Myths in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths in Crisis write by Jose Manuel Losada. This book was released on 2015-09-04. Myths in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section examines the crisis experienced by those myths which permeate the material world, investigating historical and fictitious characters, mythologized places, and languages. The volume is a remarkable collection of 30 texts that were selected from 300 proposals by prestigious researchers from over 30 countries during the 3rd International Conference of Myth Criticism held in Madrid in October 2014.
Masculinity in Crisis
Masculinity in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masculinity in Crisis write by R. Horrocks. This book was released on 1994-08-30. Masculinity in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.
Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?
Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? write by Peter P. Rogers. This book was released on 2005-12-22. Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Always considered a classic renewable resource, after a hundred thousand years of farming and industry, rivers in many parts of the world are running dry and the groundwater is over pumped. In addition, the rate at which water sources are becoming contaminated with waste from humans, industry, and agriculture is truly alarming. Do these factors add up to a water crisis that merits drastic, large-scale action? Not necessarily say the editors of Water Crisis: Myth or Reality. They challenge this pessimism, concluding that while there are serious global water issues to be considered, the concept of a global water crisis is largely overstated. The book examines the issues and explores which conditions are permanent and unchangeable and which are remediable and changeable. The chapters explore when and where severe regional and local water problems occur and make suggestions about how they may be solved in a deliberate, non-crisis manner. The book covers recent breakthroughs in desalination technologies, the eco-sanitation revolution, international trade in agricultural products, methods of governance and negotiation in water allocation, and pricing and devolution of property rights and the roles they play in solving water issues. The editors, along with a panel of world-renowned experts, suggest that water issues can be solved over the next few decades using new technologies and processes.
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory write by Sheldon M Stern. This book was released on 2012-09-05. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis.” —The Atlantic This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. More than a half-century after the event, it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings. This book, from the first historian to listen to and evaluate the White House tapes made during the crisis, does exactly that. “Stern is not alone in questioning the precision of the transcripts offered, but he has made the most painstaking attempt to clarify what was really said and done.” —Journal of American History
Myths of the Food Crisis
Myths of the Food Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths of the Food Crisis write by Nick Eberstadt. This book was released on 1976. Myths of the Food Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
