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Life and Art Essays

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Life and Art: Essays by Richard Russo
English | May 13, 2025 | ISBN: 0593802160, 9780593802175 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.99 MB
A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief

Life and Art-these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo's twelve masterful new essays-how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In "The Lives of Others," he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don't, and sometimes can't, know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don't understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In "Stiff Neck," he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife's sister and her husband-proudly unvaccinated-develop COVID. In "Triage," he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in "Ghosts," he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present.
Sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family from one of the great writers of our time.


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Life and Death Art and the Body in Contemporary China

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Life and Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China by Silvia Fok
English | December 15, 2012 | ISBN: 1841506265 | True EPUB | 218 pages | 3.5 MB
For all their ubiquity, life and death have not been fully explored as integral themes in many forms of contemporary Chinese art. Life and Death addresses that lacuna. Exploring the strategies employed by a variety of Chinese artists who engage with these timeless concerns, Silvia Fok opens a new line of inquiry about contemporary art in a rapidly changing environment.

Fok focuses, in particular, on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals' bodies, and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography. Over the course of her investigations, corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these themes. By assessing its effectiveness in the expression of life, death, and related ideas, Fok ultimately illuminates the extent to which we can see corporeality as a significant trend in the history of contemporary art in China. Her conclusions will fascinate scholars of performance and installation art, photography, and contemporary Chinese art.


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Life-Changing Synchronicities A Doctor's Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity

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Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor's Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity by Bernard Beitman
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 9798888501849, 9798888501856 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 5.2 MB
A psychiatrist's review of a lifetime of synchronicities

* Tells the author's personal stories of unlikely coincidences, showing how synchronicity can be identified and evolve in one's own life
* Explores how recognizing synchronicity and serendipity can help individuals find their life purpose, accelerate their spiritual and interpersonal development, and positively impact their lives
* Builds on the work of Carl Jung on the significance of synchronicity
In Life-Changing Synchronicities, pioneering psychiatrist Bernard Beitman, M.D., explores the experience and ramifications of meaningful coincidences, including how synchronistic happenings came to define his own life. Building on Carl Jung's groundbreaking work on this phenomenon, Beitman applies new insights on coincidence, synchronicity, serendipity, and related phenomena to the contemporary age, ultimately helping readers begin to better identify patterns of synchronicity in their own lives, find deeper meaning, and more consciously align with their personal life path and goals.
The unlikely trajectory of the author's own life reveals the strange and counterintuitive nature of synchronicity. From Wilmington, Delaware, to 1960s-era San Francisco, Beitman explores his experience with precognition and telepathy while playing high school football, his life as a psychiatric medical school student and hippie in Haight-Ashbury, and his rise to become head of psychiatry at University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School while developing The Coincidence Project. As well as providing questions for readers to reflect on, throughout the book Beitman provides additional tools to illustrate synchronicity, offering insightful comments and principles in each section to synthesize useful reflections that serve as a guide for readers' own "coincidence diaries."


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Light in Germany Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

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Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment by T. J. Reed
English | March 2, 2015 | ISBN: 022620510X, 022642183X | True EPUB | 304 pages | MB
Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J. Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into a coherent and focused beam that shines within European intellectual history and reasserts the important role of Germany's Enlightenment.

Reed looks closely at the arguments, achievements, conflicts, and controversies of these major thinkers and how their development of a lucid and active liberal thinking matured in the late eighteenth century into an imaginative branching that ran through philosophy, theology, literature, historiography, science, and politics. He traces the various pathways of their thought and how one engendered another, from the principle of thinking for oneself to the development of a critical epistemology; from literature's assessment of the past to the formulation of a poetic ideal of human development. Ultimately, Reed shows how the ideas of the German Enlightenment have proven their value in modern secular democracies and are still of great relevance-despite their frequent dismissal-to us in the twenty-first century.


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Like a Hammer Poets on Mass Incarceration

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Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration edited by Diana Marie Delgado
English | March 4, 2025 | ISBN: 9798888904466, 9798888902479 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 12.9 MB
Like A Hammeris an anthology of poems that unearths the shared traumas produced by America's incarceration system.

