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Sunday, June 19, 2016

The Story of Jazz (Repost)

The Story of Jazz By Marshall W. Stearns
1970 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 0195012690 | scanned PDF | 143 MB

Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns’s history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz’s cultural effects on American and the world.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Story Climax: How to Avoid Disappointed Audiences and Craft a Screenplay or Novel Climax That Thrills & Delights

Leap to the top of a reader’s “auto-buy” list. Be added to Hollywood’s speed dial.

These dreams don’t have to remain idle fantasies.

They can become reality.

You can be an auto-buy for thousands of readers.

You can be on Hollywood’s speed dial.

But, to accomplish these goals, you have to possess a very special writing skill.

You have to be “a closer,” the kind of novelist or screenwriter whom readers and studios can count on to deliver an ending that isn’t merely satisfactory, but instead, deeply satisfying.

See, the ending of your story has an additional burden to bear, one which the beginning and middle do not. The ending is audiences’ last experience with your film or novel. Their memories of it are the ones that really stick out in their minds.

Consequently, these are the memories they rely on most when making their final evaluations (thumbs down or up; recommended or not) of your story.

That’s why it’s so important to know how to write a story with a spectacular ending. That’s why being a closer is a coveted status for novelists and screenwriters alike.

Whether you’re writing a novel or a screenplay, this book will help you master this critical component of story structure. Specifically, this writing skills guide will cover:

How to Use 4 Categories of Antagonists and 8 Rules of Engagement to Build Your Story Climax on a Sturdy Foundation

The climax is the decisive encounter that resolves the conflict between your protagonist and the antagonists who’ve thwarted him every step of the way.

Hence, its power will depend upon scenes that occur (and storytelling decisions you’ve made) long before the climax of your story actually begins.

Follow the guidelines discussed here, and you’ll avoid writing a novel or screenplay whose climax is constructed on quicksand.

2 Criteria at the Core of the Climax That Are Crucial to Fulfill to Avoid Disappointed Audiences (But Which, Oddly, Are Often Overlooked)

After you’ve built a sturdy foundation for your story climax, it’s time to roll up your creative sleeves, and work on the climax itself.

Fulfill the two criteria at the core of this story structure essential, and you minimize the potential for audiences to be disappointed by the ending of your screenplay or novel.

3 Quality Control Tests Your Story Climax Must Pass to Earn Audiences’ Enthusiastic Seal of Approval

After you’ve nailed down the core of your story climax, you’re not home free yet. Now, it’s time to use your creativity to fine-tune it, and make adjustments as necessary. To make sure your story climax thrills and delights, you must carefully inspect your climactic sequence, and run it through three quality control tests.

With this writing skills guide, you’ll know how to write a story that aces these quality control tests with flying colors. As part of your winning strategy, you’ll learn:

how to balance “shiny moments” between your protagonist and other characters (plus, the one moment you absolutely CANNOT distribute to anyone besides your hero)

6 ways to use story stakes to provide audiences with an extra thrill after the climax—thereby deepening their satisfaction

5 methods to make your climax feel more epic in scope

12 tactics to extend the duration of your story climax (while still maintaining its intensity)

Buy this writing guide today, learn how to write a story climax that delights audiences…and take a step closer toward making a living through your creativity!

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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Rousseau and Revolution: The Story of Civilization, Book 10 [Audiobook]

A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789

The Pulitzer Prize-winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant.

Rousseau and Revolution, the 10th volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel-philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration and social revolt, who contended with the great rationalist Voltaire for the mind of Europe. Rousseau condemned civilization as a disease, glorified the noble savage, proclaimed to the world with equal intensity his own love affairs and the natural rights of man, and became the patron saint of the revolution and the worldwide social upheavals of two centuries.

The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 - 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Book 5 [Audiobook]

The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304 – 1576 AD, The Story of Civilization, Book 5 [Audiobook] by Will Durant
English | September 22, 2014 | ASIN: B00NT3L3CE, ISBN: 1483008835, 1483008827 | MP3@64 kbps | 37 hrs 7 mins | 1021 MB
Narrator: Grover Gardner | Genre: Nonfiction/History

An engrossing volume on the Italian Renaissance by Pulitzer Prize – winning historian Will Durant

The fifth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story of Civilization,The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter

the poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers ofthe Renaissance;

the paintings, sculptures, and architecture ofMilan, Florence, and Venice;

the life and accomplishments of Leonardo DaVinci;

the Catholic church and the popes of Avignon and Rome;

the politicians and philosophers of Italy,including the Borgia family, Julius II, and Machiavelli;

the Italian Wars, the conflicts with France, and the country’s decline.

