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A post from @asksecularwitch inspired us to do a quick search on JSTOR about witches, and we discovered Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature, an open access book by Justyna Sempruch.
Through a critical re-reading of feminist texts, Sempruch develops a new concept of the witch, one that challenges traditional gender-biased theories linking it either to a malevolent "hag" on the margins of culture or to unrestrained "feminine" sexual desire.
Image: "We Are The Daughters Of The Witches You Didn't Burn," from St Lawrence University's Street Art Graphics collection on JSTOR.
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About this book
This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic increase in economic inequality over the past 30 years. Tucker demonstrates how, contrary to The Bell Curve’s predictions, the reallocation of these huge sums was neither rational nor beneficial for society. The book moves on to situate The Bell Curve within contemporary politics and shows how it can be seen to have played a role in the 2016 US election. This compelling analysis will appeal to scholars and those with an interest in the history of scientific racism, the history of psychology and the sociology of knowledge and science.
This is an open access book.
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An Introduction to Open Source Textbooks
Professors and students are calling for a textbook revolution. The truth is, the printed textbook is too expensive for ordinary students on a budget. The printed book industry has held a monopoly for decades and therefore, had the capability to make textbook prices rise exponentially. This is why open source textbooks are coming at a time when students are looking for alternatives.
The term was first coined to refer to software, meaning other developers can view and use the code for their own use. When you use the same word for textbooks, this means learning materials that can be viewed and edited by other professors for their own classes.
How Does it Work?
Open source material doesn't go through the rigorous writing, editing and publishing process that printed books do. It books the risk of not being properly researched before being used. Because of this, universities are leading the way to creating these learning materials that still keeps the accuracy of the information. Professors are being tapped and paid to write the content for open source books oftentimes supported by the university or other donors.
Professors can also make money whenever these materials are printed. So students and teachers looking for content to be used for classes, make sure you look for ones that are developed by universities to ensure the quality of content.
Because these types of books are developed and made available online, technology can be utilized by these forms of learning materials. For example, Apple has developed their own iBooks author, making it easy for anyone to design their own content to be viewed on iPads everywhere. Once an author is done with the open source learning material, they can be uploaded on "bookstores" or online learning databases to be accessed by students and professors. Open source materials are also being called greener as no trees are cut down to produce paper and printed books. A student or professor can just choose which ones to print.
Writers who are worried about copyright should also not be worried about licensing, as there are still options to protect their content. The main difference is that they can still choose to allow certain uses of their materials. For the Academe, being allowed to use these content for free can help professors enrich their lessons and make it more interactive and up-to-date, since there is no more waiting for new editions to come out.
In short, open source textbook adoption a win-win scenario for both professors and teachers. Information is available online, for a low price or for free, and can be used for personal or educational purposes. Visit https://www.alduspress.com/
Jules Mariano is a full-time freelance search engine and social media marketing specialist and a web developer specializing in web content development. He is the co-founder of VPRO Digital Marketing. He currently writes for BookGator.
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girlbossing too close to the sun.
#art#ive literally just been treating this game as a library simuator#i walk from bookseller to bookseller opening up all of their books#vivecs sermons are either a highlight or the point at which i stop reading#ive been trying to convince the ordinators that imitation is the highest form of flattery but it hasnt been working#let me wear your helmets please theyre so funny..#posting morrowind in 2024 isnt a cry for help but youre not wrong to be concerned.#morrowind#almalexia#vivec#im going to explain the chitin armor give me a moment#so the bonewalker nerevar on the shrines is adorable and it was only after drawing it however many times that i realized#it looked relatively close to a modified chitin armor#and so i modified chitin armor a few times and this was probably the cutest result#i also know i drew almalexia relatively pristine and untouched by years and vivec not so much but my thought process was#vivecs role as if not a favorite then the most accessible divine or the most “hands on” in a manner of speaking#acting in ways visible to the general population or actions explicitly brought to their attention#like not that almalexia isnt doing anything she is#but the dissemination of information regarding that is very different etc etc etc#anyways to a certain extent a god is the face on a shrine or in art or upon a statue or carving#but vivecs presence is interwoven with the geography of vvardenfell especially and his actions and writings with pubished materials#and the arts and culture and customs etc etc etc#so to me the face of a god you know and feel a commonality with or a god that walks alongside you is a face you would recognize#and vivec is already otherworldly looking enough#the simple mark of the years on his skin in some way grounding him in reality felt more right#that and i think the ways in which he and almalexia care about outward appearance are slightly different- they prioritize different things#and the ways they present outward power and their embodiment of their respective attributes share some similarities as they both have that#important preoccupation with physical power and physical strength to a certain degree#oh my god nobody read this i am yapping so bad.#tes
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Exciting news for people who love reading research about manuscripts but don't have money!
