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Free Download Subashish Bhattacharjee, "Horror and Philosophy: Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature"
English | ISBN: 1476687609 | 2023 | 283 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 15 MB
Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other.

Free Download Steven A. Benko, "Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line "
English | ISBN: 1476676410 | 2020 | 260 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.

Free Download Sidney I. Dobrin, "EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels"
English | ISBN: 1476666342 | 2020 | 189 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Exploring image and imagination in conjunction with natural environments, the animal, and the human, this collection of essays turns the ecocritical and ecocompositional gaze upon comic studies. The comic form has a long tradition of representing environmental rhetoric. Through discussions of comics including A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, We3, Concrete, and Black Orchid, these essays bring the rich work of ecological criticism into dialogue with the multi-faceted landscape of comics, graphic novels, web-comics, cartoons, and animation. The contributors ask not only how nature and environment are portrayed in these texts but also how these textual forms inform how we come to know nature and environment-or what we understand those terms to represent. Interdisciplinary in approach, this collection welcomes diverse approaches that integrate not only ecocriticism and comics studies, but animal studies, posthumanism, ecofeminism, queer ecology, semiotics, visual rhetoric and communication, ecoseeing, image-text studies, space and spatial theories, writing studies, media ecology, ecomedia, and other methodological approaches.

Free Download Jean Anderson, "Blood on the Table: Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1476671753 | 2018 | 191 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra-, peri- or paratextual recipes, the aesthetics and ethics of food, eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging, and regional, national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of "Otherness." Also mentioned are the television productions of the Inspector Montalbano series (1999-ongoing), the Danish-Swedish Bron/Broen (2011, The Bridge

Free Download Ann-Gee Lee, "A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom"
English | ISBN: 0786475900 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 684 KB
Television’s Community follows the shenanigans of a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional community college students: Jeff Winger, a former lawyer; Britta Perry, a feminist; Abed Nadir, a pop culture enthusiast; Shirley Bennett, a mother; Troy Barnes, a former jock; Annie Edison, a naive overachiever; and Pierce Hawthorne, an old-fashioned elderly man. There are also Benjamin Chang, the maniacal Spanish teacher, and Craig Pelton, the eccentric dean of Greendale Community College, along with well-known guest stars who play troublemaking students, nutty professors and frightening administrators.

Free Download Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, "A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture"
English | ISBN: 1476667837 | 2018 | 215 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Providing insight into the significance of Californian icons, the contributors explore the interplay between positive stereotypes connected to the myth of the Golden State and ambivalent responses to the myth based on social and political power, the consequences of consumerism, transformations of the landscape and the dominance of hyperreality.

Free Download We’re Alone: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D81N4VS2 | 2024 | 4 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Narrator: Edwidge Danticat
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides through both tragedies and triumphs. Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. We’re Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world’s intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.

Free Download Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVJ5B8C9 | 2024 | 11 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Sarah Smarsh
Narrator: Sarah Smarsh
Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America-featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times-class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently.

Free Download Lakhwinder Singh, "Technology, Innovations and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Robert E. Evenson"
English | ISBN: 9351502694 | 2015 | 375 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Provides a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on the core themes of development economics.

Free Download 51 Success Pearls: 51 Essays Everyone Must Read to Be Successful by SAM GARDNER
English | February 4, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CTZH412Z | 258 pages | EPUB | 0.34 Mb
ABOUT THE BOOK:51 SUCCESS PEARLS: 51 ESSAYS EVERYONE MUST READ TO BE SUCCESSFUL