Maurice Hamington, "Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity"
English | ISBN: 1517911877 | 2021 | 326 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
Surya Das, "Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0061774561 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.7 mb
"Awealth of inspiration and practical tips for enjoying the Kingdom of God, thePure Land of the Buddha, now." -Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace Is EveryStep
Bruce McDonald's 'Hard Core Logo' By Paul McEwan
2011 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 1442644524 | PDF | 1 MB
Consistently ranked as one of the best Canadian movies of all time, punk-rock mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996) documents the last-ditch reunion tour of an aging rock band led by vocalist Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon). Well received by critics at the time of its release, the film continues to enjoy a devoted international cult following.This entertaining analysis of Hard Core Logo explores many of the film's key themes, including the responsibility of documentary filmmakers to their subjects, the development of close male relationships, and the relationship between art and commerce in Canada, especially for touring musicians. Paul McEwan examines Hard Core Logo in the context of other adaptations of Michael Turner's 1993 novel of the same name, as well as against other films from McDonald's celebrated career. Featuring interviews with McDonald himself and others involved in the film, Bruce McDonald's 'Hard Core Logo' provides an engaging look at one of Canada's most mythologized movies.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia By Ian Cooper
2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1906660328 | PDF | 2 MB
In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah´s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece--a violent, hallucinatory autobiography and a brilliant example of "pure Peckinpah." This study revisits the making of this controversial film, as well as its original reception and subsequent reassessment. It reads the project as an auteur work, a genre film, a confession, and a bizarre self-parody.
Martin Revermann, "Brecht and Tragedy: Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics"
English | ISBN: 1108489680 | 2021 | 492 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone model book and the Small Organon for the Theatre), this monograph includes the first-ever publication of the complete set of colour photographs taken by Ruth Berlau. This is complemented by comparatist explorations of many of Brecht's own plays as his experiments with tragedy conceptualized as the 'big form'. The significance for Brecht of the Greek tragic tradition is positioned in relation to other formative influences on his work (Asian theatre, Naturalism, comedy, Schiller and Shakespeare). Brecht emerges as a theatre artist of enormous range and creativity, who has succeeded in re-shaping and re-energizing tragedy and has carved paths for its continued artistic and political relevance.
E. Patrick Johnson, "Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1469641100, 1469641097 | PDF | pages: 590 | 3.1 mb
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities-all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and performance ethnography, E. Patrick Johnson's work vividly enriches the historical record of racialized sexual minorities in the South and brings to light the realities of the region's thriving black lesbian communities.
Black Pepper: 30 tasty and delicious dishes by Brendan Rivera
English | August 17, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08FSCNN5G | 173 pages | PDF | 2.67 Mb
Black Pepper
Bird Migration: A New Understanding by John H. Rappole
English | February 22, 2022 | ASIN: B099NWZB7V, ISBN: 1421442388 | True AZW3 | 341 pages | 3.9 MB
A fascinating and nuanced exploration of why, how, and which birds migrate.
Mary Ann Doane, "Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1478013567 | 2022 | 376 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator's space, "immersing" them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification.
Yasir Suleiman, "Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora"
English | ISBN: 0748634029 | 2016 | 384 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What does it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora?This collection of 100 personal reflections on being Palestinian is the first book of its kind. Reflecting on Palestinian identity as it is experienced at the individual level, issues of identity, exile, refugee status, nostalgia, belonging and alienation are at the heart of the book. The contributors speak in many voices, exploring the richness and diversity of identity construction among Palestinians in the diaspora.Included are contributions from Palestinians living in the Anglo-Saxon diaspora, mainly the UK and North America. They come from a variety of professional backgrounds: business people, lawyers, judges, fiction writers, poets, journalists (press, TV and radio), film-makers, diplomats and academics. Men and women, young and old, Christians and Muslims offer essays, as do Palestinians from different generations (first, second and third generations). This mix of professional, gender, faith and generational categories ensures that a variety of voices are heard.The editor sets the scene with an Introduction, and his Epilogue deals with issues of identity, exile and diaspora as concepts that give sense to the personal reflections.Key FeaturesThe first book to gather personal reflections on what it means to be PalestinianContributes to the debate on what it means to be PalestinianAsks what the diaspora is for PalestiniansLooks at how being Palestinian varies across gender, generation, religious affiliation and professional interest.