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 Free Download Allison M. Johnson, "The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0807170372 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 8.3 mb In The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture, Allison M. Johnson considers the ubiquitous images of bodies―white and black, male and female, soldier and civilian―that appear throughout newspapers, lithographs, poems, and other texts circulated during and in the decades immediately following the Civil War. Rather than dwelling on the work of well-known authors, The Scars We Carve uncovers a powerful archive of Civil War-era print culture in which the individual body and its component parts, marked by violence or imbued with rhetorical power, testify to the horrors of war and the lasting impact of the internecine conflict.  Free Download Geoff Rips, "The Calculus of Falling Bodies: Poems" English | 2015 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 160940419X | EPUB | 2,4 mb The poems in this collection span the 40 years in which Geoff Rips has undertaken a deeply personal attempt to understand the mystery of things. The pieces parallel his interest in the greater world and burrow deep inside his own psyche in the attempt to find meaning. His poems include the pantheon of subjects embraced by poets through the ages-life, death, love, and family-and they discuss the natural world and the material world, reality TV shows, looking for work, traffic, the lives of window washers and hot dog vendors, the wetlands, and pelicans, plovers, and dolphins. This is the whole of life, seen by looking closely at its parts.  Free Download The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics By Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, Thomas F. Carter 2017 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0520289005 | PDF | 4 MB Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or Fiji's rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.  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Ultimately, Varma argues that the philosopher used coercion as a supplementary tool to help harmonize man's soul with the heavens. When Hobbes recast the cosmos as matter in motion, however, power became the highest ordering principle for political life.  Free Download Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing By G. Thomas Couser 1997 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0299155609 | PDF | 26 MB This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability-in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis-who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse. Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States-such works as Juliet Wittman's Breast Cancer Journal, John Hockenberry's Moving Violations, Paul Monette's Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, and Lou Ann Walker's A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family-Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role Description plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people. With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.  Free Download Inclusion Bodies: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) by Julian Kopp, Oliver Spadiut English | January 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1071629298 | 283 pages | MOBI | 7.67 Mb This detailed volume presents a series of protocols dealing with different aspects of inclusion body (IB) processing, from cloning procedures to purification of refolded product. 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Free Download Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought by Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CJ9P467G | 328 Pages | True ePUB/pdf | 1.24 MB  Free Download Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes English | 2021 | ISBN: 0813946980 | 195 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling. Considering changes in the medical body model and the architectural model, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Wharton demonstrates the ways in which all models are historical and political. |
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