Sanjeev Sabhlok, "The Great Hysteria and The Broken State"
English | ISBN: 1922449288 | 2020 | 134 pages | EPUB | 189 KB
This pandemic is not a once in 100 year event but closer to a once in 30 year event. The hysteria is grossly overdone. There were WHO guidelines in 2019 about flu-type pandemics and none involved lockdowns. Australian governments including Victoria's had clear plans for all kinds of pandemics. None involved 5-km lockdowns, 23-hour curfews and mandatory masks even in the open air. These lockdowns are causing huge collateral damage while the governments remain in denial. The governments must lift the lockdowns and focus on the at-risk population. We also need constitutional and legal reforms to ensure that this doesn't occur again.
Li Yu, "The Fragrant Companions: A Play About Love Between Women "
English | ISBN: 0231206283 | 2022 | 400 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou, where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry and recognize each other's literary talents, their emotional bond deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the two women find an unlikely resolution―a ménage-à-trois marriage.
The Family: A World History (New Oxford World History) by Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner
English | July 16, 2012 | ISBN: 0195304764, 0195338146 | True EPUB | 168 pages | 20.4 MB
People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family wrought by the heightened pace of colonialism and globalization in the modern world, and how state policies shape families today.
Maddy Court, "The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship"
English | ISBN: 1797201824 | 2021 | 168 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This illustrated book of advice on love, dating, and friendship-written by and for queer women and people of marginalized genders-is the new go-to queer relationship handbook.
Susan P. Halpern, "The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1582343837 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.7 mb
What should I say when I hear that my friend has cancer? How can I help but not get in the way? How do I let my loved ones know what I need?
Complicite, Simon McBurney, "The Encounter"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1848425546 | EPUB | pages: 96 | 1.5 mb
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, this play traces a journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance. In 1969, a National Geographic photographer found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.
The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings (NYRB Poets) by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Mark Polizzotti
English | July 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1681376504 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 0.6 MB
A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet.
Simone Murray, "The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era"
English | 2018 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1421426099 | PDF | 2,4 mb
How has the Internet changed literary culture?
Massimo Modonesi, "The Concept of Social Class in Contemporary Marxist Theory"
English | ISBN: 3838216075 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Going from classic to contemporary authors, the authors of this volume consider theorists that provided contributions that became representative of trends, schools of thought and original theoretical perspectives, and that grew into the backbone of Marxist thought: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Edward Palmer Thompson, Nicos Poulantzas, Erik O. Wright, Antonio Negri, and John Holloway, with references to Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ralph Miliband.
The Communist Movement in Syria and Lebanon By Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael
1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0813016312 | PDF | 3 MB
This study examines the development of the communist movement in Syria and Lebanon. Drawing on party documents and literature, as well as interviews over a 25-year period, the authors examine the movement's evolution, struggles and fragmentation in Syria and Lebanon.