Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Myth of Real Democracy and Other Myths of Modernity
One of the most savage critiques of Modernity ever written on so-called Democracy (in its many forms), Meritocracy, What is Truth - Fact or Fiction, the Mass Media and Individualism. Meaning in essence that Socrates famous axiom is as relevant today as it was in the past, which was according to Plato: 'that the unexamined life is not worth living'.
E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol
Originally published as author's thesis (Ph.D.--Trinity College, Cambridge).
Hags
'Rich, complex and witty' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR 'Devastating and clever' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL 'Could not be more necessary' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies, histories and choices. Smith traces the attitudes she describes through history, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so very now. The result is a book that is absorbing, insightful, witty and bang on time.
In Her Nature
'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible Women When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running across moors and mountains used to help her feel at home in her body but now feels fraught with danger. Rachel goes in search of a new family: the foremothers who blazed a trail at the dawn of outdoor sport. She discovers Lizzie Le Blond who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts and photographed fearless women climbing, skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds. Telling Lizzie's story alongside her own, Rachel runs her way from bereavement to belonging, inspired by the tenacious women, past and present, who insist that breaking boundaries outdoors is, and always has been, in her nature. ‘A book of limitless curiosity and eloquent passion’ The Times
Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on formal invention—on the uses of literary patterns for intensified, exploratory engagement with unattained possibility—resulting from literary intersections with addiction discourse. Early chapters consider how Romantics such as Thomas De Quincey created, with regard to drug habit, an idea of habitual craving that related to self-experimenting science and literary exploration; later chapters look at Victorians who drew from similar understandings while devising narratives of repetitive investigation. The authors considered include De Quincey, Percy Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Marie Corelli.
Choice
None
Success in Sociology: AS Student Book AQA
Sociology teachers exercise immense teaching and pedagogical skills to 'entertain' and motivate the generation of post-16 sociology students. This title seeks to develop a teaching and learning package to support teachers.
Sobre a violência e sobre a violência contra as mulheres
Na Inglaterra, uma mulher é impedida pelo marido de lavar as mãos em pleno isolamento da pandemia de Covid-19. Outra, assassinada a tiros pelo companheiro através da porta do banheiro da casa dele na África do Sul. Nos Estados Unidos, uma mulher que denunciou um notório abusador sexual é humilhada no tribunal. No Brasil, uma parlamentar é alvo de agressões verbais do futuro presidente do país. Como a violência se instala nas mentes, em especial a violência contra as mulheres, e que problemas parece falsamente estar resolvendo? Para Jacqueline Rose, essa é uma especulação que precisamos fazer para enfrentar a violência e até mesmo identificá-la — já que muitas vezes ela se...
Vor dem Lustmord
Die Studie von Jill Bühler untersucht ausgehend von Richard von Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia sexualis (1886) die literarische und wissenshistorische Vorgeschichte des Lustmords. Sie stellt fest, dass sich Krafft-Ebings Theorie maßgeblich aus literarischen und kriminalistischen Anschauungsbeispielen aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert speist. Naturphilosophie und Kriminalpsychologie ermitteln bereits um 1800 Erscheinungen sexualisierter Gewalt – und die zeitgenössische Literatur offenbart ihre Affinität dazu.
