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Computers for Seniors - Email, Internet, Photos, and More in 14 Easy Lessons
epub | 26.79 MB | English | Author :Chris Ewin, Carrie Ewin, Cheryl Ewin | No Starch Press
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Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step guide that will take you all the way from pressing the "On" button on your new computer to being a confident user who can send email to family and friends, shop online safely, read the latest ne, watch funny YouTube videos, share cute pictures of your grandkids, check the weather forecast, and much more.
You'll learn to:
•Plug in, set up, and turn on your computer
•Print and share photos of your grandkids, vacations, pets, friends, and special life events
•Install helpful tools like a calendar, money manager, and weather tracker
•Search the internet for ne, recipes, gardening tips, sports updates, and anything else that interests you
•Watch entertaining YouTube videos or educational lectures and make video calls to anywhere in the world
•Find and listen to new music (or your favorite classics) and read electronic books
•Email your friends...
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The Sex Lives of English Women
epub | 467.39 KB | English | Author :Wendy Jones | 2016 | Profile Books
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'There's a lot of stigma attached to sex. Particularly with women, you have a big dichotomy between: Do you have sex? Do you not? Do you be a slut? Do you be a virgin? Do you be a prude? Do you be a man-whore? You can't really win.'
Women are always being told how to be sexy, but are rarely asked what actually turns them on. Wendy Jones wanted to find out, so she interviewed twenty-four women from all walks of life, including a burlesque dancer, a girl guide leader, a shop assistant, a ninety-four year old who remembers the sexual freedom of the war, a transexual, a nun, a feminist into BDSM, a covered '., a mother, a student, a polyamorist, and a sexual healer.
The women talked about their lives, bodies, sexual fantasies and relationships, about what they've learned, how they have been hurt, what they enjoy and what they long for. The intervie are frank, engaging, and surprising. Each woman is unique but together they speak for a...
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The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest (Regional Vegetable Gardening)
epub | 3.58 MB | English | Author :Michael VanderBrug | Timber Press
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How to grow your own food in the Heartland!
There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening-what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are decisions based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest, by regional expert Michael VanderBrug, focuses on the unique eccentricities of the Midwest gardening calendar. The month-by-month format makes it perfect for beginners and accessible to everyone-gardeners can start gardening the month they pick it up. Perfect for home gardeners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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The Gorgeous Slaughter - Christina Hart
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Have you ever seen your name splattered in ink? Have you ever been tied to the murder of the girl who claimed the love of your life?
Lovina "Love" Landry has. At just seventeen, she's lived a life full of grief, trauma, and various mental illnesses. So it's not surprising when her infatuation with Charlie O'Sullivan-the foster boy from D Street in Southie, with the shy smile and warm eyes-quickly turns into an obsession.
On a one-track mission to steal his heart, Love soon discovers it's already taken, by his girlfriend, Tracy Ellis. The sun-kissed girl with the golden hair, dazzling smile, and seemingly perfect life. Why should she get everything?
Reset.
Remove Tracy.
Love now finds herself in prison, accused of Tracy's murder. She can't recall the details, only the blackout.
You're probably wondering if she did it. If she killed Tracy and took the smile away from the girl who had everything going for her. If Love is the monster the articles will tell you she is. It's the million-dollar question, what everyone wants to know, including Love.
Because she too wonders if she did it.
Maybe she did.
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The Turtle and the Hare (Furry - Amanda Kimberley
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What happens when her pure hare-itage meets royal blood?
Harriet is descended from a long line of pure hares. Unfortunately, an experiment rendered her a hybrid, a mutant. a critter who runs towards danger instead of from it. Because of it, she's found it near impossible to move up the ranks as a FUC agent.
Until a sexy leatherback turtle sho up at the Academy and demands Harriet be on his security detail!
Prince Lear from Skyros Island is in search of a mate, but everyone suitable has known him since he hatched. How is a slow-moving turtle supposed to find someone to polish his shell in this fast-paced world?
When he comes face to face with Harriet, he's smitten. He doesn't mind at all that she's not reptile. Fast of word and fleet of foot, not only is this hare his lucky charm, she's his mate too.
As if his royal turtleness didn't have enough to balance on his back, a plot is afoot to steal his royal blood.
What will it take to convince her to make his shell her home?
