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 Imagining Ithaca: Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War By Kathleen Riley 2021 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0198852975 | PDF | 110 MB 'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish philosopher-poet JohnMoriarty described it as 'a teeming word... a haunted word... a word to conjure with'. The most celebrated and culturally enduring nostos is that of Homer's Odysseus who spent ten years returning home after the fall of Troy. His journey back involved many obstacles, temptations, and fantasticaladventures and even a katabasis, a rare descent by the living into the realm of the dead. All the while he was sustained and propelled by his memories of Ithaca ('His native home deep imag'd in his soul', as Pope's translation has it). From Virgil's Aeneid to James Joyce's Ulysses, from MGM's TheWizard of Oz to the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and from Derek Walcott's Omeros to Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, the Odyssean paradigm of nostos and nostalgia has been continually summoned and reimagined by writers and filmmakers. At the same time, 'Ithaca' has proved to be anevocative and versatile abstraction. It is as much about possibility as it is about the past; it is a vision of Arcadia or a haunting, an object of longing, a repository of memory, 'a sleep and a forgetting'. In essence it is about seeking what is absent.Imagining Ithaca explores the idea of nostos, and its attendant pain (algos), in an excitingly eclectic range of sources: from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, through the exilic memoirs of Nabokov and the time-travelling fantasies of WoodyAllen, to Seamus Heaney's Virgilian descent into the London Underground and Michael Portillo's Telemachan railway journey to Salamanca. This kaleidoscopic exploration spans the end of the Great War, when the world at large was experiencing the complexities of homecoming, to the era of Brexit andCOVID-19 which has put the notion of nostalgia firmly under the microscope.  Image-Thinking: Artmaking As Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1474494226 | 481 pages | True PDF EPUB | 33.07 MB  Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Ibn Taymīyah, "Ibn Taymiyyah expounds on Islam: Selected writings of Shaykh al-Islam Taqi ad-Din Ibn Taymiyyah on Islamic faith, life, and society" English | 2000 | ISBN: 996004324X, 1793027005 | PDF | pages: 725 | 22.4 mb Hardcover version. Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam: Selected Writings- Majmu &Other [#6744 1A1 HB 654pp Large, M AH Ansari, From M/Fatawa, J/Rasa'il & Others, Ibn Saud I/University] This volume consists of selections from various writings of Ibn Taymiyyah included in the Majmu Fatawa Shaykh al-Islam (37 volumes) published in Riyadh Jami ar-Rasa'il (2 volumes), published by Dr. Rashad Salim in Cairo as well as some of his major works, such as Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah Dar' Ta'arud al- 'Aql wa An-Naql Kitab ar-Radd 'ala al-Mantaqiyyin Al-Istiqamah Iqtida as-Sirat al-Mustaqim.  ISE A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development (ISE HED B&B PSYCHOLOGY) By John W. Santrock 2019 | 802 Pages | ISBN: 1260565688 | EPUB | 33 MB As a master teacher, John Santrock connects students to current research and real-world application, helping students see how developmental psychology plays a role in their own lives and future careers. In this new 10th edition, Santrock has continued his commitment to having the most up-to-date and relevant research, utilizing an expert board of reviewers to ensure students have the most accurate information.  I Just Can't Decide!: Exploring the Challenge of Making Choices: Exploring the Challenge of Making Choices (Being With Our Feelings) English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032233966 | 29 Pages | PDF (True) | 74 MB  Thanassis Cambanis, Dina Esfandiary, Sima Ghaddar, "Hybrid Actors: Armed Groups and State Fragmentation in the Middle East" English | 2019 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0870785591 | PDF | 4,2 mb
 Vanessa Agredo-Delgado, "Human-Computer Interaction: 8th Iberoamerican Workshop, HCI-COLLAB 2022, Havana, Cuba, October 13-15, 2022, Revised Sele" English | ISBN: 3031247086 | 2022 | 225 pages | PDF | 15 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2022, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022.  Davis, Howard, "Human Rights and Civil Liberties" English | 2003 | pages: 481 | ISBN: 1843920085, 1138415847 | PDF | 11,8 mb This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales, meeting the requirements of undergraduate law syllabuses.  Carol Pasternak, "How to Raise Monarch Butterflies: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids " English | ISBN: 1770850023 | 2012 | 48 pages | EPUB | 24 MB "The breezy and down-to-earth text ... nicely communicates the wonder ... Especially effective is the eight-pictured depiction of the development of the caterpillar into a chrysalis."
 Mark Weakland, "How to Prevent Reading Difficulties, Grades PreK-3: Proactive Practices for Teaching Young Children to Read " English | ISBN: 1071823434 | 2021 | 272 pages | EPUB | 18 MB |
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