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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 1996Colonial discourse / postcolonial theory
by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iverson
The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has had to respond to post-colonial pressure, with its different registers and agendas. This volume ranges, geographically, from Brazil to India and South Africa, from the Andes to the Caribbean and the USA. This range is matched by a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself. Contributors include Annie Coombes, Simon During, Peter Hulme, Neil Lazarus, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Zita Nunes, Benita Parry, Graham Pechey, Mary Louise Pratt, Renato Rosaldo and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2000Discourse theory and political analysis
Identities, hegemoni
by David Howarth, Aletta J. Norval, Aletta Norval, Yannis Stavrakakis, Avril Ehrlich
One of the few books which systematically brings post-structuralist theory to bear on substantive political analysis. Offers accessible accounts of different strands of discourse theory such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis and genealogy, which are applied to the analysis of specific cases such as Northern Ireland and contemporary East European politics. Each chapter addresses a key theme and issue in contemporary politics. Draws on inspiration from Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Contains a clear introductory statement of the theoretical approach used and concludes with an assessment of the future directions of discourse theory in the social sciences. ;
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MedicineLosing Weight and Keeping it off
A Method With Lasting Results
by Tatjana van Strien
In this book Tatjana van Strien, the author of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ), presents a scientific alternative for all the ‘miracle solutions’ to lose weight. Based on more than 25 years of scientific research, she offers a self-test-method which enables readers to explore what is the cause of their eating problem, what they can do about it, and ultimately lose weight and keep it off. Target Group: people who want to lose weight, dieticians, doctors, psychologists.
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FictionNovember 2020The Guys from Mandalay , 1950
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Manday ,1950s is based in the years just after independence . After Myanmar became independent from English , there were several armed conflicts in Ethnic Areas all over the world. Sein Da Myone ( Golden Dagger) was a leader of a robber gang base in Mandalay ,upper Myanmar . Nobody knows the real life of Mr Golden Dagger and he lived under the face of a gentleman . This book is related to The Guys of Rangoon 1930 as well and they have some links in stories.
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Children's & YA2019He and I. A Story Without Secrets About Boys
by Yulia Smal (Author), Anna Oliynyk (Illustrator)
A time comes when every child starts wondering about their body, asking their parents “awkward” questions. In this book, children and their parents, together with a curious boy named Max, will learn about the boys’ private parts and about the right way to treat one’s privacy and intimacy, about hygiene and safety, about illnesses and self-care, and, most importantly, about good behavior and respect. The book approaches the subject in an interesting and fun way, and is beautifully illustrated by Anna Oliynyk. From 3 to 12 years, 7681 words Rightsholders: mybookshelf.publishing@gmail.com
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FictionMay 2020The Guys of Rangoon 1930
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.
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Business, Economics & LawSeptember 2020Religious Tourism and the Environment
by Kiran A Shinde, Daniel H Olsen
The remarkable growth in religious tourism across the world has generated considerable interest in the impacts of this type of tourism. Focusing here on environmental issues, this book moves beyond the documentation of environmental impacts to examine in greater depth the intersections between religious tourism and the environment. Beginning with an in-depth introduction that highlights the intersections between religion, tourism, and the environment, the book then focuses on the environment as a resource or generator for religious tourism and the environment as a recipient of impacts of religious tourism. Chapters included discuss such important areas as disease, environmental responsibility and host perspectives. Covering as many cultural and environmental regions as possible, this book provides: An in-depth, yet holistic view of the relationships between religious tourism and the environment; A conceptual framework that goes beyond listing potential environment impacts; A strong focus on explaining the universality of the deeper environmental issues surrounding sacredness and sacred places. From a global writing team and featuring case studies spanning Europe and Asia, this book will be of great interest to researchers and students of tourism and religious studies, as well as those studying environmental issues.
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Literature & Literary StudiesSeptember 2024Tis Pity She's a Whore
By John Ford
by Martin White
John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest between brother and sister. This Revels Plays edition is a scholarly, modern-spelling edition of one of the most studied and performed of all plays of the period. White's critical introduction explores the textual and theatrical histories of the play, exploring closely its relationship to the particular stage and audience for which it was written. This Revels edition allows the modern reader to become, in Ford's words, an 'actor that but reads'.
