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Free Download Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe
English | April 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1119756944 | 256 pages | PDF | 4.65 Mb
In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship.

Free Download David A. Gerstner, "Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship "
English | ISBN: 0814350216 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical deceits and ambiguities? In eighteen eloquent chapters, David A. Gerstner traces a history of ideas that spotlight an ever-shifting terrain associated with auteur theory and, in particular, queer-auteur theory. Engaging with the likes of Oscar Wilde, Walter Benjamin, James Baldwin, Jean Louis Baudry, Linda Nochlin, Jane Gallop, Cáel Keegan, Luce Irigaray, and other prominent critical thinkers, Gerstner contemplates how the queer auteur in film theory might open us to the work of desire.

Free Download Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert by Jason Kersten
English | July 29, 2003 | ISBN: 0060184701, 0060959223 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2 MB
I killed and buried my best friend today. . . . He turned to me and begged that I put a knife through his chest. I did, and a second time when he wouldn’t die. . . . God and his family and mine, please forgive me.

Free Download Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism) by Richard Kaczynski
English | March 5, 2024 | ISBN: 0197694004 | True EPUB/PDF | 496 pages | 64.5/52.6 MB
Infidel. Atheist. Rationalist. Agnostic. Occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg embraced these labels as active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Rebelling against Victorian religious and social strictures, they dreamed of a world guided by scientific evidence instead of superstition. Friendship in Doubt examines how the Agnostic movement-from Saladin’s Agnostic Journal and G. W. Foote’s Freethinker, to the Rationalist Press Association and its Literary Guide-inspired and introduced Crowley, Fuller, and Neuburg to each other as foundational figures in the new religious movement of Thelema. Agnosticism would inform not only Thelema, but also Crowley’s publishing company S.P.R.T.; A⸫A⸫, a successor to the fragmented Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; the Equinox journal; and the concept of "magick" as Scientific Illuminism.

Free Download Kristján Kristjánsson, "Friendship for Virtue"
English | ISBN: 0192864262 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 872 KB + 2 MB
Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place it deserves in contemporary Aristotle-inspired virtue ethics. The second is to integrate Aristotelian theory with recent social scientific research on friendship through mutual adjustments. The third is to retrieve Aristotelian friendship as a moral educational concept, where ‘friendship for virtue’ is to be understood as ‘friendship for virtue development’. The fourth is to offer a more detailed and realistic account than Aristotle did of why even the best of friendships can go stale and dissolve and why the human relationships they represent are so precarious – for example in circumstances where erotic love and friendship clash.

Free Download Ann McCarthy, "Bridges of Friendship: Reflections on Indonesia’s Early Independence and Australia’s Volunteer Graduate Scheme "
English | ISBN: 1925495221 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This volume casts new light on the intercultural and personal ties among Indonesians and Australians in the context of the post-war rise of secular volunteering, and the unique political and social conditions then prevailing in the newly formed Indonesian Republic. It brings together previously unpublished manuscripts by Betty Feith, who has a lifelong involvement in church and humanitarian service, and by Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, an educator and someone who took an active part in the Indonesian Revolution. The first two parts include substantive works of historical narrative and memoir. The third part is a collection of letters that provides a bird’s-eye view of the ethos and workings of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, an initiative under which Australian graduates were employed in the Indonesian civil service. Betty’s nuanced and insightful narrative reflects her intimate involvement in the inception and running of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, while Kurnianingrat’s reminiscences, ‘Other Worlds in the Past’, offer insights into Indonesian social and cultural history at a critical time for the nation at the same time as they chronicle Kurnianingrat’s own experiences and perspective. Kurnianingrat’s memoirs include a fascinating and moving account of daily life in occupied Yogyakarta during the struggle for independence against the Dutch. In the 1950s, Indonesians Kurnianingrat and Harumani Rudolph-Sudirdjo formed lasting friendships with Australian volunteer graduates, Betty Feith and Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin. The mutual interests, connections and commitments among this circle of friends are illustrated in the final section of Bridges of Friendship. (Series: Herb Feith Translation Studies) [Subject: Southeast Asian Studies, Indonesian Studies, International Relations, Sociology, History]

Free Download Carla Risseeuw, "Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place, "
English | ISBN: 9004311785 | 2017 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Free Download Ed Stewart, "Friendship 911 Collection My Friend Is Struggling With.. Past Sexual Abuse"
English | 2000 | pages: 64 | ISBN: 0849937973, 1845504437 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Fourteen-year-old Ann Cassidy has a secret, but she can’t keep it any longer. The nightmares, the flashbacks, the false guilt-she has to tell someone. When Ann finally reveals the horror of her childhood sexual abuse, she feels some relief-but she has a new flood of emotions to deal with and she’s scared.

Free Download One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZZQ9G4G | 2024 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Kate Kennedy
Narrator: Kate Kennedy
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist. One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious, Kate navigates the complicated nature of celebrating and criticizing the culture that shaped her as a woman, while arguing that great depths can come from surface-level interests. With her trademark style and vulnerability, One In a Millennial is sharp, hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. She tackles AOL Instant Messenger, purity culture, American Girl Dolls, going out tops, Spice Girl feminism, her feelings about millennial motherhood, and more. Kate’s laugh-out-loud asides and keen observations will have you nodding your head and maybe even tearing up.

Free Download Brenda Wineapple, "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson"
English | 2008 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 1400044014, 0307456307 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson-recluse, poet-and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.