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Free Download Malory's Library: The Sources of the Morte d'Arthur By Ralph Norris
2008 | 187 Pages | ISBN: 1843841541 | PDF | 2 MB
The first book-length study of the sources of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur since 1921 and the first comprehensive study since that of Vinaver's three-volume edition, Malory's Library collects the results of over one hundred years of scholarship, providing new discussions of the major sources of the eight tales recognised in the standard edition. It also, for the first time, explores possible minor sources of the Morte Darthur, evaluating the case for them to see what conclusions may be drawn of Malory's life, work, and mental furnishings. In so doing, it clarifies the process by which Malory created his work. It shows that Malory carried an eclectic body of literature in his mind and worked at least partly from memory; and it illuminates his interest in characters of his own social class, the breadth of his enthusiasm for Arthurian literature, and the depth of his commitment to provide his countrymen with "the hoole book of kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Round Table." RALPH NORRIS teaches in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University.

Free Download Dana Berkowitz, "Male Femininities"
English | ISBN: 1479839612 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women

Free Download Making Wonderful: Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe by Martin M. Tweedale
English | March 23rd, 2023 | ISBN: 1772126241 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 0.95 MB
In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization.

Free Download Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos By Abosede A. George
2014 | 301 Pages | ISBN: 0821421158 | PDF | 15 MB
Winner of the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize for outstanding book on African women's experiences. (African Studies Association)Honorable Mention, New York African Studies Association Book PrizeIn Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria. It draws from gender studies, generational studies, labor history, and urban history to shed new light on the complex workings of African cities from the turn of the twentieth century through the nationalist era of the 1950s.The two major schemes at the center of this study were the modernization project of elite Lagosian women and the salvationist project of British social workers. By approaching children and youth, specifically girl hawkers, as social actors and examining the ways in which local and colonial reformers worked upon young people, the book offers a critical new perspective on the uses of African children for the production and legitimization of national and international social development initiatives.Making Modern Girls demonstrates how oral sources can be used to uncover the social history of informal or undocumented urban workers and to track transformations in practices of childhood over the course of decades. George revises conventional accounts of the history of development work in Africa by drawing close attention to the social welfare initiatives of late colonialism and by highlighting the roles that African women reformers played in promoting sociocultural changes within their own societies.

Free Download Ma(r)king the Difference: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Translation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658409231 | 378 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.3 MB
This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th to the 21st century in central Europe and the Americas. The surplus lies in the inclusion of colonial history in the genealogy of Western political thought and ideas, as well as in the postcolonial discussion of multiculturalism. The manuscript deals with the power and authority of translation providing the reader with an insight into the history of colonial racism through a deep conceptual analysis of three historical debates that have not been previously discussed together. By linking the so-called "Indian Question", the "Jewish Question" and the multicultural question, this thesis includes a valuable critical revision of the origins of Humanism in colonial times and contexts and an original critique to the power and violence of language in ma(r)king differences, which is described in terms of translation.

Free Download MRI of the Rheumatic Spine: A Case-Based Atlas, Second Edition by Paola D'Aprile , Alfredo Tarantino
English | EPUB | 2020 | 223 Pages | ISBN : 303032995X | 109.1 MB
Inflammatory pathology of the spine is an underestimated, but widespread condition among the population. This atlas shares essential information and case studies on key aspects of MRI for rheumatic inflammatory lesions of the osteoarticular structures of the spine, offering radiologists and clinicians a valuable guide to the management of patients with inflammatory back pain. In particular, this richly illustrated and comprehensive case-based atlas documents the MR findings observed in seronegative spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis of the cervical spine, providing guidelines on selecting the appropriate imaging protocol.

Free Download Howard Gutner, "MGM Style: Cedric Gibbons and the Art of the Golden Age of Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 1493038575 | 2019 | 304 pages | EPUB | 25 MB
MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywood's most famous art director. Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956. Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs, the vast majority of which have never before been published, this is the first volume to trace Gibbons' trendsetting career. At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film; his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings. Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages, towns, streets, squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films, and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west, Dutch New York and Dickensian London, ancient China and modern Japan. Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters, as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wright's experiments with open planning, Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema

Free Download Lunch Box!: A Lunch Cookbook with Delicious Lunch Recipes (2nd Edition) by BookSumo Press
English | March 14, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B085RT6SY8 | 119 pages | PDF | 3.13 Mb
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Free Download Lunch Box: Delicious and Easy Lunch Recipes for Every Day of the Week (2nd Edition) by BookSumo Press
English | March 14, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B085RNKXSH | 127 pages | PDF | 2.66 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

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English | ISBN: 183919152X | 2022 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love?