South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom By Brenna M. Munro
2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0816677689 | PDF | 5 MB
After apartheid, South Africa established a celebrated new political order that imagined the postcolonial nation as belonging equally to the descendants of indigenous people, colonizing settlers, transported slaves, indentured laborers, and immigrants. Its constitution, adopted in 1996, was the first in the world to include gays and lesbians as full citizens. Brenna M. Munro examines the stories that were told about sexuality, race, and nation throughout the struggle against apartheid in order to uncover how these narratives ultimately enabled gay people to become imaginable as fellow citizens. She also traces how the gay, lesbian, or bisexual person appeared as a stock character in the pageant of nationhood during the transition to democracy. In the process, she offers an alternative cultural history of South Africa.Munro asserts that the inclusion of gay people made South Africans feel "modern"-at least for a while. Being gay or being lesbian was reimagined in the 1990s as distinctly South African, but the "newness" that made these sexualities apt symbols for a transformed nation can also be understood as foreign and un-African. Indeed, a Western-style gay identity is often interpreted through the formula "gay equals modernity equals capitalism." As South Africa's reentrance into the global economy has failed to bring prosperity to the majority of its citizens, homophobic violence has been on the rise.Employing a wide array of texts-including prison memoirs, poetry, plays, television shows, photography, political speeches, and the postapartheid writings of Nobel Laureates Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee-Munro reports on how contemporary queer activists and artists are declining to remain ambassadors for the "rainbow nation" and refusing to become scapegoats for the perceived failures of liberation and liberalism.

Solar collectors inexpensive easy DIY
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0BRGHX9QQ | 114 Pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This book shows solutions how you can produce part of your energy for home heating and domestic hot water by yourself for free. Many illustrated parables demonstrate the opportunities to design and build inexpensive solar collectors yourself in a way that is easy for the layperson to understand and follow. There are also examples of learning and optimizing craft skills for inexpensive production of solar collectors up to complete solar systems. And the most amazing thing about it are the partly simple and affordable solution possibilities. The solar collector and complete system concepts shown in the book and the associated energy gain increase the value of your home. In addition, the do-it-yourself project offers a number of synergy and added-value effects, such as the construction of an electronic control system for just a few euros.

Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road by Liang Emlyn Yang
English | EPUB | 2019 | 535 Pages | ISBN : 3030007278 | 159.7 MB
This book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimatology, antiquity, historical geography, agriculture, carving art and literacy.

Snowboard Champ (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) By Matt Christopher, Paul Mantell
2004 | 146 Pages | ISBN: 0316796425 | PDF | 15 MB
When his mother gets a mysterious assignment to work overseas, Matt moves in with his uncle and joins a new school where he soon has a run-in with its best snowboarder, Riley, and so must find a way to keep his feelings under control despite the rumors being spread by Riley about Matt and his family. Simultaneous.

Sean D. Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0198836376 | PDF | pages: 283 | 3.4 mb
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce―the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora.

Renee Alsarraf, "Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well"
English | ISBN: 0063215225 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1454 KB
"Written with grace and emotional honesty, Sit, Stay, Heal will live with you long after the last page."- John Grogan, bestselling author of Marley & Me

Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, "Signs of Disability "
English | ISBN: 1479811149 | 2022 | 248 pages | PDF | 31 MB
How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?

Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know® by John L. Esposito and Natana J. DeLong-Bas
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0199325057, 0199325065 | 352 pages | PDF + EPUB | 14 + 2 MB
Most Americans and Europeans have by now heard of Shariah. In the West, politicians, media commentators, televangelists, and others have stoked fears that Muslims intend to impose a repressive rule based on Shariah in America and Europe. Shariah has been portrayed as a medieval system that oppresses women, stifles human rights, and imposes harsh punishments like stoning and amputation. In reality, however, Shariah is a complex concept that has been interpreted in many ways over time and around the world. It plays a vital role in the lives of Muslims around the world, offering guidance on everything from personal morality to ritual practices, family life, and finance.

Donald H. Juel, Shane Berg, Matthew L. Skinner, "Shaping the Scriptural Imagination: Truth, Meaning, and the Theological Interpretation of the Bible"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1602583811, 1602583838 | PDF | pages: 230 | 1.0 mb
The late Donald H. Juel (1942-2003) devoted his life to engaging scripture faithfully, intelligently, and imaginatively. For Juel, theological interpretation of the Bible meant having an encounter with the living God. This volume identifies and connects many of the overarching themes that animated Juel's work. Including his thoughts on the rhetorical nature of scripture, the challenges facing academic instruction of the Bible, the reader's place in the biblical narrative, and the hope of resurrection, among others, the selections are accessible and engaging and paint a unique portrait of the way Juel thought and lived. Juel seeks to nourish readers in developing richer imaginations about who God is and how Christians meet God through reading the Bible.

Rajesh Chakrabarti, "Shaping Policy in India: Alliance, Advocacy, Activism"
English | ISBN: 0199475539 | 2017 | 312 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary India. By researching the evolution of nine major legislations using a consistent lens, the work interrogates the suitability of existing political theories to explain the policy development process in an emerging economy like India. It covers recent events such as the agitation for the Jan Lokpal Bill and the Nirbhaya case that have underlined the role of non-government players in law-making in India as well as long-standing movements like for right to information, right to education, and food security. The authors have used the case study method to undertake a holistic study of the policy decisions made in the last two decades. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book borrows tools and concepts used in business studies, political science, and sociology to bring a new understanding to the process of policy in India.