Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences

Author: Diane Goldstein

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2007-09-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0874216818

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.


American Pictures

American Pictures

Author: Jacob Holdt

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.


Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife

Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife

Author: Ruth A. Tucker

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0310524997

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ruth Tucker recounts a harrowing story of abuse at the hands of her husband—a well-educated, charming preacher no less—in hope that her story would help other women caught in a cycle of domestic violence and offer a balanced biblical approach to counter such abuse for pastors and counselors. Weaving together her shocking story, stories of other women, and powerful stories of husbands who truly have demonstrated Christ’s love to their wives, with reflection on biblical, theological, historical, and contemporary issues surrounding domestic violence, she makes a compelling case for mutuality in marriage and helps women and men become more aware of potential dangers in a doctrine of male headship.


This Hebrew Lord

This Hebrew Lord

Author: John Shelby Spong

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1993-04-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0060675209

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In This Study I Found A Lord, a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century...I discover a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years."Illuminating the "figure who stands at the center of all the Christian Church is," John Shelby Spong explores Jesus under the light of the Hebrew tradition into which he was born. Candid, personal, and soundly argued, this is Spong's spiritual and intellectual pilgrimaged to the Christ he discovered in Jesus of Nazareth.


From Puritanism to Postmodernism

From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Author: Richard Ruland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1317234146

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.


Rock Music in Performance

Rock Music in Performance

Author: D. Pattie

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0230593305

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the 1960s up to the present day.


Rethinking Columbus

Rethinking Columbus

Author: Bill Bigelow

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 094296120X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.


The Economics of Fantasy

The Economics of Fantasy

Author: Sharon Stockton

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 081421018X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author examines the evolution of the rape narrative in twentieth-century literature: What accounts for the persistence of the old story of male power and violence, and female passivity and penetrability? How has the story changed over the course of the twentieth century? She investigates the manner in which the violation of the female body serves as a metaphor for a synthesis of masculinity and political economy.


SAT Vocabulary Express

SAT Vocabulary Express

Author: Jacqueline Byrne

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2004-10-21

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0071458409

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A fun way to build vocabulary and boost SAT scores Word puzzles are a proven tool for building vocabulary. They nudge the puzzler gently toward shades of meaning, synonym recognition, contextual interpretation, and making educated guesses--all the mental tricks needed to do well on the SAT verbal section. In SAT Vocabulary Express, a top test-prep coach teams up with a leading crossword puzzle author to offer students a fun, effective alternative to standard vocabulary builders. A unique learning tool for breaking the code in the SAT verbal section, this book features: Dozens of crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms, and other fun, skill-building puzzles Brainteasers that stimulate vocabulary mastery Tips and techniques for using the puzzles to pump up vocabularies to unprecedented levels--painlessly!