The Lady in the Palazzo An Umbrian Love Story
Marlena de Blasi, "The Lady in the Palazzo: An Umbrian Love Story"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1565126483, 1565126106 | EPUB | pages: 317 | 2.3 mb
Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill-finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Along the way, de Blasi befriends an array of colorful characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, cooking her way into the hearts of her Umbrian neighbors.

The Joy of Saying No A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want
The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want by Natalie Lue
English | January 10th, 2023 | ISBN: 0785290443 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 0.63 MB
Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us from becoming our true selves.

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The Illuminated Breath
The Illuminated Breath: Transform Your Physical, Cognitive & Emotional Well-Being by Harnessing the Scie nce of Ancient Yoga Breath Practices by Dylan Werner
English | February 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1628604239 | 256 pages | PDF (Converted) | 6.75 Mb
Named by mindbodygreen as one of the best health and wellness books for 2022

The Illegal City Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement
Ayona Datta, "The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement"
English | 2012 | pages: 211 | ISBN: 1409445542, 1138248320 | PDF | 1,9 mb
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.

The Hidden Places of World War II
The Hidden Places of World War II: The Extraordinary Sites Where History Was Made During the War That Saved Civilization by Jerome M. O'Connor
English | March 1, 2019 | ISBN: 1493030388 | 360 pages | PDF (Converted) | 42 Mb
In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a conversational style, the book opens the eyes of a new generation of readers, as well as an older generation, and takes them to the actual locations that changed history.

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The Greek Epic Cycle
Malcolm Davies, "The Greek Epic Cycle"
English | 1989 | ISBN: 1853990396 | PDF | pages: 104 | 2.1 mb
In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Quotations from them and other testimonies as to their content survive in later authors and the evidence thus assembled allows us to reconstruct something of the poems' contents. Collectively these poems came to be known by Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria as 'The Epic Cycle'. With their often grotesque and fantastic tales, the cyclic poems were an important source for later writers of epic. Yet they also present a wealth of fascinating mythological details in their own right and provide absorbing variation on the traditional themes presented in Homer. Why are certain themes frequently used, while others are neglected in various poems? Such considerations enhance an overall appreciation of epic theme and outlook. This short study provides an introduction to the Cycle for students and scholars of Greek epic, and of Classical civilisation and mythology more generally. All quotations are translated, making the material accessible to those with little or no Greek.