The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific By David Bianculli
2016 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0385540272 | EPUB | 47 MB
Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains--historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves--how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved.Darwin had his theory of evolution, and David Bianculli has his. Bianculli's theory has to do with the concept of quality television: what it is and, crucially, how it got that way. In tracing the evolutionary history of our progress toward a Platinum Age of Television--our age, the era ofThe SopranosandBreaking BadandMad MenandThe WireandHomelandandGirls--he focuses on the development of the classic TV genres, among them the sitcom, the crime show, the miniseries, the soap opera, the western, the animated series and the late night talk show. In each genre, he selects five key examples of the form, tracing its continuities and its dramatic departures and drawing on exclusive and in-depth interviews with many of the most famed auteurs in television history.Television has triumphantly come of age artistically; David Bianculli's book is the first to date to examine, in depth and in detail and with a keen critical and historical sense, how this inspiring development came about.
R. B. Jamieson, "The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews "
English | ISBN: 083084886X | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
What does the epistle to the Hebrews mean when it calls Jesus "Son"? Is "Son" a title that denotes his eternal existence as one person of the Trinity? Or is it a title Jesus receives upon his installation on heaven's throne after his resurrection and ascension? In this Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture (SCDS) volume, which promotes fresh understandings of Christian belief through creative, faithful readings of the canonical text, pastor and New Testament scholar R. B. Jamieson probes the complexity of the Christology presented in the epistle to the Hebrews. Exploring the paradox of this key term, Jamieson argues that, according to Hebrews, "Son" names both who Jesus is eternally and what he becomes at the climax of his incarnate, saving mission. Jesus is, in short, the eternal Son who became the messianic Son for us and for our salvation. This volume thereby offers a case study showing how the church's core convictions about Christ lead us not away from the text, but deeper into it.
Douglas W. Portmore, "The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism "
English | ISBN: 0190905328 | 2020 | 688 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Consequentialism is a major moral theory in contemporary philosophy: it is the view that the only thing that matters when making moral decisions is the outcome of those decisions. Consequentialists hold that to morally assess an act, we must first evaluate and rank the various ways that things
The Nature of Desert Nature by Gary Paul Nabhan
2020 | ISBN: 0816540284 | English | 209 pages | PDF | 9 MB
In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan's extended essay also called "The Nature of Desert Nature" reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads.
Sana Haroon, "The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship "
English | ISBN: 0755634446 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 7 MB
In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented flew in the face of colonial secularism. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India. Through the use of legal records, archives and multiple case studies Sana Haroon ties a series of narrative threads stretching across multiple regions in Colonial South Asia.
The Migration Crisis and the European Culture By Anthony Damiels, Mezei, Balázs M., Rychard Legutko et al.
2018 | 60 Pages | ISBN: 0521551579 | PDF | 6 MB
Editor-in-Chief: Alvino-Mario FantiniAssistant Editor: Filip MazurczakUS Correspondent: Gerald J. RusselloEditorial Board: Stjepo Bartulica, Matthew Edwards, Ellen Kryger Fantini, Roman Joch, Felix James Miller, Lorenzo Montanari, G. K. Montrose, Alexandre Pesey, Matthew Tyrmand, Pr. Edmund WaldsteinAdvisory Council: Rémi Brague, Robin Harris, Mark C. Henrie, Annette Kirk, Sir Roger ScrutonContact: [email protected]
The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening by Jesse Frost
English | July 20th, 2021 | ISBN: 1645020266 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 41.06 MB
Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening-for healthier, more productive soil!
The Little Book of Police Youth Dialogue: A Restorative Path Toward Justice (Justice and Peacebuilding) by Dr. Micah E. Johnson, Jeffrey Weisberg
2021 | ISBN: 1680997084 | English | 128 pages | EPUB | 0.6 MB
Discover the police-youth dialogue (PYD) as a method to build trustworthiness, mend relationships, and heal historical harms between black youth and law enforcement.
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America By Mike McIntyre
2010 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1495213765 | EPUB | 1 MB
What would you do if you had to journey penniless across America, depending only on the kindness of those you met along the way? If you're Mike McIntyre, you might meet...A biker-turned-minister who shares faith, food, and self-defense tips with a stranger on the road...A lady firefighter who used to be a man...A lonely woman who offers a place to spend the night, and in the morning feels the loss of yet another man who leaves her...Stuck in a job he no longer found fulfilling, journalist Mike McIntyre felt his life was quickly passing him by. So one day he hit the road to trek from one end of the country to the other with little more than the clothes on his back and without a single penny in his pocket.Through his travels, he found varying degrees of kindness in strangers from all walks of life--and discovered more about people and values and life on the road in America than he'd ever thought possible.The gifts of food and shelter he received along the way were outweighed only by the touching gifts of the heart--the willingness of many he met to welcome a lonely stranger into their homes...and the discovery that sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.
The Ketchup Lover's Cookbook: Over 60 Spectacularly Saucy Recipes by Heather Thomas
2021 | ISBN: 0008492352 | English | 112 pages | EPUB | 35 MB
WE ALL KNOW SOMEBODY WHO PUTS KETCHUP ON EVERYTHING!