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Forbidden Knowledge From Prometheus to Pornography

Forbidden Knowledge From Prometheus to Pornography
Roger Shattuck, "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography"
English | ISBN: 0156005514 | | 384 pages | PDF | 1282 KB
In his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to biotechnology research. Index.

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Fodor's Essential Chile (Fodor's Travel Guide), 8th Edition

Fodor's Essential Chile (Fodor's Travel Guide), 8th Edition
Fodor's Essential Chile (Fodor's Travel Guide), 8th Edition
English | July 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1640973575 | True EPUB | 448 pages | 117 MB
Whether you want to go hiking in Patagonia, hit the beach in Viña del Mar, or drink your way across the Central Valley wine region, the local Fodor's travel experts in Chile are here to help! Fodor's Essential Chile guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor's "Essential" guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!

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Fit to Practice Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980

Fit to Practice Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Douglas M. Haynes, "Fit to Practice: Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980 "
English | ISBN: 1580465811 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven withthe institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory body of the medical profession. The GMC's management of the medical register from 1858 to 1980 offers important insight into the political underpinning of the profession, particularly when it came to regulating who was fit to practice medicine, under what conditions, and where. Technically, admission to the British medical register endowed all doctors with common rights andprivileges. Yet the differential treatment of women in the nineteenth century, Jewish medical refugees during World War II, and Indian doctors both before and after decolonization reveals the persistence of hierarchies of gender,national identity, and race in determining who was fit to practice British medicine.

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First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning

First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning
Assoc. Prof. Miles Turnbull, "First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning "
English | ISBN: 184769196X | 2009 | 224 pages | PDF | 980 KB
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics, as well as in a variety of languages, countries, and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.

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Fat Dogs and French Estates - Part 1

Fat Dogs and French Estates - Part 1
Beth Haslam, "Fat Dogs and French Estates - Part 1"
English | ISBN: 150599828X | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 657 KB
Buying a country estate in France seemed such a simple thing to accomplish. When Beth, her irascible husband Jack, and their two fat dogs set off, little do they know that it will become such an extraordinary adventure. Surviving near-death experiences, they drive thousands of kilometres around French estates steeped in history and crazy aristocrats.

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Faces in the Forest First Nations Art Created on Living Trees

Faces in the Forest First Nations Art Created on Living Trees
Michael D. Blackstock, "Faces in the Forest: First Nations Art Created on Living Trees"
English | 2001 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 0773522565 | PDF | 22,3 mb
In Faces in the Forest Michael Blackstock, a forester and an artist, takes us into the sacred forest, revealing the mysteries of carvings, paintings, and writings done on living trees by First Nations people. Blackstock details this rare art form through oral histories related by the Elders, blending spiritual and academic perspectives on Native art, cultural geography, and traditional ecological knowledge. Faces in the Forest begins with a review of First Nations cosmology and the historical references to tree art. Blackstock then takes us on a metaphorical journey along the remnants of trading and trapping trails to tree art sites in the Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Tlingit, Carrier, and Dene traditional territories, before concluding with reflections on the function and meaning of tree art, its role within First Nations cosmology, and the need for greater respect for all of our natural resources. This fascinating study of a haunting and little-known cultural phenomenon helps us to see our forests with new eyes.