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Free Download Glorious Qing: Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911 by Claudia Brown
English | April 30, 2024 | ISBN: 0295751916 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 201 MB
A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objects

Free Download John Van der Kiste, "William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution"
English | ISBN: 075094577X | 2008 | 288 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Mary (1662-1694), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England, who was 11 years older than her. In November 1677, on William’s 27th birthday, they married in a private ceremony at St James’s Palace. William was solemn, James gloomy, Mary in tears, and only King Charles appeared cheerful. This dual biography deals with both the life and times of the monarchs, and with England’s place in Europe. Interests of the subjects, outside the constitutional, are dealt with, as well a their personal relationships: William’s rumored homosexuality (probably actually a platonic relationship with Bentinck) and Mary’s hinted-at lesbianism; Mary’s troubled personal relations with her father, James II; and the relationship between Mary and her sister and husband’s successor Anne. The book will also examine the personal and political relations between William and his uncle Charles II, and between William and Mary and Charles’ illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth, whose attempts to lay claim to his father’s throne ended in defeat and execution.

Free Download Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature"
English | ISBN: 0226835006 | 2024 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds.

Free Download My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B097V3WYGS | 2024 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Barrett Brown
Narrator: Barrett Brown
Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story. After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power.

Free Download My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir by Barrett Brown
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0374217017 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 0.9 MB
Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story.

Free Download Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution by Richard Brookhiser
English | May 28, 2024 | ISBN: 0300259700 | True EPUB | 276 pages | 14.3 MB
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s founding moment

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by Doonan, Simon;Hamazaki, Kenzo;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0711289964 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 8.75 MB

Free Download Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3FH25CX | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Narrator: Rick Adamson
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s founding moment. John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand-he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was "to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man." Although Trumbull’s contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull’s story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist’s fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world-a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.

Free Download Bruce Sandison, "Glorious Gentlemen: Tales from Scotland’s Stalkers, Gillies and Keepers"
English | 2013 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1845025326, 1845024605 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Bruce Sandison takes the reader on a magical journey as seen through the eyes of some of Scotland’s best-known and most respected gillies, stalkers, and keepers-men who have spent their whole lives on river, moor, and hill caring for the iconic salmon in our rivers and the red deer on our hills. The stories they have to tell are full of humor, kindliness, and patience; sometimes under difficult circumstances as they help their guests, old and young alike, novice or experienced, in pursuit of the best possible chance of sport. Your guide, Bruce Sandison, is a highly regarded author and conservationist, well known for his passionate love for his native land. Everything that is finest about Scotland will be found along the way and, above all, this is a unique opportunity to spend time in the company of these glorious, very special gentlemen.

Free Download The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War By Turtle Bunbury
2014 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0717166147 | EPUB | 44 MB
From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you’ve never heard beforeBased on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes that brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined the generation of Irish men and women lost to the catastrophe of the first great modern war.From the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, from the trenches of the Somme to the beaches of Gallipoli, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War.Popular historian Turtle Bunbury is renowned for uncovering important forgotten stories from our past. Here he reveals many never-before-heard tales of the Irish heroes and heroines whose lives coincided with one of the most brutal conflicts our world has ever known – including nuns, artists, sportsmen, poets, aristocrats, nationalists, nurses, clergymen and film directors.From the dramatic story of the nuns of Ypres and their escape to Ireland to found Kylemore Abbey, to the multiple-escapist who became the one-legged nemesis of Michael Collins, and the five tragic, rugby-loving pals from the same Dublin team massacred at Gallipoli, the stories that Turtle Bunbury unearths about Irish men and women offer a new and timely perspective on Irish participation in the Great War.An important book, by turns poignant, enlightening, whimsical and darkly comic, this is history as it should – free-wheeling and finely tuned to the rhythms of the human heart.