The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World

The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century’s most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it.

The world’s principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day, from the contents of our weekly shopping to large capital spending by businesses. GDP also includes the myriad things that our governments pay for, from libraries and road-line painting to naval dockyards and nuclear weapons.

The Great Invention reveals how in just a few decades GDP became the world’s most powerful formula: how six algebraic symbols forged in the fires of the 1930’s economic crisis helped Europe and America prosper, how the remedy now risks killing the patient it once saved, and how this fundamentally flawed metric is creating the illusion of global prosperity―and why many world leaders want to be able to ignore it but so far remain powerless to do so.

Drawing on interviews, firsthand accounts, and previously neglected source materials, The Great Invention takes readers on a journey from Capitol Hill to Whitehall―on the trail of theories made in Cambridge, tested in Karachi, and designed for global application―into the minds of unworldly geniuses seduced by the allure of power and the demands of politics.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Story Belgium - 31 Mei 2016

Story Belgium – 31 Mei 2016
Dutch | 148 pages | True PDF | 40.81 Mb

Friday, June 3, 2016

Isaac"s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Isaac’s Army: A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 16:35:38 | 2012 | ISBN-10: 1452660409 | 460 MB
Genre: History

Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew Brzezinski delivers the first-ever comprehensive narrative account of that struggle, following a group of dedicated young Jews-some barely out of their teens-whose individual acts of defiance helped rewrite the ending of World War II. Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and surviving relatives, Isaac’s Army chronicles the extraordinary triumphs and devastating setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its earliest acts of defiance in 1939 to the exodus to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the confident and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the Jewish Fighting Organization; Simha Ratheiser, Isaac’s fifteen-year-old bodyguard, whose boyish good looks and seeming immunity to danger made him an ideal courier; and Zivia Lubetkin, the warrior queen of the underground who, upon hearing the first intimations of the Holocaust, declared: “We are going to defend ourselves.” Joined by allies on the left and right, they survived Gestapo torture chambers, smuggled arms, ran covert printing presses, opened illegal schools, robbed banks, executed collaborators, and fought in the two largest rebellions of the war. Hunted by the Germans and bedeviled by the “Greasers”-roving bands of blackmailers who routinely turned in resistance fighters for profit-the movement was chronically short on firepower but long on ingenuity. Its members hatched plots in dank basements, never more than a door knock away from summary execution, and slogged through fetid sewers to escape the burning Ghetto to the forests surrounding the city. And after the initial uprising was ruthlessly put down by the SS, they gambled everything on a bold plan for a citywide revolt-of both Jews and Gentiles-that could end only in victory or total destruction. The money they raised helped thousands hide when the Ghetto was liquidated. The documents they forged offered lifelines to families desperate to escape the horror of the Holocaust. And when the war was over, they helped found the state of Israel. A story of secret alliances, internal rivalries, and undying commitment to a cause, Isaac’s Army is history at its most heart-wrenching. Driven by an unforgettable cast of characters, it’s a true-life tale with the pulse of a great novel, and a celebration of the indomitable spirit of resistance.

Matthew Brzezinski (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

After enjoying early success as co-host of The Man Show with Joe Rogan, the past twenty years of Doug Stanhope’s career can be seen as a subversive insider attack against the “bro-code” he helped to launch. Following a very singular career arc, Stanhope turned his back on Hollywood and toured relentlessly for years, performing up to 200 shows a year. He’s a giant cult comedian with a fiercely loyal audience. His material is abrasive and often offensive, but it also relies on a bullshit-free, hardcore, outraged, truth-telling perspective in the tradition of the late Bill Hicks. Stanhope’s memoir is sure to rub many the wrong way, but not without causing fits of uncontrollable laughter in the process.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice

Richard Rose, “Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice”
English | ISBN: 1849052727 | 2012 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.

This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an accessible explanation of contemporary research in neurobiology and trauma. Featuring tried and tested ideas, with tools and templates illustrated through instructive case studies, the author identifies how life story therapy can be implemented in practice. Finally, the relationships between life story therapy and traditional ‘talking’ therapies are explored.

Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children is essential reading for those working with children and adolescents, including social workers, teachers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term carers, psychologists and other professionals.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell [Repost]

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. Phil Lapsley expertly weaves together the clandestine underground of “phone phreaks” who turned the network into their electronic playground, the mobsters who exploited its flaws to avoid the feds, the explosion of telephone hacking in the counterculture, and the war between the phreaks, the phone company, and the FBI. The product of extensive original research, Exploding the Phone is a ground-breaking, captivating book.