These powerful poems of witness seek to address the oppressive systems that make up the US prison-industrial complex, revealing cracks in a criminal punishment system that too often appears unchangeable. The impacts of that system reverberate through lives and across generations. The poets gathered here aim to foreground the real experiences of people touched by the system, to upend dominant narratives, shine light on injustice, and act as a fulcrum around which to organize communities in support of change.
Like A Hammer explores how art and imagination can serve as vehicles for endurance, offering us the hope to envision a better future.
Contributors include: Hanif Abdurraqib, Rhionna Anderson, Brian Batchelor, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Marina Bueno, Cody Bruce, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Natalie Diaz, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Nikky Finney, Kennedy A. Gisege, Gustavo Guerra, Jessica Hill, Vicki Hicks, Randall Horton, Sandra Jackson, Catherine LaFleur, Ada Limón, Sarah Lynn Maatsch, Christopher Malec, Eduardo Martinez, John Murillo, Angel Nafis, Kenneth Nadeau, Leeann Parker, James Pearl, Christina Pernini, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Sin á Tes Souhaits, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Erica "Ewok" Walker, Candace Williams, and SHE>i


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Liquid Space Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age

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Sean Redmond, "Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 1780761864 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future. But what precisely can it tell us about present and future by setting these two timeframes in the same critical space? In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction.

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Literary Landscapes Dublin Explore the City's Vibrant Literary Legacy, Where Every...

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Literary Landscapes: Dublin: Explore the City's Vibrant Literary Legacy, Where Every Street Tells a Story by Ana Kinsella
English | 13 Mar. 2025 | ISBN: 0008716099, 9780008716080 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 279 MB
Publishing to coincide with St Patrick's Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series. Take a photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary locations and authors' watering holes of Dublin's top tourist destinations.

There are few cities in the world that care so deeply about the written word as this historic capital.
Stroll along canals, Georgian squares, and bridges, and you'll find plaques honouring writers, literary landmarks, and statues aplenty; like George Bernard Shaw at the National Gallery or Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square. Creative outpourings are well documented in museums and galleries here, like the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) which holds the first copy of James Joyce's Ulysses.
No trip to Dublin would be complete without visiting its notable pubs - and this book is no exception. Explore bars once frequented by WB Yeats after discovering stunning libraries like Trinity College's Long Room, as featured in Sally Rooney's Normal People.
Dublin holds its independent bookshops close to its heart, and there are some wonderful little literary spots dotted around the city, many of which are a treasure trove of rare books.
"When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart", James Joyce once said. And here it is - written for you to explore, too.


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Little Emperors and Material Girls Sex and Youth in Modern China

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Jemimah Steinfeld, "Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China"
English | ISBN: 1780769849 | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB | 703 KB
China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place - all in the bars, cafes and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Welcome to this new China.

Writer and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld meets the young people behind the world's fastest-moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world they live in: 'little emperors' - single men who have grown up under the one child policy - they're bossy and selfish; 'bare branches' - those without children; 'leftovers' - women over twenty-six who aren't married; 'comrade' - how the gay community identifies itself; 'love markets' - weekend gatherings across China where parents attempt to find husbands and wives for their children, and others show up to match-make young singles and even offer boyfriends for hire. Jemimah Steinfeld introduces the people at the heart of this world, from the woman starting China's first online dating agency to the mistresses of the rich and powerful; from the company trying to sell sex toys to China's middle-classes to the sino-punks of Beijing's bar scene.
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Little Madnesses Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience

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Annette Kuhn, "Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience"
English | ISBN: 1780761619 | 2013 | 256 pages | PDF | 9 MB
'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. The term was coined by the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, whose work on transitional phenomena grew out of his naming of the transitional object, and extended into preliminary explorations of the crucial role played by cultural experience in a life that feels satisfying.

Here, in original chapters, writers, artists, scholars develop and revitalize cultural theory by exploring the idea of transitional phenomena and its potential to extend and deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life. Exploring cult films, computer use, installation art, trips to the cinema, museums and galleries, and the agony and ecstasy of making art, they focus on the importance of space, place, and boundaries in cultural experience; on how we can negotiate the use of media, as well as cultural identity; and consider the aesthetic and creative aspects of cultural experience.
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Little Red Death

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Little Red Death by A. K. Benedict
English | 13 Feb. 2025 | ISBN: 1398519871, 9781398519886 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 1.9 MB
ONCE UPON A TIME LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ IT BEFORE . . .

DI Lyla Rondell is on the case of a lifetime. Tasked with investigating a series of perplexing deaths, the only lead she has is that each appears to be based on a different classic fairy tale. Far from the stuff of bedtime stories, the press is having a field day with what they have named the Grimm Ripper Murders.
But as the bodies stack up, Lyla's whole world is about to flip on its head. Because the killer's bloody trail stretches deep into her own origin story, and when she discovers the truth, nothing will ever be the same again.
Faced with the fact that everything she knows is fiction, Lyla will have to take a little creative license of her own if she's going to turn the final page on the killings . . .


