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Stuart McAnulla, "The Politics of New Atheism "
English | ISBN: 0367471701 | 2020 | 172 pages | EPUB | 743 KB
New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism and offers an analysis that is informed by insights from political science and political theory.

The authors locate new atheism within a diverse history of politically-oriented atheisms. It is argued the new atheist movement itself contains a considerable variety of political viewpoints, despite coalescing around forms of secularist campaigning and identity politics. New atheist views on monotheism, public life, morality and religious violence are examined to highlight both limitations and strengths in such perspectives. Conservative, feminist and Marxist responses to new atheism are also evaluated within this critical analysis.
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The Poverty of Economics: The Philosophical Anatomy of an Empty Rationality by Manuel Sanchis i Marco
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 3031697219 | 2.7 MB
This book improves the alignment of economics with the idea of justice, the first virtue of any social institution, according to Rawls. To this aim, it provides the analytical framework necessary to ensure a just economy. While today's notion of economics favours the economics of extortion, this book proposes a model that transcends Lionel Robbins' canonical relationship between ends and means, as it proposes a broader notion of rationality incorporating the range of human attributes. In contrast to Robbins' economic rationality, economic choices must be based on adequate and good reasons, as Rescher claims, because both the means and the ends require rational deliberation. As a result, the book challenges Robbins' hope of turning general concepts like scarcity, costs, etc. into universal economic principles guiding human behavior in a vacuum. It disputes the idea that, through the application of the abstract formulation of economic statements unconnected to reality, economics can be rationalized in a morally neutral space, based on empty rationality. By contrasting the three rival versions of economics -formalism (axiomatic), empiricism (technocratic-consequential), and institutionalism (axio-ideological)- the book shows that it is not possible to switch between them as they refer to segmented mental universes of abstraction.

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
English | July 12, 1975 | ISBN: 0394720245, 0593802462, 0394480767 | True EPUB | 1344 pages | 66.4 MB
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York.

One of the Modern Library's hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens-the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses-and brings to light a bonanza of vital information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches-and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself.
Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear-his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"-a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses-an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time-without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system.
Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars-he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder.
This is how he built and dominated New York-before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.

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The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook: 77 Paleo Diet Recipes Made in Minutes by Telamon Press
English | January 13, 2014 | ISBN: 162315345X | 152 pages | PDF | 1.58 Mb
Easily add fresh Paleo meals into your daily life with The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook. The Paleo Diet is based on the natural diet of our ancestors. Made up of high-protein, low-carb, and unprocessed foods, the Paleo Diet does not have to be intimidating or expensive. The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook offers simple ways to incorporate Paleo-friendly meals into your routine using everyday, affordable ingredients from your local grocery store. The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook will make it easy to follow the Paleo Diet with fast and uncomplicated recipes perfect for the busy cook. With dozens of easy meals, you will find it simple to avoid processed foods and start incorporating flavorful, high-nutrient foods, such fruits, vegetables, nuts, and meats into a balanced and healthy diet. With easy-to-follow tips and directions, you can start following the Paleo Diet today to experience the life-changing benefits of Paleo-from natural weight loss, to the prevention of life-threatening ailments like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook will give you all the tools you need to create fast Paleo meals with:

* More than 75 go-to Paleo recipes, including Fluffy Almond-Banana Pancakes, protein-packed Cobb Salad, savory Kale Chips, and sweet Berry Cobbler
* Handy meal planning and shopping tips to help you save time on the Paleo Diet
* A breakdown of the dos and don'ts to follow for a successful Paleo Diet
* A comprehensive list of Paleo-approved food substitutes to keep in your pantry The Quick & Easy Paleo Cookbook will help you start and stick to a successful Paleo Diet, so you can begin to lose weight and feel more energetic right away.

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The Rest is History Returns: An A-Z of Historical Curiosities by Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
English | 19 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 1526668645, 152666867X | True EPUB | 448 pages | 21.6 MB
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns!

This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history's best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome.
Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like:
- Who was Jesus's wife?
- What would it have been like to live-tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius?
- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction?
- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler?
- Who are history's top 10 monkeys?
- Was Henry V's great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest 'lad' in British history?
But that's not all - this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past . . .
'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The Times

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The Rise of the Arabic Book by Beatrice Gruendler
English | October 13, 2020 | ISBN: 0674987810 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 22.6 MB
The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.

