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 The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema , Historical Trauma and National Identity By Linnie Blake 2008 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0719075939 | PDF | 2 MB TheWoundsof Nationsexplores the ways in which horror films allow international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history--from genocide to terrorist outrage andnuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1970s America, 1980s Germany, post-Thatcherite Britain or post-9/11 America) is in fact a highly political and potentially therapeutic film genre that enables us to explore, and potentially recover from, the terrors of life in the real world.Exploring a wide range of stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, Blakeproffers a radical critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it promulgates, showing that horror cinema can offer us a disturbing, yet perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic legacy of recent times.  Adam Kirsch, "The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets" English | 2005 | ISBN: 0393051978 | EPUB | pages: 299 | 0.6 mb "One of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times) examines a revolutionary generation of poets.  The Wounded Healer: The Pain and Joy of Caregiving by Omar Reda English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1324019239 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.82 MB Finding meaning in trauma work, as a traumatized healer yourself.  The Wounded Body: Memory, Language and the Self from Petrarch to Shakespeare English | 2022 | ISBN: 303091903X | 411 Pages | PDF | 6 MB This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a 'cultural symptom' and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone's body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those who look at it to engage in an introspective and analytical process. By studying and describing the transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of the bodily wound―from Petrarch's representation of the Self to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and Shakespeare―could respond to the emergence of Modernity as a new cultural feature.  Jonathan Kirsch, "The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0142196118, 0670030090 | EPUB | pages: 317 | 0.8 mb Who is a Jew? In this colorful, eye-opening work, bestselling author and lecturer Jonathan Kirsch takes us on a three-thousand-year tour of Jewish identity and diversity and offers answers to this complex and difficult question. Kirsch reveals that Judaism has never been a religion of strict and narrow orthodoxy. For every accepted tradition in Jewish faith there are countertraditions rooted in biblical antiquity: the Maccabee freedom fighters who closed the Bible and picked up swords, dervish-like ecstatics who claimed to enjoy direct communication with God even after they had been excommunicated by a distrustful rabbinate, and courageous men and women who were the forgotten heroes of the Holocaust. With drama and narrative verve, Kirsch explores these and many other "Judaisms" that make up the rich tapestry of Jewish identity.  The Way of The Vegan Meathead: Eating for Strength by Daniel Austin English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VMZG67K | 251 pages | MOBI | 7.34 Mb In the second edition of The Way of The Vegan Meathead, champion powerlifter Daniel Austin demolishes the mass of lies you've heard about the "difficulties" of building strength on a vegan diet. He'll show you how eating to become a Vegan Beast is easier than you ever thought it could be.  Stephen J Puetz, "The Unified Cycle Theory: How Cycles Dominate the Structure of the Universe and Influence Life on Earth" English | 2009 | pages: 603 | ISBN: 1432712160 | PDF | 6,5 mb Documented cycles range widely in diversity. They include fluctuations in the stock market, commodity prices, economic activity, wars, civilizations, global climate, ice-ages, geological formations, and abundance of life on Earth. This book examines all of these cycles, plus more. In addition, the Unified Cycle Theory makes predictions about our universe. If you're interested in history, science, geology, physics, astronomy, climatology, biology, mathematics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, economics, or investment theory, then read on. The theory includes portions of all of these academics. Furthermore, this book covers cycles ranging as short as 27 days to ones spanning billions of years. The evidence comes from a variety of scientific, academic, and business sources - which this book methodically details. In spite of the great advances in identifying cycles, this increased knowledge yielded little in the way of providing a consensus about why they occur. This book attempts to correct that shortcoming. These chapters step back, dispose all preconceptions, reexamine the wealth of information available, and use deductive processes to formulate a new theory.  The Underground Railroad: The History and Legacy of America's Greatest Abolitionist Network by Charles River Editors English | November 7, 2013 | ISBN: 1493693603 | 1023 pages | EPUB | 0.83 Mb *Includes pictures of important people and places.  Dean Graziosi, "The Underdog Advantage - Rewrite Your Future By Turning Your Disadvantages Into Your Superpowers" English | 2019 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0578568462 | PDF | 2,1 mb WHAT IS THE UNDERDOG ADVANTAGE ALL ABOUT? Do you ever feel stuck in your life? Here's how to FLIP THAT SWITCH! Finally the success road-map for those not born to privilege or advantaged. Do things look good on the outside but on the inside, you feel like a prisoner trapped in mediocrity? Or maybe you feel like you missed your chance, or you can't find your starting point and no matter what you do, nothing moves you forward? You're the underdog-dismissed, counted out, lacking the right resources and unsupported. This book changes all that by taking you on a journey and showing you what successful "Underdogs" throughout time have already discovered. Your so called disadvantaged are the fuel and the hidden superpower to accomplish anything you know the secret on how to flip the success switch on in your life... This Book will show you that as an underdog (Something we all are) you're actually in a great position, and with one or two small shifts, you can unlock limitless potential. Being an underdog means you don't have to worry about what other people think, you have a lot of room to improve, you can get easy momentum, you can sneak up on competitors, and you have incredible sources of motivation. Soon you will learn that being an underdog is actually your ultimate unfair advantage to next level wealth, prosperity, happiness and joy...  Srimati Basu, "The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (Volume 1) " English | ISBN: 0520282450 | 2015 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively. |
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