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Free Download Thomas Stevens, "The Great Artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir"
English | ISBN: 1788285743 | 2019 | 96 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
This introductory series to the great artists of the past 150 years looks at their lives and inspirations, and showcases a selection of their most significant paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, exhibiting six paintings in their famous 1874 exhibition and often painting scenes of middle-class leisure outdoors – en plein air – with Monet. But Renoir’s primary interest lay indoors, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intimate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright palette. This book explores the life and work of this leading light of Impressionism, and shows how his work developed in a different direction to many of the others in the group, as he absorbed some elements of a classical style into his painting.

Free Download The Political Philosophy of Pierre Manent: Political Form and Human Action
by Joseph R. Wood
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0813238900 | 280 Pages | PDF | 3.65 MB

Free Download Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris by Ginette Vincendreau
English | January 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0851709508, 0851709494 | True EPUB | 285 pages | 11.7 MB
One of the most brilliant filmmakers in post-war France and world cinema, Jean-Pierre Melville now enjoys renewed popularity. His "Bob le flambeur" (with its street-wise Montmartre and Pigalle settings, its cool jazz score and its good-humoured tale of gangster clans) not only inspired the New Wave but has attained unassailable cult status. Other iconic gangster films such as "Le Doulos," "Le Samourai" and "Le Cercle rouge" are now hailed as masterpieces by latter-day legends John Woo and Quentin Tarantino. Meanwhile, with "Le Silence de la mer" and "L’Armee des ombres," Melville also contributed two of the greatest films about the Resistance during World War II.

Free Download Linda Griffiths, "Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess"
English | 2014 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1770911782 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
Part fairy tale, part historical treatise, these two modern epics from one of Canada’s most highly acclaimed playwrights examine the landscape of changing nations and opposing ideals.

Free Download Robert Wright, "Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0002158000, 000200626X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 1.0 mb
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three days of Canadian politics played out on the international stage. In a revealing look at both leaders’ personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how these two towering figures―despite their official positions as allies of rival empires―determinedlyrefused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States and forged a long-lasting relationship.

Free Download Thomas Chermack, "Foundations of Scenario Planning: The Story of Pierre Wack "
English | ISBN: 0367026562 | 2018 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 5 MB
Pierre Wack was head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil in London for just over ten years. He died in 1997. He was a pioneer of what we know today as scenario planning – an alternative and complement to strategic planning.

Free Download lisahunter, "Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture "
English | ISBN: 1138208337 | 2016 | 200 pages | PDF | 1435 KB
The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies. Concepts such as field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence have been used as theoretical tools by scholars and students looking to understand the nature and purpose of sport, leisure, physical education and human movement within wider society.

Free Download Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 by John English
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0676975232 | 832 Pages | EPUB | 3.0 MB
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called "the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written" – sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

Free Download Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss
English | December 21, 2010 | ISBN: 0061351326, 0062416162 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 102 MB
In 1891, 24-year-old Marie Sklodowska moved from Warsaw to Paris, where she found work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, a scientist engaged in research on heat and magnetism. They fell in love. They took their honeymoon on bicycles. They expanded the periodic table, discovering two new elements with startling properties, radium and polonium. They recognized radioactivity as an atomic property, heralding the dawn of a new scientific era. They won the Nobel Prize. Newspapers mythologized the couple’s romance, beginning articles on the Curies with "Once upon a time . . . " Then, in 1906, Pierre was killed in a freak accident. Marie continued their work alone. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, and fell in love again, this time with the married physicist Paul Langevin. Scandal ensued. Duels were fought.

Free Download Caroline Potter, "Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium"
English | ISBN: 1837650853 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 15 MB