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Invented History, Fabricated Power

Author : Barry Wood
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785274767
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Invented History, Fabricated Power written by Barry Wood and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples. On this foundation, spiritual power evolved into various kinds of divine sanction for kings and emperors (Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese and Japanese). As kingships expanded into empires, fictional histories and millennia-long genealogies developed that portrayed imperial superiority and greatness. Supernatural events and miracles were attached to religious founders (Hebrew, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Islamic). A unique variation developed in the Roman Church which fabricated papal power through forgeries in the first millennium CE and the later “doctrine of discovery” which authorized European domination and conquest around the world during the Age of Exploration. Elaborate fabrications continued with epic histories and literary cycles from the Persians, Ethiopians, Franks, British, Portuguese, and Iroquois Indians. Both Marxists and Nazis created doctrinal texts which passed for economic or political explanations but were in fact self-aggrandizing narratives that eventually collapsed. The book ends with the idealistic goals of the current liberal democratic way of life, pointing to its limitations as a sustaining narrative, along with numerous problems threatening its viability over the long term.

What's in a Divine Name?

Author : Alaya Palamidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111326519
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book What's in a Divine Name? written by Alaya Palamidis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

Linguistic Fingerprints

Author : Roger Kreuz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633888983
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Fingerprints written by Roger Kreuz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were born—we divulge all sorts of information about ourselves and our identity through language. Level of education, gender, age, and even aspects of our personality can all be reliably determined by our vocabulary and grammar. To those who know what to look for, we give ourselves away every time we open our mouths or tap on a keyboard. But how unique is a person’s linguistic identity? Can language be used to identify a specific person? To identify—or to exonerate—a murder suspect? To determine who authored a particular book? The answer to all these questions is yes. Forensic and computational linguists have developed methods that allow linguistic fingerprinting to be used in law enforcement. Similar techniques are used by literary scholars to identify the authors of anonymous or contested works of literature. Many people have heard that linguistic analysis helped to catch the Unabomber, or to unmask an anonymous editorialist—but how is it done? LINGUSISTIC FINGERPRINTS will explain how these methods were developed and how they are used to solve forensic and literary mysteries. But these techniques aren’t perfect, and the book will also include some cautionary tales about mistaken linguistic identity.

Invented Knowledge

Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896743
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Invented Knowledge written by Ronald H. Fritze and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the Chinese the first to discover America in 1421? Did Jesus and Mary Magdalene have children together? Did extraterrestrials visit the earth during prehistory and teach humans how to build pyramids and stone structures? These are only a few of the controversial and intriguing questions that Ronald H. Fritze investigates in Invented Knowledge. This incredible exploration of the murky world of pseudo-history reveals the proven fact, the informed speculation, and the pure fiction behind lost continents, ancient super-civilizations, and conspiratorial cover-ups—as well as the revisionist historical foundations behind religions such as the Nation of Islam and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Drawing on the best scholarship available, Fritze shows that in spite of strong, mainstream historical evidence to the contrary, many of these ideas have proved durable and gained widespread acceptance. As the examples in Invented Knowledge reveal, pseudo-historians capitalize on and exploit anomalies in evidence to support their claims, rather than examining the preponderance of research as a whole. From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to 10,000 B.C., the sensationalist topics of pseudo-history captivate audiences and permeate popular culture. Invented Knowledge offers many entertaining and enthralling examples of spurious narratives, artificial chronologies, and ersatz theories in a book guaranteed to intrigue, open eyes, and spark conversation among readers—skeptics and believers alike.

The Power Makers

Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power Makers written by Maury Klein and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the "power revolution" that transformed America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, evaluating the contributions of such figures as George Westinghouse, J. P. Morgan, and Thomas Edison. By the author of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. 50,000 first printing.

RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications

Author : Patrick Reynaert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402051174
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications written by Patrick Reynaert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles both high efficiency and high linearity power amplifier (PA) design in low-voltage CMOS. With its emphasis on theory, design and implementation, the book offers a guide for those actively involved in the design of fully integrated CMOS wireless transceivers. Offering mathematical background, as well as intuitive insight, the book is essential reading for RF design engineers and researchers and is also suitable as a text book.

Foucault and Educational Ethics

Author : Bruce Moghtader
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137574968
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and Educational Ethics written by Bruce Moghtader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's writing and lectures contributed to an awareness of the activities we take upon ourselves as ethical subjects. His reconstruction of the Greco-Roman ethics seeks to examine the possibilities of the reconstitution and transformation of subjectivity. Through this, he offers an avenue of understanding the formation of ethical subjects in their educational interrelationships.