#manuscript#medieval manuscript#manuscript studies#journal#publishing#open access#good news#free free free#rare books#book history
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and some Reading Material, as promised
Assigned Female At Death, Martha G. Newman (in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, Edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt)
#LITERALLY MONKS HAVE IT ALL#book club tag#this book is open access!! i have provided the link for you!!!!#please go forth and Experience Gender#do weird stuff with christianity or whatever. join me in monk fixation hell
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With the aim of accessibility and in the spirit of knowledge-sharing, a selection of our books are available to download through Open Access programmes. Here you can find links to the books on the OAPEN website, and on other platforms, where you can download electronic copies for free.
@’ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture by Hands, Joss (2010)
A History of Anthropology by Hylland Eriksen, Thomas – Second Edition (2013)
A History of Modern Lebanon by Traboulsi, Fawwaz – Second Edition (2012)
A People’s History of Modern Europe by Pelz, William (2016)
A People’s History of the Russian Revolution by Faulkner, Neil (2017)
A People’s History of the Second World War by Gluckstein, Donny (2012)
A People’s Green New Deal by Alj, Max (2021)
A Theory of ISIS: Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order by Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould (2012)
After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics by Penney, James (2013)
Anthropology’s World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline by Hannerz, Ulf (2010)
Arms and the People edited by Gonzalez, Mike and Barekat, Houman (2012)
Bad News for Refugees by Philo, Greg, Briant, Emma and Donald, Pauline (2013)
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption by Pirani, Simon (2018)
Border Watch by Hall, Alexandra (2012)
Borderline Justice by Webber, Frances (2012)
Capitalism’s New Clothes by Cremin, Ciara (2011)
Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain by Umney, Charles (2018)
Data Power by Thatcher, Jim E., Dalton, Craig M. (2021)
Decolonising the University edited by K. Bhambra, Gurminder, Gebrial, Dalia and Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (2018)
Deepening Divides: How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate Our World by Fassin, Didier (2019)
Development Against Democracy by Gendzier, Irene (2017)
Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa edited by Ben Gadha, Maha et al (2021)
Feminist Solutions for Ending War edited by MacKenzie, Megan and Wegner, Nicole
Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality by Graham, Mark and Dittus, Martin
Global Cities At Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour by Evans, Yara et al. (2009)
Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt by De Smet, Brecht (2016)
Green Parties, Green Future by Gahrton, Per (2015)
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by Newsinger, John (2018)
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West by Parisot, James (2019)
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Anievas, Alexander and Nişancıoğlu, Kerem (2015)
Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life by Curtis, Neal
Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society by Jordan, Tim (2015)
Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas Derricourt, Robin (2011)
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State by Mehmet Kurt (2017)
Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left by Lause, Mark A. (2018)
Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire by Foster, Kevin (2009)
Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production by Lévy, Dominique and Duménil, Gérard
Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data by Bloom, Peter (2019)
Nature for Sale: Commons versus Commodities by Ricoveri, Giovanna (2013)
Nomads, Empires, States by van der Pijl, Kees (2007)
Paul Robeson bu Horne, Gerald (2016)
People Without History by Seabrook, Jeremy; Siddiqui, Imran Ahmed (2011)
