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 Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts By Anna Maria Jones (editor), Rebecca N. Mitchell (editor) 2016 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0821422472 | PDF | 11 MB Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images-illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera-to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time.From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians sets out to explore the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today's steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored.In this collection, scholars from literary studies, cultural studies, and art history consider contemporary works-Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moto Naoko's Lady Victorian, and Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, among others-alongside their antecedents, from Punch's 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but converses with the present.Contributors: Christine Ferguson, Kate Flint, Anna Maria Jones, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Peter W. Sinnema, Jessica Straley
 Richard J. Boles, "Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North " English | ISBN: 1479803189 | 2020 | 344 pages | PDF | 7 MB Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches  Ben Greenman, "Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince" English | 2017 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1250128374 | EPUB | 0,6 mb Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal  Joseph J. Keenan, "Dichos! The Wit and Whimsy of Spanish Sayings" English | ISBN: 1477318186 | 2019 | 216 pages | EPUB | 3 MB One of the most challenging-and entertaining-aspects of learning another language is the idiom. Those quirky phrases, steeped in metaphor and colorful cultural references, enliven conversation and make your cross-cultural communication familiar, fun, and meaningful. ¡Dichos! (Sayings) brings us a vibrant compendium of both age-old and brand-new expressions from across Latin America, compiled by the language enthusiast whose
 Defending Eastern Europe: The defense policies of new NATO and EU member states By Jacek Lubecki (editor), James W. Peterson (editor) 2021 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1526147564 | PDF | 2 MB This book blends analysis of Eastern European security needs, foreign threats, political explosions, and aroused publics in theoretical ways that pave the way to stable future defense postures and commitments for each of them. How has NATO and EU membership improved their overall defense protection, and what ingredients are still missing for them on an individual state basis? Individual chapters treat clusters of states that make up the various regions of Eastern Europe. For example, the three threatened Baltic states in the north will receive careful analysis. Second, the complex array of states in the Balkan area of Southeastern Europe merit examination, for their security conditions have been quite varied and diverse. For some, NATO and EU membership has become a reality, and for others that possibility does not yet exist.
 Pietro Daniel Omodeo, "Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century " English | ISBN: 3031019636 | 2022 | 244 pages | PDF | 9 MB This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.  Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq, "Debates Around Abortion in the Global North " English | ISBN: 1032018674 | 2022 | 196 pages | PDF | 2 MB By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North.  2023 happy new year elegant banner with falling confetti on bright background
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