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Free Download Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie By David Laderman
2002 | 334 Pages | ISBN: 0292747322 | PDF | 7 MB
From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the variety, a certain generic core remains constant: the journey as cultural critique, as exploration beyond society and within oneself.This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasizing it as an "independent genre" that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels. David Laderman begins by identifying the road movie’s defining features and by establishing the literary, classical Hollywood, and 1950s highway culture antecedents that formatively influenced it. He then traces the historical and aesthetic evolution of the road movie decade by decade through detailed and lively discussions of key films. Laderman concludes with a look at the European road movie, from the late 1950s auteurs through Godard and Wenders, and at compelling feminist road movies of the 1980s and 1990s.

Free Download Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s By Sebastian Conrad, Dominic Sachsenmaier
2007 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 140397988X | PDF | 4 MB
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first bookin the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, to identifymeaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the latenineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors trace the historical trajectories of notions of world order, while proposing cutting-edge transnational and global approaches.The essayists grapple with broad and critical questions, including the role of global discourses, the politics of new global movements, the impact of global intellectual developments, and the emergence of competing visions of world order.

Free Download Sallie B. King, "Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All "
English | ISBN: 0367607689 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
This book highlights what Buddhism has to offer for "living well" here and now―for individuals, society as a whole, all sentient beings and the planet itself.

Free Download Sallie B. King, "Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All "
English | ISBN: 0367607689 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
This book highlights what Buddhism has to offer for "living well" here and now―for individuals, society as a whole, all sentient beings and the planet itself.

Free Download Urban Visions: From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism by Carmen Díez Medina
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 371 Pages | ISBN : 3319590464 | 125.30 MB
This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects and cases does not attempt to establish universal interpretations; it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism. Compared with global interpretations of urbanism based on socioeconomic history or architectural historiography, Urban Visions. From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, aims to present the discipline couched in international contemporary debate and adopt a historic and comparative perspective. The book’s contents pertain equally to other related disciplines, such as architecture, urban history, urban design, landscape architecture and geography.

Free Download Visions for the Future : Towards More Vibrant, Sustainable and Smart Cities (334 Pages)
by Thomas Menkhoff, Siew Ning Kan and Kevin Chuen Kong Cheong
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9811293090 | 335 pages | True PDF | 31.04 MB

Free Download Mary C. Bateson, "Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way"
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0060926309, 0060168595 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.4 mb
Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to a Philippine village and then to the Sinai desert, and concludes with a description of a tour bus full of Tibetan monks. Bateson’s reflections bring theses narratives homes, proposing surprising new vision of our own diverse and changing society and offering us the courage to participate even as we are still learning.

Free Download Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 9798212183710, ASIN: B0CKTVWH21 | True EPUB | 350 pages | 1.5 MB
WITH A NEW FORWARD BY PATTON OSWALT

Free Download Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, John Long, Trevor H. Worthy
English | April 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 064310805X | 264 pages | True EPUB | 91.71 MB
For most of the past 300 million years, the world’s continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve in ways not seen anywhere else on Earth, with tree-climbing crocodiles, gigantic venomous lizards, walking omnivorous bats and flesh-eating kangaroos roaming the continent.

Free Download Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPZJR1ZD | 2024 | 5 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: David Kessler
Narrator: David Kessler
David Kessler, one of the most renowned experts on death and grief, takes on three uniquely shared experiences that challenge our ability to explain and fully understand the mystery of our final days. The first is visions. As the dying lose sight of this world, some people appear to be looking into the world to come. The second shared experience is getting ready for a trip. These trips may seem to us to be all about leaving, but for the dying, they may be about arriving. Finally, the third phenomenon is crowded rooms. The dying often talk about seeing a room full of people, as they constantly repeat the word crowded. In truth, we never die alone. Just as loving hands greeted us when we were born, so too will loving arms embrace us when we die. In the tapestry of life and death, we may begin to see connections to the past that we missed in life. While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may be filled not with emptiness, but rather with fullness. In this fascinating book, David brings us stunning stories from the bedsides of the dying that will educate, enlighten, and comfort us all.