Free Download Robin Varma, "Ruling Bodies: A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias"
English | ISBN: 1666907294 | 2022 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 370 KB + 940 KB
This book is about an epochal shift in ideas that changed the nature and meaning of coercion in modern political thought. It begins with a review of Foucault, Arendt, and Habermas, and points out a discrepancy in the way each thinker understood coercion in modern politics. From here, Varma examines Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias to provide a framework and context for thinking about this. As the author shows, each work demonstrates a particular style of Platonic statecraft that corresponds to the amount of power the philosopher holds in a city. The Republic demonstrates the philosopher's rule as a monarch; the Laws demonstrates his rule when he must share power with a few spirited statesmen; and the Gorgias demonstrates his rule in a democracy where power belongs to the people. Ultimately, Varma argues that the philosopher used coercion as a supplementary tool to help harmonize man's soul with the heavens. When Hobbes recast the cosmos as matter in motion, however, power became the highest ordering principle for political life.

Free Download Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing By G. Thomas Couser
1997 | 335 Pages | ISBN: 0299155609 | PDF | 26 MB
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability-in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis-who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse. Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States-such works as Juliet Wittman's Breast Cancer Journal, John Hockenberry's Moving Violations, Paul Monette's Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, and Lou Ann Walker's A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family-Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role Description plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people. With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.

Free Download Inclusion Bodies: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) by Julian Kopp, Oliver Spadiut
English | January 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1071629298 | 283 pages | MOBI | 7.67 Mb
This detailed volume presents a series of protocols dealing with different aspects of inclusion body (IB) processing, from cloning procedures to purification of refolded product. Commencing with chapters on upstream processing, looking into different expression strategies for IB production, the book continues with downstream applications, highlighting early protein purification and subsequent analytics, as well as success stories of IB-based processes. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step and readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

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by Daniel Enstedt and Katarina Plank
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031381173 | 313 Pages | True PDF | 5.58 MB

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English | October 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1800817932, 1800817924 | True EPUB | 94 pages | 0.4 MB
An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty

Free Download Celestial Bodies By Jokha Alharthi; جوخة الحارثي; Marilyn Booth
2018 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 1912240165 | EPUB | 2 MB
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2019In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Elegantly structured, Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.

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by Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CJ9P467G | 328 Pages | True ePUB/pdf | 1.24 MB

Free Download Models and World Making: Bodies, Buildings, Black Boxes
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0813946980 | 195 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling. Considering changes in the medical body model and the architectural model, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Wharton demonstrates the ways in which all models are historical and political.

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English | ISBN: 1032711248 | 2024 | 204 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.

Free Download Imagining Bodies and Performer Training: The Legacy of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard
by Ellie Nixon
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032711248 | 205 Pages | True PDF | 4.4 MB