During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access.
How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler's The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century.
The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known―until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.

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The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry: Early Space Age to the Present by Brian C. Odom
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 333 Pages | ISBN : 3031634098 | 17.6 MB
This collection explores the evolution of the commercial space industry from the beginning of the space age through the early twenty-first century. Today, the space industry is taking on an increased leadership and innovation role in both space access and exploration. The growth of commercial space over the past decades offers a potential new paradigm for space exploration - one in which industry transitions from supplier to partner. However, many questions remain. This book seeks to bring to light these questions, which span from the most seemingly consequential: how will humanity explore the Moon and Mars? - to the most basic: what is commercial space?

To further develop the historical context of commercial space, and thereby better inform decision-making at NASA in the future, this volume examines a broad range of questions related to the history of commercial space operations, including but not limited to: how has the concept of 'commercial space' evolved in different fields and disciplines? What have been the major events and milestones in the emergence and evolution of commercial space activities in the USA and internationally? How has the US Government assisted or impeded the emergence and evolution of commercial space activities? Providing contributions from a range of different disciplines and backgrounds, the authors of this volume offer valuable insights for scholars researching the history of space and space policy, as well as decision-makers working at NASA or within the wider space industry.
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The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust by Francis S. Collins
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0316576301 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 4.34 MB
From "national treasure" Francis Collins (Philip Yancey), theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Language of Godand former director of the National Institutes of Health, comes a deeply thoughtful guidebook to get us beyond societal divisions and back to the sources of wisdom-"the sort that can save us before it is too late" (Jane Goodall).

As the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, we have become not just a hyper-partisan society but also a deeply cynical one, distrustful of traditional sources of knowledge and wisdom. Skepticism about vaccines led to the needless deaths of at least 230,000 Americans. "Do your own research" is now a rallying cry in many online rabbit holes. Yet experts can make mistakes, and institutions can lose their moral compass. So how can we navigate through all this?
InThe Road to Wisdom, Francis Collins reminds us of the four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust. Drawing on his work from the Human Genome Project and heading the National Institutes of Health, as well as on ethics, philosophy, and Christian theology, Collins makes a robust, thoughtful case for each of these sources-their reliability, and their limits. Ultimately, he shows how they work together, not separately-and certainly not in conflict. It is only when we relink these four foundations of wisdom that we can begin to discern the best path forward in life.
Thoughtful, accessible, winsome, and deeply wise, The Road to Wisdom leads us beyond current animosities to surer footing. Here is the moral, philosophical, and scientific framework with which to address the problems of our time-including distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy-but also to guide us in our daily lives. This is a book that will repay many readings, and resolve dilemmas that we all face every day.

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The Rough Guide to Kenya (Rough Guides Main), 12th Edition by Rough Guides
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1789195942 | 600 pages | True EPUB | 86.66 MB
This Kenya guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Kenya travel guidebook is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet the FSC's strict environmental and social standards.

This Kenya guidebook covers: Nairobi and around, The Central Highlands, Rift Valley, Western Kenya, The national parks and Mombasa Highway, The coast, The north.
Inside this Kenya travel book, you'll find:
* A wide range of sights - Rough Guides experts have hand-picked places for travellers with different needs and desires: off-the-beaten-track adventures, family activities or chilled-out breaks
* Itinerary examples - created for different time frames or types of trip
* Practical information - how to get to Kenya, all about public transport, food and drink, shopping, travelling with children, sports and outdoor activities, tips for travellers with disabilities and more
* Author picks and things not to miss in Kenya - Mount Kenya, Mara Naboisho Conservancy, Thimlich Ohinga, Lake Baringo, starry nights, Lake Turkana Cultural festival, fresh coconuts, chameleons, Lake Naivasha, Nairobi National Park, coral reef, Warrior training
* Insider recommendations - tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money, and find the best local spots
* When to go to Kenya - high season, low season, climate information and festivals
* Where to go - a clear introduction to Kenya with key places and a handy overview
* Extensive coverage of regions, places and experiences - regional highlights, sights and places for different types of travellers, with experiences matching different needs
* Places to eat, drink and stay - hand-picked restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels
* Practical info at each site - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, charges
* Colour-coded mapping - with keys and legends listing sites categorised as highlights, eating, accommodation, shopping, drinking and nightlife
* Background information for connoisseurs - history, culture, art, architecture, film, books, religion, diversity
* Fully updated post-COVID-19
The guide provides a comprehensive and rich selection of places to see and things to do in Kenya, as well as great planning tools. It's the perfect companion, both ahead of your trip and on the ground.

