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 Far from Heaven By Glyn Davis 2011 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0748637788 | PDF | 2 MB Nominated for four Oscars, Far from Heaven earned rave reviews and won widespread cultural and critical recognition. A knowing and emotionally involving homage to the films of Douglas Sirk, this film is a key text in the canon of American independent cinema.This book offers a detailed and perceptive study of Haynes' film, with each chapter centred on a topic crucial for understanding Far from Heaven's richness and seductive pleasures (authorship, melodrama, queerness). The film is also positioned in relation to the rest of Todd Haynes' work, the New Queer Cinema movement, and the history of US independent cinema.  Europe by Eurail 2022: Touring Europe by Train, 46th Edition by Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1493054767 | 584 pages | True EPUB | 2.75 MB Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for over forty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.  Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History By Steve Neale, Sheldon Hall 2010 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 0814330088 | PDF | 5 MB The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. In Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History authors Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, the authors examine the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. In the first section, Hall and Neale consider the beginnings of features, specials, and superspecials in American cinema, as the terms came to define not the length of a film but its marketable stars or larger budget. The second section investigates roadshowing as a means of distributing specials and the changes to the roadshow that resulted from the introduction of synchronized sound in the 1920s. In the third section, the authors examine the phenomenon of epics and spectacles that arose from films like Gone with the Wind, Samson and Deliliah, and Spartacus and continues to evolve today in films like Spider-Man and Pearl Harbor. In this section, Hall and Neale consider advances in visual and sound technology and the effects and costs they introduced to the industry. Scholars of film and television studies as well as readers interested in the history of American moviemaking will enjoy Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters.  Alexander Kopytin, "Environmental Expressive Therapies: Nature-Assisted Theory and Practice" English | ISBN: 1138233080 | 2017 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB Environmental Expressive Therapies contributes to the emerging phenomenon of eco-arts therapy by highlighting the work that international expressive arts therapists have accomplished to establish a framework for incorporating nature as a partner in creative/expressive arts therapy practices. Each of the contributors explores a particular specialization and outlines the implementation of multi-professional and multi-modal "earth-based" creative/expressive interventions that practitioners can use in their daily work with patients with various clinical needs. Different forms of creative/expressive practices―such as creative writing, play therapy techniques, visual arts, expressive music, dramatic performances, and their combinations with wilderness and animal-assisted therapy―are included in order to maximize the spectrum of treatment options. represents a variety of practical approaches and tools for therapists to use to achieve multiple treatment goals and promote sustainable lifestyles for individuals, families, and communities.
 Kumiko Murata, "English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective: Exploring the Higher Education Context " English | ISBN: 0815395175 | 2018 | 302 pages | PDF | 2 MB English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) in communicative situations the world over with the acceleration of globalisation. This is in line with the increased introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions in many parts of the world to further promote both students' and faculty's mobility to make them competitive and employable in the globalised world, and to make their institutions more attractive and reputable. EMI and ELF, however, are rarely explicitly investigated together despite the fact that the spread of EMI cannot be separated from that of ELF. This volume tackles the issue head on by focusing on EMI in higher education from an ELF perspective. The volume includes contributions by Asian, European, Middle Eastern, South American and Anglo-American scholars. It discusses language policies, attitudes and identities, analyses of classroom EMI practices, case studies and finally, pedagogical implications from an ELF perspective, incorporating also theoretical and empirical issues in conducting EMI courses/programmes. The volume will be of great interest and use, not only to those who are conducting research on ELF, EMI, CLIL, language policy and related fields, but also to classroom teachers and policy makers who are conducting and/or planning to start EMI courses/programmes in their institutions or countries all over the world.  Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction By Allan Hepburn 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1442641002 | PDF | 4 MB Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged.Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.
 Ranjana Das, "Early Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the Perinatal " English | ISBN: 1138052574 | 2019 | 182 pages | PDF | 2 MB Early Motherhood in Digital Societies offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn has meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after they have a baby, often called the 'perinatal' period.  ECONOMIC Sanction Tools worsens world tension : Why Western Liars, Allies and Biden-Harris Weak Administration Causes Russia Invasions of Ukraine War (Hidden Truth About NATO, EU, G7, US, Fortress) by Schwab Murray English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09V7M3K8B | 130 pages | EPUB | 0.20 Mb NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Schwab Murray.  Due Diligence Obligations in International Law by Alice Ollino English | March 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1316511871 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB Due diligence obligations are typically described by scholars and practitioners as 'elusive', 'weak', and difficult to pin down in the abstract. Challenging these assumptions, this book offers a systematic reconstruction of the foundations of due diligence obligations of states and explores their nature, rationale, content and scope of operation in international law. Tackling due diligence from a general perspective, this book seeks to complement scholarly studies on public international law obligations and their theory. This book will be relevant for academics, practitioners, graduate students across international law and anyone seeking to better conceptualise due diligence under international law and understand how due diligence obligations are operationalised in practice.
 Drawing Faces: Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions, Detailed Features, and Lifelike Portraits (How to Draw Books) by Lise Herzog English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1646043200 | 104 pages | True EPUB | 37.32 MB Discover how to make your character drawings even more realistic with step-by-step instructions and tips and tricks for creating the most lifelike portraits and facial expressions. |
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