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The Science and Art of Dreaming
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036747994X | 271 Pages | PDF (True) | 45 MB
The Science and Art of Dreaming is an innovative text that reviews the neuroscience and psychology of how dreams are produced, how they are recalled and their relationship to waking life events and concerns of the dreamer. Featuring beautiful original artwork based on dream representations, the book delves deeply into what happens when we dream, the works of art we produce when asleep and the relevance of dreaming to science, art and film.

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The Sacred Mountains of Asia By John Einarsen
1995 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 1570620881 | PDF | 53 MB
The sacred mountain is a symbol revered by people in every ethnic and religious tradition of Asia, from India to Japanwhether seen as the abode of the ancestors, a destination of pilgrimage, a pillar holding up the sky, a personification of the god Shiva, or a model of the entire cosmos. The twenty-nine pieces presented here celebrate the sacred peaks through prose, poetry, travelogue, historical and spiritual texts, art, and photographs.

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The Rules We Break : Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design
by Eric Zimmerman
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1648960677 | 208 Pages | PDF | 19 MB

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The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367650398 | 599 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.

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The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Princeton Studies in Contemporary China) by Yuhua Wang
English | October 11, 2022 | ISBN: 0691215170, 0691215162 | True EPUB/PDF | 352 pages | 33/21.6 MB
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state

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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence
English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0691227187, 0691227179 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 10.6 MB
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe

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The React Workshop : Get started with building web applications using practical tips and examples from React use cases
by Brandon Richey, Ryan Yu
English | 2020 | ISBN: 183864556X | 805 Pages | True PDF | 23 MB

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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples By David Gilmour
2011 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 1846142512 | PDF | 11 MB
Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation about the unification of Italy with a distinguished former minister: ''You know, Davide,' he said in a low conspiratorial voice, as if uttering a heresy, 'Garibaldi did Italy a great disservice. If he had not invaded Sicily and Naples, we in the north would have the richest and most civilized state in Europe.' After looking cautiously round the room he added in an even lower voice, 'Of course to the south we would have a neighbour like Egypt.''Was the elderly Italian right? The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and Verdi to the controversial political figures of the twentieth century. The book gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it.Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities and cuisine. The regions produced the medieval communes and the Renaissance, the Venetian Republic and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, two of the most civilized states of European history. Their inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians, but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. This is where the strength and culture of Italy still comes from, rather than from misconceived and mishandled concepts of nationalism and unity.This wise and enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner and with a coherence which no one with an interest in the country could fail to enjoy.

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Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim "
English | ISBN: 0367894432 | 2023 | 220 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheim's normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological critique and search for alternatives. With attention to the value of this political sociology as a means of understanding our contemporary world, the author asks us to look again at Durkheim. While Durkheim's legacy has often emphasised the supposed conservative elements and stability advocated in his thought, we can point to a different legacy, one of a radical sociology. In dialogue with the decolonial critique, this volume also asks 'was Durkheim white?' and in doing so shows how, as a Jew, he experienced significant racialisation in his lifetime. A new reading and a vital image of a 'political Durkheim',

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The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032378956 | 173 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological, technical and theoretical issues approached in Folch Mateu's unique style, providing an introduction to his impressive output. Folch Mateu integrates a wide range of psychoanalytic sources - Freud, Klein and Bion, and French psychoanalysis - in approaching topics like the psychoanalytic process, obsessive modes of control, the pathology of the negative and intellectual inhibition. The author's interest in exploring the interactions between the analyst and the patient in minute detail through the course of the psychoanalytic process is a key theme that emerges throughout, as is his devotion to the intersections between music, literature and psychoanalysis.

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