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Wade, Peter (2010)
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism by Fuchs, Christian (2019)
Right Across the World by Feffer, John (2021)
Sans Papiers by Bloch, Alice, Sigona, Nando, and Zetter, Roger (2014)
Small is Necessary by Nelson, Anitra (2018)
Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the era of human rights by Steve Striffler (2020)
The ABCs of Political Economy by Hahnel, Robin (2014)
The Anthropology of Security edited by Maguire, Mark, Frois, Catarina and Zurawski, Nils (2014)
The Birth of Capitalism by Heller, Henry (2011)
The Corporation That Changed the World by Robins, Nick (2012)
The Cost of Free Shipping by Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake; Reese, Ellen (2021)
The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties since the 1960s by Charalambous, Giorgos (2021)
The Experience Society by Miles, Steven (2020)
The Financial Crisis and the Global South by Akyüz, Yilmaz (2013)
The Future of Money by Mellor, Mary (2010)
The Limits to Citizen Power by Albert, Victor (2016)
The Making of an African Working Class by Werbner, Pnina (2014)
The Message is Murder by Beller, Jonathan (2017)
The Politics of Permaculture by Leahy, Terry (2021)
The Profit Doctrine by Chernomas, Robert; Hudson, Ian (2016)
The Rise and Fall of the Welfare State by Wahl, Asbjørn (2011)
The Roman Empire by Morley, Neville (2010)
The Struggle for Food Sovereignty edited by Hererra, Remy and Lau, Kin Chi (2015)
The War Correspondent – Second Edition by McLaughlin, Greg (2016)
Theories of Social Capital by Fine, Ben (2010)
Toussaint Louverture by Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian (2017)
Tweets and the Streets by Gerbaudo, Paolo (2012)
Understanding Al Qaeda by Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould (2011)
Using Gramsci by Filippini, Michele (2016)
When Protest Becomes Crime by Terwindt, Carolijn (2019)
Work, Sex and Power by Thompson, Willie (2015)
Working the Phones by Woodcock, Jamie (2016)
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Come visit Makhali's house!
Mateus || Lavender Beds || Ward 27 || Plot 59
#ffxiv#ffxiv gpose#ch: makhali khatayin#it's. done enough so i finally opened up access OTL probably will still mess around with it but it's a good first draft. it feels cozy :)#i have a lil guest book so feel free to say hello! :'>#might even reblog this at a sensible time tomorrow you never know
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im always saying this
#this is from a chapter in a book called fascist mass spectacle by Jeffery Schnapp#if you search it on google scholar theres an open access link to it#its about fascist theatre in italy i believe. excited 2 read#book club
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guys! read this and sign the petition in the link (if you don’t care about reading the full statement, here’s the petition link any way: https://www.battleforlibraries.com)
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
#libraries#petitions#library aesthetic#dark academia#academia#light academia#chaotic academia#goth#gothic#internet archive#archive#open access#library#books#reading#education#english literature#bookblr#lit#literature#lit aesthetic#writing#support your writers#support your local libraries#activism#social justice
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Dear Professor: A Chronicle of Absences is an open access book on JSTOR that features more than 200 emails in which students excuse themselves for missing class.
Sample email:
Dear Professor,
Excuses section: I’m sorry that I had to leave early on Tuesday last week and was additionally unable to attend on Thursday. On Thursday something came up and I was sadly unable to attend any of my classes. For Tuesday I do not have such a good reason, if I am honest I left 20 minutes early because of a beautiful girl (the only and last time I would use this reason and I apologize, I let instinctual hedonism take over for better or worse!)
Interesting section: I have been working on this piece “To Fear with Love” and thought you might appreciate it as per our earlier discussion about writing. It is attached below for your enjoyment and I would love any feedback/criticism!
