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Feminism Is For Everybody by Bell Hooks
epub |eng | | Author:Bell Hooks

INTRODUCTION Come Closer to Feminism Everywhere I go I proudly tell folks who want to know who I am and what I do that I am a writer, a feminist ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 13,2015 )
Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide by Jack Seward
epub, pdf |eng | 1968-06-15 | Author:Jack Seward [Seward, Jack]

Kaishaku The word kaishaku means "to attend," "to look after," or "to serve." In the course of time, this term came to be used solely to refer to the act ...
( Category: Suicide June 12,2015 )
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Brazilshooting Rio DE JANEIRO. Brazilian police have a reputation for extreme leniency, and the Brazilian army is said to be the most stable and democratically inclined in all of Latin ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
Encyclopedia of Taboos by Lynn Holden
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Lynn Holden

Ibn al-Farid goes on to describe the potency of the wine: had they sprinkled therewith the dust of a dead man’s tomb, the spirit would surely have returned unto him ...
( Category: Cultural June 11,2015 )
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-31 | Author:Joseph Campbell

The body is the Bodhi-tree, The mind, a mirror bright, Take care to wipe them always clean, Lest dust on them alight. The idea here being that the essence of ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 11,2015 )
Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America by Fischer David Hackett
mobi |eng | 1991-03-13 | Author:Fischer, David Hackett [Fischer, David Hackett]

Penrith Beacon stands high on a hill near the Cumbrian town of the same name. Its purpose was to warn the English countryside when Scottish raiders were over the border. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies June 11,2015 )
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You by Agustín Fuentes
epub |eng | | Author:Agustín Fuentes

My genes did not make me do it, but they helped Genes don't cause aggression in humans but if they are involved in the production of molecules that interact with ...
( Category: Physical June 9,2015 )
The Demons of Athens by Vrasidas Karalis
epub |eng | | Author:Vrasidas Karalis

Day 15 Whispers, whispers, whispers everywhere. What are they saying? They fly around me all night long: ‘You are sleeping in the room where your grandfather died, in pain and ...
( Category: Cultural June 9,2015 )
On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt by Barak On
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Barak, On [Barak, On]

THE BIRTH OF DROMOPOLITICS If ticket reselling was the conductor’s preferred way of surviving and subverting the oppressive time-is-money logic underpinning the tram system, how did a typical tram driver ...
( Category: Cultural June 4,2015 )
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species by Gosselin Mia
epub |eng | | Author:Gosselin, Mia

The Renaissance The immortality of the soul in Renaissance philosophy. In the fourteenth century Ockham introduced the “via nova,” and was of great influence, while others, and curiously amongst them ...
( Category: Humanism June 2,2015 )
Men and Women
mobi |eng | | Author:Browning, Robert [Browning, Robert]

Thyrsus: the ivy-coiled staffer spear stuck in a pine-cone, symbol of Bacchic orgy. These, with the other Pagan tokens and pictures, mingle oddly but significantly with the references to the ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
City of Djinns
epub |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

This classy poetry appeared to do the trick. People began piling out of the house: two daughters-in-law, several small children, some unmarried daughters, two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom. ...
( Category: General May 29,2015 )
Everyone Is African by Daniel J. Fairbanks
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:Daniel J. Fairbanks

In 1981, Stephen J. Gould published one of the most significant works of his illustrious career: a book titled The Mismeasure of Man.1 It reviews how scholars from the eighteenth ...
( Category: Physical May 27,2015 )
Watching The English by
mobi |ru | 2013-04-04 | Author:.

our self-deprecating remarks at face value. Modesty also requires that we try to play down or deny class/wealth/status differences – polite egalitarianism involves a combination of the three ‘key values’ ...
( Category: General May 10,2015 )
50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality by Pepper Schwartz & Martha Kempner
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Pepper Schwartz & Martha Kempner

How Good Is Withdrawal at Preventing Pregnancy? Our apologies as we have gone over this before, but we think it is very important that everyone understands how contraceptive effectiveness rates ...
( Category: Sexuality May 10,2015 )

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