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 On the pleasures of owning persons: The hidden face of American slavery By Volney Gay 2016 | 394 Pages | ISBN: 099654819X | PDF | 9 MB The real reason Americans owned slaves was not just financial. They did it because they liked it.To understand America's struggles with race relations, we must take an uncensored look at our country's involvement with slavery. We examine three questions:* What were the pleasures of owning slaves?* How did freedom-loving American Christians explain ownership to themselves?* How did they defend themselves against this double contradiction?Answering those questions will help us face our future with greater clarity."Much has been written about the horrors of American slavery. But rarely, if ever, has a serious writer examined what psychologically 'normal' people who owned slaves derived from their power, or how they justified their participation in the South's peculiar institution even as they saw themselves as genuine Christians. Volney Gay's On the Pleasures of Owning Persons is a remarkable and penetrating look at that question and an important book for anyone trying to fully understand the nature of slavery and slaveholding in the United States." (Mark Potok, Senior Fellow, Southern Poverty Law Center)"Volney Gay's achievement in applied empathy focuses upon the pleasures that Erich Fromm saw in numerous encounters: the exercise of power over another, "the power which makes him do what we want, feel what we want, think what we want; which transforms him into a thing, our thing, our possession" Dr. Gay's courageous investigation . .. reveals the fascination, revulsion, excitement, and indignation of this tragedy of the human condition." (Gilbert Herdt, PhD, Graduate Program in Human Sexuality, California Institute for Integral Studies; Chair of the Board, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, Lima, Peru)Volney Gay, professor of religious studies, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University, also served as the director of psychotherapy training in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition to many op-ed and professional journal articles, he has authored nine books on topics including occult religion, literature and psychology, religion and science, psychotherapy and values, and now American slavery and the psychology of ownership.  On the Work with Children and Youth By Kim Il Sung 2001 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0898754844 | PDF | 15 MB A collection of articles and speeches from 1975 to 1982 by the late North Korean president, dealing mainly with the third world, e.g. "For the development of agriculture in African countries". An interesting book, showing North Korean influence in Africa, Asia and Latin America.  Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television " English | ISBN: 1478013834 | 2021 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB In On Living with Television, Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exemplify the medium of television. Drawing on feminist television studies, queer theory, and disability studies as well as autobiographical life-writing practices, Holdsworth shows how television shapes everyday activities, from eating and sleeping to driving and homemaking. Recounting her own life with television, she offers a sense of the joys and pleasures Disney videos brought to her disabled sister, traces how bedtime television becomes part of a daily routine between child and caregiver, explores her own relationship to binge-eating and binge-viewing, and considers the idea of home through the BBC family drama  On Christ - Theological Commonplaces By Johann Gerhard 2009 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 0758610106 | PDF | 16 MB The central figure of the Christian faith is Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. In this volume, Gerhard addresses the etymology of Christ's name, the divine and human natures of Christ, the personal union and communication of the two natures, the communication of attributes, and the office (or work) of Christ. In many ways this volume is even more thorough and complete than Chemnitz's master work The Two Natures in Christ.The Theological Commonplaces series is the first-ever English translation of Johann Gerhard's monumental Loci Theologici. Gerhard was the premier Lutheran theologian of the early seventeenth century. Combining his profound understanding of evangelical Lutheran theology with a broad interest in ethics and culture, he produced significant works on biblical, doctrinal, pastoral, and devotional theology. Gerhard interacts with the writings of the church fathers, Luther and his contemporaries, and the Catholic and Calvinist theologians of his day. His 17-volume Loci is regarded as the standard compendium of Lutheran orthodoxy, with topics ranging from the proper understanding and interpretation of Scripture to eschatology.Useful for research on Lutheran doctrine, Gerhard's accessible style makes this a must-have on the bookshelf of pastors and professional church workers. Each embossed hardback volume includes:the translation of Gerhard's Loci (originally published from 1610 to 1625);a glossary of key theological, rhetorical, and philosophical terms;a name index;a Scripture index;a carefully researched works cited list that presents guidance for deciphering the numerous abbreviations of the other titles from which Gerhard quotes.  