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Cyber-Proletariat by Nick Dyer-Witheford
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Dyer-Witheford

7 Globe Prelude: The Content Moderator In an office on the ‘second floor of a former elementary school at the end of a row of auto mechanics’ stalls in Bacoor, ...
( Category: Minority Studies February 22,2016 )
The Inner Life of the Dying Person by Allan Kellehear
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Allan Kellehear

8 Waiting—In-between-ness I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance—waiting for the bathroom. —Bob Hope Waiting for death has long been acknowledged as part of both ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement February 22,2016 )
Burial Terminology: A Guide for Researchers by Sprague Roderick
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Sprague, Roderick

In a platform cremation, “the human remains were burnt on an open platform, and the ashes then covered” (Hogg 1940:326). A tract extolling the virtues of cremation (United States Cremation ...
( Category: Death February 21,2016 )
Their Fate Is Our Fate by Peter Doherty
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Peter Doherty

14 Blue bloods and chicken bugs TRADITIONALLY, ANY NOTION OF good breeding and inheritance was synonymous with the idea of blood lines. That was before the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 21,2016 )
One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Herbert Marcuse

One-Dimensional Thought 5: Negative Thinking: The Defeated Logic of Protest “… that which is cannot be true.” To our well-trained ears and eyes, this statement is flippant and ridiculous, or ...
( Category: Sociology February 16,2016 )
On 4/19 (On 4/19 and Beyond 4/20)
mobi |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Lisa Heaton

When Chelsea’s finals were over in December, John took her out to celebrate. After the accident and during her recuperation, they were fairly bound at home. Then school began and ...
( Category: Contemporary February 15,2016 )
Births Deaths Marriages by Georgia Blain
epub |eng | 2008-02-14 | Author:Georgia Blain

THE STORY MY MOTHER TELLS ME THE STORY MY MOTHER TELLS ME GOES LIKE THIS: I WAS late, not too late, but late enough to make the doctors talk about ...
( Category: Marriage & Family February 15,2016 )
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Konnikova [Konnikova, Maria]

CHAPTER 5 THE TALE The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world—because statistically, we are unlikely to ...
( Category: Cognitive February 15,2016 )
The Laws of Medicine by Siddhartha Mukherjee
epub |eng | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 1908, when psychiatrists encountered children who were withdrawn, self-absorbed, emotionally uncommunicative, and often prone to repetitive behaviors, they classified the disease as a strange variant of schizophrenia. But the ...
( Category: Health Care Delivery February 13,2016 )
Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Owen Jones [Jones, Owen]

Or again, it is not inconceivable, I suppose, that written into Goody's contract was a demand that at some point she be seen to be suffering from a potentially fatal ...
( Category: Cultural Policy February 13,2016 )
The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor Adorno
epub |eng | | Author:Theodor Adorno

Now, everything is assembled here: the innermost concern, the true dialogue, things in their authenticity, with a vague reminiscence of Heidegger, the encounter on an intrahuman level, the question for ...
( Category: Existentialism February 13,2016 )
Introduction to Sociology by Theodor W. Adorno
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-29 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno

LECTURE THIRTEEN 27 June 1968 Ladies and Gentlemen, In my last lecture I tried to define in principle the peculiar position of sociology in relation to the neighbouring disciplines. I ...
( Category: Modern February 13,2016 )
Black Tornado: The Military Operations of 26/11
mobi |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:Sandeep Unnithan

Each L-shaped floor had seventeen rooms. But after clearing a few rooms, it was evident the task would be arduous. Each door opened into an antechamber that led into the ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction February 12,2016 )
The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-08 | Author:Stephanie Coontz [Unknown]

Consumerism, the Work Ethic, and the Family The problem of consumerism is sometimes posed as a collapse of the work ethic, often by the same people who blame women's adoption ...
( Category: Marriage & Family February 9,2016 )
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-12 | Author:Paul Kalanithi

When I was a med student, the first patient I met with this sort of problem was a sixty-two-year-old man with a brain tumor. We strolled into his room on ...
( Category: General Surgery February 8,2016 )

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