Tag: Unnatural

Free Download Sharman Apt Russell, "Hunger: An Unnatural History"
English | 2006 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0465071651, 0465071635 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that transcends nature to shape the very of fabric of societies. In a fascinating survey of centuries of thought on hunger’s unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these remarkable cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today. Written with consummate skill, a compassionate heart, and stocked with facts, figures, and fascinating lore, Hunger is an inspiring window on history and the human spirit.

Free Download Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth by Mark Roeder
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1628724358 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 2.0 MB
Unnatural Selection is the first book to examine the rise of the "technocentric being"-or geek-who personifies a distinct new phase in human evolution.

Free Download Rebecca Frost, "The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Descriptions"
English | ISBN: 179364621X | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Descriptions examines over thirty of King’s works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the chronology of the Description and then assigning them a function. Death is horrific and perhaps the only universal horror because it comes to us all. Stephen King, known as the Master of Horror, rarely writes without including death in his works. However, he keeps death from being repetitious or fully expected because of the ways in which he plays with the subject, maintaining what he himself has called a childlike approach to death. Although character deaths are a constant, the narrative function of those deaths changes depending on their placement within the Description.

Free Download Roger Davidson, "Illicit and Unnatural Practices: The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900"
English | ISBN: 147444119X | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland. Case studies of sex-related offences, including abortion, bestiality, brothel-keeping, child sexual assault, and wilful HIV transmission, reveal how far the legal process both reflected and reinforced contemporary moral panics and how far it was shaped by the interplay between law officers and forensic experts, by the prejudices of the local community and civic leaders, and by Scotland’s distinctive legal and moral identity. The law in practice is seen to have sustained important norms of sexual behaviour and masculinity along with an enduring double moral standard with respect to female sexuality. This volume thus affords a remarkable new perspective on the sexual behaviours and ideologies of Scottish society across the twentieth century and into the new millennium.

Free Download Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges By Jan Alber (editor), Brian Richardson (editor)
2020 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0814214193 | PDF | 5 MB
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challengesoffers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in theoretical debates in several areas of both critical theory and narrative theory, including affect studies, immersion, narration, character theory, frames, and theories of reception and interpretation. Antimimetic perspectives are also extended to additional fields, including autobiography, graphic narratives, drama and film, performance studies, and interactive gamebooks. Written by an international assemblage of distinguished and emerging narrative scholars and theorists, this collection promises to greatly enhance the study of narrative and further advance the frontiers of narrative theory.