Tag: Kill

Flowers That Kill Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces


Free Download Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, "Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces"
English | 2015 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0804795894, 0804794103 | PDF | 10,2 mb
Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a propaganda tool? Or were they like the Japanese, who, including the soldiers, did not realize when the state told them to fall like cherry blossoms, it meant their deaths?

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How Not to Kill Yourself A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind


Free Download How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin
English | March 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 059331705X | 464 pages | True EPUB | 1.07 MB
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution-from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, "I’m Still Here."

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