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Children's & YAOctober 2022Big book of curiosity
This book is a real treasure for young readers, who are constantly asking “why” and are curious about absolutely everything that surrounds them
by Iryna Rutylo
This visually astonishing story takes children on a journey through different facts about our World. - Who can hold its breath for the longest time under water? - Why is plastic dangerous? - Which tree is the biggest one on the Earth? - Who are the members of a symphony orchestra? - When will I be able to fly into space? Young readers can find answers to all these questions — and more — in the Big Book of CuriositiesSelling points- Couple hundres interesting facts about our world;- an exciting, fascinating journey through different cultural, scientific and history facts; - more than 30 lift-the-flap windows; - lift the flap and learn fun facts about our world: through interesting history, scientific research and the best-known facts; - vibrant and striking illustrations to enjoy at their best. REVIEW:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnyu30rgjVN/
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Children's & YAYangon and Englithed Puppets
by Jeff Perce
Base in Yangon. A girl met with a puppet and sharing the experience each other. A heart warm charming stories with beautiful collage illustrations.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025Framing
The social art of influence
by Mikael Klintman
A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we think about it. In today's chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem - often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is. In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a cutting-edge toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives. Combining insights from the social sciences, economics and evolutionary biology, he lays out a four-part approach to understanding how information is 'framed' for us, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size. Demonstrating this approach through an array of real-world examples, from climate change denial to the subtle messaging of caviar ads, Klintman reveals how canny communicators mislead us without relying on overt deception. At the same time, he probes the deeper evolutionary and cultural roots of our susceptibility to frames.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Bertrand Blier
by Sue Harris
The most complete study of Blier's work to date, Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present. Outlines the forms, themes and style which dominate in Blier's work, and challenges the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Provides an original and controversial discussion of Blier's alleged 'misogyny', and invites the reader to understand the scatological and corporeal aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. The first book on Blier published in English.
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August 2021Night Talk around a Stove
by Wang Yongbin
This book is a popular reading material of Confucianism. It is a famous review work of literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that evaluates and comments in sections on the anecdotes, people, events, articles and others of that time and before. The author imagines a situation in winter where one talks freely about literature and art with best friends around a stove, which makes the language of this book sincere, natural and easy to read. This book has an important position in the history of Chinese literature because of its unique views. It is divided into 221 pieces, with “settling down and setting up a career” as the general topic, which includes ten sub-topics including morality, self-cultivation, reading, contentment with poverty, children’s education, loyalty and filial piety, diligence and thrift, revealing the profound connotation that the establishment of virtue, establishment of achievement and establishement of theory are all based on one’s career. This book is regarded as one of the three masterpieces dealing with worldly affairs, the other two being The Roots of Wisdom (Caigentan) and Meditation in Solitude by a Tiny Window (Xiaochuang Youji).
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February 2018Talking about relativity to children
by Li Miao
This is a popular book on relativity written by physicist Li Miao for children. Einstein's revolution in science and technology has brought great changes to our world in the 20th century. It has changed our cognition of time, space, matter and motion. A series of fantastic predictions have come true one by one, including gravitational waves detected in recent years. In this book, starting from this world-famous event, uncle Miao tells his children about the incomprehensible concepts of gravity, space-time, speed of light, etc. There are a lot of wonderful illustrations in the book, together with a variety of interesting thought experiments, to help children understand this field which has a great impact on modern physics.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentKeep the chronic disease away
by Wu Yuewei Tang Guanhui
This book contains a lot of folk prescriptions, ancient prescriptions, Chinese prescriptions and etc. for different disease. It introduces 60 ways to keep the diseases away. 内容简介 本书是集偏方、验方、古方、中医疗法、对症食疗、运动疗法为一体的保健百科，是作者70多年养生、抗病亲身经验的大集解！包括80个全家人适用的老偏方！60个顽疾对抗高招！能用一辈子的家庭养生治病必备宝典，告诉你与顽疾对着干的强大智慧！
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MedicineTalking about Health and Illness in Simple Terms
Medical Information Sheets in Plain Language
by Tanja Sappok, Reinhard Burtscher, Anja Grimmer
People with intellectual disabilities are signifcantly more likely to suffer from mental and physical disorders than the general population. For this very reason, good healthpromoting and medical care is especially important. Communication diffculties with patients and specialist staff make the necessary examinations and treatments more diffcult and can result in critical situations that are avoidable. If patients can be provided with explanations that are in line with their capabilities, then the level of anxiety and stress is reduced for all concerned. The treatment success rate increases. This largeformat book includes materials that explain about illnesses, examination and treatment methods in language that is easy to understand. The materials can help medical, treatment and educational personnel with their everyday work. They promote dialogue with relatives and people with learning diffculties, contribute to informed decisionmaking and strengthen patient rights.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2018Conversations about Ukraine
by Yaroslav Hrytsak, Izabella Khruslinska
This is the third book in a series of conversations between Iza Khruslinska and Ukrainian intellectuals. The first two books were with Oksana Zabuzhko and Yosyf Zisels. The one with Yaroslav Hrytsak, although, is chronologically the first book. It was first published in Polish language in 2009. The main topic of the conversation with Yaroslav Hrytsak is the suitability of history for understanding what is going on in Ukraine in recent decades. Special emphasis is placed on Ukraine's relations with its historical neighbors – Poles and Russians, as well as Ukrainian-Jewish relations. But first of all, it is about the historical dimension of the current problems and challenges that Ukraine is facing - and to what extent knowledge of history makes it possible to understand future development scenarios. Since the Polish edition was published almost ten years ago, many things in this book have been rethought and rewritten, in particular, a new chapter has appeared on the development of events over the most recent decade.
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