Tag: Agnes

Free Download Elisa Jordan, "Rockhaven Sanitarium: The Legacy of Agnes Richards"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1467138797 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 3.0 mb
For decades, the mild climate of the Crescenta Valley served as a haven for those seeking mental health rest and relief from lung ailments. In 1923, registered nurse Agnes Richards decided it was the perfect place to open a sanitarium, one that would set itself apart from the rest. Rockhaven Sanitarium catered to female residents only and, with few exceptions, exclusively employed women. It was a progressive treatment center that prided itself on treating residents with dignity and respect. The center’s high ideals and proximity to early Hollywood attracted residents like Billie Burke; Marilyn Monroe’s mother, Gladys; and Clark Gable’s first wife, Josephine Dillon. Join author Elisa Jordan as she explores Rockhaven’s illustrious past.

Free Download The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann, translated by Amy Bojang
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1641294337 | True EPUB | 360 pages | 1.7 MB
A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another-with the help of an enterprising tortoise-in this twisty, darkly funny mystery from the author of Three Bags Full.

Free Download Lucy Jane Ward, "Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller: With and against Marx"
English | ISBN: 073918976X | 2016 | 274 pages | EPUB | 1450 KB
Ward’s book focuses on the work of the Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller; prominent member of the Budapest School, a group of students who studied under the Marxist social theorist György Lukács. For both Marx and Heller (albeit in different ways) dissatisfaction emerges as the inevitable result of the expansion of need(s) within modernity and as a catalyst for the development of anthropological wealth (what Marx refers to as the ‘human being rich in need’). Ward argues that dissatisfaction and the corresponding category of human wealth-as both motif and method-is central to grasping Heller’s seemingly disparate writings. While Marx postulates a radical overcoming of dissatisfaction, Heller argues dissatisfaction is integral not only to the on-going survival of modernity but also to the dynamics of both freedom and individual life. In this way Heller’s work remains committed to a position that both continually returns and departs, is both with and against, the philosophy of Marx.