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 The Sociological Quest: An introduction to the study of social life By Evan Willis 2011 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1742372821 | PDF | 3 MB What is sociology? How do you 'do' sociology?Starting sociology can be daunting. This bestselling short introduction takes the reader on a quest towards a sociological understanding of the world we live in. Using contemporary examples, The Sociological Quest asks what is distinctive about the way sociologists view society. Evan Willis shows that they are concerned with the relationship between the individual and society, and that a sociological analysis involves an approach which is historical, cultural, structural and critical.This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and incorporates new examples on technology, terrorism, climate change and consumer behaviour. It remains essential preliminary reading for new students of sociology.  The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop: A Handbook for Professionals English | 2023 | ISBN: 036722562X | 136 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop is a pioneering, practical guide for professionals who work with people going through major life transitions, such as career change, relocation or bereavement. These transitions can evoke enormous feelings of uncertainty and are times of vivid dreaming.
 Linda L. Pohly, April C. Mason, "The Singing Farm Women of Rural Indiana 1934-2009: A Depression Era Program of the U. S. Department of Agriculture" English | 2012 | ISBN: 0773430512 | PDF | pages: 453 | 17.0 mb The Indiana Extension Chorus program began in the 1930s, but this influential phenomenon remained obscure for decades. As this study reveals, the program provided rural women with musical training and opportunities to sing in a county chorus. The repertoire included arrangements of folk and patriotic songs, light classical works, and popular renditions.  Eva von Contzen, "The Scottish Legendary: Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration " English | ISBN: 0719095964 | 2016 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB This is the first book-length study of the Scottish Legendary of the late fourteenth century. The only extant collection of saints' lives in the vernacular from medieval Scotland, the work scrutinises the dynamics of hagiographic narration, its implicit assumptions about literariness, and the  The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore English | January 22, 2007 | ISBN: 0691128243, 0691171351 | True EPUB | 376 pages | 2 MB This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great.  The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters: A Chain of Tragedies Across Air, Land & Sea by Robert a Burtness English | June 5, 2012 | ISBN: 154023147X | 130 pages | EPUB | 2.89 Mb Three separate and related tragedies occurred during and after a training run of a B-24 Liberator on July 4, 1943, over the Pacific off Santa Barbara County: The heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara and two of the crew were never found, another B-24 search-and-rescue crew looking for survivors off the coast never returned at all and was found later to have cashed on San Miguel Island, killing all 12 aboard, and the Air Force investigators of that accident, years later, in 1954, coming to the island in a Coast Guard cutter, hit a yacht, killing two more people. Author Robert A. Burtness takes you inside these somber stories with recorded first-hand accounts and vintage images.  The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain By Allan Massie 2010 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0224080644 | PDF | 26 MB The Royal Stuarts ruled for over 300 years in Scotland and for a century as the Royal Family of Britain and Ireland. They were leading actors in the foremost political dramas of British history - the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War and the Restoration - and remain the most controversial and divisive of royal families. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels and plays, Allan Massie tells the family's full story, from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England, and then eventual exile. A book which gets beyond the received generalisations, The Royal Stuarts takes us deep into the lives of figures like Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries, the brave and capable, the weak and foolish. Told with panache and pace, adventurous and opinionated, this is a nuanced history of that remarkable family who, for better or worse, shaped our history and made our country what it is.  Emilie L. Bergmann, Stacey Schlau, "The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" English | 2017 | pages: 343 | ISBN: 1472444078, 1032096918 | PDF | 28,3 mb Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and intellectual context of colonial New Spain. This volume examines those areas of scholarship that illuminate her work, including her status as an iconic figure in Latin American and Baroque letters, popular culture in Mexico and the United States, and feminism. By addressing the multiple frameworks through which to read her work, this research guide serves as a useful resource for scholars and students of the Baroque in Europe and Latin America, colonial Novohispanic religious institutions, and women's and gender studies. The chapters are distributed across four sections that deal broadly with different aspects of Sor Juana's life and work: institutional contexts (political, economic, religious, intellectual, and legal); reception history; literary genres; and directions for future research. Each section is designed to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the current state of the research on those topics and the academic debates within each field.  The Rough Guide to Greek Islands (Rough Guides), 10th Edition by Rough Guides English | June 8th, 2018 | ISBN: B07DFTZ7TB | 382 pages | True EPUB | 69.61 MB Find your perfect island getaway with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to island-hop around the Cyclades, explore Crete's classical sightsor find peace and quiet on Alónissos, The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands will show you the ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, shop and visit along the way.  David Harvey, John Wilkins, "The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy" English | 2002 | pages: 576 | ISBN: 0715630458 | PDF | 17,5 mb Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important study, comprising 26 essays by leading international scholars presented at a conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in 1996, aims to promote a better understanding of Aristophanes' work by assessing that of his many rivals, including Cratinus, Hermippus and Eupolis, who regularly triumphed over Aristophanes at major civic festivals. The papers also consider the evidence for Aristophanes' rival poets in other sources, notably painted vases. The chapters are divided into five sections: editing comic fragments, poets of Old Comedy, the transition to Middle Comedy, literary themes and social themes. Contributors: Kenneth Dover, W Geoffrey Arnott, Wolfgang Luppe, Ralph M Rosen, James Davidson, S Douglas Olson, Dwora Gilula, David Harvey, Jeffrey Henderson, David Braund, Giorgos Kavvadias, Ian C Storey, Thomas Braun, Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath, Keith Sidwell, N J Lowe, Bernhard Zimmermann, Stephen Colvin, Michael Silk, Angus Bowie, John Wilkins, Nick Fisher, Andrew Dalby, Edith Hall, Christopher Carey, Alan H Sommerstein, Paola Ceccarelli, Ian Ruffell. |
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