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Free Download Mindy Kaling, "Big Shot (Nothing Like I Imagined)"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08GCBDNRG | EPUB | pages: 38 | 1.6 mb
Is almost $2,000 a lot to drop on someone else’s dinner, just to be a big shot? Hell yeah! But what if nobody notices that you-one of Time magazine’s "100 Most Influential People" in the world-picked up the tab?

Free Download John W. Traphagan, "Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan"
English | 2009 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 0791475778 | PDF | 0,6 mb
The Japanese family is at a crossroads of demographic change and altered cultural values. While the population of children has been shrinking and that of elders rising, attitudes about rights and responsibilities within the family have changed significantly. The realities of life in postmodern society have shaped both the imagined family of popular culture and the lived experience of Japanese family members. Imagined Families, Lived Families takes an interdisciplinary approach toward these dramatic changes by looking at the Japanese family from a variety of perspectives, including media studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, and popular culture. The contributors look at representations of family in manga and anime, outsider families and families that must contend with state prosecution of political activists, the stereotype of the absolute Japanese father, and old age and end-of-life decisions in a rapidly aging society with changing family configurations.

Free Download Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZB8FRTR | 2024 | 2 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Emily Zarka, The Great Courses
Narrator: Emily Zarka
Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, they ask us to question our own humanity. Nowhere is this truer than in stories of serial killers. What are the origins of this monstrous archetype? Why are we so fascinated with such gruesome terror? What do they reveal about our fears and anxieties? Explore these and other questions in Serial Killers: Real and Imagined, where public scholar Emily Zarka looks at the serial-killer trope across history, from murky 17th-century legends to 21st-century true-crime obsessions. Using an in-depth analysis of pop-culture texts, she offers various constructions of the serial killer as threat, as cautionary tale, and even as celebrity. You’ll explore why serial murderers become famous, how they’ve been captured (and have eluded justice), their prominent role in film and television, and how the dangerous blending of fact and fiction contributes to our real-world understanding of serial killers as monstrous-almost supernatural-figures. Stories, Emily believes, are integral to our humanity. And as you’ll discover in this fascinating Audible Original, so are stories pulled from some of the darkest corners of the human psyche.

Free Download Caspar Henderson, "The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary"
English | ISBN: 022604470X | 2013 | 448 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology-they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs about human beings and the natural order. Today, we no longer fear sea monsters or banshees. But from the infamous honey badger to the giant squid, animals continue to captivate us with the things they can do and the things they cannot, what we know about them and what we don’t.

Free Download The Netherworld in Ancient Egypt and China: An Imagined Paradise by Mu-Chou Poo
English | December 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0567702006 | True EPUB | 170 pages | 2.5 MB
Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions?

Free Download Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan By Heather Blair
2015 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 0674504275 | PDF | 17 MB
"During the Heian period, the sacred mountain Kinpusen came to prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan–the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. This book depicts their trek from the capital to the rocky summit, aswell as the imaginative landscape they navigated, and sheds new light on Kinpusen, positioning it within the broader religious and political history of the Heian period"–Provided by the ✅Publisher.

Free Download Imagined Masculinities: Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East By Mai Ghoussoub; Emma Sinclair-Webb
2006 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0863560423 | PDF | 7 MB
Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus on the status of women. Issues of male identity, in a region which has seen enormous social change over the past thirty years, have been somewhat neglected. Imagined Masculinities redresses this balance by examining masculinity as a social construct as diverse in its forms as femininity.Initiation rites, ritualised violence and impotence anxiety are explored, as well as images of virility and male sexuality in popular culture and politics. There are moving firsthand accounts here too – a son’s recollection of his relationship with his father; a meditation on what it means to have a moustache; and a vivid recollection of visiting women’s Turkish baths as a young boy.Mai Ghoussoub, artist, author and playwright, left Beirut for London in 1979, where she co-founded Saqi Books. Her art has been exhibited internationally, and her play Texterminators was performed in London, Liverpool and Beirut in 2006. Her publications include Artists and Vitrines, with Shaheen Merali. Her stories have appeared in Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women and Lebanon, Lebanon. She was a regular contributor to al-Hayat and openDemocracy.Emma Sinclair-Webb teaches in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University. Her doctoral research is on sectarianism and urban conflict in Turkey.

Free Download Max Saunders, "Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31"
English | ISBN: 0198829450 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, Andre Maurois, and many others. The study combines a comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a discussion of its key concerns, tropes, and influence.

Free Download Kir Kuiken, "Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism"
English | 2014 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0823257673 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.

Free Download Danielle Henderson, "Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude"
English | 2012 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0762447516, 0762447362 | EPUB | 17,7 mb
Based on the popular blog of the same name, Feminist Ryan Gosling pairs swoon-worthy photos of the sensitive, steamy actor with feminist theories to the delight of women (and more than a few of their mothers) everywhere.