E-book Drumming in Bhaktapur : Music of the Newar People of Nepal

The Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley and beyond are an ethnic group of Nepal that absorbed many cultural influences from South Asia over the past two thousand years. Their Newari language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmese language group. Their admirable musical culture saw its heyday during the rule of the later Malla kings of Bhaktapur, Patan and Kathmandu (13th to 18th centu…

E-Book Sweetly Broken

Pengalaman patah hati hingga berdarah-darah, membuat Lara Doris Hartono menutup hati dan menetapkan aturan konyol saat bertemu pria tampan; bersikap dingin dan tak peduli serta jangan pernah menunjukkan kekaguman dan ketertarikan sedikit pun. Namun, saat pertama kali bertemu Dias Adji Nugroho, Lara nyaris melanggar aturan tersebut. Padahal, ia pernah bersumpah akan menghajar pria itu karena ta…

E-Book A Song For Alexa

Sudah sejak SMP Alexa naksir Daniel, tapi selama itu pula dia tidak berani bergerak lebih jauh. Jadi, selama ini dia sibuk menerka-nerka bagaimana sebenarnya perasaan cowok itu terhadapnya. Karena ditawari bantuan, Alexa pun mempercayakan rahasianya kepada Vivi, teman sekelas Daniel yang kebetulan akrab dengan cowok itu. Sementara itu, Alexa yang perasaannya terlanjur melayang karena mengira D…

E-book Politics of Value: New Approaches to Early Money and the State : Proce…

As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from antiquity to the present. Arguably, it gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the course of the first millennium BC, mostly in the form of coinage. But money is more than just coin, and its significance more pervasive than just to the…

E-book Cash Flow : The Businesses of Menstruation

Menstrual culture is changing again. Since the new millennium, advertisements have moved from blue to red (liquid). Pink product packaging has been replaced with black. A dozen books about menstruation aimed at the general public have been published.2 Periods have become plot devices in television series, in an Oscar-winning documentary (Period. End of Sen…

E-book British Activist Authors Addressing Children of Colour

‘Books are for white people.’ It’s an old idea, and historically, mostly a true one, at least in British publishing. Not only have most books, including children’s books, been written for and about white people in Britain, the scholarly and critical histories of literature, including children’s literature, have focused on these same books and their presumed-white audie…

E-book The Practice of Texts : Education and Healing in South India

Prathik was a young ayurvedic physician, fresh out of college, and studying one of the Sanskrit medical classics, the A????gah?daya,at Mookkamangalam gurukula in India’s southwestern state of Kerala when he told me this.2 Prathik and I had spoken about his education over the course of several days, and he was always candid about the differences he saw betwee…

E-book A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu

This dictionary is intended for two main audiences, who may want to find in it different types of information. The first intended audience is the Vurës language community. I hope they will be able to use this dictionary to help them write their language, and to promote and maintain the use of traditional words and meanings. It was for this audience, particularly the y…

E-book Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy : Movies and Religion

A statue of a Madonna and Child in a New York kitchen appears in the opening shot of Martin Scorsese’s Who’s Th at Knocking at My Door (1967–9); and the fi nal image of Silence (2016) is of a handmade crucifi x glowing in the fl ames of a crematory fi re in seventeenth-century Japan. It is inarguable that there is a Catholic dimension to Scorsese’s …

E-book The Spanish Connection : French and Flemish Merchant Networks in Sevil…

During the time of Spanish splendor, at the peak of the Spanish Indies trade,the position of the rich merchants in Seville was remarkably strong. ?ey resid-ed at the hub between the European and the American economy and the com-mercial opportunities seemed endless. Based on recent literature and abundantsource material, this chapter gives a survey of the economic and social struc-ture of the ci…

E-book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcrip…

This book is devoted to an imposing world map, printed on twelve sheets and rich in detail, that was designed by the Germancartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1516, whose only surviving exemplar is in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Libraryof Congress. This map, theCarta marina, has tended to live in the shadow of Waldseemüller’s earlier world map, thatprinted in 1507, which is famous …

E-book Melvillean Parasites

There can be no doubt that Herman Melville (1819–1891) was keenly inter-ested in all manner of living creatures—as Johan Warodell has noted, not only did he write “one of the world’s most famous books about an ani-mal,” one can find references to more than 350 different species in his works (68–9). For this reason, please take a moment to consider the follow-…

E-book Typical Girls : The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

As a Child, began to read comic books because I was told, in no uncertain terms, that girls do not read comic books. In fact, I distinctly remember the day of this revelation. I was approximately nine years old, a shy and unassuming student at Jefferson Elementary School. As a precocious child, I didn’t have all that many friends, but, in an awkward attempt at social interac-tion, I approach…

E-book Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and th…

The Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World Wa…

E-book Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire

Shaina Potts traces how the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority in the economies of foreign governments promotes the interests of the American empire abroad.

