5 History / Military eBooks

Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup by Pelin Başcı
Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) by Lucia Boldrini
Martin Luther's Legacy: Reforming Reformation Theology for the 21st Century by Mark Ellingsen
Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools, and Techniques by Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara
The Holy Land: Contemporary Visions and Scriptures by Ithamar Handelman Smith

*Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup by Pelin Başcı

English | 27 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319597213 | 356 Pages | PDF | 3.96 MB
This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup. Envisioned as an interdisciplinary study in cultural studies rather than a disciplinary work on cinema, the book advocates for an understanding of popular culture in discerning emerging narratives of nationhood. Through feature films and television serials directly dealing with the coup of 1980, the book exposes tropes and discursive continuities such as “childhood” and “the child”. It argues that these conventional tropes enable popular debates on the modern nation’s history and its myths of identity.

*Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) by Lucia Boldrini

English | 27 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 3319554131 | 314 Pages | PDF | 3.32 MB
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story.
Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity.

*Martin Luther's Legacy: Reforming Reformation Theology for the 21st Century by Mark Ellingsen

English | 27 Nov. 2017 | ISBN: 1137587571 | 348 Pages | PDF | 3.17 MB
This volume is a unique interpretation of what Martin Luther contributes to renewed appreciation of Biblical diversity. The Church in the West is struggling. One reason behind this is that the prevailing models for Theology have imposed logical and modern ways of thinking about faith that renders theology academic, and therefore largely irrelevant for daily life. By letting the first Reformer speak for himself in this book, Mark Ellingsen shows how Martin Luther’s theological approach can reform the Church’s theology today. The real Luther-not the one taught by his various systematic interpreters-presents Christian faith in its entirety, with all its rough edges, in such a way as to direct on how and when to employ those dimensions of the Biblical witness most appropriate for the situation in which we find ourselves.

*Sketch Now, Think Later: Jump into Urban Sketching with Limited Time, Tools, and Techniques by Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara

English | October 1st, 2017 | ISBN: 1631593447, 9781631593444, 9781631595097 | 115 Pages | True PDF | 17.02 MB
Sketching is more popular than ever, but busy lives leave almost no room for sitting down with a pad and pen, and practicing. Many people give up on their potential hobby (and artistic outlet) because they feel they just don’t have the time to lay the groundwork. Here’s a secret though: you do have time each day to practice, you just need to incorporate sketching into your daily life.
Sketch Now, Think Later covers the tools, techniques and tips that author and Urban Sketching Correspondent of Boston Mike Daikubara has developed in his more than 15 years as a practicing artist, and will show you how to fully dive into any sketching situation with limited time and tools, and still be able to produce memorable, great looking, fun sketches!

*The Holy Land: Contemporary Visions and Scriptures by Ithamar Handelman Smith

English | October 19th, 2017 | ASIN: B074H5F439, ISBN: 191092458X | 155 Pages | EPUB | 5.24 MB
In this current context of desperate geopolitical upheaval, there is no better time to address oneness, reconciliation and a statement of otherness beyond the limitations of contemporary media.
The Holy Land: Contemporary Visions and Scriptures seeks dialogue with ancient lands and sacred spaces, along with modern visions of the people who inhabit them and the burgeoning contradictions of their daily lives. It attempts to address and liberate a complex, profound relationship between man and territory since the beginning of time, and nowhere is this dynamic more prescient than in the Holy Land.