Tag: Tragic

Titanic The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner


Free Download Rupert Matthews, "Titanic: The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner"
English | ISBN: 1398820652 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, fitted with more advanced safety features than any of her rivals, she was proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable. Just how and why the Titanic foundered on such a beautiful April evening is the subject of this fascinating book.

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His Majesty’s Airship The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine


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English | May 2, 2023 | ISBN: 1982168277 | 320 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship-and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.

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On the Tragic


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English | ISBN: 1636674887 | 2024 | 606 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and useful definition on the basis of a "biosophical" look at the situation of organisms in their environment and their attempt to realize interests on multiple fronts through abilities they possess in a variety of degrees. This is a theory of genius, and of the dangers that frequently accompany it, and a sober account of the perils of consciousness for the human species. The robust and thorough treatment includes in-depth analysis of the relationship between real-world tragedies and those portrayed in theater and literature.

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Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict


Free Download John Burt, "Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict"
English | ISBN: 0674050185 | 2013 | 832 pages | EPUB | 850 KB
In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable?

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art


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English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0691246696 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 18.9 MB
A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Radical Thinkers)


Free Download The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Radical Thinkers) by Walter Benjamin, translated by John Osborne
English | June 9, 2009 | ISBN: 1844673480 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.3 MB
Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, "mourning play") is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice.

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The Loveliest Woman in America A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter’s Search for Home


Free Download Bibi Gaston, "The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter’s Search for Home"
English | 2008 | pages: 351 | ISBN: 0060857706, 0060857714 | PDF | 3,3 mb
In 1927, at the age of twenty-three, Rosamond Pinchot was hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America." At thirty-three, in a sudden, shocking, and highly public act, Rosamond took her own life, setting in motion generations of confusion in the family she left behind.

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Real AIDS Epidemic How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All


Free Download Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All by Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom – foreword, Anna Crowe
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: B0BWNYPJ9Z | 4 hours and 42 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 256 Mb
Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. In The Real AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher, having studied HIV, ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. Culshaw’s book, updated from its original edition, which was titled Science Sold Out, is one of the great insider-turned-whistleblower stories of our time.
The Real AIDS Epidemic focuses on the politics of the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. She also warns that the toxic drugs being foisted on the Black and gay communities constitute one of the worst medical violations of human rights since the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
The compelling case she makes that the AIDS establishment has led us into a biomedical disaster through incompetence, fraud, and deceit will have many listeners throwing their hands up and feeling helpless and hopeless. But she does something no other book that is critical about HIV and AIDS has done. She suggests a series of strategic actions the scientific community, Congress, the media, and the public can take to undo the damage that the powerful AIDS establishment has done since the epidemic began in 1981.

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The Titanic – The Unsinkable Ship’s Tragic Fate and Legacy (Famous Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters)


Free Download The Titanic – The Unsinkable Ship’s Tragic Fate and Legacy (Famous Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters) by A.G. Taylor, History by the Hour
English | June 27, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B5B5MDYZ | 70 pages | EPUB | 6.08 Mb
In this one-hour history book, discover how the unsinkable ship, the Titanic, met its tragic fate and the aftermath of this maritime disaster.

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