Tariq Aftab, "Omics Analysis of Plants under Abiotic Stress" English | ISBN: 1774910144 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 9 MB This new volume highlights the various emerging techniques and molecular applications that are currently being used in plant abiotic stress physiology. It provides a thorough overview of omics approaches in response to stressors such as low water accessibility (drought), excess water (flooding/waterlogging), extremes of temperatures (cold, chill, frost, and heat), salinity, mineral deficiency, and heavy metal toxicity-many of which are the result of climate change. The book, with chapters contributed by specialists in the field, emphasizes the broad variety of themes using an omics analysis of plants under abiotic stress factors at the cellular and molecular levels.  Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer" English | ISBN: 0691217637 | 2022 | 248 pages | EPUB | 5 MB From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays  Of Myth and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History By Haripriya Rangan 2001 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1859847838 | PDF | 38 MB The Chipko movement emerged in the early 1970s in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. In attempting to draw attention to the difficulty of sustaining their livelihoods in the region, local communities engaged in protest by hugging trees that were marked for felling in state-owned commercial forests. As the story of these protests spread across India and the globe, Chipko was transformed into a shining symbol of grassroots activism. Ironically, as the Chipko story was embraced worldwide by ecologists, ecofeminists, policy makers and academics so it became increasingly disconnected from the realities that gave rise to the original protests.Chipko now exists as a myth, tenuously linked to an imagined space of the Himalayas that represents the timeless realm of pristine nature and simple peasant life - the terrain that escapes history. Or, in the more prosaic language of policy makers, it is one of several 'disturbances' to have emerged from a mountainous region that has, since the late 1800s, been characterized as 'backward' or 'isolated.'This book brings the Chipko movement back from the realm of myth into the world of geographical history. It traces the modes of administration and policy intervention in the region through the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial phases, and reveals how its biogeography has been shaped by varying struggles over resources, livelihoods and autonomy. Chipko, when seen in the context of its geographical history, shows that the question of sustainability in Garhwal, or in any other 'backward' or 'pristine' realm of the world, hinges more on an understanding of substantive democratic processes than on the need to make heroes or villains of those who participate in activist movements.  Francesca Cernia Slovin, "Obsessed by Art: Aby Warburg: His Life and His Legacy" English | 2006 | ISBN: 1425739156, 1425739164 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 0.6 mb Aby Warburg (1896-1929) was the scion of M. M. Warburg & CO the German Jewish banking empire. At thirteen, he made a pact with the youngest brother, by which he granted his birthright in exchange for the promise that the sibling would purchase for him every book he would desire. It is thus that the famous Warburg Library was born. During a long trip in Italy, as a young man, Warburg falls in love with Italian Renaissance and starts to accumulate all related texts. Once back home, in Hamburg, he further develops the nucleus of the library with volumes concerning unique and original disciplines, from Magic to Astrology, from Alchemy to Primitive Civilizations. Placed in a newly built, perfectly round library Warburg organizes the order of the volumes following his theory of "migration of symbols". Thanks to this visionary and revolutionary approach, the History of Art acquires a new dimension and a new tool of interpretation, through what would ultimately be called Iconology. With the explosion of the First World War, Warburg's mental equilibrium collapses and he is hospitalized in a Swiss psychiatric institution where he will remain for more than ten years. It is from here, that the fascinating narrative of Francesca Cernia Slovin starts, looking back at Aby's life in a compelling reconstruction as a flash back. The second part of the book continues when Warburg's disciple, Fritz Saxl, takes his place as director of what had become the famous Warburg Institute. After Aby's death, with the rise of Hitler, the Nazis threaten to burn down the library. On the night of December 12, 1933, with the help of a few assistants, Saxl with an heroic effort transported the entire library of over a hundred thousand volumes onto two small steamships and flees to London. Thanks to these few brave men and the hospitality of Lord Courtauld, today the Warburg Institute is a holy place of pilgrimage for every Art historian. With more than three hundred thousand titles and two hundred thousand periodicals the library contains forty percent of items missing at the British Library.  OCR Cambridge National Level 1/2 Award/Certificate in Engineering Design by Jonathan Adams English | September 21, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07Y7W8PSX | 274 pages | PDF | 29 Mb Help your learners develop their knowledge and prepare for assessment with this brand-new classroom resource - the only textbook tailored to the Cambridge National Level 1/2 Award and Certificate in Engineering Design.  OBESITY FIX: Causes and Treatment of Obesity in Adults and Children by Koso Brown English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BGQRMT84 | 51 pages | PDF | 0.41 Mb Obesity is one of the reasons many people can't be as functional as they want. This book has enough information on how obesity is developed and clearly states the treatments for obesity for adults and children. |
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