Curse in Darkness Sherilee Gray
epub | 607.32 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0976HDZHM | Author: Gray, Sherilee | Year: 2021

Blood Curse by Karice Bolton
epub | 331.15 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B08XLSGCBQ | Author: Karice Bolton | Year: 2021

Michael L. Ross, "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0691145458 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 2.1 mb
Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth-and how they can turn oil from a curse into a blessing.

Stalin's curse : battling for Communism in war and Cold War By Gellately, Robert
2013 | 477 Pages | ISBN: 0191644870 | EPUB | 6 MB
AA chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin's true motives--and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire--during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader. Even astute observers like George F. Kennan concluded that the United States and Great Britain should view Stalin as a modern-day tsarist-like figure whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, not in ideology. Now Robert Gellately uses recently uncovered documents to make clear that, in fact, the dictator was an unwavering revolutionary merely biding his time, determined as ever to establish Communist regimes across Europe and beyond, and that his actions during these years (and the poorly calculated Western responses) set in motion what would eventually become the Cold War. Gellately takes us behind the scenes. We see the dictator disguising his political ambitions and prioritizing the future of Communism, even as he pursued the war against Hitler. Along the way, the ascetic dictator's Machiavellian moves and bouts of irrationality kept the Western leaders on their toes, in a world that became more dangerous and divided year by year. Exciting, deeply engaging, and shrewdly perceptive, -- is an unprecedented revelation of the sinister machinations of the Soviet dictator.

The Shadow and Moon Moon Curse - Kenzie Crowe
epub | 473.45 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B09DB3Z858 | Author: Kenzie Crowe | Year: 2021

The Name Curse - Brooke Burroughs
epub | 552.31 KB | English | Isbn:‎ 1542029325 | Author: Brooke Burroughs | Year: 2021

The Curse Trilogy Boxset - C M Owens
epub | 965.01 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B00IX0MNPY | Author: C.M. Owens | Year: 2014

The Kyriakis Curse by Vaughn Eve
epub | 247.92 KB | English | Isbn:9781508825838 | Author: Eve Vaughn | Year: 2014

Curse of the Fallen A Devilish - Eve Archer
epub | 284.97 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B0971JGD6G | Author: Eve Archer | Year: 2021

The curse of Eve, the wound of the hero : blood, gender, and medieval literature By Peggy McCracken
2003 | 190 Pages | ISBN: 0812237137 | PDF | 2 MB
In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto blood in the Middle Ages.As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as a shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdom and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men.Drawing on a range of French and other literary texts, McCracken shows how the dominant ideas about blood in medieval culture point to ways of seeing modern values associated with blood in a new light, and how modern representations in turn suggest new perspectives on medieval perceptions.