Free Download Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite by Dean King
English | March 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1982144467 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 76.30 MB
The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite-from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.

Free Download Graham A. Allan, "A Sociology of Friendship and Kinship "
English | ISBN: 1032103639 | 2021 | 168 pages | EPUB | 304 KB
Originally published in 1979, this was the first text to be concerned explicitly with the analysis of forms of kin and non-kin sociability. Its aim was to compare and contrast the different ways in which sociability was patterned in modern life at the time. Many studies had been concerned with kin relations, rather fewer had examined friendship, while none had attempted to compare these relationships. It was the author's belief that such a comparison was necessary if both kin and non-kin relationships were to be understood more adequately.

Free Download The Ways of Friendship: Anthropological Perspectives By Amit Desai (editor), Evan Killick (editor)
2010 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 1845457315 | PDF | 1 MB
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.

Free Download Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss By Hu Ying
2016 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0674737202 | PDF | 42 MB
"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow"--these were the last words of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), written before she was beheaded for Descriptionting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her remains, the authorities had wanted her to disappear into historical oblivion.Burying Autumn tells the story of the enduring friendship between Qiu Jin and her sworn-sisters Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua, who braved political persecution to give her a proper burial. Formed amidst social upheaval, their bond found its most poignant expression in Wu and Xu's mourning for Qiu. The archives of this friendship--letters, poems, biographical sketches, steles, and hand-copied sutra--vividly display how these women understood the concrete experiences of modernity, how they articulated those experiences through traditional art forms, and how their artworks transformed the cultural traditions they invoked even while maintaining deep cultural roots. In enabling Qiu Jin to acquire historical significance, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate socially transformative potential.

Colin Nicolson, "Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution: John Adams and Jonathan Sewall "
English | ISBN: 1138703826 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 986 KB
Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other's progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams's presumption of Sewall's authorship of the Loyalist tracts

Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119756944 | 256 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3 MB
In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship.

Robert Lindsey, "The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0671545531, 0671245600, 1504049365 | 505 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 2.8 MB
This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor during the Cold War is an "absolutely smashing real-life spy story" (The New York Times Book Review).

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B64383NC | 2023 | 9 hours and 43 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Will Schwalbe
Narrator: Will Schwalbe
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years-from the best-selling author. A "searching, tender, insightful, and wise memoir . . . Reading this beautifully written and generous book, you will find yourself thinking of your own friendships". By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril.

Will Schwalbe, "We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship"
English | ISBN: 0525654933 | 2023 | EPUB | 336 pages | 900 KB
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years-from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club

John Schlimm, "Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0553446576, 0553446606 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man's journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher-a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten.