The Virgin Mary across Cultures
Elina Vuola, "The Virgin Mary across Cultures"
English | ISBN: 0367786125 | 2021 | 188 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
This book examines women's relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern culture. To some, she appears to be a symbol of religious oppression, while to others, she is a constant comfort and even an inspiration towards empowerment.

The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object
The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object (The New Library of Psychoanalysis) by Jan Abram
2021 | ISBN: 103207518X, 1032075236 | English | 210 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant.

The Spirit of Individualism Shanghai Avant-Garde Art in the 1980s
Lansheng Zhang, "The Spirit of Individualism: Shanghai Avant-Garde Art in the 1980s "
English | ISBN: 9811986525 | 2023 | 404 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book is about avant-garde art in Shanghai in the 1980s which challenges the narrative in the current discourse on the appearance of contemporary art in China. Offering fresh perspectives and new insights into the art and the artists of this period, the book includes critical events in Shanghai, that will attract the serious attention of art professionals and collectors. The emergence of the Shanghai art scene in the 1980s mirrors the revitalisation of Shanghai that was tasked to lead China's economic development trajectory onto the world stage. Shanghai, with its semi-colonial, political, economic and cultural history, including the strong legacy of the early twentieth century modernist art movement, has played a vital role in China's modernisation and presents itself as a unique case in the evolution of contemporary art in China.

The Shortest History of the Crown
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates
English | October 4th, 2022 | ISBN: 1910400882 | 313 pages | True EPUB | 12.95 MB
'There have been scores of books about the monarchy but few, if any, as fearless and perceptive as this is... Bates tells it like it is, covering every aspect with rare humour and intelligence. I couldn't recommend it more highly.'

The Sergeant The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said
The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army by Dean Calbreath
English | February 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1639363246 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 47.41 MB
From the nobility in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey through the nineteenth century that takes him from Africa to the Ottoman Empire, and finally from Czarist Russia to the American Civil War, becoming a sergeant in one of the first African American regiments in the Union Army.