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E-BooksThe French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–1495 Antecedents and Effects



The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–1495 Antecedents and Effects
Free Download The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-1495: Antecedents and Effects By David Abulafia
1995 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0860785505 | PDF | 34 MB
The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of contributors, seeks to question that assumption by focusing anew on the intricate politics of Renaissance Italy and the long history of Angevin attempts to impose their rule in southern Italy. It was later invasions, it is argued, that did most to reshape the politics of the Italian peninsula. These studies also look at social and economic effects of the French invasion, as well as its cultural aspects, not least the impact of Renaissance culture in France itself. Combining survey papers and research articles, this volume presents a new introduction to the history of late 15th-century Italy. The appendix, listing the Ilardi collection of microfilms, will also provide an invaluable guide to the diplomatic history of the era.



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E-BooksDescent into Chaos The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia



Descent into Chaos The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Free Download Ahmed Rashid, "Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia"
English | 2009 | pages: 498 | ISBN: 014311557X | EPUB | 2,8 mb
The classic account of America's experience in Afghanistan, explaining the rise of the Taliban in the aftermath of America's failed war on terrorism-essential reading to understand the collapse in Afghanistan today.



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E-BooksThe Neo–Assyrian Myth of Ishtar's Descent and Resurrection



The Neo–Assyrian Myth of Ishtar's Descent and Resurrection
Free Download Pirjo Lapinkivi, "The Neo-Assyrian Myth of Ishtar's Descent and Resurrection"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 9521013338 | PDF | pages: 146 | 5.3 mb
An edition of the myth commonly known as Ištar's Descent was first published in 1901. Since then, no complete critical edition of the text has been published. Unlike other SAACT volumes, SAACT 6 amounts to a full critical edition of the myth. In addition to the cuneiform text with transliteration and translation, there is a full critical apparatus and a scored transliteration of all known sources, and all textual variants from the known sources are included in the glossary. The title, Ištar's Descent and Resurrection, is a reminder that Ištar's descent to the netherworld was not a one-way trip, but that she also re-ascended to heaven. Beyond the critical edition, there is also extensive commentary that ties in the Sumerian version of the myth, Inanna's Descent, as well as later parallels from Gnostic texts such as The Exegesis of the Soul and The Hymn of the Pearl. There are also grammatical notes for students, and the publication is rounded off with the usual sign list that accompanies SAACT volumes.



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E-BooksRiver of Time My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope



River of Time My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope
Free Download Marcia Wilkie, "River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope"
English | 2017 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 145559573X, 1455595748 | EPUB | 30,1 mb
Naomi Judd's life as a country music superstar has been nonstop success. But offstage, she has battled incredible adversity. Struggling through a childhood of harsh family secrets, the death of a young sibling, and absent emotional support, Naomi found herself reluctantly married and an expectant mother at age seventeen. Four years later, she was a single mom of two, who survived being beaten and raped, and was abandoned without any financial support and nowhere to turn in Hollywood, CA.



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E-BooksThe Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660-1800 Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin



The Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660-1800 Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin
The Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660-1800: Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin By John Morillo
2017 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 161149673X | PDF | 6 MB
The Rise of Animals and the Descent of Man illuminates compelling historical connections between a current fascination with animal life and the promotion of the moral status of non-human animals as ethical subjects deserving our attention and respect, and a deep interest in the animal as agent in eighteenth-century literate culture. It explores how writers, including well-known poets, important authors who mixed art and science, and largely forgotten writers of sermons and children's stories all offered innovative alternatives to conventional narratives about the meaning of animals in early modern Europe. They question Descartes' claim that animals are essentially soulless machines incapable of thought or feelings. British writers from 1660-1800 remain informed by Cartesianism, but often counter it by recognizing that feelings are as important as reason when it comes to defining animal life and its relation to human life. This British line of thought deviates from Descartes by focusing on fine feeling as a register of moral life empowered by sensibility and sympathy, but this very stance is complicated by cultural fears that too much kindness to animals can entail too much kinship with them-fears made famous in the later reaction to Darwinian evolution. The Riseof Animals uncovers ideological tensions between sympathy for animals and a need to defend the special status of humans from the rapidly developing Darwinian perspective. The writers it examines engage in complex negotiations with sensibility and a wide range of philosophical and theological traditions. Their work anticipates posthumanist thought and the challenges it poses to traditional humanist values within the humanities and beyond. The Rise of Animals is a sophisticated intellectual history of the origins of our changing attitudes about animals that at the same time illuminates major currents of eighteenth-century British literary culture.



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E-BooksPracticing Kinship Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China



Practicing Kinship Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Michael Szonyi, "Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China"
English | 2002 | pages: 279 | ISBN: 0804742618 | PDF | 25,8 mb
Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, this work explores the historical development of kinship in villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.



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E-BooksBlack Hearts One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death [Audiobook]



Black Hearts One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death [Audiobook]
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (Audiobook)
English | March 25, 2013 | ASIN: B00C0MP8RG | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 12m | 345 MB
Author: Jim Frederick | Narrator: Corey Snow
This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon - 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion - descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality.



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E-BooksYear of the Hawk America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 [Audiobook]



Year of the Hawk America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 [Audiobook]
Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09TTS25ZN | 2022 | 11 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: James A. Warren
Narrator: Fred Sanders

From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, "highly recommended" account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War-the cataclysm that "continues to haunt American politics and culture". The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965-the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly with combat units in a struggle between communist and pro-Western forces in South Vietnam that had raged on and off for 20 years.



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E-BooksBorn of Lakes and Plains Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West [Audiobook]



Born of Lakes and Plains Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West [Audiobook]
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09HVBSRP9 | 2022 | 14 hours and 9 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Anne F. Hyde
Narrator: Tanis Parenteau

A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the 17th century, Native peoples - Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and others - formed new families with young French, English, Canadian, and American fur traders who spent months in smoky winter lodges or at boisterous summer rendezvous. These families built cosmopolitan trade centers from Michilimackinac on the Great Lakes to Bellevue on the Missouri River, Bent's Fort in the southern Plains, and Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest. Their family names are often imprinted on the landscape, but their voices have long been muted in our histories. Anne F. Hyde's pathbreaking history restores them in full.



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MusicFreddie Dredd - Freddie's Inferno - The Slow Descent (ChopNotSlop Remix) (2022) [16Bit-44 1kHz] F...



Freddie Dredd - Freddie's Inferno - The Slow Descent (ChopNotSlop Remix) (2022) [16Bit-44 1kHz] FLAC


Freddie Dredd - Freddie's Inferno - The Slow Descent (ChopNotSlop Remix) (2022) [16Bit-44 1kHz] F...


Size: 199.21 MB | Total Duration: 35:45 | Total Tracks: 15
Format: FLAC | 791 Kbps
Album: Freddie's Inferno - The Slow Descent
Artist: Freddie Dredd
Genre: Rap
Date/Year: 2022




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