Friendship and Social Media: A Philosophical Exploration by Diane Jeske
English | Feb 12, 2019 | ISBN: 1138629448, 1138387401 | 174 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Friendship is regarded as crucial to living a good life. But how does friendship make our lives better? Do all friendships make our lives better? What sorts of interactions are necessary for maintaining valuable friendships?

Howard Ingham, "Cult Cinema: A Personal Exploration of Sects, Brainwashing and Bad Religion in Film and Television"
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08WRMFZ33 | 262 pages | AZW3 | 0.55 MB
Religious extremism is one of our most acute current anxieties, but it has been with us for centuries. And from the birth of Christianity right through to the post-Trump era, it has always been tied to personalities and the cults they inspire. And the stories we tell about them reflect that. Cult Cinema uses cinematic and televisual depictions of isolated sects, self-help pyramid schemes, pagan village conspiracies, evangelical grifters and more to shine a lens upon what happens when belief goes bad. Drawing from sources ranging from situation comedy to exploitation horror and beyond, this book examines why people join abusive religious groups, what we really mean by "brainwashing", and what it means to escape. Howard David Ingham has been writing about media, horror, the occult and the storytelling of religious belief for two decades. Their last book, We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror, was nominated for a 2018 Bram Stoker Award (Superior Achievement in Nonfiction). "A personal and cinematic journey through the strange and terrifying world of cults, this is a deeply honest and empathetic look at how people fall into - and escape from - damaging group dynamics. Cult Cinema is a breathtaking achievement..." Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens

Mary Kay Delaney, "In Search of Wonderful Ideas: Critical Exploration in Teacher Education"
English | ISBN: 080776518X | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Drawing on the work of Eleanor Duckworth, this volume examines Critical Exploration in the Classroom (CEC)―a learning-teaching research practice that positions teachers as researchers of their students' sense-making and learners as theorizers and investigators. By integrating CEC into their teacher education classrooms, chapter authors have found that they can reliably unsettle their teacher candidates' understandings about the nature of teaching and learning and recenter their attention on the intellectual originality and creativity of all young people. In this way, CEC provides valuable tools in the work of creating more equitable and democratic classrooms. Such tools are needed in a broader environment that overvalues instrumental approaches to achieving specified learning outcomes. Readers will find practices that empower and sustain the deep intellectual engagement of all learners. Integrating classroom narratives and other forms of documentation, this resource illustrates the kinds of profound changes in understanding that have occurred for teacher candidates as a result of working with CEC.

Shakespeare's World: The Tragedies : A Historical Exploration of Literature
by Douglas J. King
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1440857946 | 256 Pages | PDF/ePUB | 9 MB

Spationomy: Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Interdisciplinary Analytics by Vít Pászto
English | EPUB | 2019 | 325 Pages | ISBN : 3030266257 | 186.3 MB
This book is based on "Spationomy - Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union. The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics.

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale
English | February 25, 2010 | ISBN: 0195377826, 0199874042 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 19.2 MB
In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia.

Institute of Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine, "The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life"
English | 1981 | ISBN: 0309032253 | 193 pages | PDF | 8.2 MB

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Vaia Tsolas, "A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On The Body"
English | ISBN: 1138065471 | 2017 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic practice and beyond. Written by world leading clinicians and international scholars, this important book aims to relocate the psychoanalytic body in the modern, more challenging world. Bringing together perspectives from across the range of psychoanalytic schools of thought, it covers essential analytic topics such as family and parenting, sex and gender, illness and psychosomatics, and concepts of the body in infancy.

Russia and Soul: An Exploration By Dale Pesmen
2000 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 0801437393 | PDF | 23 MB
This ethnography of everyday life in contemporary Russia is also an examination of discourses & practices of "soul" or dusha. Russian soul has historically appeared as a myth, a consoling fiction & a trope of national & individual self-definition that drew romantic foreigners to Russia. Pesmen shows that in the 1990s this "soul" was scorned, worshipped & used to create, manipulate & exploit cultural capital. She focuses on "soul" in part as what people chose to do & how they did it, especially practices considered "definitive" of Russians, such as hospitality, alcoholic beverage use, steam baths, the language, music & suffering. Attempting to avoid narrow definitions of soul as a thing, she develops a new way of structuring ethnographic interviews. During a stay in a formerly closed military industrial city & surrounding villages, she spent time on public transportation & in kitchens, steam baths, vegetable gardens, shops & workplaces. She uses stories from her fieldwork along with examples from the media & literature to introduce a phenomenology of russkaia dusha & of related American & other non-Russian metaphysical notions, exploring diverse elements in their makeup, examining & questioning the world created when people believe in such "deep", "vast", "enigmatic", "internal" centers. Among theoretical issues addressed are those of power, community, self, exchange, coherence & morality. Her attention to dusha gives her a multifaceted perspective on Russian culture & society & informs her portrayal of life in a Russian city at a historically critical moment.