A Course in Demonic Creativity: A Writer's Guide to the Inner Genius by Matt Cardin
Requirements: .PDF reader, 1.9MB
Overview: Where does creativity come from? Why do ideas and inspiration feel as if they come from outside, from an external source that is separate from us but able to whisper directly into the mind? Why have so many writers throughout history, along with composers, painters, philosophers, mystics and scientists, spoken of being guided, accompanied and even haunted by a force or presence that not only serves as the deep source of their creative work, but that exerts a kind of profound and inexorable gravitational pull on the shape of their lives?
These are all questions addressed by A Course in Demonic Creativity: A Writer's Guide to the Inner Genius. The book's starting point is the proposition that we all possess a higher or deeper intelligence than the everyday mind and that learning to live and work harmoniously and energetically with this intelligence is the irreducible core of a successful artistic life. We can call this inner force the unconscious mind or the silent partner. We can call it the id or the secret self. But muse, daimon and genius are so much more effective at conveying its subversive and electrifying emotional charge and also its experiential reality.
Your unconscious mind truly is your genius in the ancient sense of the word, the sense that was universal before it was fatefully altered several centuries ago by historical-cultural forces. Befriending it as such and interacting with it as if it really is a separate, collaborating presence in your psyche, puts you in a position to receive its gifts and it in the position to give them to you.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General


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Jinny Hex Special by Magdalene Visaggio, Gleb Melnikov and Luis Guerrero
Requirements: .CBR/.CBZ reader, 45MB
Overview: Jinny Hex stars in her first solo adventure and she's ready and raring to go- Bursting out of the pages of Young Justice, this fan-favorite gal is heading back home to take care of some unfinished business. Hoping to take some time off from multiversal conflict, Jinny reconnects with some old friends and family. But that all goes out the window when a new foe called Three-Eyed Jack transports her town back to the Old West. Now it's up to Jinny to face off with this super-powered gunslinger and save her town. But Jinny's about to learn that some threats are closer to her heart than expected.
Genre: Comics


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Bella UK - April 30, 2024
Requirements: .PDF reader, 29.2 MB | True PDF
Overview: Bella is a classic woman’s weekly lifestyle magazine to rival Best, Woman, and Woman’s Own. It combines insightful, often shocking true life stories with practical style and lifestyle tips and advice, as well as celebrity gossip. With a true understanding of the modern woman’s needs, Bella magazine is all you’ll want to read, all day long. Or do you have a story you want told? Submit it to Bella magazine, and get your spot in the limelight.
Genre: Magazines & Newspapers


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The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 42.9 MB
Overview: The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations.

For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history—the Renaissance—but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being "old-fashioned" and "too literary" when The Waning of the Middle Ages was first published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition—softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced.

This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History


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