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 Bill Bryson, "Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1784161845 | 384 pages | EPUB | 2.7 MB Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.  Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 By Marcel Martel 2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0802093795 | PDF | 4 MB Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered by the medical profession, and illegal drugs that were subject to state control and suppression.Illegal in Canada since 1923, marijuana is the most controversial of illegal drugs. Because it lacks the same addictive and harmful qualities of other illegal substances, such as heroin and cocaine, marijuana's negative social impact is questionable. In the 1960s interest groups - including university student associations, certain physicians, and others -, began demanding changes to the Narcotics Control Act, which governed the legal status of drugs, to decriminalize or legalize the possession of marijuana.In Not This Time, Marcel Martel explores recreational use of marijuana in the 1960s and its emergence as a topic of social debate. He demonstrates how the media, interest groups, state institutions, bureaucrats and politicians influenced the development and implementation of public policy on drugs. Martel illustrates how two loose coalitions both made up of interest groups, addiction research organizations and bureaucrats - one supporting the existing drug legislation, and the other favoring liberalization of the Narcotics Control Act - dominated the debate over the legalization of marijuana, and how those favoring liberalized drug laws, while influential, had difficulty presenting a unified front and problems justifying their cause while the health benefits of marijuana use were still in question. Exploring both sides of the debate, Martel presents the invigorating history of a question that continues to reverberate in the minds of Canadians.  Not Dead Yet: Rebooting Your Life after 50 by Barbara Ballinger, Margaret Crane English | August 11th, 2021 | ISBN: 1538148498 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.47 MB Two long-time, seventysomething writing partners share how they and other aging boomers can navigate this new stage of their lives with optimism, energy, humor, honesty, and empathy.  Stefan Burkhardt, "Norman Tradition and Transcultural Heritage: Exchange of Cultures in the 'Norman' Peripheries of Medieval Europe" English | ISBN: 1409463303 | 2013 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB The Normans have long been recognised as one of the most dynamic forces within medieval western Europe. With a reputation for aggression and conquest, they rapidly expanded their powerbase from Normandy, and by the end of the twelfth century had established themselves in positions of strength from England to Sicily, Antioch to Dublin. Yet, despite this success recent scholarship has begun to question the 'Norman Achievement' and look again at the degree to which a single Norman cultural identity existed across so diverse a territory. To explore this idea further, all the essays in this volume look at questions of Norman traditions in some of the peripheral Norman dominions. In response to recent developments in cultural studies the volume uses the concepts of 'tradition' and 'heritage' to question the notion of a stable pan-European Norman culture or identity, and instead reveals the degrees to which Normans adopted and adapted to local conditions, customs and requirements in order to form their own localised cultural heritage. Divided into two sections, the volume begins with eight chapters focusing on Norman Sicily. These essays demonstrate both the degree of cultural intermingling that made this kingdom an extraordinary paradigm in this regard, and how the Normans began to develop their own distinct origin myths that diverged from those of Norman France and England. The second section of the volume provides four essays that explore Norman ethnicity and identity more broadly, including two looking at Norman communities on the opposite side of Europe to the Kingdom of Sicily: Ireland and the Scandinavian settlements in the Kievan Rus. Taken as a whole the volume provides a fascinating assessment of the construction and malleability of Norman identities in transcultural settings. By exploring these issues through the tradition and heritage of the Norman's 'peripheral' dominions, a much more sophisticated understanding can be gained, not only of th  New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America By Wendy Warren 2016 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0871406721 | EPUB | 17 MB [center]  Murat Akser, "New Cinema, New Media: Reinventing Turkish Cinema" English | ISBN: 1443856886 | 2014 | 310 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume covers approaches concerning the relationship between innovation in cinema and the politics of filmmaking in new cinema practices in Turkey. The contributors focus on historiography, genres, mainstream and art cinema production, and transnational cinema, as well as changing narratives and identities. The new cinema movement in Turkey is here analysed from perspectives of new technologies, new production and distribution structures, the impact of film training, the televisual industry, new actors in commercial and art cinema, as well as the impact of the film festival circuit. Additionally, recurring themes of memory, trauma, and identity are dealt with from multidisciplinary angles. The volume covers in depth analyses of the internationally renowned filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Fatih Akin, Semih Kaplanoglu, Reha Erdem, Zeki Demirkubuz, Yesim Ustaoglu and Dervis Zaim. A timely study on the centenary of Turkish cinema in 2014, students of Middle Eastern Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Gender studies, and identity studies will find this volume extremely relevant to their work.  Nabokov's Women : The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads By Elena Rakhimova-Sommers 2017 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 1498503306 | EPUB | 2 MB [center]  Jonah Lehrer, "Mystery: A Seduction, A Strategy, A Solution" English | ISBN: 1501195875 | 2021 | EPUB | 256 pages | 5 MB Why does mystery create a mental itch that must be scratched? New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, putting together recent discoveries in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology and shining a new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the tricks of successful advertising campaigns and the calculated risks of the stock market.  My Everything: The Parent I Want to Be, The Children I Hope to Raise by Einat Nathan 2021 | ISBN: 0306924048 | English | 304 pages | EPUB | 0.8 MB The compassionate #1 bestseller in Israel that shows parents-particularly mothers-how to teach children to be strong and independent by seeing the world through their children's eyes and feel it through their children's hearts.  Money, You Got This: Easy to Implement Money Strategies So You Can Take Control of Your Business Finances and Create Your Dream Life by Justin Krane English | December 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 1630479187, 1630479209 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 1.27 MB When was the last time you cuddled with your money? |
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