Free Download Sleeping Beauties: the Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture by Andreas Wagner
English | May 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 0861545273 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 4.52 MB
Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species - but there's a catch.

Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) By Beatrice Laurent (editor)
2014 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 303431745X | PDF | 2 MB
Artists, scientists and the wider public of the Victorian era all seem to have shared a common interest in the myth of the Briar Rose and its contemporary implications, from the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian aesthetes to the fascinated crowds who visited Ellen Sadler, the real-life 'Sleeping Maid' who is reported to have slept from 1871 to 1880. The figure of the beautiful reclining female sleeper is a recurring theme in the Victorian imagination, invoking visual, literary and erotic connotations that contribute to a complex range of readings involving aesthetics, gender definitions and contemporary medical opinion. This book compiles and examines a corpus of Sleeping Beauties drawn from Victorian medical reports, literature and the arts and explores the significance of the enduring revival of the myth.

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction By Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.
2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0819570923 | PDF | 2 MB
As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become what Csicsery-Ronay calls science fictional, stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the "seven beauties" of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technsocience's development into a global regime.

Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 18571907 (Driftless Connecticut) by Eve M. Kahn
English | November 5, 2019 | ISBN: 0819578746 | 333 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
The story of New England's own Mary Cassatt

Language: English
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Genre: Crime

Midnight Beauties by Megan Shepherd | 2.88 MB
English | 449 Pages

Title: Midnight Beauties
Author: Megan Shepherd
Year: 2019

English | ASIN: B08TRQM5T9 | 2021 | 10 hours and 12 minutes |MP3|M4B | 282 MB
In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children fall into a state that resembles sleep for months or years at a time. In Le Roy, a town in upstate New York, teenage girls develop involuntary twitches and seizures that spread like a contagion. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees experience headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises during the night. These are only a few of the many suspected culture-bound psychosomatic syndromes - specific sets of symptoms that exist in a particular culture or environment - that affect people throughout the world.

Sage Medieval Romance Beauties - Laurel O'Donnell
epub | 266.85 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09BBQWJ8C | Author: Laurel O'Donnell | Year: 2021

Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 By Michelle Haberland
2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0820347426 | EPUB | 5 MB
Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. InStriking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch at the end of the twentieth century.The popular conception of the early twentieth-century South as largely agrarian informs many histories of industry and labor in the United States. But as Haberland demonstrates, the apparel industry became a key part of the southern economy after the Great Depression and a major driver of southern industrialization. The gender and racial composition of the workforce, the growth of trade unions, technology, and capital investment were all powerful forces in apparel's migration south. Yet those same forces also revealed the tensions caused by racial and gender inequities not only in the region but in the nation at large. Striking Beauties places the struggles of working women for racial and economic justice in the larger context of southern history. The role of women as the primary consumers of the family placed them in a critical position to influence the success or failure of boycotts, union label programs and ultimately solidarity.

The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan | 555.5 KB
English | 269 Pages| ISBN: B08LDPKHF4

Title: The Sleeping Beauties
Author: Suzanne O'Sullivan
Year: 2021