Turtle and the Hare is part of Eve Langlais' Furry United Coalition EveL Worlds.
Does this premise and world seem familiar? That's because it is based off the Eve Langlais Furry United Coalition. Eve Langlais has invited her author friends to come and play in her world.
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Truth is in the Darkness (Payne - Heather Sunseri
epub | 470.69 KB | English | Author :Heather Sunseri | 2020 | Sun Publishing
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The man she barely escaped in her youth stands ready to welcome her home.
Lily Thomas can no longer run from her past. With her New York publishing career in tatters and a stalker tracing her every step, she flees to her hometown in hope of a fresh start. But when the obsessed fiend follo, she fears the only person who can help her is the man whose heart she broke 12 years ago.
FBI Special Agent Cooper Adams never got over losing his childhood sweetheart. Dedicating his life to taking down human traffickers, he's still tormented by the shocking event that sent Lily running from his arms. While elated by their chance reunion, the discovery of a bloody warning splattered across her front door sparks Cooper's protective instincts for his former love.
With nowhere safe from the terror, Lily receives threatening messages tying Cooper to her ordeal. And with each clue they uncover, the agent believes the crimes of the past are on a collision course, and tragic consequences are imminent.
Can Lily and Cooper solve a brutal sex trafficking case decades in the making, or will a shadowy force rip their love apart?
Truth is in the Darkness is the second standalone novel in the suspenseful Paynes Creek romantic thriller series. If you like small-town characters, dark twists and turns, and the perfect balance of action in and out of the bedroom, then you'll adore Heather Sunseri's riveting tale.
Buy Truth is in the Darkness to face the horror today!
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Wolf's Bite (Mafia Monsters Ser - Atlas Rose
epub | 327.3 KB | English | Author :Atlas Rose, Kim Faulks
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NOW A TOP 15 AMAZON BESTSELLER
Rosie
They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right.
No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking.
He is my forbidden, shiny apple.
The striking fallacy to my blunt, raw, truth.
He is also my sister's ex-boyfriend.
One thing you should know before you judge me;
I saw him first. I craved him first. I loved him first.
Eleven years later, he waltzed into my life, demanding a second chance.
Dean Cole wants to be my bronze horseman. My white knight has finally arrived. Hopefully, he isn't too late.
Dean
They say the brightest stars burn out the fastest. They're right.
She sets my mind on fire.
All smart mouth, snarky attitude and a huge heart.
In a world where everything is dull, she shines like Sirius.
Eleven years ago, fate tore us apart.
This time, I dare it to try.
Getting to her is a battlefield, but man, that's why they call me Ruckus.
Rosie LeBlanc is about to find out how hard I can fight.
And conquering her will be the sweetest victory.
Ruckus is a complete standalone and a part of the Sinners of Saint series
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Love Contract - Jenna Rose
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A marriage built on hatred. A love that can't be denied.
Self-made billionaire. That's what they call my father, but I'm the man behind the empire.
I built the company, brick by brick, while he watched from the sidelines with a drink in his hand.
Now, two days before my thirtieth birthday, he says he's going to cut me out if I don't settle down.
A wife in one day? That's easy for a guy like me.
I can have any girl, but I need a good girl who can fool my father.
And I found one. But there's a bit of a problem...
She hates my guts.
I told her it would be a simple arrangement:
She needs money. And I need a wife. Then it's done.
But I lied. I have no intention on letting her go.
In fact, I'm going to keep her for the rest of my life.
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Optoelectronic Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technology
pdf | 14.05 MB | Author :Mohamed Atef
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This book describes the newest implementations of
integrated photodiodes fabricated in nanometer standard CMOS technologies. It
also includes the required fundamentals, the state-of-the-art, and the design
of high-performance laser drivers, transimpedance amplifiers, equalizers, and
limiting amplifiers fabricated in nanometer CMOS technologies. This book sho
the newest results for the performance of integrated optical receivers, laser
drivers, modulator drivers and optical sensors in nanometer standard CMOS
technologies. Nanometer CMOS technologies rapidly advanced, enabling
the implementation of integrated optical receivers for high data rates of
several Giga-bits per second and of high-pixel count optical imagers and
sensors. In particular, low cost silicon CMOS optoelectronic integrated
circuits became very attractive because they can be extensively applied to
short-distance optical communications, such as local area network, chip-to-chip
and board-to-board interconnects as well as to imaging and medical sensors.
