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 Free Download Michael G. Cornelius, "Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love: The Gay King in Fiction, 1590-1640" English | ISBN: 1498534589 | 2016 | 302 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The narrative re-tellings of the life, reign, and death of the English King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327) present a unique opportunity for scholars of sexuality in the early modern era. This is because the works of authors like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, Sir Francis Hubert, Elizabeth Cary, and Richard Niccols were all inspired by the public, cultural memory fashioned from Edward's same-sex love affair with Piers Gaveston. As such, each of them presents a particular representation of and a specific discourse about male-male sexual relations in the Renaissance. In other words, what these works present is a concentrated body of literature about same-sex love in the early modern era: works that openly and frankly explore the possible origins of the love, the reasons and causes for it; works that explore the ramifications of male-male romantic relationships; works that explore the sexual politics and sociocultural dynamics of same-sex romantic partnerships; and works that describe and denote same-sex love from an English Renaissance perspective. This study looks at each of the major Renaissance texts about Edward II and examines the means through which each text understands and analyzes the nature of male-male same-sex love. From Marlowe's crafting of a lover-identity for Edward to Drayton's obsession with Marlowe's version of (gay) history; from Hubert's Augustinian construction of Edward's nature to Cary's identification with the fallen king to Niccols' inspired exemplum, what each of these works demonstrates is that the "love that dare not speak its name" would not be silenced, at least not in the case of Edward and Gaveston. When one sees the name Edward II, one also sees his same-sex loves. The correlation has become ingrained into our public recall of history. Thus, as far as the world is concerned, Edward II was-and ever will be-the gay king.  Free Download Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era-Opportunities and Challenges: Proceeding of 2022 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in the Digital World by Saida Affouneh, Soheil Salha, Ahmed Tlili, Sameer Abu-Eisheh English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 194 Pages | ISBN : 9819972922 | 7.9 MB This book offers authors' practices, initiatives, and experiences in sustaining their education during the pandemic from different countries, contexts, and political situations. It provides a future prediction for the education system in the world due to the transformation that happened in the post-COVID-19 era. Each chapter of the book is expected to shed light on different countries describing their education system in the past, present, and future. The readers of the book will be able to learn, compare, and analyze the differences and similarities between the educations offered to learners around the world.  Free Download Mark Fettes, "Education as the Practice of Eco-Social-Cultural Change " English | ISBN: 3031458338 | 2023 | 134 pages | EPUB, PDF | 549 KB + 3 MB The current ecological crisis is the consequence of entrenched attitudes, discourses and behaviours in human societies worldwide, fostered and reinforced through modern educational traditions, processes and institutions. This book envisions a radical transformation of education to focus on the mutual flourishing of human societies with the rest of life on Earth. In part, the authors suggest approaching this as a problem of systemic design, incorporating principles that challenge and undermine key premises of the Capitalocene―the socio-economic-political landscape sustaining the current educational regime. Tracing the implications of this transition, they review core assumptions of modern Western culture that need to shift, and identify a wide range of relevant capacities and practices grouped under four complementary educator "stances" for eco-social-cultural change.  Free Download Education and Democracy at The End: The Crisis of Sense by Mario Di Paolantonio English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 232 Pages | ISBN : 3031481763 | 5.9 MB This book grapples with what it means when education and democracy are at an end: when these two foundational aspects of our society seem to have reached a culminating point, no longer appearing to produce and make sense amid the crises of our time. Engaging topical political events and mobilizing a variety of cultural resources, Di Paolantonio shows that today the possibility of the future and the significance of an expansive transgenerational sensibility are radically in question as trends toward destruction, cruelty, and banality are steering world-defying calamities, and sparking "chronopathologies" of doom and despair among the planet's occupants. Unfolding his argument through a series of accessible chapters that draw on contemporary philosophy, educational thinking, and cultural-artistic works, Di Paolantonio explores how the transgenerational sensibility retains a possibility we might tap for overcoming the impasses of our time.  Free Download T. K. Lim, "Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants: Volume 8, Flowers" English | ISBN: 9401787476 | 2014 | 1037 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB Volume 8 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible flowers from Geraniaceae to Zingiberaceae (tabular) and 82 species in Geraniaceae, Iridaceae, Lamiaceae, Liliaceae, Limnocharitaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Oleaceae, Onagraceae, Orchidaceae, Paeoniaceae, Papaveraceae, Plantaginaceae, Poaceae, Polygonaceae, Primulaceae, Proteaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae, Theaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Tyhpaceae, Violaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae and Zingiberaceae in detail. This work is of significant interest to medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists and general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/ vernacular names; origin/ distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts/uses; botany; nutritive/medicinal properties, nonedible uses and selected references.  Free Download Alfonso Amendola Linda Barone, "Edgar Allan Poe across Disciplines, Genres and Languages " English | ISBN: 1527503879 | 2018 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB This collection of essays, which rediscovers Edgar Allan Poes not forgotten lore, comprises a two-headed scholarly body, drawing from communication and linguistics and literature, although it also includes many other academic offshoots which explore Poes labyrinthine and variegated imagination. The papers are classified according to two main domains, namely: (I) Edgar Allan Poe in Language, Literature and Translation Studies, and (II) Edgar Allan Poe in Communication and the Arts. In short, this book combines rigour and modernity and pays homage, with a fresh outlook, to Poes extra-ordinary originality and brilliant weirdness which prompted renowned authors like James Russell Lowell and Howard P. Lovecraft to claim, respectively, that Mr. Poe has that indescribable something which men have agreed to call genius and that Poes tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon lights in the province of the short story. Poes weird tales are alive in a manner that few others can ever hope to be.  Free Download Carlos E. Gallegos-Anda, "Ecuadors Good Living Crises, Discourse and Law " English | ISBN: 9004439501 | 2020 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB Ecuadors Good Living: Crises, Discourse, and Law by Gallegos-Anda, presents a critical approach towards the concept of Buen Vivir that was included in Ecuadors 2008 Constitution, presenting new inductive theories that analyse the context and power relations that forged it.
 Free Download Melissa Brotton, "Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature " English | ISBN: 1498527930 | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 8 MB This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy (how we understand the problem of nonhuman suffering in a world controlled by a good God), ecojustice (how humans help to alleviate nonhuman suffering). The book seeks to provide a way to understand Judeo-Christian perspectives on human-to-nonhuman interaction through Biblical, literary, cultural, film, and music studies, and as such, offers an interdisciplinary approach with emphasis on the humanities, which provides a broader platform for ecotheology.
 Free Download Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas: Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis By Robert J. Nicholls English | EPUB | 2018 | 614 Pages | ISBN : 3319710923 | 96.4 MB This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by focusing on ecosystem services in the world's largest, most populous and most iconic delta region, that of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The book covers the conceptual basis, research approaches and challenges, while also providing a methodology for integration across multiple disciplines, offering a potential prototype for assessments of deltas worldwide.  Free Download Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry by Ann Keniston English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 3031393406 | 6.3 MB This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization's representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture. |
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