Tag: Conquered

Free Download Chris Taylor, "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise"
English | 2015 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 0465049893 | PDF | 46,8 mb
In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. Some forty years and 37 billion later, Star Wars – related products outnumber human beings, a growing stormtrooper army spans the globe, and "Jediism" has become a religion in its own right. Lucas’s creation has grown into far more than a cinematic classic; it is, quite simply, one of the most lucrative, influential, and interactive franchises of all time. Yet incredibly, until now the complete history of Star Wars – its influences and impact, the controversies it has spawned, its financial growth and long-term prospects – has never been told.

Free Download Chris Taylor, "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise"
English | 2016 | pages: 606 | ISBN: 1784970476 | EPUB | 13,0 mb
In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. More than forty years and $37 billion later, Star Wars-related products outnumber human beings, a stormtrooper army spans the globe, and "Jediism" has become a religion in its own right. Lucas’s creation has grown into far more than a cinematic classic; it is, quite simply, one of the most lucrative, influential, and interactive franchises of all time. Yet until now, the complete history of Star Wars – its influences and impact, the controversies it has spawned, its financial growth and long-term prospects – has never been told.

Free Download Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL1JZ86B | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 21m | 511 MB
Author and Narrator: Jesse David Fox
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." (Seth Meyers)
"A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." (Jenny Slate)

Free Download Peter Mitchell, "Imperial nostalgia: How the British conquered themselves"
English | ISBN: 1526146207 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 19 MB
A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man’s facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.

Free Download Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BH98WJ78 | 2022 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 454 MB
Author: Eleanor Parker
Narrator: Kristin Atherton
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England-so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the lives of those children, who found themselves uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. Among them were the children of Harold Godwineson and his brothers, survivors of a family shattered by violence who were led by their courageous grandmother Gytha to start again elsewhere. Then there were the last remaining heirs of the Anglo-Saxon royal line-Edgar Ætheling, Margaret, and Christina-who sought refuge in Scotland, where Margaret became a beloved queen and saint.