E-book Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstru…

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic images contribute to shaping the new societies emerging from the ashes of war, both in the Western…

E-book Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use different types of anachronisms to challenge or rewrite history, play with history, or open history up to…

E-book Down Syndrome Culture: Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in …

People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a global phenomenon. Down Syndrome Culture examines Down syndrome alongside its social, cultural, and artistic representation. Author Benjamin Fraser draws upon neomaterialist and posthumanist approaches to disability as well as the work of disability theo…

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E-book The TRUTH about Hair Loss: What You Need to Know about Your Hair, Trea…

If you want to regrow your lost hair or stop that thinning hairline, it is possible to regrow every strand of hair and look great as quickly as possible. This can be done without expensive "Big Pharma" drugs, wasting ridiculous amounts of time massaging your hair, or spending money on supplements... If that sounds like you; then you want to read this book. Here's the deal: Regrowing your …

E-Book This Girl (Gadisku)

Ada dua sisi pada setiap kisah cinta. Sekarang, giliran Will bercerita. Kemarin kami didera cobaan bertubi-tubi, tapi Layken dan aku bertahan. Kini, kami sudah menikah dan sedang meresapi setiap detik sebagai pasangan muda. Aku tahu Layken sangat bahagia dengan kehidupan baru kami, tapi dia masih penasaran. Dia ingin mengenalku. Mengetahui segala sesuatu tentang hubungan kami mulai dari pertem…

E-book Plan Your Prosperity: The Only Retirement Guide You'll Ever Need, Star…

Whether you’re in retirement, just getting ready to retire, or 5, 10, or 40 years out, this book can help you invest smarter your whole life and yes, plan better for retirement. Harmful mythology abounds about retirement investing. Many retirees or soon-to-be retirees have heard a plethora of advice. Take 100 (or 120) and subtract your age to get your equity allocation, put the rest in bo…

E-book Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early): How Far Would…

What if a happier life was only a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens had built a “dream life”: a happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath the surface, Scott was creatively stifled, depressed, and overworked trying to help pay for his family’s beach-town l…

E-book How To Retire Early: Your Guide to Getting Rich Slowly and Retiring on…

What makes this book different from all the other books out there on early retirement? We think it's the amount of personal financial detail we provide. We don’t hold back! You can use this information as a kind of financial yardstick to measure what is possible in your own life. We retired from full-time work at the age of 43. In this book we share with you the roadmap we followed to get …

E-book The Declaration of Independence: A Global History

In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document…

E-book Concepts at the Interface

Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is the case. There is strong evidence that inferences driven by conceptual thought draw heavily on special-purpose resources: sensory, motoric, affective, and evaluative. At the …

E-book Foucault in Iran, 1978–1979

Whatever else he may have become and if he indeed became ‘what one is’, Michel Foucault (15 October 1926–25 June 1984) was first and foremost a philosopher and an activist historian of ideas. Since he started publishing his provocative philosophical works in the late 1950s, he always maintained a unique interest in the role of the intellectual as both a…

E-book Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900 : New Approach…

So begins an entry within a collection of medical recipes found in an early ninth-century medical manuscript located in the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, cod. sang. 759 (see Figure 1).2 This collection, covering roughly the second half of the manuscript (pp. 58–94), includes a vast range of material, from recipes for scented ointments to treatments for blindness, skin co…

E-book Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis : Steps Towards a Metacosmics

Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude for your decision to crack open at least the first page of this volume. Given that mass lit-eracy is an idea that has only been around a few centuries, given that thus far some 130 million titles have been published and more than two million new ones are added each year, given that a human being who dedicated his or her life to reading…

E-book Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies : Treasures from the Los An…

his exhibition, Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies, has been conceived as an introduction in four parts that will help visitors to the museum and scholars of the university understand key elements of both traditional and current Northeastern Asian native and migrant cultures. The first three parts of the exhibition introduce fundamen-tal concepts inherent in Daoism, Confucian…

E-book FIM World Championship Grand Prix Regulations 2022

The FIM, through the Grand Prix Commission and the Grand Prix Permanent Bureau, may at any time amend any or all provisions of the Regulations. Any subsequent changes that take place after the printed versions are completed will be made electronically, and the on-line versions will be the prevailing versions. Which shall meet on a regular basis to discuss and decide on all issues of the FIM Gra…

E-book Cheese Technology

Cheese is one of the oldest foods of mankind. It is commonly believed that cheese evolved in the Fertile Crescent between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq some 8000 years ago. The socalled Agricultural Revolution occurred here with the domestication of plants and animals. It seems that cheese originated accidentally as a result of the activities of nomadic tribes. Since animal skin ba…

E-book The Cultural Set-up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the United States…

How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock…

E-book Dissens and Sensibility: Why Art Matters

The book is motivated by the author's long-lasting interest in the role of art in society in general and education in particular and is a contribution to arts-based approaches to education. An introduction to pedagogy of dissensus: a pedagogy informed by the dissensual characteristics of art. The book includes both theoretical foundations and examples of how the theory is unfolded in different …