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ENIAC in Action Making and Remaking the Modern Computer
epub | 5.98 MB | English | Author :Thomas Haigh | MIT Press
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The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer. But ENIAC was more than just a milestone on the road to the modern computer. During its decade of operational life, ENIAC calculated sines and cosines and tested for statistical outliers, plotted the trajectories of bombs and shells, and ran the first numerical weather simulations. ENIAC in Action tells the whole story for the first time, from ENIAC's design, construction, testing, and use to its afterlife as part of computing folklore. It highlights the complex relationship of ENIAC and its designers to the revolutionary approaches to computer architecture and coding first documented by John von Neumann in 1945.
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Parameter Extraction and Complex Nonlinear Transistor Models
pdf | 45.13 MB | Author :Kompa, Gnter;
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All model parameters are fundamentally coupled together, so that directly measured individual parameters, although widely used and accepted, may initially only serve as good estimates. This comprehensive resource presents all aspects concerning the modeling of semiconductor field-effect device parameters based on gallium-arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) technology. Metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs), high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), their structures and functions, and existing transistor models are also classified. The Shockley model is presented in order to give insight into semiconductor field-effect transistor (FET) device physics and explain the relationship between geometric and material parameters and device performance.
Extraction of trapping and thermal time constants is discussed. A special section is devoted to standard nonlinear FET models applied to large-signal measurements, including static-/pulsed-DC and single-/two-tone stimulation. High power measurement setups for signal waveform measurement, wideband source-/load-pull measurement (including envelope source-/load pull) are also included, along with high-power intermodulation distortion (IMD) measurement setup (including envelope load-pull). Written by a world-renowned expert in the field, this book is the first to cover of all aspects of semiconductor FET device modeling in a single volume.
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How Super Cool Stuff Works
pdf | 59.59 MB | Author :DK
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How Super Cool Stuff Works
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Multi-antenna Transceiver Techniques for 3G and Beyond
pdf | 38.83 MB | Author :Ari Hottinen
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Multi-antenna techniques are widely considered to be the most promising avenue for significantly increasing the bandwidth efficiency of wireless data transmission systems. In so called MIMO (multiple input multiple output) systems, multiple antennas are deployed both at the transmitter and the receiver. In MISO (multiple input single output) systems, the receiver has only one antenna, and the multiple transmit antennas are used for transmit diversity.
The key aspects of multiple antenna transceiver techniques for evolving 3G systems and beyond are presented. MIMO and MISO (transmit diversity) techniques are explained in a common setting. In particular, the book covers linear processing transmit diversity methods with and without side information at the transmitter (feedback), including the current transmit diversity concepts in the WCDMA standards, as well as promising MIMO concepts, crucial for future high data rate systems.
As an example, MIMO and MISO aspects of 3GPP HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) will be considered. Furthermore, examples of high throughput, low complexity space-time codes will be provided, when signalling without side information (open loop concepts). The theory of linear space-time block codes will be developed, and optimal non-orthogonal high throughput codes will be constructed, both for MIMO and MISO systems. Performance may be further improved by feedback from receiver to transmitter. The corresponding closed loop modes in the current 3GPP specifications will be discussed, along with their extensions for more than two transmit antennas. In addition, feedback signalling for MIMO channels will be addressed. Optimal quantisation methods of the feedback messages will be discussed. Finally, hybrid schemes are constructed, where the amount of feedback is reduced using partly open, partly closed loop signalling.
* Provides a concise and up-to-date description of perhaps the most active area of research in wireless communications
* Unique in presenting recent developments in both WCDMA and MIMO
* MIMO and MISO techniques are explained in a common setting
* Special emphasis is placed on combining theoretical understanding with engineering applicability
For Research engineers in academia and industry, and development engineers in 3G system design as well as research students.
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Efficient Integration of 5G and Beyond Heterogeneous Networks
pdf | 5.66 MB | Author :Zi-Yang Wu
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This book discusses the smooth integration of optical and RF networks in 5G and beyond (5G+) heterogeneous networks (HetNets), covering both planning and operational aspects. The integration of high-frequency air interfaces into 5G+ wireless networks can relieve the congested radio frequency (RF) bands. Visible light communication (VLC) is now emerging as a promising candidate for future generations of HetNets. Heterogeneous RF-optical networks combine the high throughput of visible light and the high reliability of RF. However, when implementing these HetNets in mobile scenarios, several challenges arise from both planning and operational perspectives. Since the mmWave, terahertz, and visible light bands share similar wave propagation characteristics, the concepts presented here can be broadly applied in all such bands.