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The Rough Guide to New Zealand, 8th Edition By Paul Whitfield, Tony Mudd, Catherine Neves
2012 | 848 Pages | ISBN: 140539000X | EPUB | 19 MB
The new "Rough Guide to New Zealand" is the definitive guide to the world's adventure capital. Now in full-color throughout, it contains dozens of tempting color photos illustrating the country's iconic landmarks and its stupendously diverse scenery. It provides detailed accounts of every attraction along with crystal-clear maps and plans will show you the very best New Zealand has to offer: from white-sand beaches and vast kauri trees in the north to the hairline fiords and penguin colonies in the south. With expert guidance you won't put a foot wrong when experiencing Maori culture or simply striking out on multi-day hikes. At every point this guide steers you to little-known sights such as secluded hot pools or Wellington's best cafes. Insider tips, planning itineraries and author picks give you the inside scoop on the best accommodation across every price range, how to track down Marlborough's tastiest Sauvignon blanks and where the most delectable Maori hang can be found. Make the most of your time with "The Rough Guide to New Zealand".Published: 8th edition (September 2012) Be warned that prices are always on the increase, and add about 5% to all the prices in this book.

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The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking In Architecture & Urbanism For A Sustainable, Living Planet
by Mitra Kanaani
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032469900 | 727 pages | True PDF EPUB | 118.34 MB

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.
Exploring the innovation of materials, habitats, landscapes, and infrastructures, it furthers novel ecotopian ideas and ways of living, including human-made settings on water, in outer space, and in extreme environments and climatic conditions. Chapters of this extensive collection on ecotopian design are grouped under five different ecological perspectives: design manifestos and ecological theories, anthropocentric transformative design concepts, design connectivity, climatic design, and social design. Contributors provide plausible, sustainable design ideas that promote resiliency, health, and well-being for all living things, while taking our changing lifestyles into consideration. This volume encourages creative thinking in the face of ongoing environmental damage, with a view to making design decisions in the interest of the planet and its inhabitants.
With contributions from over 79 expert practitioners, educators, scientists, researchers, and theoreticians, as well as planners, architects, and engineers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, this book engages theory, history, technology, engineering, and science, as well as the human aspects of ecotopian design thinking and its implications for the outlook of the planet.

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Translation Studies
by Defeng Li and John Corbett
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032026502 | 661 Pages | True PDF | 37 MB

This Handbook offers a comprehensive grounding in key issues of corpus-informed translation studies, while showcasing the diverse range of topics, applications, and developments of corpus linguistics.
In recent decades there has been a proliferation of scholarly activity that applies corpus linguistics in diverse ways to translation studies (TS). The relative ease of availability of corpora and text analysis programs has made corpora an increasingly accessible and useful tool for practising translators and for scholars and students of translation studies. This Handbook first provides an overview of the discipline and presents detailed chapters on specific areas, such as the design and analysis of multilingual corpora; corpus analysis of the language of translated texts; the use of corpora to analyse literary translation; corpora and critical translation studies; and the application of corpora in specific fields, such as bilingual lexicography, machine translation, and cognitive translation studies. Addressing a range of core thematic areas in translation studies, the volume also covers the role corpora play in translator education and in aspects of the study of minority and endangered languages. The authors set the stage for the exploration of the intersection between corpus linguistics and translation studies, anticipating continued growth and refinement in the field.
This volume provides an essential orientation for translators and TS scholars, teachers, and students who are interested in learning the applications of corpus linguistics to the practice and study of translation.

