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Book Guilty Survivor   Memoirs of Tamerla Kendall

Download or read book Guilty Survivor Memoirs of Tamerla Kendall written by Marianne Stephens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Tamerla Kendall, a woman who lived in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995, has it all. Emotionally packed, it tells how she survived the chaos and horror of those years...and what happened after. Hers is a story of courage, fear, ingenuity, and survival. Difficult choices she made then still disturb her peace of mind and life today. During the war, she made a few trips out of Sarajevo, only to return to keep the family restaurant business operating. One secretive trip was made to remove her daughter from the dangers of fighting, but this created a heartbreaking rift in their relationship. For her second trip, Tamerla masqueraded as a United Nations Protection Forces soldier. Her hopes for a return to normalcy at war's end diminished as corruption and religious zealots took control. She married an American, and this marked her as an outcast. When her life was threatened at gunpoint, she faced a critical decision concerning her family's safety in her beloved country.

Book Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe

Download or read book Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe written by Gerardo Del Guercio and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers six critical essays on the topic of psychology in Edgar Allan Poe. It came together as a response to a visible absence of this subject in recent scholarship. The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe as one of the pioneers in psychology, who often anticipated major theoretical trends and ideas in psychology in his incessant explorations of the relationship between behavior and the psyche. Scrutinizing serial killer narratives, obsessive narratives through Jungian unconscious, Lacanian Das Ding, doppelgängers, intersubjectivity, and the interrelationship between the material world and imaginative faculties, the essays reveal the richness and the complexity of Poe's work and its pertinence to contemporary culture. With contributions by Gerardo Del Guercio, Phillip Grayson, Sean J. Kelly, Rachel McCoppin, Tatiana Prorokova, and Karen J. Renner.

Book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Download or read book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine written by George Milbry Gould and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems

Download or read book Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems written by Sune Lehmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about spreading of information and influence in complex networks. Although previously considered similar and modeled in parallel approaches, there is now experimental evidence that epidemic and social spreading work in subtly different ways. While previously explored through modeling, there is currently an explosion of work on revealing the mechanisms underlying complex contagion based on big data and data-driven approaches. This volume consists of four parts. Part 1 is an Introduction, providing an accessible summary of the state of the art. Part 2 provides an overview of the central theoretical developments in the field. Part 3 describes the empirical work on observing spreading processes in real-world networks. Finally, Part 4 goes into detail with recent and exciting new developments: dedicated studies designed to measure specific aspects of the spreading processes, often using randomized control trials to isolate the network effect from confounders, such as homophily. Each contribution is authored by leading experts in the field. This volume, though based on technical selections of the most important results on complex spreading, remains quite accessible to the newly interested. The main benefit to the reader is that the topics are carefully structured to take the novice to the level of expert on the topic of social spreading processes. This book will be of great importance to a wide field: from researchers in physics, computer science, and sociology to professionals in public policy and public health.

Book Media Worlds

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  • Author : Faye D. Ginsburg
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-10-23
  • ISBN : 0520928164
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Media Worlds written by Faye D. Ginsburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.

Book Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emerging Memory

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  • Author : Paul Bijl
  • Publisher : Heritage and Memory Studies
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789089645906
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Emerging Memory written by Paul Bijl and published by Heritage and Memory Studies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch commentators repeatedly claim that their nation has forgotten its violent colonial past. In this compelling study, however, Paul Bijl demonstrates that photographs of colonial atrocities have appeared consistently in the Dutch public sphere and remain widely available in print, on television, and online. The nation, he argues, has not forgotten; rather, the Dutch have failed to absorb the meaning of these ubiquitous images and the scenes they depict. Ultimately, Bijl illuminates the shadowy zone between remembering and forgetting a zone populated by histories that do not correspond to the narratives we construct about the past.

Book A Book of the Play

Download or read book A Book of the Play written by Dutton Cook and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Battletech Field Manual Sldf

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  • Author : Catalyst Game Labs
  • Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
  • Release : 2012-09-12
  • ISBN : 9781936876471
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Battletech Field Manual Sldf written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imp of the Perverse

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  • Author : Edgar Allan Poe
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2021-07-26
  • ISBN : 8726644150
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book The Imp of the Perverse written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how to combat the deep-seated urge to do wrong? Maybe Edgar Allen Poe can help. In "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) Poe sets out to explain the Imp – the archetype responsible for persuading us to do what we know in our minds we shouldn’t. Poe, supposedly distraught with his own self-destructive impulses, lets the story take place primarily in the narrator’s mind as he frets the day he will have to come clean. At the heart of this short story is the question of how far we can justify our wrongdoings. It explores our self-destructive impulses and urges, the abandonment of reason and our inherent wickedness. Join Poe as he takes the reader from the sunny valleys of reason to the darkest regions of the human soul. A descent into madness. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, author, and literary critic. Most famous for his poetry, short stories, and tales of the supernatural, mysterious, and macabre, he is also regarded as the inventor of the detective genre and a contributor to the emergence of science fiction, dark romanticism, and weird fiction. His most famous works include "The Raven" (1945), "The Black Cat" (1943), and "The Gold-Bug" (1843).

Book United States V  Rivera

Download or read book United States V Rivera written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and Religion

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  • Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-08-31
  • ISBN : 3110437252
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book History and Religion written by Bernd-Christian Otto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. This is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion, taking into account religious groups both as producers of historical narratives as well as distinct topics of historiography. Coming from different disciplines, the authors of this volume ask under which conditions and with what consequences religions are historicised. How do religious groups employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities? What are the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames in the History of Religion? The volume aims at initiating a comparative historiography of religion and combines disciplinary competences of Religious Studies and the History of Religion, Confessional Theologies, History, History of Science, and Literary Studies. By applying literary comparison and historical contextualization to those texts that have been used as central documents for histories of individual religions, their historiographic themes, tools and strategies are analysed. The comparative approach addresses circum-Mediterranean and European as well as Asian religious traditions from the first millennium BCE to the present and deals with topics such as the origins of religious historiography, the practices of writing and the transformation of narratives.

Book The Independence of Spanish America

Download or read book The Independence of Spanish America written by Jaime E. Rodríguez O. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new interpretation of Spanish American independence, emphasising political processes.

Book The Great and Holy War

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  • Author : Philip Jenkins
  • Publisher : Lion Books
  • Release : 2014-06-20
  • ISBN : 0745956742
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book The Great and Holy War written by Philip Jenkins and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War, and the lasting impact it had on Christianity and world religions more extensively in the century that followed. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. A steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was served to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Philip Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels, apparitions, and the supernatural, was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting remarkable incidents and characters - from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide - Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis. We cannot understand our present religious, political, and cultural climate without understanding the dramatic changes initiated by the First World War. The war created the world's religious map as we know it today.

Book The Mexican American Heritage

Download or read book The Mexican American Heritage written by Carlos M. Jiménez and published by TQS Publications. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh & comprehensive look at Mexican history, will be found in this text filled with extensive writing exercises. The Mexican-American Heritage encompasses tens of thousands of years, from the prehistoric native people,. to the extremely advanced civilizations of the Aztecs, Toltecs & Mayans; to the times of Cesar Chavez' farmworker movement, & the struggle of Mexican-Americans as they fight for a better life. An excellent way to understand the Mexican-American heritage.

Book Medieval Sexuality

    Book Details:
  • Author : April Harper
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0415978319
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Medieval Sexuality written by April Harper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring a range of diverse topics, 'Medieval Sexuality' features 11 essays from both new and established experts in the field.