Friendshifts: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives By Jan Yager
1999 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1889262390 | EPUB | 1 MB
This is the 2nd edition of FRIENDSHIFTS, revised and updated. It is based on more than 15 years of original research by sociologist and friendship expert Dr. Jan Yager, exploring how friendships shift and change as we go through various stages in life. Friendshifts is the word Dr. Yager coined to describes those friendship changes.

Anna M. Shields, "One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China"
English | 2015 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 0674504372 | PDF | 3,3 mb
The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)―between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi―became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired mid-Tang literati to write about their friendships with such zeal? And how did these writings influence Tang literary culture more broadly? In One Who Knows Me, the first book to delve into friendship in medieval China, Anna M. Shields explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value its writers discovered in friendship―as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and interweaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts. For mid-Tang literati, writing about friendship became a powerful way to write about oneself and to reflect upon a shared culture. Their texts reveal the ways that friendship intersected the public and private realms of experience and, in the process, reshaped both.

Big Friendship How We Keep Eac Aminatou Sow | 990.29 KB
English | 251 Pages

Title: Big Friendship
Author: Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
Year: 2020

When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal with Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You By Jan Yager
2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0743211456 | EPUB | 1 MB
"WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION""HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?"We've all had friendships that have gone bad. Whether it takes the form of a simple yet inexplicable estrangement or a devastating betrayal, a failed friendship can make your life miserable, threaten your success at work or school, and even undermine your romantic relationships.Finally there is help. In When Friendship Hurts, Jan Yager, recognized internationally as a leading expert on friendship, explores what causes friendships to falter and explains how to mend them -- or end them. In this straightforward, illuminating book filled with dozens of quizzes and real-life examples, Yager covers all the bases, including:The twenty-one types of negative friends -- a rogues' gallery featuring such familiar types as the Blood-sucker, the Fault-finder, the Promise Breaker, and the CopycatHow to recognize destructive friends as well as how to find ideal onesThe e-mail effect -- how electronic communication has changed friendships for both the better and the worseThe misuse of friendship at work -- how to deal with a co-worker's lies, deceit, or attempts at revengeHow to stop obsessing about a failed friendshipAnd much moreThe first highly prescriptive book to focus on the complexities of friendship, When Friendship Hurts demonstrates how, why, and when to let go of bad friends and how to develop the positive friendships that enrich our lives on every level. For everyone who has ever wondered about friends who betray, hurt, or reject them, this authoritative book provides invaluable insights and advice to resolve the problem once and for all.

Koivunen, "Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy "
English | ISBN: 311075844X | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 40 MB
Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev's Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots' perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world.

Ryan Dohoney, "Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde"
English | ISBN: 150134546X | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Arguing that friendship and mourning sustained the collective aesthetics of the New York School, Dohoney has written an emotional and intimate revision of New York modernism from the point of view of Feldman's agonistic community.

Mockingbird Songs My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt | 2.48 MB
English | 251 Pages

Title: Mockingbird Songs
Author: Wayne Flynt
Year: 2017

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
English | September 8, 2020 | ISBN: 1524748684 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.46 Mb

English | ASIN: B09TTPTWVV | 2022 | 9 hours and 30 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 261 MB
Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly 22 years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards, or could not get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly 50-year friendship.

Chloe Langr, "Sisterhood: Giving and Receiving the Gift of Friendship"
English | ISBN: 1681927225 | 2022 | 144 pages | EPUB | 411 KB
Let's face it: Real-life friendship is hard! We find ourselves challenged by superficial #girltribe social media posts, so how can we really achieve authentic friendship? And is friendship even worth it?