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Free Download Nicholas Connell, "Walter Dew. The Man Who Caught Crippen"
English | ISBN: 075093803X | 2005 | 224 pages | EPUB | 653 KB
Based on original research and using much hitherto unpublished material, ‘Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen’ tells the full, extraordinary story of Dew’s life, from his humble beginnings as a seed merchant’s clerk to chief inspector at Scotland Yard in charge of the most celebrated murder investigation of the 20th century.

Free Download Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier-The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age by Raleigh Trevelyan
English | January 3, 2004 | ISBN: 080507502X, 0805076980 | True EPUB | 640 pages | 4.7 MB
An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world

Free Download Michael Cowan, "Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film – Advertising – Modernity "
English | ISBN: 9089645853 | 2014 | 260 pages | PDF | 4 MB
-Winner of the Willy Haas Award for best book on German cinema-Finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Award in the category of Moving Image-Honourable mention in the BAFFTS Books Prize. In this award-winning study, Michael Cowan reframes our understanding of early avant-garde film by probing the career of one of its towering figures. Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of both experimental and documentary film, but also active in advertising and-after 1933-Nazi propaganda. Examining Ruttmann’s work as a whole, Cowan’s book reevaluates experimental film culture by probing the links between abstraction, montage and modes of governmentality that were crucial to mass modernity in both its democratic and fascist variants.

Free Download Terry Eagleton, "Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism"
English | ISBN: 1804296163 | 2024 | 208 pages | EPUB | 386 KB
From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.

Free Download Brain Games from Walter Joris
by Joris, Walter
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1913565351 | 165 pages | True PDF | 27.1 MB

Free Download Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
English | April 30, 1999 | ISBN: 0765804646, 1138540358 | True EPUB | 690 pages | 1.6 MB
Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvard studying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism.

Free Download David Townsend, "The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic "
English | ISBN: 0812233476 | | 248 pages | AZW3 | 590 KB
Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

Free Download City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin: Fragments of Metropolis (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) by Vincenzo Mele
English | January 13, 2023 | ISBN: 3031181832, 3031181867 | True EPUB | 405 pages | 0.8 MB
This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture.

Free Download Brendan Moran, "Walter Benjamin and Political Theology "
English | ISBN: 1350284343 | 2024 | 262 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Tracing Walter Benjamin’s convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin’s thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin’s thought. Benjamin’s thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a ‘new’ political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism’s illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume’s multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin’s œuvre.

Free Download Christopher Ogden, "Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0316633798 | EPUB | pages: 624 | 3.4 mb
From the bestselling biographer of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman comes a multi-generational saga of one of America’s wealthiest and most controversial families-the Annenbergs.