E-Book Gerhana Kembar

Lendy, editor buku yang bekerja pada perusahaan penerbitan terkejut ketika tanpa sengaja menemukan naskah tua dan potongan-potongan surat di dalam lemari baju neneknya. Neneknya sendiri dalam keadaan sekarat di rumah sakit akibat penyakit kanker yang dideritanya. Bagaikan masuk ke dunia yang dulu terkunci rapat, Lendy tenggelam dalam kisah pada naskah itu. Semakin dalam dia membaca, Lendy sema…

E-book The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer

In today’s hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby, to Real Madrid and Barcelona in association football (soccer), contact sports incite a passion few other gam…

E-book Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural…

Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia are interspersed throughout the book. The aut…

E-book Velar Fronting in German Dialects : A Study in Synchronic and Diachron…

The distribution of German dorsal fricatives – palatal [ç] and velar [x] – haspreoccupied linguists of diverse theoretical persuasions for over ninety years.Scholars who have discussed the patterning of those sounds include the follow-ing:Jones (1929),Hermann (1932),Bloomfield (1933),Trubetzkoy (1939),Moul-ton (1947),Leopold (1948),Jones (1950),Trim (1951),Dietrich (1953),Trost (1958),Heik…

E-book The Big Book of Small House Designs: 75 Award-Winning Plans for Your D…

This collection of 75 plans for small homes offers more than 500 usable blueprints and other illustrations for a variety of living spaces suitable for every environment and style, from a New England farmhouse to a sophisticated townhouse in the city to a Santa Fe ranch. The designs include site drawings, floor plans, elevation drawings, section drawings, perspective drawings, and exploded vi…

E-book Interior Color by Design: A Design Tool for Architects, Interior Desig…

Effective color selection can be a powerful element in any design. "Interior Color By Design" takes the mystery out of the color application process by: Providing over 250 color samples to experiment with different combinations Featuring over 100 full-color images that illustrate key concepts like adjacent colors and overall design Exploring the interactive effects of color combinations on inte…

E-book Eco-Resort: Planning and Design for The Tropics

Eco-Resorts is a design guide for low impact, environmentally friendly tourist resorts in the tropics. The book is the first to offer architects practical, detailed guidance in developing resort buildings that work with a tropical climate and meet the needs and expectations of the client and building inhabitants. The book includes both architectural design and material solutions, supported b…

E-book The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance

I 2006 the tactical media collective Ubermorgen gained access to Amazon’s digital library, capturing more than three thousand copyright-protected books sold on the site by manipulating its “Search Inside the Book” feature.1Unleashing a series of software applications known as “bots,” Ubermorgen sent five thousand to ten thousand requests per book and reassembled them into pdfs that we…

E-book Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Maps in this book were reproduced by Paul Heggarty from maps provided by chapter authors, by converting them into a GIS (Geographic Information System) database, collated and enriched for South America for the purposes of this book. All data used on the maps are thus geo- referenced – set to actual latitude and longitude coordi-nates – as precisely as possible. Individual p…

E-book The Architecture Of Light (2nd Edition): A Textbook of Procedures and …

Welcome to the Second Edition! The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, dr…

E-book Digital Business Models : The New Value Creation and Capture Mechanism…

Let’s stop the time, and rewind. Fifteen years ago, almost none of us had a smart-phone–the iPhone was first released in the United States on June 29, 2007. Tenyears ago, many of us owned a smartphone, and if we could do almost everything thatwe can do today via digital devices (the iPad was released in April 2010), most of usdid not.The digital devices were available; however, they were no…

E-book Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design

Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases Japanese design in the stunning beauty of old homes and reveals how they are cared for by their owners. Traditional Japanese homes, with superbly crafted fine wood, great workmanship and seasonal interior arrangements, have an aesthetic of infinite simplicity. Unlike Japanese inns and hist…

E-book Business School Internationalisation in a Changing World

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, …

E-book Paradise by Design: Tropical Residences and Resorts by Bensley Design …

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E-book Talking Dialogue : Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interr…

The last two decades have seenadynamic increase in the number of activitiesthat are explicitlylinked to the notion of interreligious dialogue (IRD). All overthe world, empirical research projects underlinethe establishment of highlycomplex local scenes of these types of initiatives.¹Especiallyatthe nationallevel, it is possibleto identifyasignificant increase in dialogue organizations–either…

E-book Game, World, Architectonics : Transdisciplinary Approaches on Structur…

This anthology comprises written versions as well as extended case studies of talks from the international two-day workshop “Architectonics of Game Worlds—On Aesthetics and Mechanics, Spaces and Places, Rhythms and Philosophies” at the University of Cologne in March 2019. The contributors do not only come from across Europe but also cover diverse research disciplines thro…