Jonathan Kirsch, "The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0142196118, 0670030090 | EPUB | pages: 317 | 0.8 mb
Who is a Jew? In this colorful, eye-opening work, bestselling author and lecturer Jonathan Kirsch takes us on a three-thousand-year tour of Jewish identity and diversity and offers answers to this complex and difficult question. Kirsch reveals that Judaism has never been a religion of strict and narrow orthodoxy. For every accepted tradition in Jewish faith there are countertraditions rooted in biblical antiquity: the Maccabee freedom fighters who closed the Bible and picked up swords, dervish-like ecstatics who claimed to enjoy direct communication with God even after they had been excommunicated by a distrustful rabbinate, and courageous men and women who were the forgotten heroes of the Holocaust. With drama and narrative verve, Kirsch explores these and many other "Judaisms" that make up the rich tapestry of Jewish identity.
The Way of The Vegan Meathead: Eating for Strength by Daniel Austin
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VMZG67K | 251 pages | MOBI | 7.34 Mb
In the second edition of The Way of The Vegan Meathead, champion powerlifter Daniel Austin demolishes the mass of lies you've heard about the "difficulties" of building strength on a vegan diet. He'll show you how eating to become a Vegan Beast is easier than you ever thought it could be.
Stephen J Puetz, "The Unified Cycle Theory: How Cycles Dominate the Structure of the Universe and Influence Life on Earth"
English | 2009 | pages: 603 | ISBN: 1432712160 | PDF | 6,5 mb
Documented cycles range widely in diversity. They include fluctuations in the stock market, commodity prices, economic activity, wars, civilizations, global climate, ice-ages, geological formations, and abundance of life on Earth. This book examines all of these cycles, plus more. In addition, the Unified Cycle Theory makes predictions about our universe. If you're interested in history, science, geology, physics, astronomy, climatology, biology, mathematics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, economics, or investment theory, then read on. The theory includes portions of all of these academics. Furthermore, this book covers cycles ranging as short as 27 days to ones spanning billions of years. The evidence comes from a variety of scientific, academic, and business sources - which this book methodically details. In spite of the great advances in identifying cycles, this increased knowledge yielded little in the way of providing a consensus about why they occur. This book attempts to correct that shortcoming. These chapters step back, dispose all preconceptions, reexamine the wealth of information available, and use deductive processes to formulate a new theory.
The Underground Railroad: The History and Legacy of America's Greatest Abolitionist Network by Charles River Editors
English | November 7, 2013 | ISBN: 1493693603 | 1023 pages | EPUB | 0.83 Mb
*Includes pictures of important people and places.
Dean Graziosi, "The Underdog Advantage - Rewrite Your Future By Turning Your Disadvantages Into Your Superpowers"
English | 2019 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0578568462 | PDF | 2,1 mb
WHAT IS THE UNDERDOG ADVANTAGE ALL ABOUT? Do you ever feel stuck in your life? Here's how to FLIP THAT SWITCH! Finally the success road-map for those not born to privilege or advantaged. Do things look good on the outside but on the inside, you feel like a prisoner trapped in mediocrity? Or maybe you feel like you missed your chance, or you can't find your starting point and no matter what you do, nothing moves you forward? You're the underdog-dismissed, counted out, lacking the right resources and unsupported. This book changes all that by taking you on a journey and showing you what successful "Underdogs" throughout time have already discovered. Your so called disadvantaged are the fuel and the hidden superpower to accomplish anything you know the secret on how to flip the success switch on in your life... This Book will show you that as an underdog (Something we all are) you're actually in a great position, and with one or two small shifts, you can unlock limitless potential. Being an underdog means you don't have to worry about what other people think, you have a lot of room to improve, you can get easy momentum, you can sneak up on competitors, and you have incredible sources of motivation. Soon you will learn that being an underdog is actually your ultimate unfair advantage to next level wealth, prosperity, happiness and joy...
Srimati Basu, "The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (Volume 1) "
English | ISBN: 0520282450 | 2015 | 280 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, reevaluating feminist theories of law, marriage, violence, property, and the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolution, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, has created new subjectivities, but, paradoxically, has also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively.
Michael Modarelli, "The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism "
English | ISBN: 1138352608 | 2018 | 222 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.
Corinna Kruse, "The Social Life of Forensic Evidence"
English | ISBN: 0520288394 | 2015 | 208 pages | PDF | 1174 KB
In The Social Life of Forensic Evidence, Corinna Kruse provides a major contribution to understanding forensic evidence and its role in the criminal justice system. Arguing that forensic evidence can be understood as a form of knowledge, she reveals that each piece of evidence has a social life and biography. Kruse shows how the crime scene examination is as crucial to the creation of forensic evidence as laboratory analyses, the plaintiff, witness, and suspect statements elicited by police investigators, and the interpretations that prosecutors and defense lawyers bring to the evidence. Drawing on ethnographic data from Sweden and on theory from both anthropology and science and technology studies, she examines how forensic evidence is produced and how it creates social relationships as cases move from crime scene to courtroom. She demonstrates that forensic evidence is neither a fixed entity nor solely material, but is inseparably part of and made through particular legal, social, and technological practices.
The Sitcom By Brett Mills
2009 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 0748637516 | PDF | 1 MB
Even though sitcom has been a consistent staple of broadcasting the world over, rigorous academic work on it as a genre remains limited. This book examines sitcom as an industry in terms of production, audiences and texts, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to examine the genre's characteristics, social position, and pleasures. In highlighting this long-lasting and popular form of television, it offers insights into genre theory and explores how the comic aim of sitcom forms a central characteristic of the genre.Brett Mills takes a global view of sitcom, examining international examples as well as those produced by the more dominant British and American broadcasting industries, in order to explore the relationships between sitcom, nation, and identity. Sitcoms considered include Extras, My Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm, One Foot in the Grave, Peep Show, Summer Heights High, Popetown, and Friends.
Simon Buxton, "The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters"
English | 2006 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1594771197 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings