Tag: Shaped

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance


Free Download Meredith K. Ray, "Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance"
English | ISBN: 0367533995 | 2023 | 360 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era. Highlighted here are figures like Caterina Sforza, who defended her city against an invading army; Veronica Franco, the Venetian courtesan whose erotic verse enthralled Europe; Sofonisba Anguissola, acclaimed for her arresting portraits; Isabella Andreini, the original "prima donna" of Italian theater; and Margherita Sarrocchi, the epic poet and mathematics prodigy who corresponded with Galileo Galilei.

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Lincoln’s Gift How Humor Shaped Lincoln’s Life and Legacy


Free Download Gordon Leidner, "Lincoln’s Gift: How Humor Shaped Lincoln’s Life and Legacy"
English | 2015 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 149260965X | EPUB | 3,4 mb
"Simply the best book that has been published on this great president’s humor and stories…Everyone interested in Abraham Lincoln will want to read this."―William C. Harris, author of Lincoln and the Border States

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The Fire Below How the Caucasus Shaped Russia


Free Download The Fire Below: How the Caucasus Shaped Russia by Robert Bruce Ware
English | May 9, 2013 | ISBN: 1441107932 | 360 pages | PDF | 2.05 Mb
This groundbreaking work examines the complex dynamics of Russia’s relations with the Caucasus, revealing the profound effects that Caucasian forces have had upon Russia’s development.

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Wild Girls How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation [Audiobook]


Free Download Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHCC1VF1 | 2023 | 4 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Tiya Miles
Narrator: Janina Edwards

Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.

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