Discovering Music Second edition By R. Larry Todd
2020 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 0190938951 | PDF | 90 MB
Make your Music Appreciation course as inspiring as the music it covers. Discovering Music, Second Edition, offers a compelling and contemporary guide that invites your students to connect intellectually and emotionally with music from the Western canon and beyond. The second edition featuresan expanded video program, additional coverage of women and minority composers, and new "Making Connections" sections that allow students to make connections with non-Western musical traditions

Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism By Steven Pierce (editor), Anupama Rao (editor)
2006 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0822337312 | PDF | 2 MB
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference-the "civilized" ruling the "uncivilized"-but colonial violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to undermine the very distinction that validated its use. Violation of the bodies of colonial subjects regularly generated scandals, and eventually led to humanitarian initiatives, ultimately changing conceptions of "the human" and helping to constitute modern forms of human rights discourse. Colonial violence and discipline also played a crucial role in hardening modern categories of difference-race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.The contributors, who include both historians and anthropologists, address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period to the twentieth century and from Asia to Africa to North America. They consider diverse topics, from the interactions of race, law, and violence in colonial Louisiana to British attempts to regulate sex and marriage in the Indian army in the early nineteenth century. They examine the political dilemmas raised by the extensive use of torture in colonial India and the ways that British colonizers flogged Nigerians based on beliefs that different ethnic and religious affiliations corresponded to different degrees of social evolution and levels of susceptibility to physical pain. An essay on how contemporary Sufi healers deploy bodily violence to maintain sexual and religious hierarchies in postcolonial northern Nigeria makes it clear that the state is not the only enforcer of disciplinary regimes based on ideas of difference.Contributors. Laura Bear, Yvette Christiansë, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Dorothy Ko, Isaac Land, Susan O'Brien, Douglas M. Peers, Steven Pierce, Anupama Rao, Kerry Ward

Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs By Harry E. Wedeck
2021 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 0871316757 | EPUB | 7 MB
A delightfully mischievous collection of potions, herbs, prescriptions, and recipes, this dictionary reveals many intriguing ways for lovers to enrich a relationship. Sprinkled throughout the love manual quotations and insights are seven recipes to stimulate the gourmet lover using ingredients described in the book. 2-color line drawings.

Development of Iwasawa Theory - The Centennial of K. Iwasawa's Birth - Proceedings of the International Conference Iwasawa 2017 By Masato Kurihara (ed), Kenichi Bannai (ed), Tadashi Ochiai (ed), Takeshi Tsuji (ed)
2021 | 725 Pages | ISBN: 4864970920 | PDF | 39 MB
This volume is edited as the proceedings of the international conference 'Iwasawa 2017', which was held at the University of Tokyo from July 19th through July 28th, 2017, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Kenkichi Iwasawa's birth. In total 236 participants attended the conference including 98 participants from 15 countries outside Japan, and enjoyed the talks and the discussions on several themes flourishing in Iwasawa theory. This volume consists of 3 survey papers and of 15 research papers submitted from the speakers and the organizers of the conference. We also included 4 essays on memories of Iwasawa to celebrate the Centennial of Iwasawa's birth. We recommend this volume to all researchers and graduate students who are interested in Iwasawa theory, number theory and related fields.Published by Mathematical Society of Japan and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. for all markets except North America

Developing Multilingual Writing: Agency, Audience, Identity
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031120442 | 360 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
With millions of people becoming multilingual writers in the globalized digital world, this book helps to empower writers to connect with their readers and project their identities effectively across languages, social contexts, and genres. In a series of closely-related studies that build on each other, we look comprehensively at how writers develop their ability to construct meaning for different audiences in multiple languages. This book, which draws on various approaches (including a social view of writing, multicompetence, adaptive transfer, complex systems theory, motivation, and translanguaging), contributes to on-going efforts to integrate differing approaches to multilingual writing research. This book focusses on how writer agency (control over text construction), audience awareness (ability to meet expectations of prospective readers), and writer identity (projection of image of the writer in the text) progress as multilingual writers gain more experience across languages.

Gerald Van Dusen, "Detroit's Sojourner Truth Housing Riot of 1942: Prelude to the Race Riot of 1943"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 146714696X | EPUB | pages: 160 | 9.6 mb
During World War II, no American city suffered a worse housing shortage than Detroit, and no one suffered that shortage more than the city's African American citizens. In 1941, the federal government began constructing the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in northeast Detroit to house 200 black war production workers and their families. Almost immediately, whites in the neighborhood vehemently protested. On February 28, 1942, a confrontation between black tenants and white protesters erupted in a riot that sent at least 40 to the hospital and more than 220 to jail. This confrontation was the precursor to the bloodiest race riot of the war just sixteen months later. Gerald Van Dusen, author of Detroit's Birwood Wall, unfolds the background and events of this overlooked moment in Motor City history.

Democratizing Analytics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781098145460 | 39 Pages | EPUB (True) | 3.2 MB
Today, enterprises have more data at their disposal than ever before. Yet relatively few companies can quickly and efficiently get data to the people who need it for critical insights and important decisions. In this insightful report, David Sweenor and Melissa Burroughs from Alteryx explain analytic democratization, a strategy that leading organizations are now using to manage data access, analytics platforms, and data-driven decision-making.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Eduardo Nolla, "Democracy in America, Volume 2"
English | 2012 | pages: 840 | ISBN: 0865978409 | PDF | 2,9 mb
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life―the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all the social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes came Democracy in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Eduardo Nolla, "Democracy in America, Volume 1"
English | 2012 | pages: 849 | ISBN: 0865978409 | PDF | 3,0 mb
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life―the political, economic, religious, cultural, and above all the social life of the young nation. From Tocqueville's copious notes came Democracy in America.

Finex Ndhlovu, "Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South (Critical Language and Literac"
English | ISBN: 1788923340 | 2021 | 397 pages | PDF | 976 KB
This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the diasporas.