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Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)

Ebook30.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:12:02 +0100

Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy

Ebook30.com — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:24:02 +0100

The Scarecrow Press | August 28, 2009 | PDF | ISBN: 0810869268 | 332 pages | 2.5mb MUSICOLOGISTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE dispassionately about their subjects, but this does not always appen. Of course we write about the composers we select because we feel passionately about them, and I have certainly done that in the past with Haydn, Mozart, and Berg. Schubert, though, can have a mysterious effect on those who play or listen to his music, whether professionals or amateurs, taking us far beyond the normal response of excitement or love one may have for a composer’s works.

Io, Rocco (2006)

Ebook30.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:24:02 +0100

Italiano | Rocco Siffredi | Editore: Mondadori | 2006 | ISBN: 8804559950 | 99 pages | PDF | 5.7 Mb Rocco è sempre stato Rocco. Come racconta nel suo libro di memorie autobiografiche, fin dall'adolescenza bastava che una donna gli sfiorasse una mano per provocargli reazioni incontrollabili. Rocco Siffredi spiega come ha messo a frutto il suo naturale talento buttandosi a capofitto nel mercato del porno.

Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:48:03 +0100

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | ISBN: 0674052773 | edition 1998 | PDF | 475 pages | 23,9 mb Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to those of Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's early dialogues, his Confessions, and his systematic treatises.

Nancy Pelosi (Women in Politics)

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:02 +0100

Chelsea House Publications | 2004-03 | ISBN: 0791077373 | 120 pages | PDF | 5 MB Nancy Pelosi grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father, the city's powerful mayor, taught her the importance of public service. After moving to California, Pelosi became an influential political leader, winning her first election to Congress in 1987. As she climbed into the House leadership, Pelosi earned a reputation as one of Washington's most liberal lawmakers, supporting gay rights, abortion rights, and funding for the arts.

The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:48:02 +0100

Penguin (Non-Classics) | 1999-11-01 | ISBN: 0140240845 | 672 pages | PDF | 6,6 MB The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynasty In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success.

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Challenges to Christianity

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:06:02 +0100

Zondervan/Youth Specialties | 2008-09-01 | ISBN: 031028323X | 208 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Students today are bombarded with opinions and research about Jesus that goes against everything you’ve been trying to teach them. They don’t know if they can trust what the Bible says about Jesus because they don’t know they can trust the Bible. They wonder if he really rose from the dead, or if he was even God.

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

Ebook30.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:30:02 +0100

Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (May 12, 2009) | English | 0230224679 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.25 MB This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he claimed to have stumbled across a powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors, the switches found on computer chips.

Marcus Aurelius: A Life

Ebook30.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:30:03 +0100

Da Capo Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0306818302 | 720 pages | PDF | 5 MB Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity who still speaks to us today, more than two thousand years after his death. His Meditations has been compared by John Stuart Mill to the Sermon on the Mount. A guide to how we should live, it remains one of the most widely read books from the classical world.

Itchy Donner