Free Download Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America By Anna G. Creadick
2010 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 1558498060 | PDF | 5 MB
At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of "normality" circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. But what did this term really mean? What were its parameters? Whom did it propose to include and exclude?In Perfectly Average, Anna Creadick investigates how and why "normality" reemerged as a potent homogenizing category in postwar America. Working with scientific studies, material culture, literary texts, film, fashion, and the mass media, she charts the pursuit of the"normal" through thematic chapters on the body, character, class, sexuality, and community.Creadick examines such evidence as the "Norm and Norma" models produced during the war by sexologists and anthropologists―statistical composites of"normal" American bodies. In 1945, as thousands of Ohio women signed up for a Norma Look-Alike contest, a "Harvard Study of Normal Men" sought to define the typical American male according to specific criteria, from body shape to upbringing to blood pressure. By the early 1950s, the "man in the gray flannel suit" had come to symbolize what some regarded as the stultifying sameness of the "normalized" middle class. Meanwhile, novels such as From Here to Eternity and Peyton Place both supported and challenged normative ideas about gender, race, and sexuality, even as they worked to critique the postwar culture of surveillance―watching and being watched―through which normalizing power functioned.As efforts to define normality became increasingly personal, the tensions em-bedded in its binary logic multiplied: Was normal descriptive of an average or prescriptive of an ideal? In the end, Creadick shows, a variety of statistics, assumptions, and aspirations converged to recast "normality" not as something innate or inborn, but rather as a quality to be actively pursued―a standard at once highly seductive and impossible to achieve because it required becoming perfectly average.

Shepherd I The Average is Always Wrong 2020 PDF | 5.23 MB
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Title: The Average is Always Wrong
Author: Ian Shepherd
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Knot Your Average Hobby Unraveling Crochet with ADHD by Lesli Keister | 6.63 MB
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Title: Knot Your Average Hobby: Unraveling Crochet with ADHD
Author: LESLI KEISTER
Year: 2024

Free Download Conflicted Scars: An Average Player's Journey to the NHL by Justin Davis, Brian Kilrea
English | October 18, 2022 | ISBN: 1770416234 | 208 pages | EPUB | 0.48 Mb
An indispensable guide to parents of hockey hopefuls

Free Download The Giving Crisis: Helping Average Givers Become Everyday Philanthropists by Andrew McNair
English | April 25th, 2023 | ISBN: 1637631502 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 3.43 MB
The contemporary church faces a financial crisis of epic proportions. The reason is simple.

Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone | 336.51 KB
English | 236 Pages

Title: Be Obsessed or Be Average
Author: Cardone, Grant
Year: 2016

Maggie Groff, "Not your Average Nurse: The Entertaining True Story of a Student Nurse in 1970s London"
English | ISBN: 0552174149 | 2017 | 352 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
'Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous... Oh, the stories I can tell!'

General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031041178 | 499 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' - a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all participants to protect equity. This volume traces the history of this risk management tool from its origins in the pre-Roman Mediterranean through to its use in the shipping sector today. Contributions range from the Islamic Mediterranean to the Low Countries, and taken together, provide a wide-ranging analysis of social, cultural, and political aspects of pre-modern maritime commerce in Europe.

Rasmus Dalgaard Laustsen, "The Average Consumer in Confusion-based Disputes in European Trademark Law and Similar Fictions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030263495, 3030263525 | PDF | pages: 441 | 5.8 mb
This book contends that, with regard to the likelihood of confusion standard, European trademark law applies the average consumer incoherently and inconsistently. To test this proposal, it presents an analysis of the horizontal and vertical level of harmonization of the average consumer. The horizontal part focuses on similar fictions in areas of law adjacent to European trademark law (and in economics), and the average consumer in unfair competition law. The vertical part focuses on European trademark law, represented mainly by EU trademark law, and the trademark laws of the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The book provides readers with a better understanding of key aspects of European trademark law (the average consumer applied as part of the likelihood of confusion standard) and combines relevant law and practices with theoretical content and other related areas of law (and economics). Accordingly, it is an asset for policymakers and practitioners, as well as general readers with an interest in intellectual property law and theory.

Jill Angie, "Not Your Average Runner: Why You're Not Too Fat to Run and the Skinny on How to Start Today"
English | ISBN: 1683504607 | 2018 | 132 pages | EPUB | 1304 KB