Tag: Essays

Free Download I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDD9GRQ4 | 2024 | 17 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 489 MB
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter
From the New York Times bestselling author, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks listeners to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single volume, displaying the breadth and depth of Painter’s decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought-and includes a dazzling introduction and coda being published for the first time in this collection.

Free Download I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDD9GRQ4 | 2024 | 17 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 489 MB
Author: Nell Irvin Painter
Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter
From the New York Times bestselling author, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks listeners to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single volume, displaying the breadth and depth of Painter’s decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought-and includes a dazzling introduction and coda being published for the first time in this collection.

Free Download First Love: Essays on Friendship (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC2CDP2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Lilly Dancyger
Narrator: Lilly Dancyger
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author. Lilly Dancyger always thought of her closest friendships as great loves, complex and profound as any romance. When her beloved cousin was murdered just as both girls were entering adulthood, Dancyger’s devotion to the women in her life took on a new urgency-a desire to hold her friends close while she still could. In First Love, this urgency runs through a striking exploration of the bonds between women, from the intensity of adolescent best friendship and fluid sexuality to mothering and chosen family.

Free Download Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YNCDDL | 2024 | 11 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 619 MB
Author: Alice Wong
Narrator: full cast
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others-a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don’t worry: there’s still sex to consider-and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge inside and you’ll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces-plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong-include essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires.

Free Download Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays (The Princeton-China Series, 8) by Xinian Fu, Nancy Steinhardt, Alexandra Harrer
English | May 30, 2017 | ISBN: 9780691159997 | 448 pages | MOBI | 37 Mb
A groundbreaking book by one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese architecture

Free Download Robert M. Sapolsky, "The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays On the Biology of the Human Predicament"
English | 1997 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 068483409X, 0684838915 | EPUB | 7,6 mb
In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks, Robert Sapolsky offers a sparkling and erudite collection of essays about science, the world, and our relation to both. "The Trouble with Testosterone" explores the influence of that notorious hormone on male aggression. "Curious George’s Pharmacy" reexamines recent exciting claims that wild primates know how to medicate themselves with forest plants. "Junk Food Monkeys" relates the adventures of a troop of baboons who stumble upon a tourist garbage dump. And "Circling the Blanket for God" examines the neurobiological roots underlying religious belief.

Free Download Will Stockton, "The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums"
English | ISBN: 1501342452 | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It explores often overlooked and underrated albums that may not have inspired their 33 1/3 books, but have played a large part in their own musical cultivation.

Free Download W. S. Penn, "Raising Bean: Essays on Laughing and Living "
English | ISBN: 0814349307 | 2022 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 662 KB + 6 MB
Offered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as "Bean," as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society’s interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own family history and Native mythology, Penn charts a way through life where each endeavor is a journey―an opportunity to love, to learn, or to interact―rather than the means to a prize at the end.

Free Download John Mowitt, "Radio: Essays in Bad Reception"
English | 2011 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0520270509, 0520270495 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio’s central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who used it as a means to disseminate their ideas. For others, such as Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, and Raymond Williams, radio served as an object of urgent reflection. Mowitt considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. The first systematic examination of the relationship between philosophy and radio, this provocative work also offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.

Free Download Michael E. Bratman, "Planning, Time, and Self-Governance: Essays in Practical Rationality"
English | 2018 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 019086785X, 0190867868 | PDF | 119,0 mb
Our human capacity for planning agency plays central roles in the cross-temporal organization of our agency, in our acting and thinking together (both at a time and over time), and in our self-governance (both at a time and over time). Intentions can be understood as states in such a planning system. The practical thinking at the bottom of this planning capacity is guided by norms that enjoin synchronic plan consistency and means-end coherence as well as forms of plan stability over time. The essays in this book aim to deepen our understanding of these norms and to defend their status as norms of practical rationality for planning agents.