Laugh of Hysteria: The White Ash Tetralogy
Author: Klei Nightwriter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0359574009
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The Fountains of Neptune
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1993-03
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1564781550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lyrical exploration of memory and imagination.
Pediatric Decision-Making Strategies E-Book
Author: Albert J. Pomeranz
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0323353851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed to accompany Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics and Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics, Pediatric Decision-Making Strategies is a concise, user-friendly reference uses a unique algorithmic approach to facilitate diagnosis, testing, and basic treatment of common pediatric disorders. For any given symptom, an algorithm guides the reader through the appropriate investigative procedures and lab tests to reach definitive diagnoses. An updated format that enhances usability makes this medical reference book a must-have for medical students, residents, and practitioners treating pediatric patients. Explore concise, focused, and updated algorithms that cover the most common pediatric problems. Gain imperative knowledge from an expert author team that includes Dr. Robert M. Kliegman (of the Nelson line of textbooks), as well as references to related chapters in both Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics and Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics. Quickly access important information with a new standard format and trim size for practicality and usability. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader.
The Rise of Eurocentrism
Author: Vassilis Lambropoulos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0691201811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine the controversy surrounding education, Eurocentrism, and cultural politics.
The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics
Author: Kriss Ravetto
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780816637430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.
Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)
Author: John Lie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-11-17
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0520258207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi, or Koreans “residing in Japan.” Using a wide range of arguments and evidence-historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural-John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while exploring its vicissitudes and complexity. In the process he sheds light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.
Comparing the Literatures
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-02-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0691234558
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Body and Representation
Author: Insa Härtel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-01-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →,The Body and Representation. Feminist Research and Theoretical Perspectives' was conceived as two weeks program within the International Women's University's project area BODY by the Center for Feminist Studies (ZFS) at the University of Bremen and organized in summer 2000. The publication includes results from lectures and seminars and additional contributions adding to main topics. Among the issues raised are concepts, staging, performances and representations of bodies in everyday life, political contexts, art and new media.
Player Piano
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2009-09-30
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0307568083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review
Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature
Author: Mahala Yates Stripling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-08-22
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0988986523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of the bioethical and medical issues challenging society today have been anticipated and addressed in literature ranging from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albert Camus's The Plague, to Margaret Edson's Wit. The ten works of fiction explored in this book stimulate lively dialogue on topics like bioterrorism, cloning, organ transplants, obesity and heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases, and civil and human rights. This interdisciplinary and multicultural approach introducing literature across the curricula helps students master medical and bioethical concepts brought about by advances in science and technology, bringing philosophy into the world of science.
