Shahrokh Meskoob, "The Ant's Gift: A Study of the Shahnameh "
English | ISBN: 0815637012 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant's Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran's history from its first mythical king to the fall of the Sasanian dynasty, the Shahnameh includes myths, romance, history, and political theory. Meskoob sheds new light on this seminal work of Persian culture, identifying the story as at once a historical and poetic work. While previous criticism of the Shahnameh has focused on its linguistic importance and its role in Iranian nationalism, Meskoob draws attention to the work's pre-Islamic cultural origins.

Adam R. Rosenthal, "Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida"
English | ISBN: 1474488404 | 2022 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through twenty-first century conceptual poetics.

The Game of Life and How to Play It (Gift Edition)
by Shinn, Florence Scovel;Gentry, Chris;Fortgang, Laura Berman;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1642970476 | 148 pages | True EPUB | 8.24 MB

Frank Adloff, "Politics of the Gift: Towards a Convivial Society "
English | ISBN: 1529226228 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 7 MB
At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of 'homo economicus': an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show mutual trust is the only glue that holds societies together; people are giving beings and they can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing personal gain in capitalism is broken. Acknowledging the role of women, nature, and workers in the Global South in transforming society, this book proposes a politics of conviviality, (from the Latin con-vivere: living together) for global and environmental justice as an alternative to the pursuit of profit, growth, and consumption.

The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (The Curti Lectures) By Natalie Zemon Davis
2000 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0299168840 | PDF | 36 MB
Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations-or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most interesting and renowned historians. In a wide-ranging look at gift giving in early modern France, Natalie Zemon Davis reveals the ways that gift exchange is crucial to understanding alliance and conflict in family life, economic relations, politics, and religion. Moving from the king's bounty to the beggar's alms, her book explores the modes and meanings of gift giving in every corner of sixteenth-century French society. In doing so, it arrives at a new way of considering gifts-what Davis calls "the gift register"-as a permanent feature of social relations over time. Gift giving, with its own justifications and forms in different periods, can create amity or lead to quarrels and trouble. It mixes the voluntary and the obligatory, with interested bribery at one extreme and inspired gratuitousness at the other. Examining gifts both ethnographically (through archives, letters, and other texts) and culturally (through literary, ethical, and religious sources), Davis shows how coercive features in family life and politics, rather than competition from the market, disrupted the gift system. This intriguing book suggests that examining the significance of gifts can not only help us to understand social relations in the past, but teach us to deal graciously with each other in the present.

Sara Baase, Timothy M. Henry, "A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology"
English | 2018 | pages: 546 | ISBN: 0134587790 | PDF | 11,0 mb
For courses in Computer Ethics and Computers and Society.

Gift Wrapped by Blair Erotica
English | MP3@192 kbps | 2h 41m | 221.9 MB
Tracey is hot for Jeff, unfortunately he is her best friend's boyfriend and she doesn't want to screw that up. It doesn't make it easier that he's in love with Madge; it doesn't make it any easier that Tracey is living with Jeff and Madge after breaking up with her own boyfriend. And it certainly doesn't help that she can hear them having great sex every night.She learns that the relationship Madge and Jeff have isn't what she thought. They have sex with other people, and it makes them happy. Then Madge tells her that she wants to tie her up and give her to Jeff as a birthday present. She wants her to be his sex slave for a weekend. The idea is intoxicating and accepting pushes her into the wildest sex of her life. But when it's over, she has the rethink what she wants from life.

Psychology of Gift-Giving by Bernd Stauss
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 182 Pages | ISBN : 3662663929 | 3 MB
Gift-giving is an economically significant area of consumer behavior. For we are constantly buy gifts: for Christmas and Mother's Day, for birth and baptism, for the start of school and exams, for engagements and weddings, for birthdays or as souvenirs. Moreover, gift-giving is a very important psychological phenomenon, based on voluntariness, but also representing a duty and requiring compliance with rules. Thus, gift giving is by no means always associated with joy, but also with stress in the search for a perfect gift and disappointment when gifts fail.

The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn (Audiobook)
English | December 28, 2007 | ASIN: B00123XLMI | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 27m | 130.49 MB
Author: Ronald D. Davis, Eldon Braun
Narrator: Ronald D. Davis, Dr. Joan Smith, K. C. Jones

Gift of Dane - Volume One by David C. Baxter
English | MP3@192 kbps | 2h 09m | 178.0 MB
Dane and his friends use to live on a quiet, suburban street until a storm rolled in, and they learned their neighbor was a mad scientist. The portal in his lab has chosen them. Now an insane, rogue commander and otherworldly creatures are after them and what is on the other side of the portal.