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Exotic Lands and Dodgy Places

Author : Tan Wee Cheng
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814398713
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Exotic Lands and Dodgy Places written by Tan Wee Cheng and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Lands and Dodgy Places chronicles the adventures of intrepid traveller Tan Wee Cheng — from witnessing an Eskimo seal hunt in icy Greenland to meeting Chinese stranded in Paraguay and The Amazon, and arriving in chaotic Comoros just as a volcanic eruption threatens to blow the capital apart. Hot on the heels of his runaway success Hot Spots and Dodgy Places, Distant Lands follows Wee Cheng into the heart of Mauritius, Land of the Dodo, and across the exotic Land of Many Waters in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, where he sidesteps a drug proposition and survives nearly being mobbed at the chaotic French border. From partying in Columbia as the world’s longest civil war rages on in the surrounding countryside, to risking life and limb with Cypriot gangsters and a host of other dangers — Wee Cheng has done it all. Forget the package tour and venture into the unknown from the comfort of your armchair!

Exotic Territory: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan Poetry

Author : Ronald Haladyna
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426966997
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Exotic Territory: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan Poetry written by Ronald Haladyna and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic Territory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Paraguayan Poetry seeks to address a dearth of information in the English-speaking world about Paraguayan poetry of the past forty years. The twelve outstanding poets included hereJos Luis Appleyard, Moncho Azuaga, Gladys Carmagnola, Susy Delgado, Oscar Ferreiro, Rene Ferrer, Joaqun Morales, Amanda Pedrozo, Jacobo Rauskin, Elvio Romero, Ricardo de La Vega, Carlos Villagra Marsalrepresent a wide diversity of themes, styles, and perspectives in this little-known nation. Most of them have published extensively, have been recognized through literary awards and inclusion in national and international anthologies, and continue writing today. To contextualize the poets and their poetry for readers unfamiliar with Paraguay, the Introduction provides a brief background of its geography, history, government, economy, society, and artistic milieu. Following that is a wide selection of representative poems published previously in Spanish, with translations in English on facing pages. The book concludes with a brief biographical sketch of each poet, followed by an unprecedented and extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources intended to encourage those readers who might want to pursue further reading or research on any poet of interest.

Semiotic Rotations

Author : SunHee Kim Gertz
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607527146
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Rotations written by SunHee Kim Gertz and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.

Exotic Animal Field Guide

Author : Elizabeth Cary Mungall
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585445554
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Exotic Animal Field Guide written by Elizabeth Cary Mungall and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic animals range in appearance from truly striking to seemingly ordinary, and they live in wildlife preserves, on farms, in parks, and even in the wilderness across the United States. In this book, Elizabeth Cary Mungall provides ample information for anyone, from park visitor and zoo goer to rancher and wildlife biologist, who wants to identify and learn more about exotic wildlife in the United States. Richard D. Estes, author of The Safari Companion, says that "for everyone interested in exotic hoofed stock, Exotic Animal Field Guide is a well-written and beautifully illustrated book that fills a vacant niche." Indeed, the main portion of the book contains fully illustrated species accounts of eighty different kinds of hoofed animals, with native range maps and information about food habits, habitat, temperament, breeding and birth seasons, and fencing needs. A list of exotics-related organizations and a reference section round out the text. Photographs of each species make the book both attractive and useful as a field tool. In a chapter on photographing exotics, Christian Mungall shows readers how to take their own great pictures of these animals. Clearly, as James G. Teer, of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University states, this is "much more than a field guide. Elizabeth Cary Mungall's book is a long awaited repository and data source on the ecology, technology, and management of more than 80 species of non-native hoofed animals. . . . Anyone with exotics on his or her property will require Exotic Animal Field Guide."

