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 The Age of Spectacular Death edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen English | September 9, 2020 | ISBN: 0367368269, 0367368277 | PDF | 228 pages | 2 MB This book explores death in contemporary society - or more precisely, in the 'spectacular age' - by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now 'do' death. Unfolding the notion of 'spectacular death' as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a 'marketable commodity' used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship.  The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman English | June 21, 2021 | ISBN: 0271087846 | EPUB | 256 pages | 118 MB Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui―the fear of empty space―is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.  Test Pilots of the Jet Age: Men Who Heralded a New Era in Aviation by Colin Higgs, Bruce Vigar 2021 | ISBN: 1526747758 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 7 MB Today, as we board our flights to Adelaide, Zurich, and all points in between, we give little thought to the jet power that will take us there. But, this is only possible because just over 70 years ago a select band of British test pilots was prepared to risk all in the quest to fly further, faster and higher than ever before. Their quest was fraught with danger; disaster and death were never far away.  Ewa Lechman, "Technology and Women's Empowerment " English | ISBN: 0367493713 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 10 MB The near-ubiquitous spread of ICT offers unprecedented opportunities for social and economic agents, reshapes social and economic structures and drives the emergence of socioeconomic networks. This book contributes to the growing body of literature and present state of knowledge, offering the reader broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women's economic and social empowerment and hence have an impact on overall welfare creation. More specifically, it concentrates on demonstrating how ICT may become "empowering technologies" through their implementation. The book is designed to provide deep insight into the theoretical and empirical evidence on ICT as a significant driver of women`s social and economic development.  Tea & Honesty: Heartfelt conversations. Lessons learned. Stories shared. by Jules Sebastian English | March 30th, 2021 | ISBN: 1760525766 | 206 pages | True EPUB | 1.98 MB Jules is one of those people you meet & instantly love. She speaks from the heart, with such warmth and truth. A brilliant book.' - Sally Obermeder  Take Control of Cryptocurrency English | ISBN: 9781954546073 | 190 pages | 2021 | EPUB | 7.08 MB Understand and use Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFTs, and more!  Take Control of 1Password, 5th Edition English | ISBN: 9781947282315 | 192 pages | 2021 | EPUB | 6.39 MB Easily create and enter secure passwords on all your devices!  TRANSGENDER TEEN: Identification to Expression by KARL WHITE English | May 12, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B094SZMJTV | 110 pages | EPUB | 0.18 Mb Transgender Teens: Sometimes Caution is the Right Approach  Survival 8-Box Set: SHTF Home Invasion, Survival EMP, SHTF Prepping, Prepper Canning, Off Grid Secrets, Survival Communication, Survival Hunting, Prepper Hunting by Jerry Faulkner English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B015U8WUZY | 150 pages | MOBI | 1.69 Mb BOOKS INCLUDED:  Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 By Michelle Haberland 2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0820347426 | EPUB | 5 MB Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. InStriking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch at the end of the twentieth century.The popular conception of the early twentieth-century South as largely agrarian informs many histories of industry and labor in the United States. But as Haberland demonstrates, the apparel industry became a key part of the southern economy after the Great Depression and a major driver of southern industrialization. The gender and racial composition of the workforce, the growth of trade unions, technology, and capital investment were all powerful forces in apparel's migration south. Yet those same forces also revealed the tensions caused by racial and gender inequities not only in the region but in the nation at large. Striking Beauties places the struggles of working women for racial and economic justice in the larger context of southern history. The role of women as the primary consumers of the family placed them in a critical position to influence the success or failure of boycotts, union label programs and ultimately solidarity. |
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