Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Story. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787




Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787


Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (1 ch) | Duration: 13:11:11 | ISBN-10: 1470847736 | 2012 | 362 MB

Genre: History






This is the story of that stormy, brilliant session of 1787 in Philadelphia which saw the birth of the Constitution of the United States. Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new.





Catherine Drinker Bowen (Author)





Look also:



High School Level – Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners



Historical Jesus



History of Ancient Egypt



History of Christianity in the Reformation Era



History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts



History of Hitlers Empire, 2nd Edition



History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev



History of Science – Antiquity to 1700



History of Science: 1700-1900



History of the Bible



History of the English Language, 2nd Edition



History of the Supreme Court



History of the United States, 2nd Edition



History of World Literature



How to Become a SuperStar Student, 2nd Edition



How to Grow Anything: Container Gardening Tips & Techniques



Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations



Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917



America and the World: A Diplomatic History



World War II: A Military and Social History



Greek and Persian Wars



World War I: The "Great War"



The Skeptic"s Guide to American History



Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers



London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World



American Civil War



Food: A Cultural Culinary History



Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia



From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History



Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past



Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition



A History of European Art



Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia



From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism



HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts



HIST 116: The American Revolution



HIST 276: France Since 1871



HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000



Welcome to the best eLearning video (English, German, French, Spanish language) and many more: LINK

Do not forget to check my blog! Updated regularly!



No mirrors pls!







Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef"s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness




Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef"s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness by Cat Cora


2015 | ISBN: 1476766142 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB




Remarkably candid, compulsively readable, renowned chef Cat Cora’s no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage, and the meals that have shaped her memories.




Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where days were slow and every meal was made from scratch. Her passion for the kitchen started in her home, where she spent her days internalizing the dishes that would form the cornerstone of her cooking philosophy incorporating her Greek heritage and Southern upbringing—from crispy fried chicken and honey-drenched biscuits to spanakopita. But outside the kitchen, Cat’s life was volatile.




In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the kitchen and went on to attend the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and apprentice under Michelin star chefs in France. After her big break as a co-host on the Food Network’s Melting Pot, Cat broke barriers by becoming the first-ever female Iron Chef.




Cooking as Fast as I Can chronicles the difficulties and triumphs Cora experienced on the path to becoming a chef. She writes movingly about how she found courage and redemption in the dark truths of her past and about how she found solace in the kitchen and work, how her passion for cooking helped her to overcome hardships and ultimately find happiness at home and became a wife and a mother to four boys. Above all, this is an utterly engrossing story about the grit and grace it takes to achieve your dreams.








Friday, September 25, 2015

Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family"s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris




Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family"s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alex Kershaw


2015 | ISBN: 0804140030, 0804194858 | English | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB




The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II




The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris"s hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany.




From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director"s close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11–but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.




Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II"s Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler.








My Story




Steven Gerrard, "My Story"


2015 | ISBN: 1405923385 | 496 pages | EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 | 7 MB




Steven Gerrard – legendary captain of Liverpool and England – tells the story of the highs and lows of a twenty-year career at the top of English and world football. As the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion"s league final, Steven Gerrard is an inspiration to fans and footballers alike. After joining his beloved Liverpool at the age of eight, he spent the next 28 years, and over 700 games, devoted to this one club. Perhaps the last player of his calibre that we will see display such extraordinary longevity and commitment, his loyalty ensures he will be remembered not only as one of the all-time Anfield greats but one of England"s finest footballers. In My Story Gerrard dissects his full playing career. He examines the defining games such as the 2005 Champion"s League Final when he inspired "The Miracle of Istanbul" as Liverpool came back from 3-0 down against AC Milan to become champions of Europe. He talks about his 114 caps for England, including World Cup and European Championship campaigns, asking what went right – and wrong. He writes candidly of those he"s played with and competed against, from Luis Suarez to Jose Mourinho, his experiences under Brendan Rodgers and Roy Hodgson. He also has an incredible and rare personal story, telling us of the extraordinary ups and downs of staying loyal to one club for your entire career. Explosive and searingly honest, Steven Gerrard"s My Story is the last word from an era-defining player.









Thursday, September 17, 2015

Susan Mallery"s Fool"s Gold Cookbook: A Love Story Told Through 150 Recipes (repost)




Susan Mallery"s Fool"s Gold Cookbook: A Love Story Told Through 150 Recipes by Susan Mallery


English | ISBN: 0373892810 | 2013 | EPUB + MOBI | 272 pages | 3 + 3 MB




New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery invites you to taste the local cuisine of her beloved fictional town and share in a year"s worth of deliciously seasonal recipes.




Fool"s Gold is known as the Land of Happy Endings, but it"s also the land of hearty appetites. Throughout the series, the residents of Fool"s Gold have found joy, comfort and good times through food. Now two local Fool"s Gold chefs will also find love through food! Join them as they flirt, fight and fall in love, one season at a time.




You"ll also find favorite recipes from popular characters in the series, such as:




Heidi"s Arugula, Corn and Cherry Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese.




Liz"s Spaghetti for the Girls.




Denise"s Summer Berry Pie.




With chapters for summer, spring, fall and winter, you can find the perfect recipe for everything from holiday get-togethers to cozy date nights, always using the freshest ingredients. And the heartwarming love story that is woven throughout is Susan Mallery at her finest.




