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Free Download The Good Cartesian: Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm
by Steven Nadler
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197671713 | 345 Pages | PDF | 11.4 MB

Free Download Patricia Pisters, "Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren "
English | ISBN: 9462980314 | 2016 | 196 pages | PDF | 791 KB
Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks and books.

Free Download Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 by Gregg Andrews
English | December 7, 2022 | ISBN: 0807178470 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 3.7 MB
Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy.

Free Download Frank Ragland, "Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography"
English | 1991 | pages: 392 | ISBN: 1461277523, 038797220X | DJVU | 4,2 mb
A great difficulty facing a biographer of Cauchy is that of delineating the curious interplay between the man, his times, and his scientific endeavors. Professor Belhoste has succeeded admirably in meeting this challenge and has thus written a vivid biography that is both readable and informative. His subject stands out as one of the most brilliant, versatile, and prolific fig ures in the annals of science. Nearly two hundred years have now passed since the young Cauchy set about his task of clarifying mathematics, extending it, applying it wherever possible, and placing it on a firm theoretical footing. Through Belhoste’s work we are afforded a detailed, rather personalized picture of how a first rate mathematician worked at his discipline – his strivings, his inspirations, his triumphs, his failures, and above all, his conflicts and his errors.

Free Download Frank Ragland, "Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography"
English | 1991 | pages: 392 | ISBN: 1461277523, 038797220X | DJVU | 4,2 mb
A great difficulty facing a biographer of Cauchy is that of delineating the curious interplay between the man, his times, and his scientific endeavors. Professor Belhoste has succeeded admirably in meeting this challenge and has thus written a vivid biography that is both readable and informative. His subject stands out as one of the most brilliant, versatile, and prolific fig ures in the annals of science. Nearly two hundred years have now passed since the young Cauchy set about his task of clarifying mathematics, extending it, applying it wherever possible, and placing it on a firm theoretical footing. Through Belhoste’s work we are afforded a detailed, rather personalized picture of how a first rate mathematician worked at his discipline – his strivings, his inspirations, his triumphs, his failures, and above all, his conflicts and his errors.

Free Download Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1421448149 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 24.7 MB
How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.

Free Download Tamra Orr, "Louis Armstrong (American Jazz)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1612282644 | PDF | pages: 56 | 40.6 mb
Biography of famous Jazz composer written for readers ages 10-13.

Free Download Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams by Henry I. Schvey
English | June 24, 2021 | ISBN: 0826222307, 0826222617 | True EPUB | 258 pages | 11.5 MB
In 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth, events were held around the world honoring America’s greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams’s life and career-New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West, and Provincetown. But absolutely nothing was done to celebrate Williams’s life and extraordinary literary and theatrical career in the place that he lived in longest, and called home longer than any other-St. Louis, Missouri.

Free Download Florian Sauter, "Painting the Sky Black: Louis Kahn and the Architectonization of Nature"
English | ISBN: 3110567326 | 2018 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 120 MB + 211 MB
In 1962, Louis I. Kahn described the design of the Salk Institute as having been developed "out of a respect and understanding of the nature of nature," before adding: "I am becoming increasingly conscious of the architecture of water, the architecture of air, the architecture of light." Attempting to poetically unveil the world through the conscious architectonization of nature, the deliberations presented in this book interpret the American architect’s buildings as the result of a Stoic pursuit to comprehend the lawfulness of the natural world, scrutinize his endeavor to set spatial compositions into analogy with organisms’ principles of growth and form, illustrate his growing awareness to shape space in reciprocity with environmental forces, and acknowledge his eventual willingness to make the surrounding landscape and cosmos an integrated part of the architectural project. Furthermore, Kahn’s highly ambiguous epistemology with regard to man’s position within and beyond nature is being discussed – ultimately promoting an ecologically sound down to earth approach, which takes into account the impulse of the primitive and elemental. Aspiring for an eternal expression, the manifestation of the world of the human spirit was for Kahn – one of the most legendary and original architects of the 20th century – only possible within the larger order of the universe, whereas the same transcendent, creative joy pervaded both.

Free Download Louis Malle, "Lektüreschlüssel. Louis Malle: Au revoir, les enfants: Reclam Lektüreschlüssel"
Deutsch | 2007 | pages: 78 | ISBN: 3150153824 | PDF | 0,3 mb
Reclams "Fremdsprachen-Lektüreschlüssel. Louis Malle: Au revoir, les enfants" bezieht sich auf den fremdsprachigen Originaltext (in Reclams Roter Reihe), ist aber auf Deutsch verfasst und unterstützt ebenso die Lektüre der deutschen Übersetzung. Eine "Checkliste" enthält Aufgaben zur Verständniskontrolle in der Fremdsprache. Unter dem Darstellungstext stehen Übersetzungshilfen und Schlüsselbegriffe in der Fremdsprache, um die Bearbeitung dieser Aufgaben und ein fremdsprachiges Referieren über das Werk zu erleichtern. Der Band enthält: Erstinformationen zum Werk – Inhaltsangabe – Personen (Konstellationen) – Werk-Aufbau (Strukturskizze) – Wortkommentar – Interpretation – Autor und Zeit – Rezeption – Checkliste zur Verständniskontrolle – Lektüretipps mit Filmempfehlungen.