Tag: Memory

Free Download Fleda Brown, "Driving with Dvorak: Essays on Memory and Identity (American Lives)"
English | 2010 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0803224761 | PDF | 0,9 mb
All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet’s gift, into something more. Thisis an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman’s story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times.

Free Download TTC – How Memory Works and Why Your Brain Remembers Wrong
Released 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons ( 5h 51m ) | Size: 4.87 GB
“Who are you?” Chances are you’d answer this question by describing the highlights of your personality, interests, and life experiences. But if you’d been asked this same question yesterday, you might have responded with a slightly different description. Does that mean you are a particular person today but were a different person yesterday? And what about tomorrow?

Free Download Places of Memory and Legacies in an Age of Insecurities and Globalization by Gerry O’Reilly
English | EPUB | 2020 | 540 Pages | ISBN : 3030609812 | 164.5 MB
In this book, practitioners and students discover perspectives on landscape, place, heritage, memory, emotions and geopolitics intertwined in evolving citizenship and democratization debates. This volume shows how memorialization can contribute to wider inclusive interpretations of history, tourism and human rights promoted by the European Project. It’s geographies of memories can foster cooperation as witnessed throughout Europe during the 2014-18 WWI commemorations.

Free Download Scientific American, Coleen Marlo (Narrator), "The Science of Memory"
English | ASIN: B08S6HS2F3 | 2021 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:15:00 | 353 MB
Why can you vividly recall the day your father took you to your first baseball game many years ago, but you can’t remember where you just put the car keys? The process of how – and what – we remember is a fascinating window into who we are and what makes us tick. In this audiobook, we explore what science can and can’t tell us about memory.
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Free Download Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (Audiobook)
English | September 27, 2022 | ASIN: B0BF7FM7V2 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 50m | 386 MB
Author: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd | Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby
Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism.
In a trio of popular gender rituals-sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage-young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood, convincingly and on cue, has remained a valued performance.

Free Download Gregory D. Smithers, Terrence Kidd (Narrator), "Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History"
English | ASIN: B0CN7JP76C | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:00:00 | 226 MB
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit.
In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America’s history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.

Free Download Jeanne Murray Walker, "The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer’s"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1455544981 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 1.1 mb
Award-winning poet Jeanne Murray Walker tells an extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching tale of her mother’s long passage into dementia. This powerful story explores parental love, profound grief, and the unexpected consolation of memory. While Walker does not flinch from the horrors of "the ugly twins, aging and death," her eye for the apt image provides a window into unexpected joy and humor even during the darkest days.

Free Download Godfrey Cheshire, ""Personal in My Memory": The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers: An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B005QOKW7Q | EPUB | pages: 27 | 2.8 mb
Personal in My Memory"

Free Download Sarah Künzler, "Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature: Beyond the Backward Look "
English | ISBN: 311079909X | 2023 | 370 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.

Free Download Leonor Arfuch, "Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits "
English | ISBN: 1509542175 | 2020 | 180 pages | PDF | 1419 KB
This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.