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 Harry Thompson, "Tintin Herge & His Creation" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1848546726 | EPUB | pages: 113 | 2.1 mb A fascinating and witty account of the life of Tintin, his creator, and the phenomenon that they became. The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Hergé, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Hergé, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'. (20060415)  This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are by Kodo Nishimura English | February 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1786786176 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 3.4 MB Kodo Nishimura rose to fame following his appearance in Queer Eye: We're in Japan. Now this celebrity make-up artist and ordained Buddhist monk shares his unique and practical guide to positivity and self-acceptance. Readers will learn from the author's path to self-love and resilience and modern take on Buddhist teachings.  Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity By Erin G. Carlston 2000 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0804741670 | PDF | 38 MB Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers―Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)―that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, the author explores the conjunction between fascism and other forms of modernity, and refines the discussion about the relationship between women intellectuals and the various aesthetic and ideological practices collected under the names of modernism and facism. Until recently, much theoretical work on fascism has represented fascist thought as radically different from and inimical to non-fascist thought, and feminist criticism has further assumed that women intellectuals―especially the sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"―were necessarily antagonistic to fascist ideologies. In contrast, the author argues that Western intellectuals of both genders and all political persuasions were preoccupied in the 1930's with the commodification of culture and sexuality, the erasure of liberal bourgeois concepts of the individual and the work of art in mass society, and the failure of social institutions to provide transcendence and immediacy in the face of these transformations. By demonstrating that women writers like the Sapphic Modernists and conservative or fascist male modernists often articulated very similar conceptions of these problems, this book suggests that fascism cannot be posed as the absolute other of non- or even anti-fascist politico-cultural discourses in the interwar period.  They Never Learn by Layne Fargo English | October 13, 2020 | ISBN: 1982132027, 1982132035 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 2.4 MB From the author of the "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve-perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.  Theodicy and Justice in Modern Islamic Thought: The Case of Said Nursi By Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi (editor) 2010 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1409406180 | PDF | 3 MB This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d.1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life and thought reflected the transition of modern Turkey from an empire to a secular republic. The contributors to this volume shed new light on two major dimensions of Nursi's thought: theodicy and justice. Classical Muslim theologians debated these two important issues; however, we must consider the modern debate of these issues in the context of the radical political and social transformations of modern Turkey. Nursi explored these matters as they related to the development of state and society and the crisis of Islam in the modern secular nation-state. Nursi is the founder of a 'faith movement' in contemporary Turkey with millions of followers worldwide. In this book, distinguished scholars in Islamic, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies explore Nursi's thought on theodicy and justice in comparison with a number of western philosophers, theologians, and men of letters, such as Dante, Merton, Kant, and Moltman. This book presents an invaluable resource for studies in comparative religion, philosophy, and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.  The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg English | July 26, 2018 | ISBN: 1501334301, 1501334298 | True EPUB | pages | 0.2 MB What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news?  Barbara Minchinton, "The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne" English | ISBN: 0369374169 | 2022 | 442 pages | EPUB | 4 MB A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other 'flash madams', the 'dressed girls' who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered. Who were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them? Drawing on the findings of recent archaeological excavations, rare archival material and family records, historian Barbara Minchinton brings the fascinating world of Little Lon to life.  Linda K. Miller, Captain Keith Cunningham, "The Wind Book For Rifle Shooters" English | 2007 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1581605323, 1510739726 | EPUB | 25,2 mb All other factors being equal, it is your ability to read the wind that will make the most difference in your shooting accuracy. The better you understand the behavior of the wind, the better you will understand the behavior of your bullet. Now, champion shooters Linda K. Miller and Keith A. Cunningham reveal everything they wish they'd known about reading the wind before they started shooting - instead of having to learn as they went along - in concise, easy-to-read terms. The Wind Book for Rifle Shooters contains straightforward guidance on the simple thought process they use to read the wind, the techniques and tactics they use to win matches and the underlying skills that support both. Let these champions show you how to put together a simple wind-reading "toolbox" for calculating wind speed, direction, deflection and drift. Then learn how to use these tools to read flags and mirage, record and interpret your observations, and time your shots to compensate for wind. The essential wind-reading basics taught in this book will absolutely improve your shooting skills, whether you're a target shooter, a plinker, a hunter or a shooting professional.  The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century edited by Sarah Ogilvie, Gabriella Safran English | December 13, 2019 | ISBN: 0190913193 | True EPUB | 358 pages | 5.1 MB Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century. Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster for American, Grimm for German, Littré for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in spaces whose literary languages already had long philological and lexicographic traditions-Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin-the burgeoning imperialisms and nationalisms of the nineteenth century generated new dictionaries.
 The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality by P. J. E. Peebles English | August 2, 2022 | ISBN: 0691231354 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 4.1 MB From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural science |
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