Tag: Lives

Free Download William Pannapacker, "Revised Lives: Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture"
English | 2003 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0415968704 | PDF | 4,3 mb
Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae, and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities. Special emphasis is given to Walt Whitman, but other figures are treated at length: P. T. Barnum, Edward Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe. This study contributes to the understanding of selfhood in nineteenth-century American culture, the development of autobiography as a genre, and the dynamics of literary reception.

Free Download Jesse G. Swan, "Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr."
English | ISBN: 1611485401 | 2013 | 302 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the contemporary state of scholarship in textual and biographical studies. The collection also means to be of especial interest to scholars of the British eighteenth century, by concentrating its evidence and argument on topics and subjects important to contemporary eighteenth-century studies. The volume is inspired by the extensive contributions to the fields by the late O M Brack, Jr.

Free Download The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory by Jonathan Watts
English | September 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1805302876 | 320 pages | PDF | 6.40 Mb
James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which animals, plants, forests and sea life interact with the atmosphere, land and sea to maintain a habitable ecosystem. At least until humans came along. But as well as being a scientist, in his long life Lovelock was many other an environmentalist and inventor, an industrialist, NASA engineer and spy.

Free Download Luisa Ostacchini, "Translating Europe in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints "
English | ISBN: 0198913737 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Translating Europe in Ælfric’s ‘Lives of Saints’ is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England’s most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose various items work cumulatively and concurrently to provide audiences with teachings far beyond the scope of an individual homily or saints’ life. In doing so, it demonstrates that Ælfric’s European characters and settings served not merely as a convenient skeleton on which to frame his hagiographical narratives, but rather lay at the heart of his didactic praxis and pedagogic aims.

Free Download Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer (Platform Studies) by Jesper Juul
English | December 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549514 | True EPUB | 244 pages | 5.9 MB
The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s-the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun.

Free Download Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era by Amy McElroy
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1399042009 | 248 pages | EPUB | 13 Mb
This book prizes open the Tudor household and examines women’s key roles within, providing a detailed look at the feminine experiences of Tudor England.

Free Download The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe (Medieval Lives) by Taylor McCall
English | August 15, 2023 | ISBN: 178914681X | 232 pages | MOBI | 6.18 Mb
A new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy.

Free Download Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1035031280 | 336 pages | PDF | 2.25 Mb
‘Utterly, utterly brilliant. Fizzing with energy, wit and insight’ – Tracy Borman, bestselling historian

Free Download Catherine-Lune Grayson, "Children of the Camp: The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya"
English | ISBN: 1785336312 | 2017 | 246 pages | PDF | 1393 KB
Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee. A significant number have settled in camps in neighboring countries, where children were born and raised. Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, and are now young adults. This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

Free Download The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia
by Atul Mishra
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0190130873 | 277 Pages | PDF | 1.92 MB