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Disquieting Gifts

Author : Erica Bornstein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804782083
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Disquieting Gifts written by Erica Bornstein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] artful ethnography . . . challenges us to reconsider both what giving looks like, and the relational possibilities of anthropological practice itself.” —Jocelyn L. Chua, American Ethnologist While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan’s education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention. Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by debates surrounding Marcel Mauss’s The Gift, Bornstein investigates specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse. The book also focuses on vital humanitarian efforts that often go undocumented and ignored and explores the role of empathy in humanitarian work. “Bornstein . . . delineate[s] a ‘global economy of giving’ while questioning Western preconceptions about humanitarianism.” —Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement “Insightful and beautifully written . . . accessible and engaging.” —Pierre Minn, Social Anthropology “Conveys deep insights into international and intra-Indian charity and volunteering.” —Jonathan Benthall, University College London “Reveals the complexity of the contemporary moral economies of the gift.” —Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present

Disquieting

Author : Cynthia Cruz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771664356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Disquieting written by Cynthia Cruz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do our bodies speak for us when words don?t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to ?turn away,? or reject the ideologies of contemporary Neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence, refusal, anorexia, mental illness, and Neoliberalism. Cruz also explores the experience of being working-class and poor in contemporary culture, and how those who are silenced often turn to forms of disquietude that value open-endedness, complexity, and difficulty. Disquieting: Essays on Silence draws on philosophy, theory, art, film, and literature to offer alternative ways of being in this world and possibilities for building a new one.

Ties

Author : Domenico Starnone
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609453867
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Ties written by Domenico Starnone and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strega Award–winning Italian author’s “scalding and incisive” novel of marriage and family bonds that come undone in the wake of an affair (Library Journal, starred review). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Winner of the 2015 Bridge Prize for Best Novel Italy, 1970s. Like many marriages, Vanda and Aldo’s has been subject to strain, attrition, and the burden of routine. Yet it has survived intact. Or so things appear. The rupture in their marriage lies years in the past, but if one looks closely enough, the fissures and fault lines are evident. It is a cracked vase that may shatter at the slightest touch. Or perhaps it has already shattered, and nobody is willing to acknowledge the fact. Domenico Starnone’s thirteenth work of fiction is a powerful short novel about relationships, family, love, and the ineluctable consequences of one’s actions. Known as a consummate stylist and beloved as a talented storyteller, Domenico Starnone is the winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Strega. “The leanest, most understated and emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone.” —The New York Times

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053000
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Discomfort written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900—the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya’s so-called “black” paintings, in Wagner’s Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othello. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on—especially in aesthetically challenging works—between creator, artifact, and consumer.

Hitler's Private Library

Author : Timothy W. Ryback
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307270491
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Private Library written by Timothy W. Ryback and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hitler’s life, Timothy Ryback examines the books that shaped the man and his thinking. Hitler was better known for burning books than collecting them but, as Ryback vividly shows us, books were Hitler’s constant companions throughout his life. They accompanied him from his years as a frontline corporal during the First World War to his final days before his suicide in Berlin. With remarkable attention to detail, Ryback examines the surviving volumes from Hitler’s private book collection, revealing the ideas and obsessions that occupied Hitler in his most private hours and the consequences they had for our world. A feat of scholarly detective work, and a captivating biographical portrait, Hitler’s Private Library is one of the most intimate and chilling works on Hitler yet written.

The Quiet American

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052544
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).

The Transgressionists and Other Disquieting Works

Author : Giorgio De Maria
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1945863641
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Transgressionists and Other Disquieting Works written by Giorgio De Maria and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A disturbing, unsettling novel . . . if it had been published in English soon after its first appearance in Italian (1968), the name of Giorgio De Maria would be well-known, his novels and stories mentioned in the context of J.G. Ballard, Anna Kavan, Shirley Jackson or Robert Aickman."—Lisa Tuttle, Nebula Award winner and author of Gabriel, Windhaven, and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross. Before an untimely mental breakdown cut short his two-decade career, Giorgio De Maria distinguished himself as one of Italy's most unique and eccentric weird fiction masters. With a background in the post-war literary culture of Turin -- Italy's urbane but eerie "city of black magic" -- De Maria drew inspiration from the Turinese underbelly of occultism, secret societies and radical politics. His writing coincided with the decade of terrorist violence known to Italians as the Years of Lead; the outcome was a weird fiction suffused with panic, rage, trauma, paranoia and meditations on antisocial hubris. In 1978, he told an interviewer: "...I think that the dimension of the fantastic, as much as this may seem paradoxical, is the most fitting one to express a reality as complex as ours today." De Maria's debut novel, The Transgressionists (1968) portrays a cell of malicious telepaths who meet in the cafés and jazz clubs of 1960s Turin to plot world domination. After experiencing the worst of their power, an embittered office clerk resolves to join them and prove himself worthy to share in their villainy. He cultivates twisted mindfulness techniques to awaken his inner sociopath. He fights off predatory phantoms that seem maddeningly drawn to him. He prepares for the dangerous "Great Leap" which will make him into a fully-fledged Transgressionist. But could his megalomania strain relations with his fiancee? Will he sacrifice love in his quest for omnipotence? The other works in this volume are no less surreal and startling. The Secret Death of Joseph Dzhugashvili (1976) gives us a nightmarish fantasy Soviet Union, where a dissident poet finds himself trapped in a psychological experiment conducted by Stalin himself. In "The End of Everydayism," a group of futuristic artists begin using corpses as a medium -- with violent, unforeseen results. The antihero of "General Trebisonda" is a possibly insane commander who prepares for a war crime in an eerily deserted fortress. Available in English for the first time, this collection contains two novellas, two short stories and a dystopian teleplay, The Appeal, which the post-cyberpunk novelist Andrea Vaccaro has lauded as "worthy of the best episodes of Black Mirror." Meanwhile, an introduction by translator Ramon Glazov offers a detailed account of De Maria's background, creative context and thoroughly unusual life.

Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories

Author : Jonathan Fineberg
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714868929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories written by Jonathan Fineberg and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major monograph on Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958), a leading Chinese contemporary artist, world‐renowned for his haunting, surrealist works. Both a retrospective of his paintings and a biography of his dramatic life, Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories is a key resource for academia and art enthusiasts alike. This book features all of the artist’s iconic series – major works as well as lesser‐known drawings – and never‐before‐published letters dating from the early 1980s between the artist and his friends. These offer an inside view of everyday life in China, historic and political events, as well as invaluable insight into Zhang’s artistic practice. With a chronology illustrated with personal photographs from the artist’s archive, this is the most comprehensive account of the artist’s life and work.

Twenty-Two Disquieted Moral Concerns

Author : Maybelle Mason
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973655519
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Two Disquieted Moral Concerns written by Maybelle Mason and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Twenty-Two Disquieted Moral Concerns” Maybelle Mason depicts problems common to mankind. She shares short stories and biblical lessons to inspire others to avoid regrettable experiences and overcome misbehaviors that do not align with Christian values. Practical solutions and workable guidelines are portrayed how to successfully deal with the disquietedness instead of creating more unrest. If counseling sessions become stagnated through erroneous opinions, and other reproachable ideas, view these pages for a fresh approach to the problem. The surprising, but true to life, argumentativeness by antagonists and protagonists depicted in a dialogue make for an interesting read. Make a difference for the betterment of your fellowman by visualizing yourself as being an actual concerned participant in the discussions. There’s something here, whether it’s dealing with small social infractions or major problems. The lesson-entwined dialogues lend colorful persuasions when discussing what is right and wrong. Consider Mason’s writings while canvassing for counseling techniques, and how to personally obtain a greater understanding of the will of God. To live a noble life unabashedly is the highlighted theme throughout this book.

Bad Santas: Disquieting Winter Folk Tales for Grown-Ups

Author : Paul Hawkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129853
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Bad Santas: Disquieting Winter Folk Tales for Grown-Ups written by Paul Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gleefully dark and well-researched exploration of the history and customs of European Yuletide folklore. How did St Nicholas save children from cannibalism? Who were the Yule Lads and why would they steal your sausages? Why was the Alpine Father Christmas accompanied by a demonic figure called the Krampus who bundled children into sacks and dragged them off to Hell? And why do Spanish nativity scenes often feature a defecating peasant? Over the course of the 20th Century, a universal image developed around the world of Santa Claus as a kindly Christmas visitor but, prior to that, each country, town and community would have Christmas visitors of their own - sometimes human, sometimes animal, sometimes something else entirely - with their own curious set of mythology and customs. The Finns were visited by a pagan goat named Joulupukki that was said to eat anyone who misbehaved. In Iceland, it was said that any child who did not receive an item of new clothing for Christmas would be caught and consumed by the monstrous Christmas Cat! Bad Santascelebrates some of the most imaginative, terrifying and outright curious Christmas figures from across Europe - looking closely at its legacy of disquieting fairy stories. With beautiful black and white line drawings in each chapter, this unusual, entertaining and gleefully dark exploration of seasonal folklore will make an ideal Christmas gift and the perfect book for reading around the fireside.

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Author : Fernando Pessoa
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226948
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition written by Fernando Pessoa and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

Home and Back

Author : Arnold Itwaru
Publisher : Tsar Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home and Back written by Arnold Itwaru and published by Tsar Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After residing uneasily in Canada for over 20 years, Deo returns to Guyana, having dreamed of coming home, but finds there a disconcerting helplessness. Itwaru gives readers a touching lyrical meditation on growth and loss, the departure from home and life lived in an alien elsewhere, and a powerful and merciless indictment of a modern, postcolonial West Indies that drives its people to a desperate emigration abroad.

Transients, and Other Disquieting Stories

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transients, and Other Disquieting Stories written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kenelm Chillingly

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Kenelm Chillingly written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kenelm Chillingly

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Kenelm Chillingly written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Be Not Anxious

Author : Allan Hugh Cole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802863108
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Be Not Anxious written by Allan Hugh Cole and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Allan Cole knows firsthand, both personally and pastorally, Christians are not immune from anxiety, and many believers go to their church leaders for support and solace. This helpful book draws on narrative approaches to theology and counseling to suggest how pastoral caregivers may effectively minister to anxious persons." "Be Not Anxious provides pastors and other caregivers with a basic understanding of anxiety, including how to identify those suffering from it and how to get at what is making them anxious. Cole focuses both on cognitive-based methods and on common faith practices - church membership, frequent worship, prayer, Bible reading, service, and confession - showing how these may provide relief from anxiety. By addressing the roles of both psychiatry and ministry as co-liberators from anxiety, he leads the pastor and the faith community in helping disquieted souls to find rest."--BOOK JACKET.