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Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367786192, 0367138700 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.5 mb
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work, it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order to continue practising, leading to persistence in the social conception of medicine and disease after Communism took hold. This was particularly evident in attitudes towards and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and the pathology of deviant behaviour among young people.

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Memories Cast in Stone The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life (Mediterranea)


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1998 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1859739431 | PDF | 37 MB
How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of ‘ownership’ of the past expressed in people’s everyday lives? Should continuity with the distant past be seen as simply a nationalist fiction or is it transformed by local historical imagination? While recent anthropological studies have focused on reconstructing disputed histories, this book examines the multiple ways in which the past is used by people as a critical resource for interpreting the meanings of a changing present. It poses the issue of the felt relevance of the past in constructing present day identities. The Greek island of Kalymnos is a barren and seemingly bucolic setting of tourist imagination. But its history has been one of almost continuous occupation by foreign powers and of often fierce resistance. This has made Kalymnians particularly sensitive to seeing their island in a much wider context and to understanding the ‘games played by the powerful’. In examining changing gender relations, European integration, and local perceptions of the war in the former Yugoslavia, this book brings together local, national and international perspectives in a unified field. Controversial contemporary practices of dynamite throwing and dowry giving serve as tropes through which Kalymnians explore alternative ways of living in a changing world. Further, the author argues persuasively for the crucial importance of situated fieldwork in ‘peripheral’places in understanding the issues and conflicts of a transnational world. This book serves as an highly readable case study of the complex connections between local and global discourses and practices, and how they are shaped by their relationship to the past.

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Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople


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English | ISBN: 946298039X | 2017 | 250 pages | PDF | 1438 KB
The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century. This book offers a close look at that volume and its manner of representing the historical role of Byzantine emperors and ecclesiology, with particular attention to the use of images, an issue of central importance amid the period’s first outburst of iconoclasm. When seen through this lens, the Short History

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Raised in the Kitchen Making Memories from Scratch One Recipe at a Time


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English | April 24, 2021 | ISBN: 1629728454 | 208 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
Carrian grew up cooking alongside her mom and dad and is now sharing how you and your kids can learn to cook together just like she did! Enjoy stories, lessons on cooking, and all of the absolute best family recipes in a photo-filled cookbook! Each category starts with the most simple recipe and progresses to a little more hands on and each is filled with tips, tricks and ideas from her own children! Dive into the new favorite family cookbook, Raised in the Kitchen! Looking to learn how to cook or teach your children how to cook? Raised in the Kitchen starts from the most basic recipes and takes you to more complex dinners and desserts so you can feel confident at meal time. From the time her children were toddlers, family cooking blogger Carrian Cheney has placed them up on the counter with her while cooking, just as her mother did with her. She recognized that cooking together was the secret not only to raising children well prepared for adulthood but also to mixing ingredients beyond just the dough for cookies-love, fun, and memories. Through her years being raised in the kitchen, Carrian developed far more than timeless recipes. She discovered that family and memories are made one recipe at a time. From food prep to clean-up, this unique cookbook guides the way through every step, including meal lists and easy-to-follow recipes. It also features dollops of heartwarming family stories, insights, and kid-friendly food activities to keep everyone from the tired and overwhelmed mom to the littlest of picky eaters focused on deliciousness in the kitchen.The book includes 75 recipes that begin with basics such as fried eggs, baked potatoes, and simple fail-proof dinners. As new cooking skills are learned, the recipes progress to guaranteed kid favorites like french toast, steak fajitas, and even a killer chocolate cake. Recipes are joined with tips to help home cooks master the dance of the kitchen, from the basics of when to salt and why it’s the most important condiment you can own, to how to properly hold a knife and cut anything with ease and confidence, and even how to coax a picky eater with a few tried-and-true secret tips from a recovering picky eater herself. Raised in the Kitchen is a cookbook for parents and kids about much more than learning to love to cook. It’s about bringing families together and then one day sending those little hands off to their own kitchens, where they will teach their own children the recipes, laughter, and love that shaped their lives.

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Sift Memories of Childhood


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English | ISBN: 1907605002 | 2010 | pages | EPUB | 238 KB
Sift is the memoir of writer and poet Lawrence Sail s formative years in post-war Exeter. Sail paints a wonderfully evocative picture of British life in the 1940s and 50s, while exploring the richness and bafflements of a child s life. Most families know the true history of time and chance the sift of who and what survives, what is spoken of or glossed over; the stubborn objects outliving their owners passion for them; the oddities of fashion; the co-editing of memory, forgetfulness and the need to forget… Praise for Sift: "A most compelling read the intensity of detail, the moments of drama, the sense of the post-war period and, above all, it is marvellously written." Penelope Lively "Sift is a brilliantly atmospheric recreation of a post-war childhood. Lawrence Sail explores the absence of his German artist father, his mother s determination to bring up her twin s singlehanded, and his own heritage in a memoir which is beautifully written, candid, funny and moving." Helen Dunmore

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Moving Memories Photo to Painting with Acrylic Paints & Mixed Media


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Content Source:https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Moving-Memories-Photo-to-Painting-with-Acrylic-Paints-Mixed-Media/1834056944
Genre / Category: Drawing & Painting , Art
File Size :1.2GB
Would you like to turn your favorite photo into a painting? Join me and create stunning mixed media art from your fondest memories without having to actually paint your subject.

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Before the Knife Memories of an African Childhood


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2003 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0375713468 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Carolyn Slaughter recalls her childhood in Africa and how the land itself released her from a rage that threatened to destroy her.For Carolyn Slaughter, who grew up in Botswana in the 1950s, it was the Kalahari Desert that made life bearable. Her father was a cruel and violent district commissioner during the last days of British colonial rule, and their family’s stiff English facade masked an unspeakable household secret. But out in the bush, the intensity of the air and the beauty of the landscape touched her with a kind of feverish grace. She would disappear for hours to watch the flat brown river with its water lilies and crocodiles; the thorn trees and the flocks of flamingos; the local women with their babies strapped to their backs. Filled with the majesty and splendor of the ever-changing desert, Before The Knife is the deeply moving story of a girl who endured and transcended her family’s violence to emerge an impassioned observer and explicator of her world.

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