Invasive Alien Species

Author : Michael R. Ielmini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119607019
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Invasive Alien Species written by Michael R. Ielmini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jedes Jahr breiten sich invasive gebietsfremde Arten in neue Ökosysteme aus. Die von den Eindringlingen verursachten Auswirkungen können sich in kürzester Zeit bemerkbar machen und verheerend sein. Das Thema der invasiven gebietsfremden Arten ist umfassend, komplex und auf verschiedenen Ebenen von globaler Bedeutung. Verschärft wird es durch die Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft und den zunehmenden Handel, durch den die natürlichen Barrieren für den Transfer von Arten durchbrochen werden. Invasive gebietsfremde Arten bedrohen die weltweite Nahrungsmittelversorgung, die Qualität und Verfügbarkeit von Trinkwasser sowie die Stromproduktion und -versorgung. Zusammen mit den zusätzlichen Risiken durch den globalen Klimawandel ist die weltweite Homogenisierung von Pflanzen, Tieren und Mikroben ein wesentlicher Faktor für den sich verschlechternden Gesundheitszustand der Ökosysteme und die nachlassenden Ökosystemdienstleistungen überall auf der Welt. Um dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, besteht die dringende Notwendigkeit einer einheitlichen Ausrichtung von Regierungen, Kulturen und Programmen und einer besseren grenzüberschreitenden Koordination. Nur so lassen sich die vielfältigen Bedrohungen durch invasive gebietsfremde Arten für die Umwelt, die Wirtschaft und die Gesundheit von Pflanzen und Tieren sowie insbesondere die menschliche Gesundheit effektiv bekämpfen. Dieses vierbändige Werk ist das erste, das einen umfassenden Satz nützlicher Materialien zu den zentralen Themen bereitstellt, um die gesamte globale Bedrohung durch invasive gebietsfremde Arten sowie die vielfältigen Probleme in verschiedenen Teilen der Welt deutlich zu machen, und es enthält Material, in dem potenziell replizierbare Lösungen zur Überwindung dieser Bedrohungen aufgezeigt werden. Das Werk betont die Bedrohung durch invasive gebietsfremde Arten auch im Sinne eines globalen ?Aufrufs zum Handeln?. Invasive Arten kennen keine Grenzen. Daher hoffen wir, dass wir durch die Zusammenstellung von Material, das unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Standpunkte aus aller Welt berücksichtigt, sowie durch die Vermittlung von Erkenntnissen und Beispielen zu einer Vielzahl damit zusammenhängender Themen das globale Bewusstsein stärken und einheitliche nationale Reaktionen auf die Bedrohung durch invasive gebietsfremde Arten fördern können.

The Invisible World

Author : John Canaday
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807127759
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible World written by John Canaday and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the clarity / of a landscape made of single / grains of sand, the poems in John Canaday's The Invisible World invite readers on a journey through an exotic land, as the narrator travels for more than a year in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan before returning home to New England. Swept along by poetry alive to paradox, we encounter a world in which the Bible and the Qur'an, Eastern and Western traditions, ancient and modern artifacts, mystical and scientific attitudes, meet on equal footing, where a tape recorder perched on a minaret broadcasts the prerecorded cry of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer. In these poems, the exotic includes not only a world of Bedouin and camels, djinn and ghouls, but also the internal territory of the narrator himself, who alternately feels like an ambassador of sorts, / albeit penned in tourist class and a post-imperial naif / in metaphorical Bermuda shorts. Canaday offers here a complex meditation on the inner and outer nature of journeys and confronts the powerful recognition that the sense of the foreign arises through an inevitable encounter with the self. Confident in both lyric and narrative modes, Canaday's poems create a stun

Virtual Menageries

Author : Jody Berland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039605
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Menageries written by Jody Berland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals came to bridge peoples, territories, and technologies in the expansion of colonial and capitalist cultures. Berland's genealogy of the virtual menagerie begins in 1414 when a ruler in Bengal sent a Kenyan giraffe to join a Chinese emperor's menagerie. It maps the beaver's role in the colonial conquest of Canada and examines the appearances of animals in early moving pictures. The menagerie is reinvented for the digital age when image and sound designers use parts or images of animals to ensure the affective promise and commercial spread of an emergent digital infrastructure. These animal images are emissaries that enliven and domesticate the ever-expanding field of mediation. Virtual Menageries offers a unique account of animals and animal images as mediators that encourage complicated emotional, economic, and aesthetic investment in changing practices of connection.

Lost in Mexico: Journey into an Exotic Land

Author : Leonard Jacobson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1647505089
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Lost in Mexico: Journey into an Exotic Land written by Leonard Jacobson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer enters Mexico through El Paso/Juarez and travels three days to a West Coast destination. Within hours of his arrival, he realizes he has made a terrible mistake. Most of the next year is spent going up and down Mexico and Guatemala in search of the perfect location to write his book. Lost in Mexico: Journey Into an Exotic Land is a rambling, wayward account into a magical country full of unexpected twists and turns. Equal parts travelogue/memoir/adventure tale, beautiful and harsh, humorous and heartbreaking, earthly and insightful, it is a perspective you are unlikely to get anywhere else. Get ready for a wild ride.

Chile and Australia

Author : Irene Strodthoff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137479655
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Chile and Australia written by Irene Strodthoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 2008.

Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality,1570-1640

Author : C. Relihan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137091770
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality,1570-1640 written by C. Relihan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality, 1570-1640 brings together twelve new essays which situate the arguments about the multiple constructions of sexualities in prose fiction within contemporary critical debates about the body, gender, desire, print culture, postcoloniality, and cultural geography. Looking at Sidney's Arcadia , Wroth's Urania , Lyly's Euphues ; fictions by Gascoigne, Riche, Parry, and Brathwaite; as well as Hellenic romances, rogue fictions, and novelle, the essays expand and challenge current critical arguments about the gendering of labour, female eroticism, queer masculinity, sodomy, male friendship, cross-dressing, heteroeroticism, incest, and the gendering of poetic creativity.

Space Is Power

Author : John Hickman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498512909
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Space Is Power written by John Hickman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Russia’s annexation of Crimea to China’s ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea, it is clear that territory is as important in international politics now as it has ever been. Yet too few contemporary foreign policy makers, journalists, and scholars are able to speak coherently about territorial issues. Space Is Power: The Seven Rules of Territory challenges the intellectual conceits that human territoriality is merely a social construct, that territorial sovereignty is atavistic, that territorial annexation is always irrational, and that territorial disputes are provoked by foreign policy makers who seek to divert public attention from more important issues. Space Is Power argues that territoriality is too basic to human nature to be denied and territorial sovereignty is too important to the survival of the modern state to be ignored. The truths about territory are captured in seven rules, some of which are intuitive while others contradict conventional wisdom. Rather than anticipating the transcendence of the territorial states, this book argues that the unmistakable direction of international politics is toward encompassing ever more physical space as the territory of states.

I make things happen

Author : Gnomo Orzo
Publisher : Dhora Impresa Sociale - Editoria
ISBN 13 : 8832197138
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book I make things happen written by Gnomo Orzo and published by Dhora Impresa Sociale - Editoria. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metal is made of time. Its encounter with light ignites the power to make things happen. The archeological findings and myths of our planet show that a great power is concealed in the connection between human beings and metals. It is the power of making things happen, and it has influenced human events since the dawn of time. Today, on the threshold of the Third Millennium, after a long period of research, a technology arises that can once again bring us close to this extraordinary potential. This book is an impassioned tribute to this new chapter of history. It is also proof that what is highly complex is also extremely simple in its essence.

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415174725
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together a collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.

A Dead Man's Chest

Author : Bruce Banta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462872549
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book A Dead Man's Chest written by Bruce Banta and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They killed Keith in the early afternoon, sending Davey running for his life. Both guided and misguided by the bewildering content of a taped message, Davey scrambles to fi nd his dead friends sea-chest and to discover its mysterious, lethal contents. He fi nds himself in a race with others who are after Keiths chest, people for whom abduction and torture are all in a days work. Forces on both sides of the law seem to want the contents of Keiths chest to stay buried, under bodies if necessary. While searching for Keiths sea-chest, Davey seeks within himself the courage and determination to follow the obscure, narrow, and treacherous path upon which Keith had set him, never knowing if its the path to safety or simply another dead end.

Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art

Author : Louise Hardiman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783743417
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art written by Louise Hardiman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia. Prefaced by a lively and informative introduction by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow that sets these perspectives in their historical and critical context, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives enriches our understanding of the modernist period and breaks new ground in its re-examination of the role of religion and spirituality in the visual arts in late Imperial Russia. Of interest to historians and enthusiasts of Russian art, culture, and religion, and those of international modernism and the avant-garde, it offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions.

The Savage in Literature

Author : Brian V. Street
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317207459
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Savage in Literature written by Brian V. Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and of the life of the so-called ‘primitive’ man. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature.

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity

Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584371
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity written by Charles Forsdick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively obscure, his extensive work on exoticism largely unavailable. With the appearance of the Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on diversity were at last fully apparent. Segalen's understanding of the exotic is radically different from that of his colonial contemporaries. His exoticism - or Aesthetics of Diversity - focuses on the instability of contact between different cultures and represents a unique response to the decline of diversity triggered by colonialism and Westernization. Recent attention to Segalen in a variety of fields - post-modern sociology, post-colonialism, literary criticism, anthropology - indicates his role as a precursory theorist of the exotic whose work is of increasing contemporary relevance. At a moment when exoticism is rapidly emerging as a term of critical currency, this study of the genesis of Segalen's aesthetics is a timely contribution to work in this area.