Nancy Christie, "Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War: Dardanella and Peter "
English | ISBN: 3319728342 | 2018 | 334 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1148 KB + 4 MB
This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple's changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion, to marriage and childrearing, as they navigated the transition from Victorian to modern values. By focusing on first-person narratives, this book enriches our understanding of gender identities revealing how porous the boundaries remained between notions of 'heterosexual' and 'same-sex' friendships. This study offers an unprecedented perspective on one couple's sexual practices, which included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual pleasure in an era of female emancipation.
Robert Weinberg, "Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0253011078 | PDF | pages: 204 | 14.6 mb
On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis's trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg's account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia. Primary documents culled from the trial transcript, newspaper articles, Beilis's memoirs, and archival sources, many appearing in English for the first time, bring readers face to face with this notorious trial.
Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom by Cheryl A. Giles, Pamela Ayo Yetunde
English | December 8th, 2020 | ISBN: 1611808650 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1.87 MB
Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With contributions by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson, Cheryl A. Giles, Gyōzan Royce Andrew Johnson, Ruth King, Kamilah Majied, Lama Rod Owens, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Sebene Selassie, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde.
Biomedical Materials, Second Edition by Roger Narayan
English | PDF | 2021 | 720 Pages | ISBN : 3030492052 | 23 MB
This second edition provides a comprehensive discussion of contemporary materials used in biomedical research and development. The pedagogical writing style and structure provides students with an understanding of the fundamental concepts necessary to pursue research and industrial work in this growing area of biomedical science, including characteristics of biomaterials, biological processes, biocompatibility, and applications of materials in implants and medical instruments.
Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York by Jeffrey Sussman
English | November 30th, 2020 | ISBN: 1538134047 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2.31 MB
The great founding figures of organized crime in the 20th century were born and bred in New York City, and the city was the basis of their operations. Beginning with Prohibition and going on through many illegal activities the mob became a major force and its tentacles reached into virtually every enterprise, whether legal or illegal: gambling, boxing, labor racketeering, stock fraud, illegal unions, prostitution, food service, garment manufacturing, construction, loan sharking, hijacking, extortion, trucking, drug dealing - you name it the mob controlled it.
Caron E. Gentry, Laura Sjoberg, "Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Thinking about Women's Violence in Global Politics"
English | 2015 | pages: 210 | ISBN: 1783602074 | PDF | 1,4 mb
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores takes the suggestion in Mothers, Monsters, Whores that it is important to see genderings in characterizations of violent women, and to use critique of those genderings to retheorize individual violence in global politics. It begins by demonstrating the interdependence of the personal and international levels of global politics in violent women's lives, but then shows that this interdependence is inaccurately depicted in gender-subordinating narratives of women's violence. Such narratives, the authors argue, are not only normatively problematic on the surface but also intersect with other identifiers, such as race, religion, and geopolitical location.
Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book by Joe Fairless
English | ISBN: 0997454326 | 456 pages | EPUB | 2018 | 4.85 Mb
Do you want to purchase an apartment community but don't have prior real estate or apartment investing experience, don't have access to private capital, can't find a good deal, lack the skills to execute a business plan or a combination of the four?
Beginning Ruby 3: From Beginner to Pro
by Carleton DiLeo
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1484263235 | 585 Pages | PDF EPUB | 7 MB
Nancy Castaldo, "Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0544633350 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 163.5 mb
In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is revolutionizing old theories and uncovering surprising similarities to our own minds. Humans are notalone in our ability to think about ourselves, make plans, help each other, or even participate in deception. You'll think differently about the animals on this planet-maybe it's their world and we're just living in it!
Be Your Best Thing: How to Get Yourself Together and Start Living An Awesome Life
By Dr. Faye L Saul-Lewis
English | 2020 | ISBN-13 : 979-8575653554 | 95 pages | EPUB/ MOBI | 0.9 MB