To facilitate the planning of RF-optical HetNets, the authors present an algorithm that specifies the joint optimal densities of the base stations by drawing on stochastic geometry in order to satisfy the users' quality-of-service (QoS) demands with minimum network power consumption. From an operational perspective, the book explores vertical handovers and multi-homing using a cooperative framework. For vertical handovers, it employs a data-driven approach based on deep neural networks to predict abrupt optical outages; and, on the basis of this prediction, proposes a reinforcement learning strategy that ensures minimal network latency during handovers. In terms of multi-homing support, the authors examine the aggregation of the resources from both optical and RF networks, adopting a two-timescale multi-agent reinforcement learning strategy for optimal power allocation.
Presenting comprehensive planning and operational strategies, the book allo readers to gain an in-depth grasp of how to integrate future coexisting networks at high-frequency bands in a cooperative manner, yielding reliable and high-speed 5G+ HetNets.
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ISTFA 2019 Proceedings from the 45th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis
pdf | 111.69 MB | Author :ASM Interational;
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In this introduction to the first five books of the Old Testament, Victor Hamilton moves chapter by chapter through the Pentateuch, examining the content, structure, and theology. Hamilton surveys each major thematic unit of the Pentateuch and offers useful commentary on overarching themes and connections between Old Testament texts.
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Language, Society and Power An Introduction, 5th Edition
pdf | 2.15 MB | Author :Mooney, Annabelle; Evans, Betsy;
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Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety of social contexts.
This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It considers whether representations of people and their language matter, explores how identity is constructed and performed, and considers the creative potential of language in the media, politics and everyday talk.
The fifth edition of this popular textbook features: - Updated chapters with new activities;
- Examples that include material related to youth language, computer-mediated communication, texting and electronic communication;
- New material on online mass media, fake ne and Twitter as a form of political agency;
- More discussion of social media, social networking, memes and mobile communication;
- An introduction to the concepts of translanguaging and superdiversity;
- An expanded Gender chapter that questions binary gender identities;
- A companion website which includes more video material to support learning as students make their way through the book.
Language, Society and Power assumes no linguistic background among readers, and is a must-read for all students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology and psychology who are studying language and society for the first time.
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Jerome of Stridon
pdf | 5.81 MB | Author :JEROME Jerome de Stridon
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À côté des Homélies sur les Psaumes ou des Homélies sur Marc, dont l' unité se constitue autour du livre biblique commenté, ces douze Homélies sur des sujets divers témoignent des différentes facettes de la prédication de Jérôme à Bethléem. On y retrouve certes le savant exégète, attentif à souligner les traits majeurs et l'enseignemen spirituel qu' on peut tirer de la lecture du jour. On y perçoit également l' enthousiasme du chrétien lors de la célébration des grandes fêtes de l' année liturgique - Noël, Épiphanie - et singulièrement au jour de Pâques, ce " huitième jour " qui inaugure les temps nouveaux. On y entend surtout le supérieur du monastère qu' il a fondé s' adresser spécifiquement à ses moines pour leur rappeler, chaque fois qu' il est possible et dans deux homélies qui leur sont plus particulièrement consacrées, les exigences du " saint propos " qu' ils ont librement choisi et auquel il ne leur appartient plus de renoncer. C' est ainsi un Jérôme, certes sévère et rigoureux, mais aussi fraternel et soucieux des besoins de son auditoire, qui se découvre ici. Professeur agrégé de Lettres classiques, Jean-Louis Gourdain a enseigné longtemps en second cycle, puis en classes préparatoires littéraires au Lycée Jeanne-d' Arc de Rouen. À présent il donne des cours de latin, grec et patristique au Centre Théologique Universitaire de cette ville. Ses travaux portent sur l' exégèse et la prédication de Jérôme, auquel il a consacré sa thèse de doctorat et dont il a édité, en 2005, les Homélies sur Marc dans la collection (SC 494).