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Live Well Empowering Habits for Vibrant Health and Unstoppable Energy

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Live Well: Empowering Habits for Vibrant Health and Unstoppable Energy by Adriana Shuman
English | May 13, 2025 | ISBN: 1637634048, 9781637634059 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 2.7 MB
Live Well: Empowering Habits for Vibrant Health and Unstoppable Energy offers a transformative roadmap to lasting wellness, guiding readers through simple, science-based habits to boost energy, improve health, and create a vibrant life.

There is nothing more important than your health.
Feeling your best isn't just about following a specific diet, weight loss routine, or exercise plan. It's about completely shifting your mindset from disease prevention to health creation.
You can start creating daily habits that transform your health-today. That's the core principle of Live Well: Empowering Habits for Vibrant Health and Unstoppable Energy.
This illuminating and empowering guide delves into the key elements of healthy living, from toxins that may be present in your home and environment to the importance of sleep, nutrition, daily movement and exercise, and cultivating a healthy inner world. With a science-based and holistic approach, Live Well is an accessible and engaging roadmap that provides you with the knowledge and simple tools to achieve long-lasting health, unlocking your potential to live the life you deserve and have always dreamed of!
In this book, you'll have a trusted friend and professional by your side as you learn about simple ways to feel better, acknowledge and break free of unhealthy habits, and live stronger. It's up to you to take the next steps to a healthier, happier, more vibrant life.
So, set your goals, make a plan, and take the first step today. You'll be glad you did. You can experience true transformation and create change in your own life, one step at a time.


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Living and Dying Well in Philippians A Comparative Analysis of Ancient Sources

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Gregory E Lamb, "Living and Dying Well in Philippians: A Comparative Analysis of Ancient Sources"
English | ISBN: 3161623770 | 2025 | 350 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The contemporary bifurcation of living and dying and the aversion of death are largely absent in ancient conceptions of human flourishing. Gregory Lamb bridges this gap by combining living and dying well as the twin facets of flourishing and by comparing the often-competing conceptions of flourishing within salient ancient sources (up to 100 CE). Beginning with Paul's concept of flourishing in Philippians, and then comparing/contrasting popular Greco-Roman, Egyptian, and Second Temple Jewish views, the volume advocates a "kaleidoscopic" reading of Paul that attunes to the complex diversity and Sitze im Leben of the Philippians. The author argues that Philippians is central to Paul's presentation of flourishing as a Christocentric, cruciform life, and that despite the competing conceptions of living and dying well in the cultures around him, Paul, nonetheless, stands in stark contrast to them.

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Living on the Edge of Empire The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall

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Living on the Edge of Empire: The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall by Rob Collins
English | 3 Aug. 2020 | ISBN: 1783463279 | True EPUB | 168 pages | 38.3 MB
Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier.

Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly illustrated volume showcases the artifacts recovered from archaeological investigations along Hadrian's Wall in order to examine the daily lives of those living along the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Presented by theme, no other book offers such a diverse and thorough range of the rich material culture of the Wall. The accompanying text provides an ethnographic perspective, guiding us through the everyday lives of the people of frontier communities, from the Commanding Officer to the local farmer. This holistic view allows us an insight into the homes and communities, how people dressed, what they ate and drank, their religions and beliefs, domestic and military forms of security, and how they conducted their business and pleasure.


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Lloyd George Statesman or Scoundrel

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Richard Wilkinson, "Lloyd George: Statesman or Scoundrel "
English | ISBN: 1780763891 | 2018 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB
David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'. He is, of course, best known as the Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War I, but his contribution to domestic politics was similarly impressive. As Chancellor of the Exchequer he introduced pensions and national insurance against sickness and unemployment, while as Prime Minister he extended democracy by giving votes to women. Yet Lloyd George was compromised by his flaws as a human being. Vain, cruel, capricious and dishonest, at times his notoriously corrupt nature threatened to damage the British political system. Providing a unique new perspective on one of the most phenomenally-talented - but also one of the most phenomenally-flawed - of British Prime Ministers, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern British politics and history.

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Lonesome The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude

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Kevin Lewis, "Lonesome: The Spiritual Meanings of American Solitude "
English | ISBN: 1848850751 | 2009 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
""There is another loneliness,"" wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: ""Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought."" For Kevin Lewis, that ""other loneliness"" is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being ""lonesomeness."" It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban rustbelt. In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores - in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art - the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway - creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness - Lewis finds the apex of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper. Lewis argues that in expressive works like

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Journeys to the Extreme

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme by Damian Catani
English | November 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1789144671 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 6.4 MB
The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline's groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline's subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.


