Memory Culture

Despite my best intentions, I was beginning to understand how my dad saw the world. The shadows haunting every living thing. The secrets inside the lies wrapped in bullshit. Even Gracie’s box of pills was beginning to make sense. For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, trying to outrun the memories that haunt them both. They moved back to Andy’s hometown to try a “normal” life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives.

With vivid story-telling, extensive historical research, and on-the-ground reporting, Ghattas dispels accepted truths about a region she calls home. She explores how Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, once allies and twin pillars of US strategy in the region, became mortal enemies after 1979. She shows how they used and distorted religion in a competition that went well beyond geopolitics. Feeding intolerance, suppressing cultural expression, and encouraging sectarian violence from Egypt to Pakistan, the war for cultural supremacy led to many events.

Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.

Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs.

The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end - if indeed it will - and why we can't stop fantasizing about it.

The Collective Unconscious Debate: Modern Controversies and Its Relevance Today explores one of psychology’s most mysterious and debated ideas through a fresh, modern lens. From the scientific critique of inherited archetypes to the cultural, philosophical, and digital implications of shared symbolism, this engaging and accessible book dives deep into the complex questions surrounding the collective unconscious. Is the collective unconscious a timeless truth, a metaphor for human connection, or a relic of outdated thinking? This book examines the theory’s impact on therapy, neuroscience...

Photographic Memory: An Album of Illustrated Song Lyrics, is a musical double album in book form with eighteen original song lyrics, each one with an accompanying full color illustration or vintage photograph from the author’s collection. There are songs about adolescence, friendship, lost loves, pop music, the rise of fascism, time travel, scream queens, and not one, but two songs about the best actress you never heard of, Megan Ward. Photographic Memory: An Album of Illustrated Song Lyrics is a unique poetry book and a perfect gift for pop music lovers and illustration fans.

On Hamra's thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home. No one has remembered her special day. And so, stifled and angry, Hamra ignores something she shouldn’t: the rules of the jungle.

🎉 Step Up to the Plate, Hit a Slam Dunk, and Score Big Laughs with the Ultimate Sports Flashback! Do you remember when sports heroes were larger than life, and the halftime show was a bathroom break—not a concert? When the crack of a wooden bat or the roar of a vintage muscle car was the soundtrack of summer? If you grew up anywhere near the golden age of sports—or just love a good stroll down memory lane—this is the trivia book you’ve been waiting for! Introducing THE ULTIMATE BABY BOOMERS’ SPORTS TRIVIA QUIZ BOOK—a nostalgic, side-splitting, and brain-boosting ride through ...

Do you choose the movies or television programs for someone in your care? Do you plan activities and invite interesting guest speakers to address residents in your assisted living homes? How do you know which programs to choose or watch or guest speakers to invite? To know what topics, movies, books or television shows are relevant to the people in your care, you need to know who the popular culture creators were in the 20th century. This set of four books attempts to introduce activity directors and caregivers-at-home to the popular culture creators of the 20th century by simply presenting...

⚠️ WARNING: This Book May Cause Uncontrollable Singing, Spontaneous Dancing, And Legendary Game Nights! Think you remember the hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s? 🎶 The Ultimate Baby Boomer Music Trivia Book is your ticket to relive the glory days. Where every question takes you back, every answer unlocks a memory, and every game night becomes unforgettable. 🎯 Side Effects May Include: 🎙️ Sudden Bursts Of Singing - Especially in public places. 💃 Unplanned Dancing - Kitchen floors may turn into disco arenas. 🤔 Sharp Memory Recall - Finally, a fun way to exercise your ...

The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last...

This program is read by Earphones Award–winning narrator Edoardo Ballerini. "Edoardo Ballerini reads my books exceptionally well. He gets my pacing, the inflections of muted irony, the anxiety of loss, the search for meaning that my prose on paper isn’t always able to convey—he gets it all...

We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear - be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness - but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and forgiveness?

The Lost Cause and the Great War tells the stories of central Tennessee Progressive-era reformers to illustrate the fascinating broader issue of how Southerners steeped in Lost Cause Civil War mythologies simultaneously developed patriotic American fervor. Focusing on Luke Lea, a prominent politician and American army officer who attempted to capture Kaiser Wilhelm II during World War I, the book reveals the intricate interplay between three competing ideas: attachment to the memory of the Confederacy, intense American nationalism, and advocacy for progressive reforms.

Yoga Mudras - Basics of Meditation: To increase immunity, happiness and reduce stress level. This book is related to hand gestures which creates different Mudras. Total 51 Mudras have been described in this book along with how mudras are affecting our body, mind, heart etc. Mudra yoga has been primarily invented by India and this knowledge should be known to everyone. What is the spiritual as well as scientific reason behind it? How it works? What are the advantages of mudras? How to do it? How much time required for doing so? All related questions have been answered in this book. Focused ...

Nowhere are Kathryn Tucker Windham's transcendent themes of community, fidelity, and family more evident than in these stories. The author calls them "recollections of a happy Southern childhood", but her avid admirers would tell you that they are much more than that.

For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from television's holiday presentations. The world loves everything from iconic cartoons like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas to the groundbreaking Julia sitcom segment, "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas," Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the 1992 television-remake of Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen embraces it all, offering a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane.

Stories of growing up in an Irish village told with a "blend of history, tradition and humour". Siobhán Lincoln records the social history of Ardmore village, tales of school days, dances, fishing, work, language and tradition. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants a picture of life in rural Ireland from the late 19th century to the dawning of the Millennium. From the forword by Fergal Keane: "The past slips away from us quietly. We are too consumed with the drama of the present to notice the departure of old ways and traditions. In an age of economic growth without parallel in...

Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell tap their experiences with the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research for this extraordinary book. What if you could remember everything? With today’s technology, that notion becomes more realistic each day. Bell and Gemmell explain what it could all mean.