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Free Download Jeremy Munday, "Style and Ideology in Translation: Latin American Writing in English "
English | ISBN: 0415361044 | 2007 | 280 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book investigates the style, or ‘voice,’ of English language translations of twentieth-century Latin American writing, including fiction, political speeches, and film. Existing models of stylistic analysis, supported at times by computer-assisted analysis, are developed to examine a range of works and writers, selected for their literary, cultural, and ideological importance. The style of the different translators is subjected to a close linguistic investigation within their cultural and ideological framework.

Free Download Chiu-Shui Chan, "Style and Creativity in Design "
English | ISBN: 3319140167 | 2015 | 345 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better understanding of the qualities present in their own design.

Free Download Helen Richman, "Stumpwork Embroidery: Techniques and Projects"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1785002945 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 87.5 mb
Stumpwork is a highly decorative and imaginative embroidery technique, which typically uses raised and padded stitches that are rich in texture. This practical book explains how to create your own piece of stumpwork embroidery. Beginning with an introduction to the appropriate materials, equipment and tools, it instructs on a wide range of stitches and techniques, and illustrates them with ten delightful projects. It then explains how to design your own piece of stumpwork before advising on finishing, presenting and caring for you work. Written by a leading embroiderer, this beautiful book will inspire and encourage you to try this exciting technique and create your own exquisite designs.|Practical advice on working with threads, as well as how to stretch and prepare fabricsOver 900 photographs to guide the reader through a wide range of decorative and raised stitchesDetailed instructions on combining stumpwork with a range of other techniques to create unique designsTen projects show how to use the stitches in designs, including stumpwork human figures

Free Download Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler
English | November 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1838955747 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 2.00 MB
The fascinating history of the people, the ideas and the dishes that have fed – and starved – the nation, by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff.

Free Download John S. Gero, "Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity"
English | ISBN: 9401792968 | 2015 | 277 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Creativity and design creativity in particular are being recognized as playing an increasing role in the social and economic wellbeing of a society. As a consequence creativity is becoming a focus of research. However, much of this burgeoning research is distributed across multiple disciplines that normally do not intersect with each other and researchers in one discipline are often unaware of related research in another discipline.

Free Download Paul Poplawski, "Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings"
English | ISBN: 1108479286 | 2023 | 674 pages | EPUB, PDF | 39 MB + 10 MB
Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style, by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is designed to complement Paul Poplawski’s previous volume, English Literature in Context, and incorporates additional study elements designed specifically with undergraduates in mind. With an extensive chronology, a glossary of critical terms, and a study guide suggesting how students might learn from the essays in their own writing practices, this volume provides a rich and flexible resource for teaching and learning.

Free Download Various authors, "Studies of the Books of Moses and Abraham"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00IU1OJLM | EPUB | pages: 345 | 6.8 mb
This compilation of fascinating articles on the books of Moses and Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Antonio Lebolo, the mummies, and the papyri; other topics related to the book of Abraham and its origins; the Kirtland Egyptian Papers; and insights into the ministries of Moses and Enoch.

Free Download Rhys Glyn Williams, "Studies of Capitalist Culture"
English | ISBN: 1527512436 | 2023 | 192 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is a study of Capitalist culture, of modern culture under Capitalism and the problems of Capitalist culture. We live in an age of Capitalist crisis; we also live in an age of Capitalist cultural crisis. By looking at the relationship between culture and Capitalism, we might be able to understand the relationship between culture and the struggle for Socialism – for a society based on a free culture and a free humanity.

Free Download Roman Katsman, "Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature "
English | ASIN : B0C2CFZ487 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others―to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war

Free Download Phil Davis, "Student Finance For Dummies"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1119075858 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 2.2 mb
Your guide to financing a university education