Tag: Verge

Free Download Jonathan Miller, "France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1783340843, 1783342285 | EPUB | pages: 547 | 4.0 mb
Reflecting on the insights gleaned from 15 years’ residence in the Languedoc, Jonathan Miller has produced an A-Z guide to ‘the endless paradoxes of France’. Not only does he reveal that, in the home of liberte, dental hygienists are illegal and it is forbidden to practise shooting zombies, but also that, despite the country’s reputation for haute cuisine, McDonald’s operations in France are said to be the company’s most successful.

Free Download Shawn Micallef, "Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness"
English | 2017 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0771059329 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
Toronto is emerging from an identity crisis into a glorious new era.

Free Download Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood by JoAnna Novak
English | July 25, 2023 | ISBN: 1646220765 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.6 MB
For readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life

Free Download Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque: Juan Maldonado’s "Ludus Chartarum," "Pastor Bonus," and "Bacchanalia" By Warren S. Smith (editor), Clark Colahan (editor)
2009 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 9058677087 | PDF | 14 MB
The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado (c. 14851554), in his Latin essays, foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium on entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of sixteenth-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith.