Tag: Life

Free Download Mike Thomas, "You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman"
English | 2014 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1250027969, 1250070309 | EPUB | 6,4 mb
Beloved TV comedic actor Phil Hartman is best known for his eight brilliant seasons on Saturday Night Live, where his versatility and comedic timing resulted in some of the funniest and most famous sketches in the television show’s history. Besides his hilarious impersonations of Phil Donahue, Frank Sinatra and Bill Clinton, Hartman’s other indelible characters included Cirroc the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Eugene the Anal Retentive Chef and, of course, Frankenstein. He also starred as pompous radio broadcaster Bill McNeal in the NBC sitcom NewsRadio and voiced numerous classic roles ― most memorably washed-up actor and commercial pitchman Troy McClure ― on Fox’s long-running animated hit The Simpsons.

Free Download Linda Loewenthal, "Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life"
English | 2007 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1401309135, 1401301924 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award

Free Download Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031460561 | 352 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4.4 MB
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women’s use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History.

Free Download Raymond Mungo, Dana Spiotta, "Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life"
English | 2014 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 1940436036 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Total Loss Farm attracted widespread attention, critical and commercial success in 1970, when the ""back to the land"" hippie commune movement first emerged. The book’s first section, ""Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,"" appeared in its entirety as the cover article of the May, 1970 Atlantic Monthly.

Free Download Myrlie Evers-Williams, "The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches"
English | 2006 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 0465021786, 0465021778 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
On the evening of June 12, 1963 – the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin’s bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun – bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist – was recovered moments later in some nearby bushes. Still, Beckwith remained free for over thirty years, until Evers’s widow finally forced the Mississippi courts to bring him to justice. The Autobiography of Medgar Evers tells the full story of one the greatest leaders of the civil rights movement, bringing his achievement to life for a new generation. Although Evers’s memory has remained a force in the civil rights movement, the legal battles surrounding his death have too often overshadowed the example and inspiration of his life. Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable have assembled the previously untouched cache of Medgar’s personal documents, writings, and speeches. These remarkable pieces range from Medgar’s monthly reports to the NAACP to his correspondence with luminaries of the time such as Robert Carter, General Counsel for the NAACP in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Most important of all are the recollections of Myrlie Evers, combined with letters from her personal collection. These documents and memories form the backbone of The Autobiography of Medgar Evers a cohesive narrative detailing the rise and tragic death of a civil rights hero.

Free Download Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A life course approach
by Eric A.P. Steegers
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9036821304 | 644 Pages | True PDF | 131 MB

Free Download Speaking of Forms of Life: The Language of Conservation
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031345339 | 435 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6.3 MB
Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to "mass extinctions" of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices and actions. "Speaking of Forms of Life" shows that at the root of this crisis is the tragic inadequacy of the language predominantly used to represent and address what we are doing, including the language of "sustainable development," "rights" for animals and the rest of nature, their "intrinsic value," and conservation of species as "populations." This talk alienates us from the other living things, from what they actually are, have and do, and it perpetuates the harm and loss. Campagna and Guevara compellingly argue, on rigorous but accessible grounds, that there is an alternative language to guide conservation, in confronting the radically urgent, ethical issues it faces. This is a language with which we are all familiar, mastered by naturalists, from Aristotle to Audubon. It articulates the primary value in life and the standard that must guide how human beings should live, as one form of life, among countless others. This book is a homecoming for those who practice conservation to, above all else, secure a creature’s ability to satisfy the necessities of its form of life.

Free Download Jillian Lauren, "Some Girls: My Life in a Harem"
English | 2010 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0452296315 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince’s harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser

Free Download Joe Moran, "Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness"
English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1781252637 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it’s actually remarkably common – we all know what it’s like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush with humiliation if we suddenly become the unwelcome centre of attention.

Free Download Nancy Milford, "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay"
English | 2001 | pages: 550 | ISBN: 1588360946, 0375760814, 039457589X | EPUB | 2,3 mb
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda , Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.