Free Download The Little Pocket Book of Meditation: With step-by-step, 5-10 minute guided meditations to calm mind, body, and soul By Stephanie Brookes
2016 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1782495215 | EPUB | 7 MB
An easy-to-follow guide to the stress-busting, tension-taming practice of meditation. Trying to find a work/life balance can be exhausting, which means we are always looking for ways to release tension and relax. Meditation is the perfect solution! People often worry that to meditate properly they need to sit for hours in cold and empty rooms, but in The Little Pocket Book of Meditation Stephanie Brookes sweeps aside these out-dated stereotypes. Writing in a down-to-earth, accessible style, Stephanie shows us how to incorporate simple meditation techniques into our busy, non-stop lives. Over the years she has created bespoke meditation routines and developed a large inventory of meditations to suit a wide range of situations, including meditations for self-healing, meditations for relationships and meditations on the go. Packed with engaging insights on the benefits of meditation, this book will show you how even a short meditation can reduce stress, ease tension and set you on the path to inner peace.
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Free Download Ryan Vacca, "The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
English | ISBN: 1479817856 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Provides a sweeping overview of Justice Ginsburg's jurisprudence
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Free Download The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food by Ben Nadler
English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 1797205242 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 204.81 MB
A delightful celebration of Jewish delicatessens in an accessible comics format, full of history and humor, and guaranteed to make you hungry.
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Free Download Hossein Nassaji, "The Interactional Feedback Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning: Linking Theory, Research, and Practice "
English | ISBN: 1472510143 | 2015 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines current advances in the role of interactional feedback in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Drawing on recent theory and research in both classroom and laboratory contexts, the book explores a wide range of issues regarding interactional feedback and their relevance for both theory and practice, including how interactional feedback is used, processed, and contributes to L2 acquisition. This book will provide a useful resource for applied linguistics students and academics as well as language teachers and teacher educators who would like to gain insight into the role of interactional feedback and how it can be used as a means of integrating form and meaning in classroom contexts.
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Free Download Jeff Goodell, "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet"
English | ISBN: 0316497576 | 2023 | EPUB | 400 pages | 1 MB
Most Anticipated by The New York Times and The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times * A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection * New York Times bestselling journalist's "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) investigation exposes "through stellar reporting, artful storytelling and fascinating scientific explanations" (Naomi Klein) an explosive new understanding of heat and the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. "Entertaining and thoroughly researched," (Al Gore), it will completely change the way you see the world, and despite its urgent themes, is injected with "eternal optimism" (Michael Mann) on how to combat one of the most important issues of our time.
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Free Download Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir"
English | ISBN: 1478017198 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
At five years old, Kristal Brent Zook sat on the steps of a Venice Beach, California, motel trying to make sense of her white father's abandonment, which left her feeling unworthy of a man's love and of white protection. Raised by her working-class African American mother and grandmother, Zook was taught not to count on anyone, especially men. Men leave. Men disappoint. In adulthood she became a feminist, activist, and "race woman" journalist in New York City. Despite her professional success, something was missing. Coming to terms with her identity was a constant challenge.
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Free Download Nikolaj Lübecker, "The Feel-Bad Film "
English | ISBN: 0748697977 | 2015 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In recent years some of the best-known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort: Feel-Bad Films. These films systematically manipulate the spectator: sometimes by withholding information from her, sometimes by shocking her, and sometimes by seducing her in order to further disturb her. As a result, they have been criticized for being amoral, nihilistic, politically irresponsible and anti-humanistic.
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Free Download Andrew Teverson, "The Fairy Tale World (Routledge Worlds)"
English | ISBN: 1138217573, 1032475706 | 2019 | EPUB | 204 pages | 13 MB
The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at:
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Free Download Keyvan Manafi, "The Eye of the Cinematograph: Lévinas and Realisms of the Body"
English | ISBN: 1399507249 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The Eye of the Cinematograph investigates the ethical and aesthetic implications of the automatic formation of the body's image by the camera. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas' thought, Manafi asks what happens when the other makes their body available to the gaze of the camera to be automatically recorded, and this giving of the body is preserved within the image, juxtaposed with other images to allude to a story that might otherwise remain untold.
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Free Download The Empire of Depression: A New History By Jonathan Sadowsky
2020 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1509531661 | EPUB | 2 MB
Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren't sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth century, even as European empires were crumbling, new Western clinical models and treatments for mental health spread across the world. In so doing, "depression" began to displace older ideas like "melancholia," the Japanese "utsushō," or the Punjabi "sinking heart" syndrome. Award-winning historian Jonathan Sadowsky tells this global story, chronicling the path-breaking work of psychiatrists and pharmacists, and the intimate sufferings of patients. Revealing the continuity of human distress across time and place, he shows us how different cultures have experienced intense mental anguish, and how they have tried to alleviate it. He reaches an unflinching conclusion: the devastating effects of depression are real. A number of treatments do reduce suffering, but a permanent cure remains elusive. Throughout the history of depression, there have been overzealous promoters of particular approaches, but history shows us that there is no single way to get better that works for everyone. Like successful psychotherapy, history can liberate us from the negative patterns of the past.
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