Friday, May 6, 2016

The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution

Donald R. Prothero, “The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution”

ISBN: 0231171900 | 2015 | EPUB | 408 pages | 38 MB

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping, scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting and enlightening overview for anyone interested in the history of life on our planet.

The twenty-five fossils lovingly portrayed in this book catch animals in their evolutionary splendor as they transition from one kind of organism to another. We witness extinct plants and animals of microscopic and immense size and thrilling diversity. We learn about fantastic land and sea creatures that have no match in nature today. Along the way, we encounter such fascinating fossils as the earliest trilobite, Olenellus; the giant shark Carcharocles; the “Frogamander” and the “Turtle on the Half Shell”; the “fishibian” Tiktalik; the first bird, Archaeopteryx; the walking whale Ambulocetus; enormous marine reptiles and the biggest dinosaurs known; the gigantic hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium, the largest land mammal that ever lived; and the Australopithecus nicknamed “Lucy,” the oldest human skeleton. We learn about the scientists and adventurers who pioneered paleontology and the larger intellectual and social contexts in which their discoveries were made. Finally, we are told where to see these splendid fossils in the world’s great museums. Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes and delight in the history of science, Prothero’s new book will be a treasured addition to any bookshelf, stoking curiosity in the evolution and life on Earth.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Be the Hero of Your Story: Understand your story, rewrite it & change your life!

What personal stories do you live by, and what internal scripts rule your life? What stories were you told as a child that still affect you? Which of these stories and scripts have helped you, and which are hindering you? Be the Hero of Your Story empowers you to re-imagine yourself as the protagonist, the hero, of your own life story—a story in which you are the author of your own destiny. With expert advice, personal stories and inspiring anecdotal examples, this book guides you through the process of identifying the stories and scripts impacting your life. It then goes on to show you how to alter the stories which are having a negative affect on your life and adapt them into positive narratives that will allow you to create the happily-ever-after you were born to live!

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Friday, April 15, 2016

Story Slovenija - 14 April 2016

Story Slovenija – 14 April 2016
Slovenian | 76 pages | True PDF | 29,3 MB

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia"s Victory over Mussolini"s Invasion, 1935–1941

Jeff Pearce, “Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia’s Victory over Mussolini’s Invasion, 1935–1941”

ISBN: 1629145289 | 2014 | EPUB | 640 pages | 9 MB

It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the United States.

Italian planes dropped poison gas on Ethiopian troops, bombed Red Cross hospitals, and committed atrocities that were never deemed worthy of a war crimes tribunal. But unlike the many other depressing tales of Africa that crowd book shelves, this is a gripping thriller, a rousing tale of real-life heroism in which the Ethiopians come back from near destruction and win.

Tunnelling through archive records, tracking down survivors still alive today, and uncovering never-before-seen photos, Jeff Pearce recreates a remarkable era and reveals astonishing new findings. He shows how the British Foreign Office abandoned the Ethiopians to their fate, while Franklin Roosevelt had an ambitious peace plan that could have changed the course of world history—had Chamberlain not blocked him with his policy on Ethiopia. And Pearce shows how modern propaganda techniques, the post-war African world, and modern peace movements all were influenced by this crucial conflict—a war in Africa that truly changed the world.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals About the Nature of Endless Change

In the publicity surrounding global warming, climate scientists are usually the experts consulted by the media. We rarely hear from geologists, who for almost two hundred years have been studying the history of Earth’s dramatic and repeated climate revolutions, as revealed in the evidence of rocks and landscapes. This book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced picture than is usually presented.

While the average person often gets the impression that the Earth’s climate would be essentially stable if it weren’t for the deleterious effects of greenhouse gases, in fact the history of the earth over many millennia reveals a constantly changing climate. As the author explains, several long cold eras have been punctuated by shorter warm periods. The most recent of these warm spells, the one in which we are now living, started ten thousand years ago; based on previous patterns, we should be about due for the return of another frigid epoch. Some scientists even think that the warming of the planet caused by man-made greenhouse gasses tied to agriculture in the past few thousand years may have held off the next ice age. Though this may be possible, much remains uncertain.

But what is clearly known is that major climate shifts can be appallingly rapid–occurring over as little as twenty or thirty years. One danger of dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is that they may increase the chance that this “climate switch” will be thrown, with catastrophic effects on worldwide agriculture.

Besides her discussion of climate, the author includes chapters on how early naturalists pieced together the complicated geological history of Earth, and she teaches the reader how to interpret the evidence of rock formations and landscape patterns all around us.

Accessible and engagingly written, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to understand one of our most important contemporary debates.