Tag: Bodies

Free Download Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies By Joseph Seckbach (auth.), Arnold Hanslmeier, Stephan Kempe, Joseph Seckbach (eds.)
2012 | 534 Pages | ISBN: 9400749651 | PDF | 10 MB
A trio of editors [Professors from Austria, Germany and Israel] present Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies. The contributors are from twenty various countries and present their research on life here as well as the possibility for extraterrestrial life. This volume covers concepts such as life’s origin, hypothesis of Panspermia and of life possibility in the Cosmos. The topic of extraterrestrial life is currently ‘hot’ and the object of several congresses and conferences. While the diversity of "normal" biota is well known, life on the edge of the extremophiles is more limited and less distributed. Other subjects discussed are Astrobiology with the frozen worlds of Mars, Europa and Titan where extant or extinct microbial life may exist in subsurface oceans; conditions on icy Mars with its saline, alkaline, and liquid water which has been recently discovered; chances of habitable Earth-like [or the terrestrial analogues] exoplanets; and SETI’s search for extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Free Download Charged Bodies
by Thomas Mahon;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9798888650592 | 329 pages | True PDF | 7.78 MB

Free Download Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking World (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World) by Claire F. Ratican
English | September 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1032216832 | True EPUB/PDF | 336 pages | 5.3/15.7 MB
This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora.

Free Download Ruth O’Brien, "Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 041594533X, 0415945348 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.3 mb
Bodies in Revolt argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could humanize capitalism by turning employers into care-givers, creating an ethic of care in the workplace. Unlike other feminists, Ruth O’Brien bases her ethics not on benevolence, but rather on self-preservation. She relies on Deleuze’s and Guttari’s interpretation of Spinoza and Foucault’s conception of corporeal resistance to show how a workplace ethic that is neither communitarian nor individualistic can be based upon the rallying cry "one for all and all for one."

Free Download Small Water Bodies of the Western Balkans by Vladimir Pešić
English | EPUB | 2022 | 449 Pages | ISBN : 3030864774 | 105.8 MB
The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.

Free Download Margaret D. Kamitsuka, "Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency"
English | ISBN: 1506492622 | 2023 | 227 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The afterlife continues to influence Christian faith and is a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. However, a doctrine of resurrection that speaks to death in the womb has yet to be considered.

Free Download Eugene R. Schlesinger, "Ruptured Bodies: A Theology of the Church Divided"
English | ISBN: 1506489672 | 2024 | 205 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The divided church is withering on the vine. Crises of its own making-ranging from clergy sexual abuse and its cover-up to the church’s complicity in colonialism, empire, and patriarchy-coupled with societal shifts beyond the church’s control, have eroded its credibility. A much-deserved decline is well underway. And yet, churches remain content to continue with business as usual.

Free Download Regulating Bodies: Elite Sport Policies and Their Unintended Consequences by Jaime Schultz
English | June 21st, 2024 | ISBN: 0197616496 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 4.49 MB
How far are we willing to go in the name of "better sport"?

Free Download Robert A. Jacobs, "Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha"
English | ISBN: 0300230338 | 2022 | 344 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war

Free Download Francesca Bratton, "Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies "
English | ISBN: 3031625412 | 2024 | 297 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the first volume dedicated solely to critical engagement with the full range of Mew’s poetry, fiction and essays. Mew moved within a remarkable range of literary and intellectual circles, from The Yellow Book in the 1890s to Bloomsbury’s Poetry Bookshop in the 1910s. As such, her work challenges traditional distinctions between literary periods and sits within the more expansive framework of the long nineteenth century and its legacies. Each chapter contextualises Mew’s oeuvre by examining her experiments with poetic and narrative genres in relation to her wider late Victorian and early modernist intellectual milieu. The volume draws together literary scholars working across the fields of poetry and poetics, decadence, modernism, ecocriticism and queer theory, while illustrating the particular stylistic and thematic complexities of Mew’s writing.