|
|
|
 Free Download Chanequa Walker-Barnes, "Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength" English | 2014 | ISBN: 1620320665, 1498205879 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 1.2 mb Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it? In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the Strong Black Woman places upon African American women. She demonstrates how the three core features of the ideology emotional strength, caregiving, and independence constrain the lives of African American women and predispose them to physical and emotional health problems, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety. She traces the historical, social, and theological influences that resulted in the evolution and maintenance of the Strong Black Woman, including the Christian church, R & B and hip-hop artists, and popular television and film. Drawing upon womanist pastoral theology and twelve-step philosophy, she calls upon pastoral caregivers to aid in the healing of African American women's identities and crafts a twelve-step program for Strong Black Women in recovery.  Free Download Toni Morrison's Sula By Harold Bloom 1999 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0791051943 | PDF | 2 MB A critical overview of the work features the writings of Marie Nigro, Hortense J. Spillers, Melvin Dixon, Phillip Page, Patricia Hunt, and Biman Basu.  Free Download Germana Ernst, "Tommaso Campanella: The Book and the Body of Nature" English | 2010 | pages: 292 | ISBN: 9048131251, 9400731752 | PDF | 2,7 mb A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with a radical reform of science and society. He produced a complex and articulate synthesis of all fields of knowledge - including magic and astrology. During his early formative years as a Dominican friar, he manifested a restless impatience towards Aristotelian philosophy and its followers. As a reaction, he enthusiastically embraced Bernardino Telesio's view that knowledge could only be acquired through the observation of things themselves, investigated through the senses and based on a correct understanding of the link between words and objects. Campanella's new natural philosophy rested on the principle that the books written by men needed to be compared with God's infinite book of nature, allowing them to correct the mistakes scattered throughout the human 'copies' which were always imperfect, partial and liable to revisions. It is in the light of these principles that he defended Galileo's right to read the book of nature while denouncing the mistake of those - be they Aristotelian philosophers or theologians - who wanted to stop him from carrying on his natural investigations. However, Campanella maintained that the book of nature, far from being written in mathematical characters, was a living organism in which each natural being was endowed with life and a degree of sensibility that was appropriate for its preservation and propagation. Nature as a whole was an organism in which each single part was directed towards the common good. This is the reason why Campanella thought that nature had to be regarded as an ideal model for any political organisation. Political structures were often ruled by injustice and violence precisely because they had departed from that natural model. This book charts Campanella's intellectual life by showing the origin, development and persistence of some of the fundamental tenets of his thought.  Free Download Holly Hanson, "To Speak and Be Heard: Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500-2015 " English | ISBN: 0821424432 | 2022 | 268 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 3 MB A history of a political practice through which East Africans have sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years.  Free Download Jennie E. Burnet, "To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide" English | ISBN: 1501767119 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB In To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide.
 Free Download To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms by Mora Matassi, Pablo J. Boczkowski English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 0262545934 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.65 Mb How systematic comparative research can unlock the potential of social media scholarship.  Free Download Jacques Dalarun, "To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy " English | ISBN: 1501768352 | 2023 | 258 pages | PDF | 2 MB To Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels―most notably that "the first will be last, the last will be first"―into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques Dalarun argues that these democratic forms have profoundly influenced modern experiences of democracy, in particular the idea of government not as domination but as service.  Free Download To All the Boys I've Loved Before By Jenny Han 2014 | 355 Pages | ISBN: 1442426705 | EPUB | 1 MB What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once?Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved-five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.  Free Download Titanium: Metallic Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032333448 | 113 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB This book engages readers in an integrated and holistic discussion on titanium properties, applications, bioanalytical approaches and toxicity. Key issues include environmental titanium exposure and associated health risk concerns for both humans and aquatic organisms, exploring ecotoxicological effects. The book delves into the intricate web of ecotoxicological effects, offering valuable insights for researchers and professionals alike. With a broad appeal, this book is an indispensable resource for those immersed in the realms of oceanography, geochemistry, ecotoxicology, and environmental and public health, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the intricate interplay between titanium and the natural world.
 Free Download Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 0520396316, 0520396324 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 4.5 MB A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. |
: 