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  Cosimo de' Medici: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence has received its due credit, much of it belongs to the House of Medici, the family dynasty of Florence that ruled at the height of the Renaissance. The dynasty held such influence that some of its family members even became pope, and it all started with a banker colloquially known as Cosimo the Elder.  
  	Cosimo’s trajectory was nothing short of incredible. In the spring of 1433, he sat in a small stone cell high in the tower of the Palazzo della Signoria, listening to the bells of the city he had spent his life serving and waiting to learn whether he was to be beheaded. He was 43 and held no public title of consequence, commanded no army, and had taken pains for most of his life to appear as one prosperous citizen among many. Nonetheless, the men who then governed Florence had decided that he was too dangerous to leave at liberty, and for several days the question before the city was not whether Cosimo possessed power but whether the republic dared to kill him for it.  
  	Instead of being executed, within 18 months, he returned from exile to a city that received him as a deliverer, and for the 30 years that followed, he ruled Florence more completely than any king ruled a kingdom, despite never assuming a crown, a permanent office, or a public claim to authority. He governed through a network of friendships, debts, favors, and quiet arrangements so subtly that foreign observers struggled to describe it, but what they saw was plain enough even when the mechanisms by which Cosimo maintained control were not. The peace and the wars of Italy answered to his judgment, and the powerful leaders across the peninsula carried their business to his house, settling across a banker’s table the questions other cities settled in council chambers and throne rooms.

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  The Principles of Comedy Improv...

  Tom Blank

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  The Principles of Comedy Improv is an authoritative handbook for comedy improv, an art that, more than any other, isolates the conscious act of creation. Comedy improv plays with the very mechanisms we use to form our lives. More than just entertainment, its principles enable you to change every moment of your life. Your guide is Tom Blank, a senior instructor at the Groundlings School and Theater, who crystallizes two decades of experience to convey improv in unparalleled scope, depth, and fun. 
  This audiobook is narrated by the author.

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  Yard Grass - An Australian Rural...

  Ivan James Collins

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  Welcome to Yard Grass: an Australian rural musical. Written, recorded, and performed by Ivan James Collins at IJC Artworks.  
   
  Additional narration by Paul ‘Campo’ Campion and Simonne Filer  
  Additional production by Audiobook Australia 
   
  This is a story about four unlikely individuals:  
  Mad Cow the Cow.  
  Drumsticks the Rooster.  
  Harp Hog the Pig.  
  Banjo Neddy the Horse.  
   
  They were farm animals, but their natural love for music was anything but ordinary. They  
  met by chance, each with a rough-and-ready instrument: a tea chest Bass, a Blues  
  harmonica, Guitar, and a Banjo. They quickly realized their destiny was to turn their  
  rural sounds into something special. Their goal was simple: to create a Blue Grass  
  Country Band. This is their journey. Yard Grass.  
   
  Story and music written by Ivan James Collins 
  Opening Narration by  
  Copyright Ivan James Collins 2007 and 2026

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  50 Masterpieces you have to read...

  George Eliot, Charles Dickens,...

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  This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
  Novels
  Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
  Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
  Austen, Jane: Emma
  Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
  Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
  Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
  Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
  Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
  Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
  Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
  Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
  Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
  Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
  Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
  Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
  Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
  Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
  Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
  Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
  Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
  Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
  Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
  Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
  Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
  Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
  Eliot, George: Middlemarch
  Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
  Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
  Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
  Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
  Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
  Forster, E. M.: Howards End
  Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
  Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
  Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
  Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon's Mines
  Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
  Homer: The Odyssey
  Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
  Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
  James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

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  The Creative Project Manager -...

  Dr Savi S Arora

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  This book will help you via tools and techniques to assure your project challenge. The aim is to enhance you and your team skills through being:Idealist and having an optimistic outlookMotivational for the team managementPerformance orientated with perseverance and belief to succeedAdaptive to the change challenge aheadCommunicative to develop lobbying and collaborationTechnically briefed and reliant on realistic options. 
  Making a positive IMPACT all you do via proven examples. 
  Each chapter builds on common terms and transformational strategies. The aim is to turn you into a savvy leader that is respected and can offer your client or business challenge the confidence to deliver. Let us also not forget with lots of real world examples of proof that this approach will work,

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  I Spastic - The Autobiography of...

  Neil Marcus, S. H. Chambers

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  While society called his disability an obstacle and limitation, Neil argued that his "flourishing dystonia" allowed him to think, explore, and create art in a way most people cannot. True to his words, Neil embraced every opportunity to experience life to its fullest, from navigating the Alaskan wilderness in a wheelchair to commanding the spotlight on stage. In this deeply personal account, Neil invites readers into his world as he remembers adventures and escapades, triumphs and disappointments. Through it all, Neil's humor and wisdom reminds us to rethink labels and look beyond the obvious.  
  **Includes a radio interview with the author's sister Kendra Marcus and S. H. Chambers on Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich on KPFA Berkeley

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