Best,
Abraham
#academic life#college life#university life#student life#faculty life#excuses#NGL we've written our share of these ourselves#open access#open access books#jstor
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#Higher Education#Higher Education for Good#University#Education#critical pedagogy#Open Access Books
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consider this my spiritual successor to the other post i did like this with “i.. becamed a vampire”
#talking tag#spider-man#spider-man 2099#spiderman 2099#peter parker#miguel o'hara#lyla#my edits#art is from asm (2018) 32 and uhhh. 35 i think for the top panels#four year later i am still >:( that the 2019/2099 Opened with. cannot stress this enough.#Spider-Man 2099 Strapped To A Table in a textbook example of tvtropes’ ''They Would Cut You Up''.#and then NOTHING HAPPENS!!!!#nothing HAPPENS nothing interesting or deeper’n a puddle ever Happens nick spencer can Set Up but he cant deliver a story if he tried#he knows that he wants an event but not what ABOUT or WHY or what STORY to TELL with it or even WHO it’s FOR—#but hey! at least now HE can show everybody that HIS cool 2099 rebopt is the coolest one ever unlike all those other reboots that sucked#as Always Inevitably Happens the 2019/2099 event was a flop because overall its impact was a whole heaping load of Nothing made for No One#if you want to introduce new readers to 2099 then make the universe more accessible. put out some damn trade editions of the obscure books#if you want to appeal to the existing fans of the imprint/character(s) (freaks like me ❤️) JUST DO the BARE MINIMUM QUIT REBOOTING 2099 FUCK
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Hi! Could you please recommend more books like Great effusion of blood? Many thanks. P.S. I love, LOVE what you do. You are amazingly talented and interesting person. Hope you're having a great week!
oh man it took me a minute to think of some recs for this bc I forgot what I had been reading that book for*
so! if you enjoyed the Great Effusion of Blood, you might ALSO enjoy
Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500, ed. Lauro Martines
Robin Hood in the Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in English Outlaw Tradition, Stephen Knight
*I was reading this book for one essay in it about Robin Hood, so I'm basing these recs off of that
#also tysm anon! i hope you're having a good week too!#i've mostly been reading essays and texts on philippine history and politics lately so it took me a full week to remember anything#about what i usually post on this blog. if it's not 2pm kanjani8 or the philippines my brain starts making a dial up tone#like all i can think of that's most like this book is a collection of essays on ph history UP made open access#ask tag#rec tag
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silly lil designs for pf ez and aphelios blending into piltover :]
#me arts tag#i was going to draw smth a bit more substantial but i need a nap :'D#the monocle and glasses are just their visors disguised somehow#and the weird half vest? design for ezreal.. i imagine half of it tears off/opens (like buttons or smth)#to accommodate his arm cannon transforming. actually i imagine both their outfits kinda work like that#tearaway clothes for their pulsefire equipment somehow#although im imagining the pulsefire tech might be able to make some illusion/disguise clothes.. transforming tech? who knows#realistically im sure aphelios would cover up the glowing marks on his face but it also looked odd w/o his face markings so i just left em#ezreal monocle doesnt look as silly as i thought... maybe he should wear one normally#im meh on aphelios's coat design but maybe ill rerereredesign into oblivion... LOL#wanted to give him more of like a pilot jacket originally but idk what his vibe is. goofy lil guy. what fashion even suits you#OH.... I GUESS. HE NEEDS HIS SCARF.... ill fix it at some point probably maybe sure#i think it'd be a bit funny if ezreal is unintentionally a fashion/style person#just bc of how much blending in with timelines and worlds and stuff hes done#he just ended up absorbing so much fashion knowledge#aphelios or ekko points it out at some point and hes like. huh. im not into fashion#(said while reading a hefty book on fashion history for whatever location theyre at)#yeah im sure PEARL probably has built in search engine stuff#but ezreal just strikes me as the type of guy to research and memorize/learn stuff#''just in case i lose access to PEARL's database again'' or whatever#im sure thats probably happened like 100 times#so random but i feel like aphelios has the vibe of a guy you wanna dress up in various outfits#but also hes like :) (just happy to be included/present) so he doesnt mind#you put a goofy souvenir shop floppy hat on him and hes like. :)#my aphelios hcs are nonsense im so sorry. i want him to be happy#pulsefire ezreal#pulsefire aphelios#pulsefire#aphelios#ezreal
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