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 The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation: How to Succeed in a Society That Blames You for Everything Gone Wrong (Boomers & Millennials) by Caitlin Fisher 2019 | ISBN: 1633538842 | English | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB #1 New Release in Demography ─ Millennials vs. All Other Generations  The Essential Lord of The Rings Cocktail Cookbook: Let's Hang Out till Morning Just to Kick the Only One Ring - Dynamic LOTR - Themed Beverages By Sharon Powell English | ASIN: B08FX7CWGS | 2020 | 70 pages | EPUB | 1 MB  The Elephant in the Classroom: Helping Children Learn and Love Maths by Jo Boaler English | April 1st, 2009 | ISBN: 0285638475, 0285638750 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 1.42 MB "Help children to learn to love the subject... Make mathematics more the mathematics that people need out there in the world." ![The Elements of Pizza Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home [A Cookbook]](https://i114.fastpic.ru/big/2021/0123/d2/5896c9d51cf387ce6bb8f0b6912460d2.jpeg) The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home [A Cookbook] by Ken Forkish English | April 19th, 2016 | ISBN: 160774838X | 256 pages | True EPUB | 131.93 MB The James Beard and IACP Award-winning author of Flour Water Salt Yeast and one of the most trusted baking authorities in the country proves that amazing pizza is within reach of any home cook.  The Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data by Ruben Ugarte English | 2021 | ASIN: B08TTCV2YH | 194 Pages | EPUB | 5 MB  Niobe Way, "The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences, and Solutions" English | ISBN: 1479802786 | 2018 | 544 pages | EPUB | 9 MB Uncovers the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society  Alexandros Kioupkiolis, "The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics: Re-Thinking Social Change" English | ISBN: 1474446140 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 937 KB Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, he harnesses the political thrust of a radical democratic politics of solidarity, equality and collective self-organisation. He calls into play poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony, put forward by thinkers such as Mouffe and Laclau, to remedy the failure of existing theories of the commons to address power relations and division.  Philip Robbins, "The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition " English | ISBN: 0521848326 | 2008 | 526 pages | PDF | 9 MB Since its inception some fifty years ago, cognitive science has seen a number of sea changes. Perhaps the best known is the development of connectionist models of cognition as an alternative to classical, symbol-based approaches. A more recent - and increasingly influential - trend is that of dynamical-systems-based, ecologically oriented models of the mind. Researchers suggest that a full understanding of the mind will require systematic study of the dynamics of interaction between mind, body, and world. Some argue that this new orientation calls for a revolutionary new metaphysics of mind, according to which mental states and processes, and even persons, literally extend into the environment. This is a state-of-the-art guide to this new movement in cognitive science. Each chapter tackles either a specific area of empirical research or specific sector of the conceptual foundation underlying this research.  Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship " English | ISBN: 1479809004 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 22 MB A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers  The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney By Michael Barrier 2007 | 414 Pages | ISBN: 0520241177 | PDF | 4 MB After much research on the reviews on this website on which Disney biography to read, I was led to believe this was the best written of the 3 major works on Disney's life. At the end, I did not enjoy this work at all and found myself wishing I had chosen either Thomas' or Gabler's book instead.It is apparent throughout this book Barrier had a substantial amount of material on Disney left over from his earlier work on the history of Hollywood animation and often lets stories about the Disney animators themselves runaway for pages at a time. There were points where I started to question if the appropriate title for this book was "Walt Disney Animators." The initial narrative of this book is choppy at best as Barrier spends the first quarter of this book quoting various sources to establish Disney pre-Snow White, then in the next sentence fast forwarding as much as 40 years to a different quote that refutes what was just previously said. It's like you are watching a documentary of multiple interviews being slices together of two people arguing the same point from different eras. This is very hard to follow and flows nothing like a good biography should, as shown in the excellent work on another cartoon mogul, Charles Shultz, done by David Michaelis.Barrier also side tracks the book with multiple personal critiques of both animated and life action features where he becomes more critic than biographer. A horrendous example was a very shallow effort at summarizing what the movie Mary Poppins meant to the studio. The author is states the movie is essentially a "shallow fantasy" although it succeeded in the launching of Julie Andrews as a major star and won multiple Academy Awards. Barrier has no sense that the movie was kept true to story by the author, P.L Travers, and he is more concerned about the casting of Van Dyke than acknowledging the strong musical score. He critiques the lack of strong central story "lurking as a failure" when ignoring this same premise when reviewing positively the feature Alice in Wonderland. At times, Barrier hits his stride when writing about Disney's work as overall mastermind behind the creation of Snow White, DisneyLand and his own personal miniature train hobby. However, these moments are rare and you spend a majority of the time skipping around to various points of view and personal opinions of the author. You also get a very two dimensional history of Disney as the author cannot look at some of the other aspects that made Disney's feature films great, such as there overall musical score. Overall, this is unfortunately one of the worst written biographies I've read and will now have to pick up another one to obtain a better perspective on Disney. |
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