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 Oscar Wilde: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History English | August 30, 2018 | ISBN: 1719947546 | 42 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.75 Mb Oscar WildeWho was Oscar Wilde? Was he just an author of witty but meaningless plays, only out to get a laugh or two? The answer is a resounding no. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright in the late nineteenth century. His controversial plays were riddled with mockery of social status, cleverly covered by the use of comedy.
 Organizing Your Home: Decluttering Solutions and Storage Ideas Organizing Your Home by Emily Wilska English | 2011 | ISBN: 1435125118 | 256 pages | PDF | 130 MB Get organized one small step at a time, clear the clutter and deal more efficiently with everything from clothes and towels to tools and bills. This handy book provides step-by-step instructions along with ideas for creating long-lasting systems. Its 475 color photos illustrate great ways to store your belongings. Organizing ideas are resented room by room, from kitchen and bathroom to bedrooms, children's spaces, and the home office, as well as the attic, basement, and garage. The book also includes ideas specific to small homes and apartments, and an extensive resource guide to products and Web sources.
 Richard Lehman, Lawrence G. McMillan, "Options for Volatile Markets: Managing Volatility and Protecting Against Catastrophic Risk" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1118022262 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1.5 MB Practical option strategies for the new post-crisis financial market  Oncological Emergencies By Patrick Johnston, Roy Spence 2002 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 0198508670 | PDF | 6 MB Oncological emergencies can relate either to the cancer itself or is treatment. Early diagnosis and treatment are necessary to prevent major morbidity or mortality. Optimal outcomes in these patients rely on recognition of early symptoms and signs and use of the appropriate therapy. This book covers cancer-related and treatment-related oncological emergencies and their management in a clear, accessible style through the use of bullet lists, algorithms and key points to ensure effective and immediate treatment and management. As the number of cancer patients receiving treatment is increasing, so the number of clinicians encountering emergencies is rising so clear guidelines dealing with possible complications should prove invaluable. The book is aimed primarily at trainees in oncology and oncologists and will also be useful to primary care doctors and nurses and those working in emergency medicine.  Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History (Anglo-Saxon Studies) (Volume 33) by Thijs Porck 2019 | ISBN: 1783273755 | English | 288 pages | True PDF | 6 MB How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested? This first full survey of the Anglo-Saxon cultural conceptualisation of old age, as manifested and reflected in the texts and artwork of the inhabitants of early medieval England, presents a more nuanced and complicated picture. The author argues that although senescence was associated with the potential for wisdom and pious living, the Anglo-Saxons also anticipated various social, psychological and physical repercussions of growing old. Their attitude towards elderly men and women - whether they were saints, warriors or kings - was equally ambivalent.  Number Darts Mental Maths Puzzles by Clarity Media English | April 15, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0875XNRQY | 65 pages | PDF | 0.23 Mb Number Darts Mental Maths Puzzles  Nowhere in the Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) by Karma Lochrie 2016 | ISBN: 0812248112 | English | 280 pages | True PDF | 13 MB Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today.  Julie Adair King, "Nikon D3400 For Dummies" English | ISBN: 1119336244 | 2016 | 352 pages | EPUB | 12 MB Discover the essentials to getting better photos with the Nikon DLSLR D3400  Peter Cope, "Night and Low-Light Techniques for Digital Photography" ISBN: 158428174X | 2005 | True PDF | 130 pages | 5 MB The techniques illustrated in this handbook inspire photographers to take photographs when they would otherwise put their camera away-in low-light and nighttime situations. A comprehensive discussion of color and tone teaches photographers how to change their overall perceptions in low-light environments and adjust their exposure settings and filters to suit a variety of light levels. The most adverse lighting situations are covered, such as floodlit cityscapes, lightning, sunsets, stage shows, and fireworks. Tips on taking advantage of the digital environment's ability to manipulate and enhance low-light images both during and after the photo shoot are offered and technical information on both cameras and the latest software is discussed.
 New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World By Peter Clarke 2006 | 373 Pages | ISBN: 0415257484 | PDF | 3 MB "New Religions in Global Perspectives" by Peter B. Clarke (2006) is a good book, especially if you are interested in how humanity's religious sentiment is expressed in different and similar ways across societies and cultures in the modern (and so-called postmodern) world. Clarke's book is less profound than Needleman & Baker's (1981) classic "Understanding the New Religions." It provides, however, a more balanced view of so-called New Age Movements (NAMs) than presented by Lewis & Melton's (1992) edited "Perspectives on the New Age." Clarke thankfully avoids the polemics and loaded language that characterizes such books as Peters' (1991) "The Cosmic Self" and LeBar's (1989) "Cults, Sects, and the New Age," which not infrequently disparage NAMs as alterative faith systems to Christianity that turn man into God, while disingenuously accepting alternative conventionally-held Christian doctrinal tenets that turn God into man and the notion that the Son of God could be contained in one human frame. Drawbacks to the text are its cost, its over-attention to detail, and repetitiveness. The sticker price of the book is a bit of a shock. It costs over $100 "used" as of this writing which I consider over-priced, especially for an Amazon.com book. My recommendation is to have an academic library purchase the book (or obtain a copy through interlibrary loan) and then borrow it as a patron to read. The first two chapters that provide defining characteristics of NRMs and NAMs are the best chapters of the book. Subsequent chapters outline NRMs as they appear in Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. These characteristics are presented in such excruciating detail that the global forest becomes lost in the local trees. The repetitiveness occurs as the author tries to make connections among the diverse geographical regions -- connections that are repeated within each chapter -- to establish the book's "global perspective" and to point out similarities across the multiple and diverse forms that spirituality and religion take in the human species. Positively, this is a scholarly work with references and a selected bibliography at the end of each chapter. These bibliographies are helpful aids for the student of cross-cultural psychology who is interested in pursuing the innovative character of new religious movements in more depth. One evocative idea that comes out of Clarke's work is the notion of "glocalization" -- the process of shaping the local religion and being shaped by it. It draws readers' attention to the emergence of "a new class (of seekers) that neither belongs nor believes. . . Even where affiliation to one faith only is still considered important, doctrinal tenets are increasingly seen as matters of personal opinion. . . .The possibility of multiple belonging becomes much more likely as religions come to reshape each other" (pp. 4-5). In other words, the various NRM and NAMs are shaping rather than displacing the form and content of traditional world religions, and giving rise to spirituality over religion and personal praxis over doctrinal tenets. Clarke's global perspective is appreciated at a time when much conventional research into the psychology of religion and spirituality is covertly ethnocentric. It complements the cross-cultural approach that academic fields such as transpersonal studies take in their study of the religious change that we as a species are experiencing today. For these reasons, this reader has found Clarke's book to be a welcomed addition to the scholarly literature of religious and spiritual change in the modern world. |
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