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The Bond of the Furthest Apart Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka


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English | April 10, 2017 | ISBN: 022641390X, 022641406X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 3.6 MB
In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson’s cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The "bond" of Sharon Cameron’s title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson’s films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson’s in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality.

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Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart


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English | 2009 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 1604135816 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe’s masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe’s work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic novel.

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Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart A Routledge Study Guide


Free Download Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
English | November 8, 2007 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B001TSZ5YS | 254 pages | PDF | 0.96 Mb
Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.

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When Death Falls Apart Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan


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English | ISBN: 0226829014 | 2023 | 213 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 27 MB
Through an ethnographic study inside Japan’s Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials.

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Better Apart The Radically Positive Way to Separate


Free Download Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate by Gabrielle Hartley, Elena Brower, Karen White
English | January 29, 2019 | ISBN: B07MG8R239 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 217 Mb
Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset, and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision.
While many of us may be better together, some of us can actually become better apart.
What if you emerged from your divorce stronger and more resilient than ever before? Better Apart is the first book to apply the life-changing, healing wisdom of meditation and yoga, combined with practical advice, to help anyone going through the painful and seemingly intractable realities of divorce.

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The War We Won Apart The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CXJL52F8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Nahlah Ayed
Narrator: Nahlah Ayed

Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston Churchill’s secret army, the Special Operations Executive. As the world’s deadliest conflict to date unfolds, Sonia and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory, how to kill, blow up rail lines, and eventually . . . how to love each other.

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