Tag: Middle

Free Download Barbara Zimbalist, "Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text"
English | ISBN: 0268202192 | 2022 | 350 pages | EPUB | 910 KB

Free Download Smriti Singh, "The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India"
English | ISBN: 1032248378 | 2023 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 18 MB
This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country.

Free Download Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill, John Lee, Random House Audio
English | 2006 | ISBN: B000JVT1LY | 10 hours and 18 minutes / Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps | 139 Mb
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today, from the entry of women into professions that had long been closed to them to the early investigations into alchemy that would form the basis of experimental science. On visits to the great cities of Europe-monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and Giotto-acclaimed historian Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.

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Free Download Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women (Audiobook)
English | March 02, 2023 | ASIN: B0BJ7F1XW4 | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 53m | 284 MB
Author and Narrator: Victoria Smith
What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage – almost everyone?
In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused.

Free Download Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich, Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08377WBS1 | Format: M4B / 9 hours and 37 minutes | 534 Mb
A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich. One of Barbara Ehrenreich’s most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century.
Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership.
Newly reissued and timely as ever, Fear of Falling places the middle class of yesterday under the microscope and reveals exactly how we arrived at the middle class of today.

Free Download A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
Author: Anthony Bale | Narrator: Esh Alladi
Nov 2, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BYKBJ5BC | 11 hrs 8 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
607 to 614 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East and the Antipodes, this is no ordinary travel guide. From profane pilgrim badges and Venetian laxatives to encounters with bandits and trysts with mysterious medieval witches, this book mixes fact and folklore to offer an entertaining encyclopaedia of wondrous stories and peoples.

Free Download A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS by Robert Worth, Will Damron, Random House Audio
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01IBTTA4S | 10 hours and 15 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps | 282 Mb
The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath.
In 2011 a wave of revolution spread through the Middle East as protesters demanded an end to tyranny, corruption, and economic decay. From Egypt to Yemen, a generation of young Arabs insisted on a new ethos of common citizenship. Five years later their utopian aspirations have taken on a darker cast as old divides reemerge and deepen. In one country after another, brutal terrorists and dictators have risen to the top.
A Rage for Order is the first work of literary journalism to track the tormented legacy of what was once called the Arab Spring. In the style of V. S. Naipaul and Lawrence Wright, the distinguished New York Times correspondent Robert F. Worth brings the history of the present to life through vivid stories and portraits. We meet a Libyan rebel who must decide whether to kill the Qaddafi-regime torturer who murdered his brother; a Yemeni farmer who lives in servitude to a poetry-writing, dungeon-operating chieftain; and an Egyptian doctor who is caught between his loyalty to the Muslim Brotherhood and his hopes for a new tolerant democracy.

Free Download Mary Boyle, "Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 1843845806 | 2021 | 251 pages | PDF | 5 MB

Free Download Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, "White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro: The Making of a Dominant Subject "
English | ISBN: 1498546420 | 2017 | 140 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In this book based on the biographical accounts of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz analyzes specific experiences of whiteness as they are produced at the intersection of multiple categories-in particular gender, class, and sexuality. White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro: The Making of a Dominant Subject investigates what it means to be classified as a white person and a man in a society that is known for its valorization of racial mixing and yet deeply structured by racism, class, and gender inequalities. By examining instances of silence and what is left unsaid as well as precise descriptions of power relations and violent episodes, this book encourages the reader to observe the condition of dominant subjects as a keystone of the reproduction of social discrimination.

Free Download Paul Freedman, "The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia "
English | ISBN: 1501772228 | 2023 | 354 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and a key figure of the Catalan Enlightenment who transcribed tens of thousands of parchments to preserve and glorify Catalonia’s medieval past in the face of its diminishing autonomy. As Paul Freedman shows, Caresmar’s books, essays, and transcriptions―some only recently discovered―provide fresh insights into the Middle Ages as remembered in modern Catalonia and illustrate how a nation’s past glories and humiliations can inform contemporary politics and culture.