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FRAGILE ABSTRACTIONS

Author : PARNEET KAUR
Publisher : SPECTRUM OF THOUGHTS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book FRAGILE ABSTRACTIONS written by PARNEET KAUR and published by SPECTRUM OF THOUGHTS. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fragile Abstractions" is a collection of poetry written by young artists who curate verses out of words, and who hope to weave revolutions in the world. Encompassing themes of mental health, self-love, romance, metamorphosis, motivational poetry, and what not, this collection is as beautiful as its cover designed to co-relate with the essence of the book. Through the poetry in this book, we tend to reach out our identity and definition of how a human being is represented by the actions he performs. Leading you to self-introspection at various points, "Fragile Abstractions" is a journey through rich poetry compiled into one book for you. Breaking canon of writing poetry, this book is however, an alien representation of poetry and the art of literature by various artist who came together for one cause. This book is the brainchild of "wekwack" and is compiled by Ms. Parneet Kaur, and edited by Mr. Naman Chandel.

The Violence of Liberation

Author : Charlene E. Makley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250598
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Violence of Liberation written by Charlene E. Makley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Violence of Liberation is an innovative and timely evaluation of Tibetan religious revival and changing gender ideals and practices in post-Mao China-one of the first ethnographies based on extensive in a Tibetan community in China since its re-opening in the 1980s. Makley has provided a powerful and nuanced reading of gendered Tibetan and Chinese cultural orders."--Charles F. McKhann, Director of Asian Studies, Whitman College "Charlene Makely has produced an excellent, beautifully written book on the incorporation of a Tibetan area into the Chinese nation, and the gendered aspects of this process. The work sets a standard for future work in terms of the breadth and depth of its research."--Beth Notar, author of Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China

ARTnews

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book ARTnews written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Murmuring Coast

Author : Lídia Jorge
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816621125
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Murmuring Coast written by Lídia Jorge and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating tale is told in two parts. The first presents Lidia Jorge's version of a traditional story about a series of supposed incidents set in Beira, Mozambique. The events take place in the final years of Portugal's colonial African wars as an undisclosed narrator describes the military wedding of a young Portuguese ensign and an equally young bride. The wedding is followed by the mass poisoning of hundreds of native Africans and the arrival of a rain of locusts. The story ends grimly with the groom's suicide. Evita Lopo, the unnamed bride from the first part, narrates the remainder of the story. Twenty years have gone by and she reviews the past and questions the unidentified narrator's rendering of events in the first section. Evita's reminiscences destroy the credibility of the earlier story, and she supplies the reader with a great deal of information that the author of the previous account had suppressed or to which he or she merely alluded. It becomes apparent that betrayal and guilt have motivated all of the characters' actions.

The Politics of Human Rights

Author : Andrew Vincent
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613703
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Human Rights written by Andrew Vincent and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics. The author argues that human rights have only a slight relation to natural rights and they are historically novel: In large part they are a post-1945 reaction to genocide which is, in turn, linked directly to the lethal potentialities of the nation-state. He suggests that an understanding of human rights should nonetheless focus primarily on politics and that there are no universally agreed moral or religious standards to uphold them, they exist rather in the context of social recognition within a political association. A consequence of this is that the 1948 Universal Declaration is a political, not a legal or moral, document. Vincent goes on to show that human rights are essentially reliant upon the self-limitation capacity of the civil state. With the development of this state, certain standards of civil behaviour have become, for a sector of humanity, slowly and painfully more customary. He shows that these standards of civility have extended to a broader society of states. At their best human rights are an ideal civil state vocabulary. The author explains that we comprehend both our own humanity and human rights through our recognition relations with other humans, principally via citizenship of a civil state. Vincent concludes that the paradox of human rights is that they are upheld, to a degree, by the civil state, but the point of such rights is to protect against another dimension of this same tradition (the nation-state). Human rights are essentially part of a struggle at the core of the state tradition.

Thomas Kuhn

Author : Thomas Nickles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796484
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Kuhn written by Thomas Nickles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity

Author : Steven Mock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503529
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity written by Steven Mock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If nationalism is the assertion of legitimacy for a nation and its effectiveness as a political entity, why do many nations emphasize images of their own defeat in understanding their history? Using Israel, Serbia, France, Greece and Ghana as examples, the author argues that this phenomenon exposes the ambivalence that lurks behind the passions nationalism evokes. Symbols of defeat glorify a nation's ancient past, while reenacting the destruction of that past as a necessary step in constructing a functioning modern society. As a result, these symbols often assume a foundational role in national mythology. Threats to such symbols are perceived as threats to the nation itself and consequently are met with desperation difficult for outsiders to understand.