The more than 150 recipes and dozens of gorgeous photographs in this book will inspire you to find perfection in the simple and the seasonal. And with all of Fool"s Gold with you in the kitchen, your every celebration will have a happy ending!












Sunday, September 13, 2015

Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community, 2nd Edition




Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community by Brad King, John Borland


2014 | ISBN: 0991222725 | English | 278 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 0.3 MB + 0.5 MB




Before the multibillion computer game industry, there was Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974. D&D captured the attention of a small but influential group of players, many of whom also gravitated to the computer networks that were then appearing on college campuses around the globe. With the subsequent emergence of the personal computer, a generation of geeky storytellers arose that translated communal D&D playing experiences into the virtual world of computer games. The result of that 40-year journey is today"s massive global community of players who, through games, have forged very real friendships and built thriving lives in virtual worlds. Dungeons & Dreamers follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today"s digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.








Friday, September 11, 2015

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History [repost]




The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History


Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 19:26:18 | ISBN-10: 0143058827 | 2006 | 534 MB

Genre: History






No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.




In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.




The Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley said Barry’s last book can “change the way we think.” The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world.



John M. Barry (Author)



Look also:



High School Level – Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners



Historical Jesus



History of Ancient Egypt



History of Christianity in the Reformation Era



History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts



History of Hitlers Empire, 2nd Edition



History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev



History of Science – Antiquity to 1700



History of Science: 1700-1900



History of the Bible



History of the English Language, 2nd Edition



History of the Supreme Court



History of the United States, 2nd Edition



History of World Literature



How to Become a SuperStar Student, 2nd Edition



How to Grow Anything: Container Gardening Tips & Techniques



Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations



Long 19th Century: European History from 1789 to 1917



America and the World: A Diplomatic History



World War II: A Military and Social History



Greek and Persian Wars



World War I: The "Great War"



The Skeptic"s Guide to American History



Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers



London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World



American Civil War



Food: A Cultural Culinary History



Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism: A History of 20th-Century Russia



From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History



Making History: How Great Historians Interpret the Past



Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition



A History of European Art



Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia



From Monet to Van Gogh: A History of Impressionism



HIST 251: Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts



HIST 116: The American Revolution



HIST 276: France Since 1871



HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000



Welcome to the best eLearning video (English, German, French, Spanish language) and many more: LINK

Do not forget to check my blog! Updated regularly!



No mirrors pls!







So Long, Marianne: A Love Story




Kari Hesthamar, "So Long, Marianne: A Love Story — includes rare material by Leonard Cohen"


ISBN: 1770411283 | 2014 | EPUB | 288 pages | 16 MB


The story of the enigmatic beauty who captured the hearts of two extraordinary men




At 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One day while Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a man who asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. He introduced himself as Leonard Cohen, then a little-known Canadian poet. Complemented by previously unpublished poems, letters, and photographs, So Long, Marianne is an intimate, honest account of Marianne"s life story — from her youth in Oslo, her romance with Axel, to her life in an international artists colony on Hydra in the 1960s, and beyond. The subject of one of the most beautiful love songs of all time, Marianne Ihlen proves to be more than a muse to Axel and Leonard; her journey of self-discovery, romance, and heartache is lovingly recounted in So Long, Marianne.






Download:



nitroflare






Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time




S.N. Behrman, "Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time"


ISBN: 1907970576 | 2014 | EPUB | 188 pages | 3 MB


"When you pay high for the priceless, you"re getting it cheap." Joseph Duveen




Joseph Duveen was the world"s most famous art dealer. His clients were amongst the most prominent and infamous Americans of the 20th century and included Mellon, Frick, Hearst and Morgan. If you weren"t a client, chances are you were a nobody. Famous for his charm, shrewd salesmanship, relentless pursuit of the perfect objet d"art and his ability to command eye-watering prices – Duveen was as unique as one of his priceless Old Masters.




In this exceptional biography S. N. Behrman tells the story of Duveen"s rise to prestige, from delftware peddler to selling the greatest European paintings to the greatest American millionaires. Duveen was a skilled salesman, enticing his well-heeled and business-savvy clients with visions of cultivation through acquisition of high-culture. He even laid the foundations for the great American museums of art, including the National Gallery and the Frick Collection, by persuading his clients to bequeath their purchases to the nation.




Everyone wanted a Duveen, because a Duveen was so much more than a painting or a vase; it was a chance at immortality.




"Astonishing . . . It"s a masterful, deeply enjoyable work." – David Remnick, New Yorker




"A witty and hypnotically readable biography." – Clifton Fadiman




"Incredibly entertaining." – Edmund Wilson








Download:



nitroflare






Sunday, September 6, 2015

My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)




My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) by Luisa Weiss


English | 2013 | ISBN: 0147509742, 0670025380 | 320 pages | PDF | 1 MB




Chocolate and Zucchini. 101 Cookbooks. The Julie/Julia Project. In the early days of food blogs, these were the pioneers whose warmth and recipes turned their creators" kitchens into beloved web destinations. Luisa Weiss was working in New York when she decided to cook her way through her massive recipe collection. The Wednesday Chef, the cooking blog she launched to document her adventures, charmed readers around the world. But Luisa never stopped longing to return to her childhood home in Berlin. A food memoir with recipes, My Berlin Kitchen deliciously chronicles how she finally took the plunge and went across the ocean in search of happiness-only to find love waiting where she least expected it.







Note: MY nickname – interes