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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
  
  Dive into the dark heart of Scotland with William Shakespeare's most fast-paced and terrifying tragedy. When a trio of witches prophesies that the brave general Macbeth will one day be King, a seed of deadly ambition is planted. Spurred on by his ruthless wife, Lady Macbeth, he commits a heinous act of regicide that plunges the nation into tyranny and his own mind into madness.
  
  Macbeth is a visceral exploration of the corrupting nature of power and the psychological toll of guilt. From the eerie supernatural warnings of the "weird sisters" to the iconic, blood-stained sleepwalking of Lady Macbeth, every scene is charged with tension and poetic brilliance.
  
  This definitive edition presents the full, original text of "The Scottish Play." It remains an essential study of the fragile line between fate and free will, featuring some of the most haunting soliloquies in the history of theatre.
  
  Witness the price of a crown. Buy "Macbeth" today and experience Shakespeare's masterwork of darkness and destiny.

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  Golden Era of Hollywood’s Most...

  Anónimo

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  The 1930s were, without a doubt, the height of the classical Hollywood era. It is no accident that 1939 has historically been designated as the pinnacle of Hollywood film history. The era was known for its lavish studio productions, with MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox all operating at the height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of contract players, with films released at such a rapid pace that it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American entertainment. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to claim that the film industry reached its zenith during the decade precisely because it offered an affordable (if very temporary) escape from the anxieties of the economic woes of the era. 
  The 1930s were also a time in which Hollywood boasted an unprecedented array of famous leading men. Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Fred Astaire were just a handful of the A-list stars of the decade, along with star actresses like Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford. Perhaps it's no surprise that many actors and actresses had romances not just on the screen, but off of it as well, leading to some of the most memorable pop culture stories of the 20th century.

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  Degrees of Risk - Navigating...

  Blake R. Silver

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  An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. 
   
  Institutions of higher education are often described as “ivory towers,” places of privilege where students exist in a “campus bubble,” insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors reveal a widespread belief that college provides young people with stability and keeps insecurity at bay. But for many students, that’s simply not the case. 
   
  Degrees of Risk reveals how insecurity permeates every facet of college life for students at public universities. Sociologist Blake Silver dissects how these institutions play a direct role in perpetuating uncertainty, instability, individualism, and anxiety about the future. Silver examined interviews with more than one hundred students who described the risks that surrounded every decision: which major to choose, whether to take online classes, and how to find funding. He expertly identified the ways the college experience played out differently for students from different backgrounds. For students from financially secure families with knowledge of how college works, all the choices and flexibility of college felt like an adventure or a wealth of opportunities. But for many others, especially low-income, first-generation students, their personal and family circumstances meant that that flexibility felt like murkiness and precarity. In addition, he discovered that students managed insecurity in very different ways, intensifying inequality at the intersections of socioeconomic status, race, gender, and other sociodemographic dimensions. Drawing from these firsthand accounts, Degrees of Risk presents a model for a better university, one that fosters success and confidence for a diverse range of students.

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  Conduct of Life volume 2

  Moses Almosnino, Walter Hilliger

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  The major work of Rabbi Moses Almosnino (1515-1580), “Conduct of Life,” remains to this day an essential reference in classical Judeo-Spanish literature, now finally available in English in its first translation. First published in Ladino in 1564 as, Sefer Hanhagat ha-hayim and in 1729 as “Regimiento de la vida”, this three-volume edition is part of the prestigious collection Veritas è terra orietur. The work aims to disseminate the timeless teachings of ethics, in the words of the author: “In all that has been said, my intention is only to make you understand how the one who follows the path of virtue and customs of practising good and pure knowledge since childhood, lives a happy and fulfilled life (Volume 1, chapter 2)” This second volume addresses the confusion of indeterminism with free will (Volume 2, chapter 1) and how virtues arise from free will to surpass the force of destiny chapter 2), their conditions (chapter 3); the three types of strength or courage, which is the first virtue (chapter 4), its five properties and eleven conditions (chapter 5); as well as the ten ethical virtues, temperance (chapter 6), the sixteen properties of liberality chapters 7-8), magnificence (chapter 9), magnanimity and its fifty properties (chapter 10-12), modesty (chapter 13), meekness (chapters 14-16), affability (chapter 17), honesty or truth (chapters 18-19), and courtesy (chapter 20); following the order and numbering of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.“Conduct of Life” draws heavily from the Nicomachean Ethics but transcends this source by situating itself at the universal intersection of several traditions: Greco-Arabic philosophy, Judeo-Christian scholasticism, classical Sephardic Judaism, and medieval Jewish thought. Thus, this work contributes to peace and intercultural understanding among peoples.

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  European History for Kids Vol 1:...

  Captivating History

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  Travel hundreds of thousands of years back to when cavemen roamed Earth! 
  Discover what life was like for the first-ever Europeans during the Stone Age. Then, fast forward to the Bronze and Iron Ages when the first advanced civilizations emerged in Europe. You’ll discover more about the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Northern European barbarians. 
  Next up on your tour of European history, you will enter the gruesome Middle Ages, when Vikings and knights were the heroes and villains of the day. The medieval time was also a war-torn period. You will learn about the Norman Conquest, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years’ War before finally discovering the grizzly truth of what the Black Death was. 
  After this, you’ll learn all about the famous figures of the Renaissance before finally voyaging into the Age of Discovery to explore the New World with the daring explorers who found its islands and vast continents. 
  You’ll learn mind-boggling truths as history comes alive with fun facts, fascinating pictures, and maps. Plus, you’ll put your new knowledge to the test with engaging activities throughout the audiobook. You don’t need to worry about those tricky new words, either, as helpful pronunciation hints are provided! 
  Still not convinced you want to become a European explorer? Here are some clues to what else is in store for you in this audiobook!Woolly mammoths were used for the craziest things!Brrr! Ice Ages last how long?How man’s best friends are related to wolves!What legends and myths have more truth than you think…You may have heard of more Early European gods than you realized… 
  Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin your journey of European history today!

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  St Kilda: My Island Home -...

  Miles Kerr-Peterson, Michelle H...

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  Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Yearning for the bright modern world beyond the island, she was the first woman to leave of her own accord in 1909, settling in Glasgow. During the crisis that led to the islands' evacuations in 1929-30, she wrote a series of passionate articles about her childhood and the history of the islands. These writings about St Kilda offer a personal and uniquely female perspective on the island's story and its imminent abandonment.
  This book includes all seventeen of her articles, which tell the full history of the island as she understood it, and sets their publication against the dates of the evacuation. These are complemented by a historical introduction and commentary. Despite extensive literature on the story of St Kilda, Christina's contributions have been largely overlooked by historians, though they offer valuable insights into the island's history and the evacuation's impact. To compliment the articles written by Christina, this volume includes a collection of photographs taken by her husband, Robert Chalmers, in 1930.

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