The New Ecology of Leadership

Author : David K. Hurst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231159714
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The New Ecology of Leadership written by David K. Hurst and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizationsÑtheir function and their failureÑboth in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crises and turnaround conditions, and is also a widely experienced consultant, teacher, and writer on business. This book is his innovative integration of management practice and theory, using a systems perspective and analogies drawn from nature to illustrate groundbreaking ideas and their practical application. It is designed for readers unfamiliar with sophisticated management concepts and for active practitioners seeking to advance their management and leadership skills. HurstÕs objective is to help readers make meaning from their own management experience and education, and to encourage improvement in their practical judgment and wisdom. His approach takes an expansive view of organizations, connecting their development to humankindÕs evolutionary heritage and cultural history. It locates the origins of organizations in communities of trust and follows their development and maturation. He also crucially tracks the decline of organizations as they age and shows how their strengths become weaknesses in changing circumstances. HurstÕs core argument is that the human mind is rational in an ecological, rather than a logical, sense. In other words, it has evolved to extract cues to action from the specific situations in which it finds itself. Therefore contexts matter, and Hurst shows how passion, reason, and power can be used to change and sustain organizations for good and ill. The result is an inspirational synthesis of management theory and practice that will resonate with every readerÕs experience.

Modernity At Large

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity At Large written by Arjun Appadurai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Goddess Who Earned Her Stripes

Author : Vaishnavi S Kabadi
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9357705341
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Who Earned Her Stripes written by Vaishnavi S Kabadi and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goddess Who Earned Her Stripes” is an enchanting collection of immensely potent, heart- rending poems that are written for men and women from all sections of society. The young poetess has attempted to shatter and stir the complex flaws in our current societal construct with a tinge of magical realism in her words. “The Goddess Who Earned Her Stripes” is not just a collection of poems but an expression of fleeting, heart-touching emotion. These poems will make you smile, reflect and even move you to tears while invoking the rich memories of your childhood. These are poems with the potential to reignite lost dreams and most importantly, plant in the reader, the seed of unshakeable conviction and belief - That our deep rooted societal flaws and ills have got to change.

Transgression and Conformity

Author : Linda S. Howe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299197308
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Transgression and Conformity written by Linda S. Howe and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution. Focusing on the work of Afro-Cuban writers Nancy Morejón and prominent novelist Miguel Barnet, Howe exposes the complex relationship between Afro-Cuban intellectuals and government authorities as well as the racial issues present in Cuban culture.

The Sound of Salvation

Author : Guangtian Ha
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552483
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Salvation written by Guangtian Ha and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in liturgical rituals featuring distinctive melodic vocal chants. The first ethnography of this order in any language, The Sound of Salvation draws on nearly a decade of fieldwork to reveal the intricacies and importance of Jahriyya vocal recitation. Guangtian Ha examines how the use of voice in liturgy helps the Jahriyya to sustain their faith and the ways it has enabled them to endure political persecution over the past two and a half centuries. He situates the Jahriyya in a global multilingual network of Sufis and shows how their characteristic soundscapes result from transcultural interactions among Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and Chinese Muslim communities. Ha argues that the resilience of Jahriyya Sufism stems from the diversity and multiplicity of liturgical practice, which he shows to be rooted in notions of Sufi sainthood. He considers the movement of Jahriyya vocal recitation to new media forms and foregrounds the gendered opposition of male voices and female silence that structures the group’s rituals. Spanning diverse disciplines—including anthropology, ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, sound studies, and media studies—and using Arabic, Persian, and Chinese sources, The Sound of Salvation offers new perspectives on the importance of sound to religious practice, the role of gender in Chinese Islam, and the links connecting Chinese Muslims to the broader Islamic world.

From Modernism to Postmodernism

Author : Gerhard Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202427
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book From Modernism to Postmodernism written by Gerhard Hoffmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systemic study discusses in its historical, cultural and aesthetic context the postmodern American novel between the years of 1960 and 1980. A general overview of the various definitions of postmodernism in philosophy, cultural theory and aesthetics provides the framework for the inquiry into more specific problems, such as: the broadening of aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, the transformation of the artistic tradition, the interdependence between modernism and postmodernism, and the change in the aesthetics of fiction. Other topics addressed here include: situationalism, montage, the ordinary and the fantastic, the subject and the character, the imagination, comic modes, and the future of the postmodern strategies. The authors whose fiction is treated in some detail under the various aspects thematized are John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Federman, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Jerzy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, and Kurt Vonnegut.

University of California Publications in Philosophy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book University of California Publications in Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abstraction

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstraction written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophical Review

Author : Jacob Gould Schurman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Review written by Jacob Gould Schurman and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international journal of general philosophy.

Arctic Abstractive Industry

Author : Arthur Mason
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805394479
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Arctic Abstractive Industry written by Arthur Mason and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume apprehend Arctic resource regimes through the concept of abstraction. Abstraction refers to the creation of new material substances and cultural values by detaching parts from existing substances and values. The abstractive process differs from the activity of extractive industries by its focus on the conceptual resources that conceal processes of exploitation associated with extraction. The study of abstraction can thus help us attune to the formal operations that make appropriations of value possible while disclosing the politics of extraction and of its representation.