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Author: Marike Finlay - de Monchy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-23
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1317367251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1987. This critical work is an exploration of new communications technology in its social context, as a social discourse determined by other forms of inter-play. The author refers to Weber, Innis, Habermas and Foucault to develop her argument.
Author: Eleanore King
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2020-10-16
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1528767047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Glorify Yourself” is a classic self-improvement book designed for women, written by Eleanore King. It includes twelve comprehensive “lessons” on beauty, including sections on skin and make-up, posture, relaxation, dress, diet, exercise, hair, and much more. Contents include: “Facial Radiance”, “Inviting Lips”, “An Enticing Skin”, “Corrective Make-Up”, “Attractive Legs”, “A Graceful Walk”, “Sitting Technique”, “Flattering Clothes”, “Every Woman A Model”, “Posture and Relaxation”, “Dieting for Size”, etc. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in early self-improvement books as well as historical beauty and social standards in western society. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Author: Alan I. Forrest
Publisher: Great Battles
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0199663254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.
Author: Matthew Warner Osborn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 022609992X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.
Author: Michael LeMahieu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0199890404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.
Author: Sally Cheney
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1459275446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot To Be Trusted A rogue draped in a mantle of savagery and civilization was the only way to describe Peter Desmond, she'd decided. But Marianne Trenton shuddered to realize she was dangerously intrigued, indeed, beguiled, by the very man she'd sworn to destroy! A Prize Beyond Price Marianne Trenton was a jewel of young womanhood, shining with an innocence that radiated its own sweet allure. She'd appeared in Peter Desmond's life at the turn of a card, then turned his heart around…and he vowed to make her his own!
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Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Tarlow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1134660359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as: * the origins of modernity in urban contexts * the historical anthropology of food * the social and spatial construction of country houses * the social history of a workhouse site * changes in memorial forms and inscriptions * the archaeological treatment of gardens. The Familiar Past has been structured as a teaching text and will be useful to students of history and archaeology.
Author: Norman Mailer
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2023-01-10
Total Pages: 814
ISBN-13: 1598537598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters—nine never before published—that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last century Nearly universally praised upon publication as an achievement inviting comparison with Tolstoy and Hemingway, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character. To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of Mailer’s birth and the 75th anniversary of the publication of his unforgettable debut novel, this expanded collector’s edition includes a selection of 23 letters (all but four from Mailer to his first wife, Beatrice) chosen by Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon that reveals the keen insight and powerful ambition of a brilliant young writer grappling with the challenge of converting the weight of experience into art.
Author: Unni Wikan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-05
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780226896830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the role of women in Oman culture
