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Free Download Peter Hathaway Capstick, "Death in the Silent Places"
English | 1981 | ISBN: 0312186185, 0312915373 | EPUB | pages: 258 | 1.0 mb
From the master of adventure behind the classic Death in the Long Grass, former big-game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick now turns from his own exploits to those of some of the greatest hunters of the past with Death in the Silent Places.

Free Download Cultivating the empty field : the silent illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi By Honghzhi Zhengue, Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu
2000 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 0804832404 | EPUB | 2 MB
Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch’an master Hongzhi’s Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi’s poetry, the only such volume available in English, treats readers to his profound wisdom and beautiful literary gift. In addition to dozens of Hongshi’s religious poems, translator Daniel Leighton offers an extended introduction, placing the master’s work in its historical context , as well as lineage charts and other information about the Chinese influence on Japanese Soto Zen.Both spiritual literature and meditation instruction, Cultivating the Empty Field is sure to inspire and delight

Free Download Jack Curtis Dubowsky, "Composing for Silent Film"
English | ISBN: 1032184213 | 2024 | 136 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film.

Free Download Barbara Tepa Lupack, "The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1666913960 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 20 MB
In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupackexplores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping depicted in early cinema, demonstrating how those stereotypes helped shape American attitudes and practices. Using social, cultural, literary, and cinema history as a focus, this book offers insights into issues of Othering, including discrimination, exclusion, and sexism, that are as timely today as they were a century ago. Lupack not only examines the ways that dominant cinema of the era imprinted indelible and pejorative images of women-including African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and New Women/Suffragists-but also reveals the ways in which a number of pioneering early filmmakers and performers attempted to counter those depictions by challenging the imagery, interrogating the stereotypes, and re-politicizing the familiar narratives. Scholars of film, gender, history, and race studies will find this book of particular interest.

Free Download Kim Philby, "My Silent War: the autobiography of a spy"
English | 2003 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0099462362 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. ‘Kim’ Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as M16’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally compromising covert actions to roll back the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War. Written from Moscow in 1967, "My Silent War" shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John Le Carre’s Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history’s most successful spy. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the great iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized, in the process, the art of espionage writing.

Free Download Alan Munton Daniela Rogobete, Jonathan P. A. Sell, "The Silent Life of Things"
English | ISBN: 1443883689 | 2015 | 220 pages | PDF | 1030 KB
The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and thingness. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into the silent life of things, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its magical materialism, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that things accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.

Free Download Alan Munton Daniela Rogobete, Jonathan P. A. Sell, "The Silent Life of Things"
English | ISBN: 1443883689 | 2015 | 220 pages | PDF | 1030 KB
The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and thingness. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into the silent life of things, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its magical materialism, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that things accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.

Free Download Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir By Patrick Keating
2009 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0231149026 | PDF | 12 MB
Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keating affirms the role of Hollywood lighting as a distinct, compositional force. Closely analyzing Girl Shy (1924), Anna Karenina (1935), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and T-Men (1947), along with other brilliant classics, Keating describes the unique problems posed by these films and the innovative ways cinematographers handled the challenge. Once dismissed as crank-turning laborers, these early cinematographers became skillful professional artists by carefully balancing the competing demands of story, studio, and star. Enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, this volume counters the notion that style took a backseat to storytelling in Hollywood film, proving that the lighting practices of the studio era were anything but neutral, uniform, and invisible. Cinematographers were masters of multifunctionality and negotiation, honing their craft to achieve not only realistic fantasy but also pictorial artistry.

Free Download Melanie Dickerson, "A Melanie Dickerson Collection II: The Silent Songbird and The Noble Servant"
English | 2018 | ASIN: B072TNNDP6 | EPUB | pages: 588 | 1.3 mb
Two novels fromNew York Timesbestselling author Melanie Dickerson are now available in a low-priced, one-volume e-collection!

Free Download Silent City: A Novel by Sarah Davis-Goff
English | October 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1250262623 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.8 MB
For fans of Station Eleven and The Last of Us, an apocalyptic tale of a young woman fighting for life and justice in the tyrannical Phoenix City―the only place in Ireland yet to be overrun by the flesh-eating skrake