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 Alexis L. Boylan, "Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall" English | ISBN: 0822348527 | 2011 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. They consider Kinkade's imagery and career in relation to nineteenth-century Currier and Ives prints and Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the collectibles market and the fine-art market, the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center, and "The Village at Hiddenbrooke," a California housing development inspired by Kinkade's paintings. The conceptual artist Jeffrey Vallance, the curator of the first major museum exhibition of Kinkade's art and collectibles, recounts his experiences organizing that show. All of the contributors draw on art history, visual culture, and cultural studies as they seek to understand Kinkade's significance for both art and audiences. Along the way, they delve into questions about beauty, class, kitsch, religion, and taste in contemporary art.  This Is Bioethics: An Introduction (This is Philosophy) by Ruth F. Chadwick, Udo Schüklenk November 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1118770749 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB Should editing the human genome be allowed? What are the ethical implications of social restrictions during a pandemic? Is it ethical to use animals in clinical research? Is prioritizing COVID-19 treatment increasing deaths from other causes? Bioethics is a dynamic field of inquiry that draws on interdisciplinary expertise and methodology to address normative issues in healthcare, medicine, biomedical research, biotechnology, public health, and the environment. This Is Bioethics is an ideal introductory textbook for students new to the field, exploring the fundamental questions, concepts, and issues within this rapidly evolving area of study.  Thinking Probabilistically: Stochastic Processes, Disordered Systems, and Their Applications by Ariel Amir English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108479529 | 243 Pages | PDF | 8 MB  There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli English | November 5, 2020 | ISBN: 0241454689 | EPUB | 240 pages | 2.9 MB A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time  Therapeutic Applications of Honey and its Phytochemicals: Vol.1 by Muneeb U. Rehman English | PDF | 2020 | 404 Pages | ISBN : 9811567980 | 8.4 MB Honey typically has a complex chemical and biochemical composition that invariably includes complex sugars, specific proteins, amino acids, phenols, vitamins, and rare minerals. It is reported to be beneficial in the treatment of various diseases, such as those affecting the respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems, as well as diabetes mellitus and certain types of cancers; however, there is limited literature describing the use of honey in modern medicine.
 The other side of Kadugodi: A photo book documenting candid street photography by Krishna Ramalingam English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NPVLN1Y | 70 pages | PDF | 248 Mb Street photography is a genre of photography which records everyday life in public spaces. In this book, the photographer has gone hyperlocal in capturing everyday life as it unfolds in the suburbs of Whitefield, Bengaluru (Bangalore). The photographer has beautifully captured the rich blend of city as well as village life, all within the radius of ~ 6 kms. The images are truly candid, along with funny or thought provoking captions  The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill By James C. Humes, Richard M. Nixon 1995 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0060925779 | PDF | 1 MB An enormously entertaining compendium of witticisms, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill by a former White House speechwriter.  The Washington Manual of Echocardiography, 2nd Edition edited by Nishath Quader, Majesh Makan, Julio Perez English | August 4, 2016 | ISBN: 1496321286 | EPUB | 368 pages | 33 MB Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual® of Echocardiography, Second Edition focuses on the essential information you need to know to successfully perform and read echocardiograms, as well as to identify valvular heart disease, cardiac myopathies, and congenital anomalies. Supervised and edited by faculty from the Washington University School of Medicine, this highly regarded reference has been completely updated throughout, with a new, streamlined layout as well more echo clips, and an update on the current guidelines. You'll find expert guidance, practical tips, and up-to-date information on all aspects of echocardiography - all in one convenient and easily accessible source.  José Eustasio Rivera, "The Vortex: A Novel" English | ISBN: 0822370859 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.  The Use and Abuse of Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Jacques Barzun English | June 1, 1975 | ISBN: 0691018049 | EPUB | 160 pages | 1.4 MB The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance. |
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