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Free Download Ian Cummins, "Critical Psychiatry: A Biography "
English | ISBN: 1911106600 | 2017 | 112 pages | EPUB | 592 KB
Critical Psychiatry outlines the history of a group of thinkers that has come to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement. Though it has been called a movement, the individual thinkers’ and authors’ ideas were often in conflict but what they share is a critical perspective on psychiatry as a discipline and institutionalised modes of care.

Free Download Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives By Reuben Makayiko Chirambo (editor), J. K. S. Makokha (editor)
2013 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 9042036753 | PDF | 7 MB
Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.

Free Download Looking At The Liturgy: A Critical View Of Its Contemporary Form By Aidan Nichols
2011 | 129 Pages | ISBN: 0898705924 | EPUB | 1 MB
Nichols assesses the liturgical reform from the three converging viewpoints of a historian, sociologist and cultural critic, pinpointing areas that need to be addressed.

Free Download Priscilla Dunk-West, "How to be a Social Worker: A Critical Guide for Students Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1137608048 | 2018 | 202 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner’s own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.

Free Download The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo By Maik Nwosu (editor), Obiwu (editor)
2015 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0815633874 | PDF | 3 MB
In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo’s contribution to the African intellectual tradition.Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.

Free Download Gary Genosko, "Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers"
English | 2000 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 0415186692 | PDF | 31,8 mb
The ideas of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and activist analyst Felix Guattari are transforming disciplinary practices across the humanities and social sciences.

Free Download Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni, "Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1786438887, 1800884508 | PDF | pages: 560 | 3.8 mb
Critical theory encapsulates the many connections between theory and praxis. This Research Handbook addresses the broad range of these connections in relation to legal thought. Featuring contributions from leading scholars of law and critical theory, the Handbook confronts the logic of the institutional with its specific challenges right across the broad field of legal thought.

Free Download Chris Broodryk, "Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical voices from the past"
English | ISBN: 1776146905 | 2021 | 272 pages | EPUB | 505 KB
This edited collection gives voice to neglected public intellectuals in the arts, humanities, and journalism in South Africa who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalized and silenced in South African history

Free Download Patrick Brown, "On Vulnerability: A Critical Introduction"
English | ISBN: 0367366614 | 2021 | 200 pages | EPUB | 783 KB
On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes that render us vulnerable – interactions, identity and group dynamics.

Free Download Michael D. Rasmussen, "Conceptualizing Distress in the Psalms: A Form-Critical and Cognitive Semantic Study of the 1 Word Group "
English | ISBN: 1463206100 | 2018 | 314 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Psalms containing lexemes derived from the Hebrew root (to bind, be in distress) reveal a previously-unnoticed generic subgroup in the Psalter. Through structural and cognitive linguistic principles, Rasmussen explores issues related to genre, Hebrew grammar, and syntax in order to arrive at a set of three cognitive domains of powerlessness, palpable threat, and entreaty which are relatively unique to psalms that include lexemes. Rasmussen also makes suggestions about the editorial process of the Hebrew Psalter, concluding that after the Babylonian exile, distress was more strongly associated with divine discipline and displeasure, whereas before the exile it was more associated with declarations of innocence.