity to care for others as it does about the strength of our will to live. This rich and rewarding book will linger in your mind long after you turn the last page.

Free Download We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland By Beaven, Steve
2020 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1503942228 | EPUB | 4 MB
The inspiring true story of the tragic loss and triumphant resurrection of a basketball team and its coach at the heart of a small Indiana town.By 1977 the University of Evansville’s Purple Aces basketball team had won five small-college national championships. With a charismatic young coach and a freshman phenom, this small Indiana city hoped to see its team shine in the national spotlight. Then, on a foggy night, after just four games, the plane carrying the team and its coach crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board.The tragedy seemed insurmountable, a devastating blow to the identity of a fading factory town. But, with the support of a city in mourning, ambitious new coach Dick Walters promised to rebuild the cherished institution. Assembling a team of castoffs, walk-ons, and overachievers, Walters restored the legacy of the team and its fans. Against all odds, his young men made history.A tribute to those who were lost, and to those who carried on,We Will Riseis the rich and powerful story of an underdog team and its fans and the spirit of a resilient community.

Free Download Claudia Leeb, "The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence"
English | ISBN: 1474413242 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, this book illustrates the relevance and applicability of a political discussion of guilt and democracy. It appropriates psychoanalytic theory to analyse court documents of Austrian Nazi perpetrators as well as recent public controversies surrounding Austria’s involvement in the Nazi atrocities and ponders how the former agents of Hitlerite crimes and contemporary Austrians have dealt with their guilt.

Free Download Achilles in Greek Tragedy By Pantelis Michelakis
2002 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 0521818435 | PDF | 43 MB
In contrast to earlier scholarly work on Achilles of the Homeric epics, this study examines how one of the most popular figures of Greek mythology was portrayed on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Pantelis Michelakis asserts that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns ranging from heroism and education to individualism and gender. The book considers the complete corpus of extant Greek tragedy, with particular attention paid to Aeschylus’ Myrmidons and Euripides’ Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis.

Free Download Tragedy (The New Critical Idiom)
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103201380X | 201 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.