Good Housekeeping The Complete Household Handbook: The Best Ways to Clean, Maintain & Organize Your Home by Ellen Levine
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1588164039 | 401 pages | PDF | 124 MB
The professionals at the Good Housekeeping Institute present practical, easy-to-understand, and simple-to-implement advice on every aspect of maintaining and managing a home. The Institute's directors have researched and tested all the time, money, and energy-saving tricks in the book, from choosing a vacuum to removing wallpaper, from getting rid of stains to keeping your family safe, and much more. Throughout, homeowners will find vital hints and tips, color-coded by category for quick reference, plus checklists, charts, and step-by-step illustrations ranging from the anatomy of a door lock to maintaining a beautiful lawn.

Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, 7th edition by Richard H. Robbins and Rachel A. Dowty
English | April 10, 2018 | ISBN: 0134732790 | 416 pages | PDF | 712 MB
Examine the development and impact of capitalism on global systems

General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google By Hiroki Azuma, John Person
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1935654748 | EPUB | 3 MB
Stay informed. Talk about the issues. Always be engaged. Liberal societies have encouraged their members to take part-or at least interest-in politics. Yet, even in developed nations where it is said to work, the democratic process as we know it routinely fails to give voice, on the one hand, and to appeal at all, on the other hand, to a good number of citizens.Whatever countervailing hopes the worldwide web gave rise to in its dawning years, far from restoring the "public sphere" of yore, the internet has completed its fragmentation. According to Japanese thinker Hiroki Azuma, the way forward must be sought through what network technology is actually good at: aggregating and processing the traces we leave (without always meaning to) every time we wade into the world of connectivity.Harking back to Rousseau and his idea of the general will, dropping by Freud and his discovery of the unconscious, taking inspiration from Google and the tenor of its innovations, revisiting Christopher Alexander and his highway planning, and making curious bedfellows of Twitter, Rorty, and Nozick, General Will 2.0 is a wild ride bound to delight not just citizens who "care" but those who find doing so to be increasingly difficult and false.

Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema By Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, Janine Marchessault
1999 | 350 Pages | ISBN: 0802041205 | PDF | 18 MB
Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (My Name Is Kahenttiiosta, Walker), and Micheline Lanctot (Deux Actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse cinematic practices that range from narrative to documentary to the avant garde.

Thadious M. Davis, "Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0822331039, 082233139X | PDF | pages: 353 | 3.6 mb
In Games of Property, distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, Go Down, Moses ranks among Faulkner's finest and most accomplished works. Bringing together law, social history, game theory, and feminist critiques, she shows that the book is unified by games-fox hunting, gambling with cards and dice, racing-and, like the law, games are rule-dependent forms of social control and commentary. She illuminates the dual focus in Go Down, Moses on property and ownership on the one hand and on masculine sport and social ritual on the other. Games of Property is a masterful contribution to understandings of Faulkner's fiction and the power and scope of property law.

Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts By Joseph L. Sanders
1995 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0387531882 | PDF | 17 MB
This collection of 23 essays represents the best papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Scholars representing diverse perspectives on the fantastic address a variety of works-including those by Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Donaldson, Ursula Le Guin, Jean Baudrillard, Anatole France, William Blake, and Angela Carter. Subjects addressed range from children's tales and classic literature to paper sculptures and popular television series. Containing provocative applications of scholarly observation to practical life, this volume will be of interest to scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular culture, and to others who want to know which topics are currently in vogue in the field.

Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition By Simon Boag
2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1855757389 | PDF | 1 MB
Possibly no other psychoanalytic concept has caused as much ongoing controversy, and attracted so much criticism, as that of "repression". Repression involves denying knowledge to oneself about the content of one's own mind and is most commonly implicated in disputes concerning the possibility of repressed memories of trauma (and their subsequent recovery). While fundamental in Freudian psychoanalysis, recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking (e.g., "mentalization") have downplayed the importance of repression, in part due to less emphasis being placed on the importance of memory within therapy.This book proposes that Freud's theory of repression needs to be understood in a new light, which allows Freudian repression to be evaluated afresh and gives a modern appreciation for the vitality of Freud's thinking. While much contemporary discussion is about the repression of traumatic memories, this book instead shows that Freud appears to conceptualize repression as a specific form of cognitive-behavioral inhibition, and this has enormous implications for understanding repression within a modern context. Situating repression within a dynamic account of persons, Freudian repression is surprisingly congruent with models of inhibitory processes emerging from modern psychology and the neurosciences.

Fractional Behaviours Modelling: Analysis and Application of Several Unusual Tools
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030967484 | 139 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book is dedicated to the analysis and modelling of fractional behaviours that mainly result from physical stochastic phenomena (diffusion, adsorption or aggregation, etc.) of a population (ions, molecules, people, etc.) in a constrained environment and that can be found in numerous areas. It breaks with the usual approaches based on fractional models since it proposes to use unusual models which have the advantage of overcoming some of the limitations of fractional models.

Donald S. Pitkin, "Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family "
English | ISBN: 1439913420 | 2016 | 316 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century.

Forgeries and Historical Writing in England, France, and Flanders, 900-1200 by Robert F. Berkhofer III
English | March 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1783276916 | 348 pages | PDF + EPUB | 20 + 9 MB
What modern scholars call "forgeries" (be they texts, seals, coins, or relics) flourished in the central Middle Ages. Although lying was considered wrong throughout the period, such condemnation apparently did not extend to forgeries. Rewriting documents was especially common among monks, who exploited their mastery of writing to reshape their records.