Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View By Irwin Z. Hoffman
2001 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0881633623 | PDF | 5 MB
The psychoanalytic process is characterized by a complex weave of interrelated polarities: transference and countertransference, repetition and new experience, enactment and interpretation, discipline and personal responsiveness, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal, construction and discovery. In Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process, Irwin Z. Hoffman, through compelling clinical accounts, demonstrates the great therapeutic potential that resides in the analyst's struggle to achieve a balance within each of these dialectics. According to Hoffman, the psychoanalytic modality implicates adialectic tension between interpersonal influence and interpretive exploration, a tension in which noninterpretive and interpretive interactions continuously elicit one another. It follows that Hoffman's "dialectical constructivism" highlights the intrinsic ambiguity of experience, an ambiguity that coexists with the irrefutable facts of a person's life, including the fact of mortality. The analytic situation promotes awareness of the freedom to shape one's life story within the constraints of given realities. Hoffman deems it a special kind of crucible for the affirmation of worth and the construction of meaning in a highly uncertain world. The analyst, in turn, emerges as a moral influence with an ironic kind of authority, one that is enhanced by the ritualized aspects of the analytic process even as it is subjected to critical scrutiny.An intensely clinical work, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process forges a new understanding of the curative possibilities that grow out of the tensions, the choices, and the constraints inhering in the intimate encounter of a psychoanalyst and a patient. Compelling reading for all analysts and analytic therapists, it will also be powerfully informative for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

Sarah Crook, "Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States During the Long 1980s "
English | ISBN: 1438489595 | 2022 | 355 pages | EPUB, PDF | 910 KB + 4 MB
The 1980s was a period of political and social tumult in Britain and the United States. Facing resurgent conservative forces, feminist and queer activists organized in ways that not only resisted conservative hegemony but also helped to forge new communities, communications, and futures. Resist, Organize, Build casts new light on grassroots campaigns in Britain and the US, looking at feminist and queer work on university campuses, within anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements, in reframing the family, reproduction, and health, and in the establishment of new magazines, book series, and publishing houses. The collection brings together emerging and established scholars to position historical work on the two national contexts side by side, drawing out similarities and differences. Taking care to center historically marginalized voices, the collection gives students and scholars insight into and examples of the work of activist groups in a time that has many resonances with our own.

Remarkable Football Grounds by Ryan Herman
English | January 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 1911682202 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 80.12 MB
Remarkable Football Grounds is a collection of some of the most memorable places to watch and play football around the world. They range from the stellar stadiums of the Premier League to windswept islands in the Scottish Hebrides or the far-flung Pacific, including stadia that resemble flying saucers, a crocodile and an armadillo!

Remarkable Ballparks by Dan Mansfield
English | October 10th, 2022 | ISBN: 1911682083 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 195.40 MB
What started as America's National Pastime is now a global phenomenon with multi-million dollar baseball leagues around the world and enough countries playing the game to warrant its inclusion in the 2020/1 Olympics.

Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031062809 | 575 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 59 MB
This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been studied through its macro-economic and large-scale - and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent - aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections, covering unusual actors and perspectives, unusual places of production, exigent landscapes of exploitation, less-visible products and artefacts, and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history, well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions.

Vanessa Agnew, "Reenactment Case Studies "
English | ISBN: 1138333964 | 2022 | 366 pages | PDF | 28 MB
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.

Ross Anthony, Uta Ruppert, "Reconfiguring Transregionalisation in the Global South: African-Asian Encounters"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030283100 | PDF | pages: 297 | 3.0 mb
This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales. Drawing on a host of countries from both regions, the contributions illustrate how encounters increasingly transcend fixed territorial categories at local, national and regional levels. While large-scale political and economic considerations tend to dominate in Asia-Africa related literature―for instance, in China-Africa, BRICS and South-South discourses―the current volume seeks to foster dialogue between these broader levels of analyses and more localized social practices and experiences, including the role of civil society, cultural production and migration. With an emphasis on the "trans" aspects of inter-regional exchange, the volume contributes to a better understanding of new forms of space-making between these two increasingly important regions.

Ramsay in 10 by Gordon Ramsay
English | November 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1538707810 | 256 pages | PDF | 74 Mb
Packed with recipes that are max 10 minutes to prep and 10 minutes to cook, RAMSAY IN 10 is your new everyday cookbook.

Quantum Eating: The Ultimate Elixir of Youth By Tonya Zavasta, Sharron Carrell (editor), Bradley Harris (editor)
2007 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0974243450 | PDF | 5 MB
Quantum Eating is the gate to health and longevity. Questions about aging which have baffled thinkers and scientists for centuries are answered in clear, straight talk mingled with attainability and hope. This truly mind-energizing book is filled with fresh insights that challenge our most basic assumptions. This book addresses vital, fascinating topics: the quantum body we occupy... raw foods as concentrated sun energy... the circadian rhythms of vital organs... should we sun-block the sunlight?... breathing for optimum weight... oxygen therapies... and many more. It explains how you can be malnourished while eating a lot of healthy foods, how you can be dehydrated while drinking a lot of water, how you can be shortening your life by using certain supplements and how you can be aging your body by eating at night. This book is candid, intimate, and intellectually illuminating - on the very edge of new science. Quantum Eating exposes the limits of the mechanical thinking and materialism that dominate most modern anti-aging research. Quantum Eating is about stepping away from a three-dimensional view of the human body and into the multi-dimensional world of healing possibilities. It offers rare optimism about aging. An easy, natural "elixir of youth" can be achieved without being a slave to traditional medicine. Life is a grand adventure. This book offers a way for us to reach for an optimum level of well-being in order to live the grandest life we can. Pour these new ideas into the chalice of your life, and watch it overflow with pure joy and vitality!

Protecting Societal Interests in Corporate Takeovers:
A Comparative Analysis of the Regulatory Framework in the U.K., Germany and China
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811975450 | 304 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB