James D Hudnall, "The Secrets of Writing: How to Create Great Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1519728239 | 2015 | 274 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If you want to be a writer, you also want to know how to do it well. How do you create work that will stand the test of time and get great reviews? How do you craft a screenplay or a comic book? How do you master the novel? This book teaches you all the tricks and more. It explains how to make fiction that is unforgettable and meaningful. The secrets are out there, but this is the only book you'll need to learn them.
The Secret Life of Fish: The Astonishing Truth about our Aquatic Cousins by Doug Mackay-Hope
English | November 2, 2021 | ISBN: 0711260990 | 224 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
Discover the astonishing truth about our aquatic cousins: how they think and what they know, their experiences and unique behaviours, and the many things we have in common.
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature by Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367691620 | 450 pages | PDF | 10,5 MB
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international reception and position within world literature.
Patrick B. Reyes, "The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive"
English | ISBN: 0664266703 | 2021 | 262 pages | EPUB | 1002 KB
In The Purpose Gap, Patrick Reyes reflects on a family member's death after a long struggle with incarceration and homelessness. As he asks himself why his cousin's life had turned out so differently from his own, he realizes that it was a matter of conditions. While they both grew up in the same marginalized Chicano community in central California, Patrick found himself surrounded by a host of family, friends, and supporters. They created a different narrative for him than the one the rest of the world had succeeded in imposing on his cousin. In short, they created the conditions in which Patrick could not only survive but thrive.
The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By Elayne Oliphant
2021 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 022673112X | PDF | 3 MB
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage." In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in nonreligious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person's experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.
The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War by Claire Finkelstein, Derek Gillman
English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0197610560 | 496 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Conflict over cultural heritage has increasingly become a standard part of war. Today, systematic exploitation, manipulation, attacks, and destruction of cultural heritage by state and non-state actors form part of most violent conflicts across the world. Such acts are often intentional and based on well-planned strategies for inflicting harm on groups of people and communities. With this increasing awareness of the role cultural heritage plays in war, scholars and practitioners have progressed from seeing conflict-related destruction of cultural heritage as a cultural tragedy to understanding it as a vital national security issue. There is also a shift from the desire to protect cultural property for its own sake to viewing its protection as connected to broader agendas of peace and security. Concerns about cultural heritage have thus migrated beyond the cultural sphere to worries about the protection of civilians, the financing of terrorism, societal resilience, post-conflict reconciliation, hybrid warfare, and the geopolitics of territorial conflicts. This volume seeks to deepen public understanding of the evolving nexus between cultural heritage and security in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the chapters in this volume examine a complex set of relationships between the deliberate destruction and misuse of cultural heritage in times of conflict, on the one hand, and basic societal values, legal principles, and national security, on the other.
Jill Winger, "The Prairie Homestead Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Heritage Cooking in Any Kitchen"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1250190193 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 205.1 mb
Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table.
The Pastoral Counseling Treatment Planner By James R. Kok, Arthur E Jongsma Jr.
1998 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 0471254169 | EPUB | 10 MB
For pastoral counselors and clergy people seeking to learn abouteffective therapeutic techniques, The Pastoral CounselingTreatment Planner is a lifesaver. And for secular therapistsintegrating elements of their client's spiritual beliefs systeminto the treatment process, this book can guide the way. Patterned after the bestselling The Complete PsychotherapyTreatment Planner, this resource draws on a variety of Westernreligious belief systems, and offers step-by-step guidelines oncounseling clients and parishioners through a variety of lifedilemmas. This sourcebook is organized around 31 of the most commonproblems people seek counseling for, including life challenges,such as marital conflict, grief, and chronic illness, as well aschallenges of faith. For each problem, behavioral definitions andpotential counseling goals are provided, along with dozens ofsuggested interventions--many of which draw upon the client'sfaith as a source ofhealing. This unique counseling aid alsofeatures: * More than 1,000 well-crafted treatment planning components formany of life's thorniest problems * A sample counseling plan that can be emulated by bothexperienced counselors and novices * Pages afford plenty of space to record customized counselinggoals, objectives, and interventions
The Pan-Sized Egg Cake: Frittata Recipes to Keep You Cracking Eggs by Layla Tacy
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09K7MDBQ4 | 82 pages | EPUB | 3.63 Mb
As long as you love eggs, the chances of you loving frittatas are actually very high - maybe that's why you're here! Still, if you've never heard of or tasted a frittata, they're kind of like quiches sans the crust or like huge pan-sized cakes made of eggs and a couple of other savory ingredients. It may sound a bit strange or even eggy, but they're pretty delicious!
The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall By Lawrence Osborne
2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0865477094 | EPUB | 1 MB