Tag: Ideal

December 23, 2024

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

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Free Download John Fahy, "Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City "
English | ISBN: 178920609X | 2019 | 204 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.

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November 25, 2024

Globalizing Ideal Beauty Women, Advertising, and the Power of Marketing

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Free Download D. Sutton, "Globalizing Ideal Beauty: Women, Advertising, and the Power of Marketing"
English | ISBN: 0230611745 | 2009 | 222 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Globalizing Ideal Beauty is the forgotten history of a group of women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from Bangor to Bangkok. Sutton’s approach is grounded in a huge body of original archival research that has so far remained largely untapped.

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September 16, 2024

The 1010 Diet Your ideal weight the healthy way

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Free Download The 10:10 Diet: Your ideal weight the healthy way by Sarah Di Lorenzo
English | August 30, 2023 | ISBN: 1761423398 | 256 pages | EPUB | 40 Mb
A 10-week meal and exercise plan aimed at helping you lose weight and keep it off in the healthiest way possible, from Australia’s favourite clinical nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo.

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September 13, 2024

T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal

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Free Download Joshua Richards, "T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal "
English | ISBN: 9004520139 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 3 MB
T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.

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September 12, 2024

Non-Ideal Foundations of Language

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Free Download Jessica Keiser, "Non-Ideal Foundations of Language "
English | ISBN: 103203694X | 2022 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that the essential function of language is to direct attention for the purpose of achieving diverse social and political goals.

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