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The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning
by Darren G. Lilleker, Daniel Jackson, Bente Kalsnes, Claudia Mellado, Filippo Trevisan, Anastasia Veneti
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032356715 | 544 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8 MB

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning provides an essential, global, and timely overview of current realities, as well as anticipating the trajectory and evolution of campaigning in the coming years. Offering a comprehensive analysis, the handbook is structured into seven thematic sections, including the campaign environment; rhetoric and persuasion; campaign strategies; campaign tactics and platform affordances; news and journalism; citizens and voters; and civil society. The chapters within each section reflect on the latest societal, technological, and cultural developments and their impact on campaigning, on democratic culture within societies, and on the roles that campaigns might play in both facilitating and impeding political engagement. Key trends and innovations are examined alongside case studies and examples from a range of nations and political contexts. Issues around trust and representation are further reflected in a focus on the wider campaigning environment and the rise in importance of grassroots and pressure groups, social movements, and movements that coalesce within digital environments. The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in political communication, media and communication, elections and voting behavior, digital media, journalism, social movements, strategic communication, social media, and more broadly to democracy, sociology, and public policy.

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The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods by Luc Pauwels, Dawn Mannay
English | January 3, 2020 | ISBN: 1473978009 | 776 pages | MOBI | 66 Mb
The second, thoroughly revised and expanded, edition ofThe SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methodspresents a wide-ranging exploration and overview of the field today.As in its first edition, the Handbook does not aim to present a consistent view or voice, but rather to exemplify diversity and contradictions in perspectives and techniques.

The selection of chapters from the first edition have been fully updated to reflect current developments. New chapters to the second edition cover key topics including picture-sorting techniques, creative methods using artefacts, visual framing analysis, therapeutic uses of images, and various emerging digital technologies and online practices.At the core of all contributions are theoretical and methodological debates about the meanings and study of the visual, presented in vibrant accounts of research design, analytical techniques, fieldwork encounters and data presentation.
This handbook presents a unique survey of the discipline that will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social and behavioural sciences, arts and humanities, and far beyond these disciplinary boundaries.
The Handbook is organized into seven main sections:
PART 1:FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH
PART 2:VISUAL AND SPATIAL DATA PRODUCTION METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES
PART 3: PARTICIPATORY AND SUBJECT-CENTERED APPROACHES
PART 4:ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND PERSPECTIVES
PART 5:MULTIMODAL AND MULTISENSORIAL RESEARCH
PART 6:RESEARCHING ONLINE PRACTICES
PART 7:COMMUNICATING THE VISUAL: FORMATS AND CONCERNS

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The Secret Life of Limericks by The Mad Duck Coalition
English | September 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 9781956389241 | 198 pages | True EPUB | 3.77 MB
A limerick is a subtle mixture of puns, rhymes, rhythm, story and characters, often seasoned with an indefinable pinch of genius. Some have become wildly popular and gone round the world in newspapers and on people's lips. Great limericks live on for ever in anthologies.

Some limericks, however, by a strange interlinking of associations and adventures, have managed to acquire a kind of secret life which can be at least as interesting as the verse itself. During a forty year study of the history and development of the limerick verse form, Bob Turvey has stumbled on a number of these strangely fascinating back-stories:
* How did the Young Man of Devizes help build the Atomic Bomb?
* How did the submissive Young Lady of Kent come to define a particular type of American University research activity?
* The Young Man in a Syndicate was cited in 1941 to help readers of The Times understand Japan's position vis-à-vis the German invasion of Russia. Why?
* Who turned the Young Gourmand of John's into a sex maniac?
* How can a limerick which was unprintable in 1925 still be unprintable today?
* A punning limerick about Henry Ward Beecher reminds us of a sex scandal in America in 1875; but how can there be nine claimants to its authorship?
* Does a limerick really exist in the Volapuk language?
* What can a ribald verse about the King of Siam tell us about the life and times of an enlightened and unfairly maligned monarch?
These and other stories are told at length in The Secret Life of Limericks: an indulgent treat for limerick aficionados and newcomers alike.

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The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by Michael Rosen
English | June 30, 2022 | ISBN: 0674244613 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.2 MB
A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought.

