The Ultimate Film Quiz Book: A Quizicle Movie Trivia Book by Kate Haywood
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09MGD774V | 111 pages | EPUB | 0.21 Mb
A bumper family friendly quiz book, with lots of variety and over 500 questions to test everyone from casual viewers to ardent movie fans.Up to dateincluding films released in 2021.

The Ultimate Couple's Quiz Book: Fun Quizzes and Activities to do With Your Partner (Quizicle Quiz Books) by Steve Haywood
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09R6RTQ8L | 122 pages | EPUB | 0.74 Mb
Are you ready for a new adventure with your other half?

The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight By Christopher Schaberg
2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1441189688 | PDF | 2 MB
This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, dramatic weather shifts, a lost bag that suddenly appears-such stories are familiar accounts of a place that seems to thrive on and recycle its own mythologies. The Textual Life of Airports shows how airports demand to be read. Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural theory, Schaberg tracks airport stories in American literature, as well as in a range of visual texts (film, airport art, magazine illustrations). It accounts for how airports appear in literature throughout the twentieth-century, while also examining the influx of airport figures in markedly post-9/11 literature and culture. These literary and cultural representations work together to form "the textual life of airports."

The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden by Henrik Berggren, Lars Trägårdh, translated by Stephen Donovan
English | August 30, 2022 | ISBN: 0295750545, 0295750553 | True EPUB | 392 pages | 14.5 MB
In 2020 Sweden's response to COVID-19 drew renewed attention to the Nordic nation in a way that put the finger on a seeming paradox. Long celebrated for its commitment to social solidarity, Sweden suddenly emerged as the last country in the West to resist lockdown while defending individual rights and responsibilities. To explain these contradictions, Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that the long-standing view of Sweden's welfare state as the result of socialist collectivism is flawed. While social values have been and remain strong, they have co-existed with a radical form of individualism.

~ OPiS FiLMU / MOViE DESCRiPTiON ~

Reżyseria: Ilker Çatak
Scenariusz: Nils Moh
Gatunek: Melodramat
Kraj: Niemcy, Francja
Rok produkcji: 2019
Czas trwania: 117 min.

Opis:
Baran (Ogulcan Arman Uslu) jest kurdyjskim żigolakiem, który marzy o przyszłości w Europie, podczas gdy Marion (Anne Ratte-Polle) to starająca się pogodzić się ze poważną diagnozą pracownica linii lotniczych. Para spotyka się w tureckim kurorcie Marmaris i spontanicznie postanawia zawrzeć pozorowane małżeństwo. Początkowo wszystko układa się po ich myśli. Z czasem jednak sytuację zaczynają komplikować skrywane przez nich sekrety, emocje i lęki.

Gordon Swoger, "The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961: A Polish-Canadian Story"
English | ISBN: 1525258427 | 2017 | 344 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
The Strange Odyssey of Poland's National Treasures, 1939-1961 tells the story of the Polish national treasures -their evacuation from their homeland under perilous conditions after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and their subsequent removal to western Europe and then to Canada. At the end of the war two Polish governments, a Communist one in Warsaw and a non-Communist one in London, vied for control of the national treasures. Before long the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, the RCMP, and the Canadian and Quebec governments all became involved in the desperate hide-and-seek confrontation between the two Polish governments. Eventually, in February 1961, the release of the historic treasures was negotiated and they were returned to their native land, twenty-two years after their wartime departure. It was indeed a long voyage home!

Lipi Ghosh, "The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences"
English | ISBN: 0367229072 | 2019 | 384 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which runs from China to Myanmar and ends up in Assam. The route has historical importance as it served as a major artery of ancient trade articles. The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences attempts to sketch out the historical dimensions of the route and shows the contemporary dynamics, both positive and negative. It poses the question how history can extend a lesson in contemporary contexts.

The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior By John F Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder, and Louis A. Penner
2006 | 430 Pages | ISBN: 0805849351 | PDF | 22 MB
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the myriad ways that prosocial actions can be manifested. The authors expand the breadth of the field, incorporating analyses of biological and genetic factors that predispose individuals to be concerned for the well being of others, as well as planned helping such as volunteering and organizational citizenship behavior and cooperative behavior within and between groups. They identify both the common and the unique processes that underlie the broad spectrum of prosocial behavior.

Jill Lepore, "The Secret History of Wonder Woman"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0385354045 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 79.7 mb
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story-and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism

Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic"
English | ISBN: 0472133020 | 2022 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1044 KB + 2 MB
Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of coping with the difficulties of life in antiquity. While ancient magic is most often studied through texts like surviving Greco-Egyptian spellbooks and artifacts like lead curse tablets, for a Greek or Roman magician a ritual was a rich sensual experience full of unusual tastes, smells, textures, and sounds, bright colors, and sensations like fasting and sleeplessness. Greco-Roman magical rituals were particularly dominated by the sense of smell, both fragrant smells and foul odors. Ritual practitioners surrounded themselves with clouds of fragrant incense and perfume to create a sweet and inviting atmosphere for contact with the divine and to alter their own perceptions; they also used odors as an instrumental weapon to attack enemies and command the gods. Elsewhere, odiferous herbs were used equally as medical cures and magical ingredients. In literature, scent and magic became intertwined as metaphors, with fragrant spells representing the dangers of sensual perfumes and conversely, smells acting as a visceral way of envisioning the mysterious action of magic.