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Free Download Photographic Realism: The Art of Richard Billingham by Kieran Cashell
English | November 12, 2020 | ISBN: 1350108693, 1350282421 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 12.9 MB
One of the most captivating and provocative artists of the Sensation generation, Richard Billingham (b. 1970) came to prominence in the late 1990s with his visceral photobook Ray’s a Laugh, a slice of everyday life in a high-rise sink estate in the British West Midlands. This book is the first comprehensive discussion of Billingham’s art practice. Articulating the socio-historical, aesthetic, geographical as well as anthropological aspects of Billingham’s art, the book situates his work within the British neorealist tradition in visual art, cinema and

Free Download Mike Read, "Cliff Richard Story"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00P7SWCV0 | EPUB | pages: 91 | 0.2 mb
Cliff Richard has been a muscial icon for 5 decades, and this eBook has been released to help celebrate his 70th birthday last October. 250 million record sales later – Cliff still continues to delight his fans with new music and spectacular live performances. The book is written by ex DJ and Cliff’s goof friend Mike Read.

Free Download William Domnarski, "Richard Posner"
English | ASIN: B0CS3VMR7S | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:12:00 | 307 MB
Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes provocative books as a public intellectual, receives frequent media attention, and has been at the center of some very high-profile legal spats. He is also a member of an increasingly rare breed-judges who write their own opinions rather than delegating the work to clerks.
Now, for the first time, this fascinating figure receives a full-length biographical treatment. In Richard Posner, William Domnarski examines the life experience, personality, academic career, jurisprudence, and professional relationships of his subject with depth and clarity. Domnarski has had access to Posner himself and to Posner’s extensive archive at the University of Chicago. In addition, Domnarski was able to interview and correspond with more than two hundred people Posner has known, worked with, or gone to school with over the course of his career.
Richard Posner is a comprehensive and accessible account of a unique judge who, despite never having sat on the Supreme Court, has nevertheless dominated the way law is understood in contemporary America.

Free Download Vamik D. Volkan, "Richard Nixon"
English | ISBN: 0231108559 | | 204 pages | EPUB | 354 KB
Despite an abundance of literature on Richard Nixon, the man behind the most spectacular crash-and-burn career of modern political history has remained an enigma. What lay behind his obsessive hunger for power and control, his paranoid attacks against enemies real and perceived, his refusal to accept defeat? Why did a man who had achieved so much feel so unfulfilled even at the height of his power? And what drove the president responsible for such triumphs as the opening of relations with China to the depths of the most devastating political scandal in American history?

Free Download Chris Skidmore, "Richard III: England’s Most Controversial King"
English | 2018 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 1250045487 | EPUB | 34,1 mb
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.

Free Download Professor Dr. Eva Rieger, Chris Walton, "Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1843838648 | PDF | pages: 366 | 67.6 mb
The first-ever biography of Richard Wagner’s artistically gifted granddaughter who fought against Hitler’s Germany but achieved no personal success for her troubles.

Free Download Egon Voss, "Richard Wagner"
Deutsch | 2012 | ISBN: 3406637213 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 2.3 mb
Triste, Triste, Triste. Wagner è morto! So reagierte der große italienische Opernkomponist Giuseppe Verdi, als er erfuhr, daß Richard Wagner, der Schöpfer von romantischen Opern wie Tannhäuser oder Lohengrin und von Musikdramen wie Tristan und Isolde oder Der Ring des Nibelungen, am 13.Februar1883 in Venedig gestorben war. Die Weltgeltung von Wagners musikalischen Bühnenwerken vom Fliegenden Holländer bis zum Parsifal ist unbestreitbar, und sie ist immer noch im Wachsen begriffen, doch lastet auf der Rezeption seiner Kunst der dunkle Schatten seines Antisemitismus. Wagners Persönlichkeit und seinem künstlerischen Schaffen gerecht zu werden, ohne die problematischen Seiten seines Charakters auszuklammern, ist das Anliegen von Egon Voss – einem der besten Kenner von Leben und Werk Richard Wagners -, der diese kleine Biographie geschrieben hat.

Free Download Tobias Timm, "Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A Reconstruction "
English | ISBN: 1498589235 | 2019 | 164 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 1118 KB
Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meaningfully about experience due to his postmodern inclination to associate experience with a belief in objectivity and foundational truths. Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A Reconstruction explores the context, reasoning, and consequences of this resistance. While for much of our history experience was valued for its potential to teach us about the world, Rorty and his fellow postmodern thinkers encouraged us to doubt the narrative that we can use experience to make epistemological progress. Rather than pursue universal truths about the world, Rorty suggested that we recognize all of our beliefs about the world as being social constructions. In his project to recover a concept of experience from within the framework Rorty has constructed, Tobias Timm describes how classical pragmatist theories of experience are naïve about the problem of foundationalism. He also explains how the most common phenomenological work lacks an active subject; experience here is simply something that happens to us, rather than something we actively seek to improve. Timm demonstrates that despite Rorty’s insistence that we talk about language instead of experience, there are strong experiential elements in his work. Rorty’s romanticism, and his optimism about the accomplishments of western culture, are remedial to the pessimism of postmodern discussions about experience.

Free Download Donald A. Rosenthal, "Richard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910"
English | ISBN: 1538179997 | 2023 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 8 MB
This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves.

Free Download The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon by Stanley I. Kutler
English | 1990 | ISBN: 0394562348 | 733 Pages | EPUB | 7.4 MB
This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s, and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon’s obstruction of justice from the White House capped a pattern of abuse that marked his entire tenure in office. He makes clear how the drama of Watergate is rooted not only in the tumultuous events and social tensions of the 1960s but also in the personality and history of Richard Nixon.