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 Matthew Sangster, "An Introduction to Fantasy" English | ISBN: 1009429914 | 2023 | 480 pages | PDF | 8 MB Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and its dynamic communities. Matthew Sangster covers works ancient and modern; well-known and obscure; and ranging in scale from brief poems and stories to sprawling transmedia franchises. Chapters explore the roles Fantasy plays in negotiating the beliefs we live by; the iterative processes through which fantasies build, develop and question; the root traditions that inform and underpin modern Fantasy; how Fantasy interrogates the preconceptions of realism and Enlightenment totalisations; the practices, politics and aesthetics of world-building; and the importance of Fantasy communities for maintaining the field as a diverse and ever-changing commons.  Pascal Bruckner, "An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt" English | ISBN: 1509530649 | 2018 | 204 pages | MOBI | 398 KB 'Islamophobia' is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of Islam to 'freeze' the latter, making reform difficult. Whereas Christianity and Judaism have been rejuvenated over the centuries by external criticism, Islam has been shielded from critical examination and has remained impervious to change. This tendency is exacerbated by the hypocrisy of those Western defenders of Islam who, in the name of the principles of the Enlightenment, seek to muzzle its critics while at the same time demanding the right to chastise and criticize other religions. These developments, argues Bruckner, are counter-productive for Western democracies as they struggle with the twin challenges of immigration and terrorism. The return of religion in those democracies must not be equated with the defence of fanaticism, and the right to religious freedom must go hand in hand with freedom of expression, an openness to criticism, and a rejection of all forms of extremism.  Chris Abbott, "An Anthology of Sound Chips Vol. 2: Arcade, Console and Home Micro Sound Chips " English | ASIN : B09P4G2SPC | 2021 | 167 pages | MOBI | 288 KB This book is the second half of a two volume set that comprehensively covers sound chips and the systems containing them: from technical information to entertaining anecdotes, even experts will new material to enjoy.  Chris Abbott, "An Anthology of Sound Chips Vol. 1: Arcade, Console and Home Micro Sound Chips " English |ASIN : B09LH4RWZJ | 2021 | 243 pages | MOBI | 5 MB This book is the first half of a two volume set that compehensively covers sound chips and the systems containing them: from technical information to entertaining anecdotes and death waveforms, even experts will find out things they had no idea about.  Maureen Callahan, "American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century" English | ISBN: 052542864X | 2019 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 598 KB INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Stephen H. Gehlbach, "American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease" English | ISBN: 1442256508 | 2016 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today's struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection. American Plagues weaves stories of encounters with epidemics over our history with lessons that aid our present understanding of health and disease.  Chris Kyle, "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms" English | ISBN: 0062242717 | 2013 | 320 pages | MOBI | 6 MB THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER  Stephen Cox, "American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution " English | ISBN: 0292729103 | 2014 | 270 pages | MOBI | 10 MB Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches-congregations ministering to believers of diverse ethnicities, social classes, and sexual orientations. Nor is this diversity a recent phenomenon, despite many Americans' nostalgia for an undeviating "faith of our fathers" in the days of yore. Rather, as Stephen Cox argues in this thought-provoking book, American Christianity is a revolution that is always happening, and always needs to happen. The old-time religion always has to be made new, and that is what Americans have been doing throughout their history.  Greg Mrvich, "American Barbecue Sauces: Marinades, Rubs, and More from the South and Beyond" English | ISBN: 1641529504 | 2019 | 130 pages | MOBI | 12 MB Kick up your cookout this summer with barbecue sauces, marinades, and more from across the country.  Larry Ward, "America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal" English | ISBN: 1946764744 | 2020 | 144 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, PhD, on breaking America's cycle of racial trauma. |
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