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 Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora By Andrew Lam 2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1597140201 | PDF | 64 MB In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves-particularly to those in exile-Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents' longing for a homeland that no longer exists.  Just Kids, "Patti Smith" English | 2008 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0060936223, 006621131X | EPUB | 1,5 mb It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.  Palestinian Refugees and Identity: Nationalism, Politics and the Everyday By Luigi Achilli 2015 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1780769113 | PDF | 6 MB After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, Palestinian refugees fled over the border into Jordan, which in 1950 formally annexed the West Bank. In the wake of the 1967 War, another wave of Palestinians sought refuge in the Hashemite Kingdom. Today, 42 per cent of registered Palestinian refugees live in Jordan. In this historical context, one might expect Palestinian refugee camps to be highly politicised spaces. Yet Luigi Achilli argues in this book that there is in fact a relative absence of political activity. Instead, what is prevalent is a desire to live an 'ordinary life'. It is within the framework of the performing and creating everyday life - working, praying, leisure activities - that Achilli examines nationalism and identity. He concludes that it is through this focus on the everyday that these Palestinian refugees are able to assert their own meanings and understandings of national identity against the more inflexible interpretations provided by the political systems in Gaza and the West Bank.  Gooseberry Patch, "Our Favorite Meatless Recipes" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1620930099 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 1.2 mb Looking to spend less at the grocery store and add more veggies to family meals? Our Favorite Meatless Recipes offers solutions with 60 satisfying dishes sure to please. Serve up Cheesy Baked Eggplant or Fast-Fix Pasta Primavera...they'll never miss the meat! Artichoke-Tortellini Salad and Broiled Parmesan Tomatoes are scrumptious sides. In the mood for soup & sandwiches? Try Colby-Swiss Broccoli Soup and Portabella Burgers. Treat everyone to Smoky Vegetable Pizzas, Over-Stuffed Mushrooms and World's Best Carrot Cake...delicious! With these yummy recipes, your family will be eating and enjoying more veggies in a jiffy!
 Dr Paul Jones Lrps, "Our April: a mother and father's heart-breaking story of the daughter they loved and lost" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1471139778 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 4.9 mb This is the heartbreaking story of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones, which sparked the biggest police search in UK history. The nation was shocked by her disappearance from the tiny Welsh village of Machynllech in October 2012. Her body was never fully recovered but paedophile Mark Bridger was convicted of her murder and abduction following a month-long trial in May 2013. In this gripping and harrowing book, April's heartbroken parents Coral and Paul speak at length about their beloved daughter and the search for her, their ordeal as they faced Bridger in court every day during the trial, and their ongoing fight against the vile child pornography he viewed in the days leading up to April's abduction. They remember with enduring love the daughter who fought so bravely to survive premature birth and mild disability, and who was enchanted by all the things a little girl finds magical. Paul Jones kept a diary throughout the ordeal, the contents of which are revealed for the first time in this searingly honest account of unimaginable emotional pain. Alongside books such as Madeleineby Kate McCann and Goodbye Dearest Hollyby Kevin Wells, Aprilwill stand as a poignant reminder of what it means to lose the thing you most love.  Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible By Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg 2013 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 1409457117 | PDF | 2 MB Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific's effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
 Michael Yardney, "Negotiate, Influence, Persuade: How to Persuade Others to Do What You'd Like Them to Do" English | ISBN: 1925927245 | 2020 | 336 pages | EPUB | 444 KB Life is one negotiation after another, at home, at work, with family, with customers. Understanding the principles of negotiation, influence and persuasion will help readers get the best deal every time - whether they are buying or selling. While plenty of books teach sales and negotiation techniques, this one explains the fundamentals and the psychology behind why these techniques work and how to use them most effectively. It's more than just a book about negotiation. It's about persuasion and influence, and more importantly, how to wield those two important traits to meet your goals. Negotiate, Influence, Persuade will change how readers do business, how they interact with family and friends, and hopefully give them a greater understanding of why people behave, and are motivated to act, the way they do.  Naturally Human, Supernaturally God: Deification in Pre-Conciliar Catholicism By Adam G. Cooper 2014 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1451472021 | PDF | 20 MB Naturally Human, Supernaturally God seeks to open a small window upon an interesting case of theological convergence between three of the most important theologians of the pre-Conciliar period of Catholic theology, Rginald Garrigou-Lagrange O.P., Karl Rahner S.J., and Henri de Lubac S.J., each of whom played a vital role in the Second Vatican Council. The differences between these three figures sometimes seem to run so deep as to defy resolution. Yet Cooper argues they were strangely united in a shared conviction: todays church urgently needs to renew its acquaintance with an ancient Christian theme, the doctrine of deification.  Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With By Gaylon Ferguson 2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1590307690 | EPUB | 1 MB There are two essential elements to the spiritual path says this popular teacher from the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa: (1) understanding that you're already enlightened, already perfect in wisdom right here and now, and (2) accessing that natural wakefulness through spiritual practice. These two aspects depend upon each other and work together. Gaylon Ferguson's teaching on the twin aspects of view and practice is a perfect introduction for the beginning meditator and it offers fresh perspectives for the non-beginner too.
 Myth as Source of Knowledge in Early Western Thought: The Quest for Historiography, Science and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity By Harald Haarmann 2015 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 3447103620 | PDF | 3 MB The perception of intellectual life in Greek antiquity by the representatives of the European Enlightenment of the 18th century favoured the establishment of the cult of reason. Myth as a potential source of knowledge was disregarded: instead, the monopoly of truth-finding through pure rationalisation was asserted. This tendency, positing, as it did, reason in opposition to myth, did a signal disservice to the realities of intellectual life among the ancient Greeks. Nevertheless, these distortions of the Enlightenment have conditioned our approach to education and have led to our privileging of reason as a mode of enquiry right up to the present day. The ancient Greek intellectuals (i.e. the pre-Socratic philosophers, the early historiographers, philosophers of the classical age) did not set myth (mythos) and reason (logos) in opposition to each other. In fact, they benefited from both as differing modes of enquiry, each in its own right and possessing its own value. Plato, in his reasoning, was much concerned with the proper use of mythical narrative. In one of his dialogues, he even coined a new term for explaining how mythical topics and motifs should be exploited as a source of knowledge. This term is mythologia, and it first occurs in Plato's Republic (394b). The present study aims to offer a corrective to traditional clichés and received wisdom about intellectual life in ancient Greece. The work proposes, and aims to reconstruct, a mental landscape in which myth and reason connect and vividly interact, and in which the concepts of mythos and logos are intertwined in the terminological network of the ancient Greek language. |
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