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Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication
pdf | 3.52 MB | Author :Tracy Bridgeford
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This collection offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to teaching the complex subject of content management.
The 12 chapters define and explain content management and its accompanying competencies, providing teaching examples in areas including content strategy, topic-based writing, usability studies, and social media. The book covers tasks associated with content management such as analyzing audiences and using information architecture languages including XML and DITA. It highlights the communal aspects of content management, focusing on the work of writing stewardship and project management, and the characteristics of content management in global contexts. It concludes with a look to the future and the forces that shape content management today. The editor situates the collection within a pedagogical exigency, providing sound instructional approaches to teaching content management from a rhetorical perspective.
The book is an essential resource for both instructors new to teaching technical and professional communication, and experienced instructors who are interested in upgrading their pedagogies to include content management.
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The Faces of the Goddess
pdf | 19.8 MB | Author :Motz, Lotte.
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The belief that the earliest humans worshipped a sovereign, nurturing, maternal earth goddess is a popular one. It has been taken up as fact by the media, who routinely depict modern goddess-worshippers as "reviving" the ancient religions of our ancestors. Feminist scholars contend that, in the primordial religions, the Great Mother was honored as the primary, creative force, giving birth to the world, granting fertility to both crops and humans, and ruling supreme over her family pantheon. The peaceful, matriarchal farming societies that worshipped her were eventually wiped out or subjugated by nomadic, patriarchal warrior tribes such as the early Hebre, who brought their male God to overthrow the Great Mother: the first step in the creation and perpetuation of a brutal, male-dominated society and its attendant oppression and degradation of women.
In The Faces of the Goddess, Lotte Motz sets out to test this hypothesis by examining the real female deities of early human cultures. She finds no trace of the Great Mother in their myths or in their worship. From the Eskimos of the arctic wasteland, whose harsh life even today most closely mirrors the earliest hunter gatherers, to the rich cultures of the sunny Fertile Crescent and the islands of Japan, Motz looks at a wide range of goddesses who are called Mother, or who give birth in their myths. She finds that these goddesses have varying origins as ancestor deities, animal protectors, and other divinities, rather than stemming from a common Mother Goddess archetype. For instance, Sedna, the powerful goddess whose chopped-off fingers became the seals and fish that were the Eskimos' chief source of food, had nothing to do with human fertility. Indeed, human motherhood was held in such low esteem that Eskimo women were forced to give birth completely alone, with no human companionship and no helpful deities of childbirth. Likewise, while various Mexican goddesses ruled over healing, women's crafts, motherhood and childbirth, and functioned as tribal protectors or divine ancestors, none of them either embodied the earth itself or granted fertility to the crops: for that the Mexicans looked to the male gods of maize and of rain. Nor were the rituals of these goddesses nurturing or peaceful. The goddess Cihuacoatl, who nurtured the creator god Quetzalcoatl and helped him create humanity, was worshipped with human sacrifices who were pushed into a fire, removed while still alive, and their hearts were cut out. And Motz closely examines the Anatolian goddess Cybele, the "Magna Mater" most often cited as an example of a powerful mother goddess. Hers were the last of the great pagan mysteries of the Mediterranean civilizations to fall before Christianity. But Cybele herself never gives birth, nor does she concern herself with aiding women in childbirth or childrearing. She is not herself a mother, and the male character figuring most prominently in her myths is Attis, her chaste companion. Tellingly, Cybele's priests dedicate themselves to her by castrating themselves, thus mimicking Attis's death--a very odd way to venerate a goddess of fertility.
To depict these earlier goddesses as peaceful and nurturing mothers, as is often done, is to deny them their own complex and sophisticated nature as beings who were often violent and vengeful, delighting in sacrifice, or who reveled in their eroticism and were worshipped as harlots. The idea of a nurturing Mother Goddess is very powerful. In this challenging book, however, Motz sho that She is a product of our own age, not of earlier ones. By discarding this simplistic and worn-out paradigm, we can open the door to a new way of thinking about feminine spirituality and religious experience.
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The Turin Shroud Optical Research in the Past, Present, and Future
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Foreword by Hazel V. Carby
A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Christopher Columbus, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history. Presented here with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel V. Carby, Silencing the Past is an indispensable analysis of the silences in our historical narratives, of what is omitted and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power.
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