Curriculum Epistemicide

Author : João M. Paraskeva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317562011
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Curriculum Epistemicide written by João M. Paraskeva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, curriculum – hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities – has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and practices. Drawing from and within a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America, this volume presents a critical analysis of what the author, influenced by the work of Sousa Santos, coins curriculum epistemicides, a form of Western imperialism used to suppress and eliminate the creation of rival, alternative knowledges in developing countries. This exertion of power denies an education that allows for diverse epistemologies, disciplines, theories, concepts, and experiences. The author outlines the struggle for social justice within the field of curriculum, as well as a basis for introducing an Itinerant Curriculum Theory, highlighting the potential of this new approach for future pedagogical and political praxis.

Unequal Sisters

Author : Stephanie Narrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000781690
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Unequal Sisters written by Stephanie Narrow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. First published in 1990, the book revolutionized the field with its broad multicultural approach, emphasizing feminist perspectives on race, ethnicity, region, and sexuality, and covering the colonial period to the present day. Now in its fifth edition, the book presents an even wider variety of women’s experiences. This new edition explores the connections between the past and the present and highlights the analysis of queerness, transgender identity, disability, the rise of the carceral state, and the bureaucratization and militarization of migration. There is also more coverage of Indigenous and Pacific Islander women. The book is structured around thematic clusters: conceptual/methodological approaches to women’s history; bodies, sexuality, and kinship; and agency and activism. This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of race and ethnicity.

Photography after Postmodernism

Author : David Bate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000182495
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Photography after Postmodernism written by David Bate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. Photography After Postmodernism starts with this conception and explores what changes have affected photography, its relation to social life and our image-centred culture. Engaging with the visual environment and issues that have emerged in the postmodern world, David Bate introduces fresh approaches and analysis of photographs and their place within the aftermath of postmodernist thought. The book shows how photographs circulate in an 'image-world' beyond their art or media origins that deeply affects our sense of time and relation to memory. The role of archives, dreams, memories and time are deployed to develop and resituate arguments about photography made by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida to further engage and understand our contemporary condition. By considering how ‘afterwardness’ is invoked in the developments of modern and contemporary photography, Bate demonstrates the complex ways in which photographic images resonate across public and private spaces, while carrying a slippage of meaning that is never quite fixed, yet always contingent and social. The approach shows how modernist photography was already invested in values that its discourse could not enunciate, which resonates with much contemporary photography today. Featuring a range of historical and contemporary images, the book offers detailed and innovative readings of specific photographs which open new avenues of thought for those studying and researching visual culture and photography.

History of Invention Handbook

Author : Trevor Illtyd Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316727044
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book History of Invention Handbook written by Trevor Illtyd Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From axe-heads to silicon chips, this history begins with the most primitive tools and ends with the latest technological advancements. Many inventions are chronicled, explained, and placed in their historical, cultural, and scientific context, with their inventors listed in an index.

The Invention of Tradition

Author : Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437738
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Tradition written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.

A popular history of American invention, vol I: transportation, communication, and power

Author : W. Kaempffert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book A popular history of American invention, vol I: transportation, communication, and power written by W. Kaempffert and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deceit of Rome

Author : Maurits Prins
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1634242351
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Deceit of Rome written by Maurits Prins and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2019-04-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This no-holds-barred volume confirms the feelings of those who have always known something about the church just isn't right. Centuries of corruption continue even with the current pope, under whom many wealthy cardinals are enjoying incomprehensible luxury. Take top cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, for example, who recently spent €200.000 from a children's charity fund on the renovation of his luxurious penthouse apartment. Of course Bertone denies everything, but it's curious to see how often the Vatican's number two has been linked to financial fraud by the Italian Justice Department. According to Italian journalists Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi, millions of euros meant for charity are supposed to have been "stuck" within the administration and bureaucracy of the Roman Curia. Their sources are leaked Vatican documents, and the two people who have supposedly leaked these documents have since been arrested. These are a Spanish Opus Dei priest and a curious Italian woman, thought to be a mistress of one of the cardinals. I'm sure the pope means well, but he obviously isn't in control of the Curia of Cardinals.

A History of Invention

Author : Egon Larsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book A History of Invention written by Egon Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Inventions and Discoveries

Author : Willis Duff Piercy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020734298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Great Inventions and Discoveries written by Willis Duff Piercy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the most important inventions and discoveries throughout human history, from the wheel to the internet. Each chapter presents a different invention or discovery, explaining its impact on society and how it came to be. This is a must-read for anyone interested in science, technology, and the history of human development. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Civilization

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101548029
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Civilization written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.