Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion (Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical) by Pankaj Jain, Jeffery D. Long
English | December 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 1793623155 | 162 pages | True EPUB | 0.42 MB
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western philosophies. For instance, one of the most widely used textbooks used in introductory courses on religious studies, introduces major theoreticians such as Edward Burnett Tylor, James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, William James, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz.

Alan Johnson, "India's Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation"
English | ISBN: 0755634101 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 19 MB
As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - widely regarded as the first Indian novelist - to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

India and the World Bank: The Politics of Aid and Influence By Jason A. Kirk
2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1843318504 | PDF | 2 MB
'The World Bank needs India more than India needs it.' So goes an emerging consensus on both sides of the relationship between the Bank and its largest borrower. This book analyzes the politics of aid and influence. The Bank, struggling to remain relevant amid India's recent rapid growth and expanding access to private capital, has been caught up in a complex federal politics of reform and development. India's central government - far from being in retreat - has been the main driver of dramatic changes in the Bank's assistance strategy, leading toward a focus at the sub-national state level.

Independent Animation; Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films
by Ben Mitchell
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032103108 | 423 pages | True PDF | 43.83 MB

Ronald Johnson, "In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World "
English | ISBN: 0820360082 | 2021 | 326 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black abolitionist campaigns in Europe.

In Search of Ancient Tsunamis
by Goff, James;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197675980 | 285 pages | True PDF EPUB | 50.64 MB

In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom by Valerie Gangas
English | February 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 1683649656 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 0.37 MB
An empowering guide to help you navigate those times when your life turns upside down and inside out-and the radical shift in consciousness you can access in the process

Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2017: 19th International Conference, Catania, Italy, September 11-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II By Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Gallo, Raimondo Schettini, Filippo Stanco
English | PDF | 2017 | 814 Pages | ISBN : 3319685473 | 101.7 MB
The two-volume set LNCS 10484 and 10485 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, held in Catania, Italy, in September 2017.

Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant 'Other' in Modern Chinese Literature By Yi-tsi Feuerwerker
1998 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0804733198 | PDF | 17 MB
The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and the peasant "other" a central concern of literature. The author argues that, in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden rural masses represented as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas.Throughout this transition, language or discourse has been not only a weapon of struggle but the center of controversy and contention. Because of this primacy of language, the author's main approach is the close reading or, rather, re-reading of significant narrative fictions from four literary generations to demonstrate how historical, ideological, and cultural issues are absorbed, articulated, and debated within the text.Three chapters each focus on one representative author. The fiction of Lu Xun (1881-1936), which initiated the literary preoccupation with the victimized peasant, is also about the identity crisis of the intellectual. Zhao Shuli (1906-1970), upheld by the Communist Party as a model "peasant writer," tragically exemplifies in his career the inherent contradictions of such an assigned role. In the post-Mao era, Gao Xiaosheng (1928-) uses the ironic play of language to present a more ambiguous peasant while deflating intellectual pretensions. The chapter on the last of the four "generations" examines several texts by Mo Yan (1956-), Han Shaogong (1952-), and Wang Anyi (1954-) as examples of "root-searching" fiction from the mid-1980's. While reaching back into the past, this fiction is paradoxically also experimental in technique: the encounter with the peasant leads to questions about the self-construction of the intellectual and the nature of narrative representation itself.Throughout, the focus is on texts in which some sort of representation or stand-in of the writer/intellectual self is present-as character, as witness, as center of consciousness, or as first-person or obtrusive narrator. Each story catches the writer in a self-reflective mode, the confrontation with the peasant "other" providing a theater for acting out varying dramas of identity, power, ideology, political engagement, and self-representation.

I Want a Better Catastrophe
by Andrew Boyd
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0865719837 | 417 pages | True EPUB | 22.13 MB