Sheila Weller, "Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip"
English | ISBN: 0312283016 | 2004 | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father.
Lindsey Bowden, "Damn Fine Cherry Pie: And Other Recipes from TV's Twin Peaks"
English | 2016 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0062495550 | EPUB | 19,6 mb
A damn fine collection of seventy-five mouthwatering recipes, inspired by iconic scenes and characters from David Lynch's groundbreaking cult classic series Twin Peaks-returning to television in 2017 with eighteen new episodes on Showtime.
Cricket in the First World War
by John Broom;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1526780135 | 249 pages | True PDF EPUB | 62.9 MB
Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies By Meaghan Morris (editor), Mette Hjort (editor)
2012 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1932643206 | PDF | 2 MB
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programs and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up research centers and postgraduate schools, editing field-shaping book series and journals, establishing international artist-in-residence programs, and founding social activist networks. This book also investigates the impact of managerialism, marketization, and globalization on university cultures, asking what critical cultural scholarship can do in such increasingly adversarial conditions. Experiments in Asian universities are emphasized as exemplary of what can or could be achieved in other contexts of globalized university policy. Contributors. Tony Bennett, Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Douglas Crimp, Dai Jinhua, John Nguyet Erni, Mette Hjort, Josephine Ho, Koichi Iwabuchi, Meaghan Morris, Tejaswini Niranjana, Wang Xiaoming, Audrey Yue
Mary Carver, "Courageous Joy: Delight in God through Every Season "
English | ISBN: 0800738098 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
There's an unspoken tension between happiness and discontentment. You love your family and friends, but complicated relationships drain and discourage you. You're grateful for work but sometimes feel overlooked. You want to follow Jesus yet feel pulled in a dozen different directions. You know God loves you, yet insecurities bully you. The voices of this world are so loud, how can someone possibly hear God's still small voice? The injustice and wounds of this world are so great, how can someone possibly experience lasting joy?
Harriet Brundle, "Continents Infographics"
English | 2019 | pages: 32 | ISBN: 1786376318, 1786372045 | PDF | 4,2 mb
Through the use of stylish, informative graphics,this title explores the science behind continental drift and discusseshow this process has shaped our planet.
Frederick Moehn, "Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene"
English | 2012 | pages: 318 | ISBN: 0822351552 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have reinvigorated Brazilian genres, such as samba and maracatu, through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists, including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luís, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. He describes how these artists manage their careers, having reclaimed some control from record labels. Examining the specific meanings that their fusions have in the Carioca scene, he explains that musical mixture is not only intertwined with nationalist discourses of miscegenation, but also with the experience of being middle-class in a country confronting neoliberal models of globalization. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th Edition
by Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1978824750 | 561 Pages | True PDF | 4.9 MB
Community Health Needs in South Africa By Ntombenhle Protasia Khoti Torkington
2000 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1138716278 | PDF | 28 MB
This title was first published in 2000. Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in order to eliminate the disadvantages it created for the health of black people at both micro and macro levels. This book presents the findings of a study commissioned to assess and respond to the health needs of black people in South Africa. The hope expressed by those who participated is that the study is considered within the wider context of understanding the apartheid system and the scars it left behind. Community Health Needs in South Africa represents an excellent example of how action research can be used as a tool to make a difference in people's lives.
Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions By Lex Hixon
1995 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0943914744 | PDF | 43 MB
Explores the experience of enlightenmentin sacred traditions and how it affects those who experience it.