![]() ![]() ![]() The topics covered by our journal in its 2 generous sections – Literary-Isms & Cultural-Isms are as they follow:Īs a research journal, the beginnings can be traced back to the academic year of 1966-1967, when, under the name of Lucrari stiintifice, the section of academic research emerged at the University of Oradea. ![]() TCR specializes in bridging the world of academic literary criticism and theories with the aliveness of everyday literary phenomenon as reflected in the cultural media and book-production. Confluente, Annals of the University of Oradea, Modern Literature Fascicle, is an academic, double blind peer-reviewing journal that is published once a year. ![]()
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![]() Rather than wade into their quagmire, he opts instead for an “intuitive” definition of culture favoured by primatologist Frans de Waal: “How we do and think about things, transmitted by nongenetic means.” It seems like a missed opportunity. Sold by Penguin 4.5 star 19 reviews Ebook 800 Pages familyhome Eligible info 13.99 Ebook Free sample Switch to. ![]() He notes that such scholars are also engaged in contentious debates of their own with “postmodernists” that he declines to follow. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. ![]() He contends that at least some “weren't thrilled” by the discovery that species such as chimpanzees have a certain kind of culture, and says that they emphasize human-centric definitions to cut out “chimps and other hoi polloi”. Publication date 2017 Topics Science, Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Social Science, Criminology Collection opensource Language English. Maybe he thinks they are just not interested in playing ball. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. ![]() Given the importance that Sapolsky attaches to context and culture, I was disappointed that he did not engage more with the varied tribes of scholars - historians, anthropologists, scholars of religion and more - who might not be scientists, but who study these things for a living. ![]() ![]() Later I was trying to describe to my partner the mix of belief and doubt this opening offered. I am a particularly gullible person with an overactive imagination. The long letter is followed by an understatement: “It seemed unbelievable to me” (3). In the first chapter, Myles receives a letter from a lawyer whose client, Rosie, is pressing “charges against her owner for a variety of abuses and crimes against dog kind” (3). I spent a whole morning trying to find a quote of Amy Hempel’s and I ended up in a search results list that told me what I already knew: dogs teach us lessons, dogs are better than people, and dog owners have a lot to say about all this.Įileen Myles’ new book, Afterglow, is “a dog memoir” whose central node is Rosie, Myles’ late pitbull, but it is not in any conventional sense a book about a dog. ![]() ![]() Their antics are one of the Internet’s enduring consolations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book challenges the conventional view of Genghis Khan as a barbaric conqueror and presents a more nuanced and complex portrait of a visionary leader. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is an excellent read for anyone interested in world history, leadership, and cultural exchange. The book concludes with an analysis of Genghis Khan's legacy and his influence on the modern world. Weatherford argues that the Mongols were both conquerors and cultural innovators who fostered a global exchange of goods, ideas, and technologies. The book then explores the expansion of the Mongol Empire and its impact on the societies of China, Persia, and Europe. Weatherford describes how Genghis Khan developed a new style of warfare based on mobility, coordination, and deception, which allowed the Mongols to overcome much larger and better-equipped armies. The book begins with the rise of Genghis Khan and his conquest of the tribes of the steppe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chesya Burke has] touched something special in her] stories. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders "What a stunning collection. These dark tales announce the arrival of a formidable new master of the macabre." "These raw, brutal stories, often with intriguingly open endings, display an odd and unsettling relationships to the poetry of violence. If you're ready to slip into someone else's skin for a while, then it's time to come play white. Gritty and sublime, the stories of Let's Play White feature real people facing the worlds they're given, bringing out the best and the worst of what it means to be human. "I Make People Do Bad Things" shines a metaphysical light on Harlem's most notorious historical madame, and then, with a deft twist into melancholic humor, "Cue: Change" brings a zombie-esque apocalypse, possibly for the betterment of all mankind. From the spectrum spanning despair and hope in "What She Saw When They Flew Away" to the stark weave of personal struggles in "Chocolate Park," Let's Play White speaks with the voices of the overlooked and unheard. But what if he could play white, the way so many others seem to do? Would it bring him privilege or simply deny the pain? The title story in this collection asks those questions, and then moves on to challenge notions of race, privilege, personal choice, and even life and death with equal vigor. White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a human being. ![]() ![]() His goal was to set a record-most North American species seen in a year-but along the way he began to realize that at this breakneck pace he was only looking, not seeing. When he was broke he would pick fruit or do odd jobs to earn the