Devdutt Pattanaik, "Shiva: The Destroyer"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B071KJX1MM | EPUB | pages: 12 | 0.2 mb
Shiva was an ascetic and a husband, a yogi and a householder. He is named Veenapani, for playing the veena, Natraja for the elegance of his dance, but is a storyteller and a scholar. He was quick to rage in Bhairava, but has the tenderness of Ardhaneshwar, who loves his wife so much he offers her half his body so that they may always be together. He has a third eye-but is it from when he destroyed desire in Kama, or because he wanted to more fully view Parvati's loveliness? Can we ever truly know the depths of what Shiva embodies? Discover the paradoxes of Shiva woven into a short, sweet read from Devlok.

Lois H. Gresh, "Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Neural Psychoses"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1785652109 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 1.5 mb
The second novel in Lois H. Gresh's Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu series.

Fu Yuguang, "Shamanic and Mythic Cultures of Ethnic Peoples in Northern China II "
English | ISBN: 036765413X | 2020 | 182 pages | PDF | 59 MB
On the basis of first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author's insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to the Qing dynasty, ancient archaeological discoveries, and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths, and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region's cultures.

Devdutt Pattanaik, "Shakti: A Female Power"
English | 2016 | ASIN: B0721WHFJZ | EPUB | pages: 11 | 0.2 mb
The three devis are forms of Shakti and consorts of the three gods-but aren't the Tridevi superior to the Trimurti? Did the Devi come before the Bhagvan, or after? Can it be true that without Shakti, Shiva is dead? Finding the feminism in spirituality, Devdutt shows us the intrinsic balance built into Hindu scripture and culture through our goddesses. Annapurna shows Shiva that no matter how ascetic, even sages need food to eat, and that there is greatness in feeding the hungry. Durga showed Shiva that a monster that cannot be killed by a deva or asura might be killed by a woman instead. Saraswati and Laxmi-knowledge and wealth-are the fruit of labour, born of desire. Find out more about an ancient tradition of venerating the female in a natural equality in this short and sweet read from Devlok.

Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Stanley Wells, edited by Paul Edmondson
English | November 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0198786549 | True EPUB | 300 pages | 0.8 MB
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare and over his lifetime, Wells has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance.

James Shapiro, "Shakespeare and the Jews"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 023110345X, 0231178670 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 4.7 mb
Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, James Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves--in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. From strange cases of Christians masquerading as Jews to bizarre proposals to settle foreign Jews in Ireland, this book looks into the crisis of cultural identity in Elizabethan England and sheds new light on The Merchant of Venice.

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) by Russ McDonald
English | April 5, 2001 | ISBN: 0198711700, 0198711719 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 2.5 MB
Written in a lucid, non-technical style, this book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century.

Shakespeare | Cut: Rethinking Cutwork in an Age of Distraction (Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures) by Bruce R. Smith
English | September 16, 2016 | ISBN: 0198735529, 019883117X | True EPUB | 176 pages | 7.7 MB
In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, but it also takes the long view of how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart in creative ways beginning in Shakespeare's own time.

Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon By Lewis Call
2020 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 1476675066 | PDF | 20 MB
Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy. Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Sex and sexuality : For every women by Watson Thomas
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B941VKKC | 135 pages | EPUB | 0.86 Mb
This book explains sex and sexuality. Sex and sexuality is incorporated into nearly every culture around the world; however, many people are unfamiliar with the appropriate words used to define sexual expression and interactions, often using these terms interchangeably. While sex is the act of engaging in sexual behaviors, sexuality describes how an individual chooses to express themselves as a sexual being. Additionally, sexuality can be shaped by many factors such as experiences, societal expectations, attitudes, values, and beliefs. This article reviews sex and sexuality, exploring how these concepts affect everyday experiences and interactions.