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Free Download Ewa Barbara Luczak, "Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery "
English | ISBN: 1032409622 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and symbolically engraved upon the body, with "the self" often deprived of agency and sovereignty. Consisting of three sections, this text focuses on works of the 20th and 21st century fiction and cultural narratives by mainly African American authors, aiming to highlight the different ways in which race has been pathologized in America and examine how the legacies of plantation ideology have been metaphorically inscribed on black bodies. The variety of analytical approaches and thematic foci with respect to theories and discourses surrounding race and the body allow us to delve into this thorny territory in the hope of gaining perspectives about how African-American lives are still shaped and haunted by the legacies of plantation slavery. Furthermore, this volume offers insights into the politics of eugenic corporeality in an illustrative dialogue with the lasting carceral and agricultural effects of life on a plantation. Tracing the degradation and suppression of the black body, both individual and social, this text includes analysis of the pseudo-scientific discourse of social Darwinism and eugenics; the practice of mass incarceration and the excessive punishment of black bodies; and food apartheid and USDA practices of depriving black farmers of individual autonomy and collective agency. Based on such an interplay of discourses, methodologies and perspectives, this volume aims to use literature to further examine the problematic relationship between race and the body and stress that black lives do indeed matter in the USA.

Free Download Parkinson's Warrior: Guide to Supplements, Natural Therapies, and Medical Marijuana by Nick Pernisco
English | August 29, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09F1Q584D | 95 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Based on scientific facts and with references to studies and clinical trials, this is the Parkinson's Warrior's trusted guide to supplements, natural therapies, and medical marijuana. Learn which natural supplements and therapies can help reduce symptoms and which are a waste of your time and money. While there is no cure for Parkinson's, newly studied complementary therapies can help you feel better. This book offers a trusted roadmap of where to start. Written by a Parkinson's Warrior for other Warriors.New research shows that many natural therapies can work well side-by-side with traditional Parkinson's medication. Parkinson's Warrior: Guide to Supplements, Natural Therapies, and Medical Marijuana, is the Parkinson's Warrior's trusted guide to using natural therapies and supplements as a complement to your prescription regimen. Learn about the supplements commonly recommended for Parkinson's and which ones are actually useful. Find out how yoga, Tai-Chi, and guided meditation can help you get physically and mentally fit. Learn the facts about medical marijuana and how different types can affect your body. Discover how to conduct "n-of-1" studies to see if a therapy is helping you or if you are simply experiencing a placebo effect.

Free Download Palermo Mini Survival Guide by Jan Hayes
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07S4C798M | PDF | 5.11 Mb
Are you planning a short trip to Palermo? Do you want to have everything within arm's reach?This "Mini Survival Guide" is all you'll ever need to have in your backpack: handy general info, all the places of interest neatly organized by category, a phrasebook to quickly look up useful words and phrases and a beautiful full-color city map to find your way around.

Free Download Painting Birds In Watercolour by Liz Chaderton
2023 | ISBN: 0719840813 | English | 96 pages | True EPUB | 13 MB
This practical book explains how to capture the character of various species of bird, without getting caught up in the detail. It celebrates everything that watercolour can offer as a medium when painting these fascinating creatures. It is not a field guide but instead offers a path towards understanding the behaviour and structure of birds to be able to paint their character. Topics covered include: advice on materials and getting started with watercolour; personal observation and drawing from life; looking at the features of birds and how to capture their behaviour; examples from major bird groups, including domestic fowl, birds of prey and songbirds, and finally step-by-step demonstrations of watercolour techniques.

Free Download Pain and Politics in Postwar Feminist Art: Activism in the Work of Nancy Spero (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art) by Rachel Warriner
2023 | ISBN: 1788312600 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively political work. Made at a time when Spero was a key member of the anti-war and feminist arts-activism that burgeoned in the New York art world during the period, her works demonstrate a violent and bodily rejection of injustice.

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English | March 8, 2022 | ISBN: 1925836460 | 686 pages | MOBI | 4.45 Mb
PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition is a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a professional web application using PHP & MySQL. Comprehensively updated to cover PHP 8 and modern best practice, this highly practical and fun book covers everything from installation through to creating a complete online content management system.Gain a thorough understanding of PHP syntaxMaster database design principles and SQLWrite robust, maintainable, best practice codeBuild a working content management system (CMS)And much more!

Free Download PARADISIACAL MATHEMATICS: Coming Time of The Messiah Calculated by Ismail Ibadehin
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BBSQ742N | 147 pages | EPUB | 0.66 Mb
In this book, I was able to estimate the coming/returning time of the Messiah using a new area in Mathematics which I coined Paradisiacal Mathematics. I first demonstrate the effectiveness of Paradisiacal Mathematics by subjecting it to scientific assessment, such as using it to evaluate/calculate the revolution period of planets, age of solar system, planetary ratio, length of human existence (Age of humans), leap year evaluation. In addition I was able to estimate the length of different human eras and lay down a conceived idea of the overall number of humans that will be born from the inception of the first created or evolved humans to the last human that will be birth.

Free Download Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 (Heritage) by Heinrich Klutschak
1993 | ISBN: 0802073972, 0802057624 | English | 296 pages | True EPUB | 6 MB
In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.

Free Download Out of the Crucible: Literary Works about the Rusticated Youth By Zuoya Cao
2003 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 073910506X | PDF | 7 MB
Out of the Crucible offers an informative and inviting study of the novels and short stories of the lives of the zhiqing, the Chinese urban youth who were sent to rural areas during the "rustication" movement in the second phase of the Cultural Revolution. Author Zuoya Cao, a former zhiqing herself, covers the works, authors, themes, characters, and Descriptions of zhiqing literary writing from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. She teases out the significant themes of zhiqing literature: heroism and idealism, suffering and internal transformation, moral dilemmas and the loss of innocence, love and cultural difference, sexual and spiritual oppression, zhiqing/peasant relations, the relationship between man and nature, and the conflict between the desire to leave the countryside and the attachment to it. Through a perceptive analysis of the treatment of these themes, drawing on her extensive knowledge of Chinese literary and social history in addition to her own experiences, Cao reveals the emotional aspects of the rustication movement and the humanistic significance of the zhiqing experience and enriches our understanding of modern Chinese literature and history.

Free Download Emily Pierini, "Other Worlds, Other Bodies: Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing"
English | ISBN: 1800738463 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 11 MB
When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of "other" worlds that may intersect with the so-called "material" or "physical" worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the "unknown"―be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an "other"―shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.