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Free Download Basil C. Gounaris, "Demon Entrepreneurs: Refashioning the ‘Greek Genius’ in Modern Times"
English | ISBN: 1032185848 | 2022 | 310 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1205 KB + 45 MB
The ‘Greek genius’ appears as the combination of two stereotypes with a long pedigree: Homer’s ingenious Odysseus, triumphing with tricks over his foes, and Virgil’s ‘deceitful Odysseus’, the impostor Greek. Adamantios Korais, the leading scholar who almost single-handedly refashioned the Greek nation, fully appreciated the importance of Greek shipping and commerce, and the wealth they generated for the spread of Enlightenment ideas and the quest for political emancipation in the Greek lands.

Free Download Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards by Alka Vaid Menon
English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 0520386728 | 304 pages | MOBI | 4.93 Mb
Cosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty standards for members of different racial groups. Alka V. Menon enters the world of cosmetic surgeons, journeying from a sprawling convention center in Kyoto to boutique clinics in the multicultural countries of the United States and Malaysia. She shows how surgeons generate and apply knowledge using racial categories and how this process is affected by transnational clinical and economic exchanges. Surgeons not only measure and organize but also elaborate upon racial differences in a globalized field of medicine. Focusing on the role of cosmetic surgeons as gatekeepers and producers of desired appearances, Refashioning Raceargues that cosmetic surgeons literallyreshape race-both on patients’ bodies and at the broader level of culture.