fifty dollars or so that would last him for weeks. ![]() A report of a rare bird would send him hitching nonstop from Pacific to Atlantic and back again. Maybe not all that unusual a thing to do in the seventies, but what Kenn was searching for was a little different: not sex, drugs, God, or even self, but birds. ![]() An ornithologist’s account of his youthful, year-long, cross-country birdwatching adventure: “A fascinating memoir of an obsession.” - BooklistĪt sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, Riley along with Grace and Alexis torture Brooklyn in order to exorcise the demon. Riley is one of those girls who is quite self righteous and so, she decides that this classmate named Brooklyn who is a bit emo and goth is evil and has a demon inside her. In her new home in Mississippi, she has made friends with the popular girls, lead by this queen bee named Riley. She’s always been the new girl and has had trouble making friends. Sofia has moved all over the United States because she’s a military brat. Sure, I rushed through The Merciless and it was a fast read, however, it was also really stomach turning. Unfortunately, the idea of the book was a lot more awesome than the actual book itself. I thought a book about Mean Girls meets The Exorcist sounded like it would be really awesome. I began reading The Merciless by Danielle Vega based on the pink cover and the horror theme. ![]() I think I keep trying to make fetch happen with certain horror books, when clearly they just are not my thing. ![]() ![]() Sambo scoops up the tigers-turned-butter, takes them home, and has his mother make a feast of pancakes out of their remains. Unwittingly outsmarting the hungry predators with his flashy new cloths, Sambo eventually tricks the tigers into chasing one another to exhaustion, when they all melt into a giant puddle of ghee, or Indian-style clarified butter. Originally written in 1899 by Helen Bannerman, the wife of a British colonial agent in Madras, Little Black Sambo tells the story of a South Indian boy who contends with four tigers in the jungle one day. ![]() The two decided it would make a perfect marketing theme with “excellent promotional potential,” and soon, colorful billboards were popping up across Santa Barbara to tempt would-be patrons.īattistone and Bohnett drew upon the children’s book Little Black Sambo for their marketing platform. Their hopes of building a pancake franchise and the clever combination of the owners’ names fit with a popular children’s story about a boy named Sambo who ate 169 pancakes. Grasping for a name both could agree upon, the partners combined their names, Sam and “Bo,” to create “Sambo’s.” The name worked in another way, too. Coffee sold for a dime a cup and a stack of pancakes cost only 40 cents. Hoping to tap into blue-collar workers and middle-class vacationers, they opened up a joint-venture pancake and coffee house featuring moderate prices. On June 17, 1957, Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett saw the first fruits of their entrepreneurial vision ripen along Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many times when the cover or the title makes us want to read something, but the combination of these two things is rare and our curiosity gets the better of us, even if we have no clue what the story is about. This and the title automatically puts us in a mood before we even open the book. The cover is gorgeous in a bloody, disturbing way. One of the first things that is really striking, and one of the first things that created a buzz about this novella is the cover. After reading Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, I have spent a few weeks thinking about it, about the story and the hype and gathering my thoughts. I bought this from WeirdPunk Books when it first came out, and now that it has been sold to Titan Books and will be rereleased in September with extra stories, I decided that now would be the right time to review it. There are many times when I have read a book and have sat on reviewing it because I really do not know what to think. What have you done today to deserve your eyes? ![]() ![]() Preorder new edition here:Ī whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s-a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. ![]() ![]() ![]() The advent of death becomes more disturbing and horrifying with the grunts and screams of the dying man along with the frustrated and weeping faces of the dear ones. It is well said by a philosopher that the assumption of forthcoming death frights men more than the death itself. do not experience as much pain as a wounded leg can. The other vital parts of the human body like heart, brain, lungs, etc. Moreover, by wounding the legs severely, one could die suffering less pain. One can experience regret for the cause of others death, by doing so. For instance, one might have read in the friars’ book of meditation that by inflicting certain pain on oneself one can realize the true nature of pain during death. ![]() In spite of sufficient awareness, the human beings still associate a lot of superstitions and mix it with vanity. To worry about the sin after committing is the characteristic of a holy and religious man but to fear the death as the supremacy of nature is man’s weakness. It is natural to think about death, however, to think about it with composure is a virtue of the wise men. With the stories of death is narrated to them, the fear inside them increases. The fear of darkness increases among the children when the horrific tales about the darkness is narrated to them. He starts his argument the men fears that death in the same a child fears the darkness. ![]() Bacon opens the essay with a simile of death and darkness. ![]() |