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Love Is a Journey The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I

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Love Is a Journey: The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I by Mo Guernon
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1538190702, 9781538190715 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 4.7 MB
Love is a Journey is the remarkable story of Albino Luciani, known to the world as Pope John Paul I, from his harrowing birth to his tragic death just 33 days into his 1978 pontificate-the shortest pontificate in history. After years of dedicated archival research, and after interviewing dozens of figures in the Catholic hierarchy, as well as Pope John Paul I's niece, author Mo Guernon explores Luciani's family history, personality, and character to reveal the very essence of the man who became known as the Smiling Pope. Guernon analyzes Luciani's major public pronouncements and his most significant writings, which shed considerable light on his fundamental beliefs and worldview. In the concluding chapters of the book Guernon assesses Pope John Paul I's legacy and journey toward sainthood-and the beguiling question of how the Catholic Church might have evolved had his pontificate endured through the 1980s and beyond.

The events of Luciani's life are so compelling, so remarkable, so fast moving, that the narrative reads like a novel. Guernon paints a multi-dimensional portrait of the man that prominently displays his virtues and shortcomings, successes and failures, heroic deeds and personal doubts about his own courage. He highlights Luciani's progressive views of issues of his time, the crises in his personal and priestly life, his discomfort with the spotlight and his anxiety about succeeding the popular Pope Paul VI, the relative simplicity of his inauguration as pope, and the unprecedented power he wielded on those with whom he came into contact both personally and through the mass media. Above all, Guernon attempts to capture the pope's mysterious ability to engender love among people of all faiths, and nonbelievers too, with his inimitable humility and almost divine smile. A striking example of his influence came from punk rocker Patti Smith, who was so enamored of Luciani that she wrote a song about the pope and dedicated her 1979 album, Wave, to him.
Pope John Paul I's impact on the world during his 33-day pontificate was simultaneously profound and perplexing-and, until now, underappreciated. In little more than a month, the Luciani dazzled people of all ages, races, and nations while modernizing the papacy and establishing an ambitious agenda for promoting peace and dialogue among all peoples, a program subsequently carried out by his successors, particularly Pope Francis. And in fact Pope Francis established the Vatican Pope John Paul I Foundation in memory of his beloved mentor.
Never has a world leader accomplished so much in so little time.


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Loving The L Word The Complete Series in Focus

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Dana Heller, "Loving The L Word: The Complete Series in Focus "
English | ISBN: 1780764243 | 2013 | 272 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The complete and groundbreaking "The L Word" is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. "Loving The L Word" picks up where Reading "The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television" (I.B. Tauris, 2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by some newcomers, "Loving The L Word" explores the series' quantum contribution to the ongoing evolution of queer television. Whether you loved "The L Word", hated it, or loved to hate it, this book recognizes that the show transformed the post-Ellen LGBT television landscape, fulfilling a long-neglected, visceral desire for lesbian stories and images. In the process, it reshaped the communities that follow and talk about queer television and care about the narratives and characters that drive it. Including complete Character/Actor, Film/TV and Episode guides, the book also proceeds from the understanding that while "The L Word' ended in 2009 it manages to live on - in the lives of its fans, as well as in a new reality spin-off, "The Real L Word".

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Luck, Fate and Fortune Antiquity and Its Legacy

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Esther Eidinow, "Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and Its Legacy "
English | ISBN: 1845118421 | 2019 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, fate and fortune in our own era, drawing on approaches to cognitive anthropology. Perhaps the most famous of all sites of prediction is the Oracle at Delphi. But the Delphic Oracle is only the best-known example from a landscape covered by oracular sanctuaries; while across the literary genres of antiquity there are myriad tales - such as that of doomed Oedipus - which wrestle with the cruel vicissitudes of fate and fortune. Exploring some of the key ideas of ancient Greek culture that resonate with modern conceptions of destiny, Eidinow examines the ancients' notion of luck as a means to explain daily experiences. Focusing on writers such as Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Demosthenes, the author shows how concepts of fate in antiquity changed over time, in response to social and political currents.

She draws too on modern cultural texts like "Terminator 2" and "Lawrence of Arabia", demonstrating how the recurring questions 'what if?' and 'why me?' are fundamental to the human relationship with an uncertain future, whether it be in the ancient past or the present day.
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Machiavelli From Radical to Reactionary

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Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary (Renaissance Lives) by Robert Black
English | November 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1789146151 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 11.3 MB
From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian.

"Machiavellian" can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military, and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist, and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular republicanism to political radical to conservative, Machiavelli explores the many facets of the man described as the father of modern political philosophy and political science.


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