The key thinkers, Rosen argues, were the German Idealists, as they sought to reconcile reason and religion. It was central to Kant's philosophy that, if God is both just and assigns us to heaven or hell for eternity, we must know what is required of us and be able to choose freely. In trying to live moral lives, Kant argued, we are engaged in a collective enterprise as members of a "Church invisible" working together to achieve justice in history. As later Idealists moved away from Kant's ideas about personal immortality, this idea of "historical immortality" took center stage. Through social projects that outlive us we maintain a kind of presence after death. Conceptions of historical immortality moved not just into the universalistic ideologies of liberalism and revolutionary socialism but into nationalist and racist doctrines that opposed them. But how, after global wars and genocide, can we retain faith in any conception of shared moral progress and, if not, what is to become of the idea of historical immortality? That is our present predicament.
A seamless blend of philosophy and intellectual history, The Shadow of God is a profound exploration of secular modernity's theistic inheritance.

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Valerie M. Fazel, "The Shakespeare Multiverse "
English | ISBN: 0367257343 | 2021 | 250 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century reading practice that embraces affective pleasure and subjective self-positioning as a means of understanding a text. Part critical study, part source book, The Shakespeare Multiverse suggests that fannish contributions to the ongoing expansion of the object that we call Shakespeare is best imagined as a multiverse, encompassing different worlds that consolidate the various perspectives that different fans bring to Shakespeare. Our concept of the multiverse redefines 'Shakespeare' not as a singular body of work, but as space where a process of inquiry and cultural memory - memories in the making, and those already made - is influenced and shaped by the technologies available to the reader. Characteristic of fandom is an intertextual reading strategy that we term cyborg reading, an approach that accommodates the varied elements of identity, politics, culture, sexuality, and race that shape the ways that Shakespeare is explored and appropriated throughout fannish reading communities.

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The Shark Handbook: Third Edition: The Essential Guide for Understanding the Sharks of the World (Shark Week Author, Ocean Biology Books, Great White ... and Nature Books, Gifts for Shark Fans) by Greg Skomal
English | July 6, 2021 | ISBN: 1646431057 | 280 pages | PDF | 45 Mb
Dive deep into the world of sharks, the most fascinating and misunderstood marine animals on the planet, in this stunning new edition of The Shark Handbook, written by Shark Week expert, Dr. Greg Skomal.

Did you know that a whale shark's spots are as unique as a fingerprint? Or that sharks can go into a trance when flipped upside down? Or that the Megallodon's mouth was 6 feet across? With The Shark Handbook, jump into brand new facts about these fierce sea creatures! Explore all of the orders of sharks, such as:Ground sharksGreat white sharksMackerel sharksCarpet sharksand more!Learn about over 400 profiles of every shark in existence, from the first sharks living about 445 million years ago to the ones lurking in the ocean deep today. Starring spectacular, full-color photography that makes these jaw-dropping sharks come to life, this is the perfect gift for the shark enthusiast in your life.
Dr. Greg Skomal, PhD is an experienced aquarist and Marine Fisheries Biologist at Martha's Vineyard Fisheries, Division of Marine Fisheries, Massachusetts. He's been keeping saltwater aquariums since childhood and has shared his extensive knowledge with viewers of National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, NBC's Today, and other media.

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The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon by Larry Wolff
English | August 31, 2016 | ISBN: 0804795770 | 504 pages | MOBI | 9.65 Mb
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European-Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.

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The Slow Down
by Ford, Leanne;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1419771078 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 47.88 MB

Designer and HGTV personality Leanne Ford shares design secrets and personal reflections on how she creates her warm, chic, and easy-going aesthetic-and how you can do the same
Leanne Ford's imperfectly perfect designs inspire more than half a million social media fans daily. In this very personal design book, she shares her decorating philosophy, wry humor, and advice to live by.
The Slow Downoffers readers an inside look at how Leanne found her "wow does this need work" dream house and then moved (with her family in tow) across the country to turn it into a welcoming home. Her story has a rebellious soul that is refreshingly different from other interior design books: She encourages readers to slow down in their personal environments and celebrate the beauty of everyday moments.
The Slow Down's photos and narrative present a home tour like no other, stopping to recount crazy ideas (not always crazy!) and to offer thoughts on what makes a designreallygood and why Elsie De Wolfe is still right (about most things).
You will come away with a new perspective and new ideas on how to make your home more joyful, elevated, and funky, fun, and just right.

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