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The Jive Talker Or, How to get a British Passport

The Jive Talker Or, How to get a British Passport
Kambalu, Samson, "The Jive Talker: Or, How to get a British Passport"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1407014765, 0224081063 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.4 mb
Writes of a childhood in a country few are able to pinpoint on a map. As the family moves from feast to real poverty and deprivation, and back to plenty again, depending on their father's professional fortunes, this memoir introduces life in a country in which no dissent is tolerated, and where political opponents are 'disappeared'.

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The Jean Baudrillard Reader

The Jean Baudrillard Reader
Jean Baudrillard, "The Jean Baudrillard Reader"
English | 2008 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 0231146124, 0231146132 | PDF | 3,8 mb
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize his name from The Matrix movies, which claimed to be based on the French theorist's ideas).

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The Indigenous World 2002-2003

The Indigenous World 2002-2003
The Indigenous World 2002-2003 By Diana Vinding
2003 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 8790730747 | PDF | 9 MB
This book stands alone in its comprehensive presentation of current information affecting indigenous peoples in different regions throughout the world. With contributions from both indigenous as well as non-indigenous scholars and activists, it provides an overview of recent developments that have impacted indigenous peoples in North America, Central America, South America, Australia and the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.The Indigenous World 2002-2003 contains the most recent information available on international human rights efforts in addition to movements and changes in the indigenous organizational landscape. This book serves as an update on the state of affairs of indigenous peoples around the world by region and country. It also updates the human rights processes and other international processes such as the african Commision on Human and People's Rights.Diana Vinding is an anthropologist and project coordinator at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).

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The Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

The Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead
Mehran Kamrava, "The Impossibility of Palestine: History, Geography, and the Road Ahead"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0300215622 | EPUB | pages: 312 | 0.6 mb
The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never risen above the level of municipal governance, and its goal has never been Palestinian independence. He explains that a coherent Palestinian state has already been rendered an impossibility, and to move forward, Palestine must redefine its present predicament and future aspirations. Based on detailed fieldwork, exhaustive scholarship, and an in-depth examination of historical sources, this controversial work will be widely read and debated by all sides.

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The Idea of Communism

The Idea of Communism
Tariq Ali, "The Idea of Communism"
English | 2009 | pages: 138 | ISBN: 1906497265 | PDF | 6,1 mb
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and episodic? In The Idea of Communism, Tariq Ali addresses this very question.

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The Hypotyposis of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis, Constantinople

The Hypotyposis of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis, Constantinople
R. H. Jordan, "The Hypotyposis of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis, Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 140943687X | 2012 | 330 pages | EPUB | 731 KB
This book forms part of the Evergetis Project which aims to investigate all surviving texts associated with the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis founded in 1049 near Constantinople. A book-length introduction sets out the historical significance of the house for the development of Byzantine monasticism and discusses its administration, liturgy and way of life. An English translation of the Hypotyposis (the monastery's foundation document) is provided, accompanied by detailed notes. Previous scholarship on the authorship of the Hypotyposis and the evolution of the text is discussed and linguistic analysis used to suggest that traces of the original foundation document by Paul Evergetinos can be identified within it. The Hypotyposis was widely used as a model for later Byzantine and Slavonic typika and the precise relationship of these documents one to the other is demonstrated in detail. The volume also includes prosopographical material on the known patrons of the monastery, a discussion of its library, English translations of later Greek and Latin texts referring to the monastery and a suggested reconstruction of Paul Evergetinos' original foundation document.

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