These verses, extracted from a longer Urdu naz?m or poem, were written by Nazir, a blacksmith and bladesmith based in the North Indian city of Rampur in the mid-twentieth century. I first encountered Nazir and his poetry as part of a collection that the librarians of the renowned Raza Library in Rampur had put together to honor the city’s artisanal and material heritage.2 Nazir’s ve…
Kisah-Kisah Tengah Malam berisi tiga belas cerita pendek karya klasik Edgar Allan Poe. Masing-masing cerita di sini akan membawa pembaca menuju pengalaman unik yang penuh ketegangan, teror, dan misteri. Beberapa cerpen Edgar Allan Poe yang terkenal seperti Black Cat, The Fall of the Usher, dan Tell-Tale Heart bisa anda temukan dalam kumpulan cerpen ini. Saat membaca Kisah-Kisah Tengah Malam, a…
Kelam, gelap, dan mendebarkan; kisah-kisah yang menunggumu dalam ratusan halaman di balik sampul buku ini. Kau akan bertemu para tokoh dan cerita yang belum pernah kau bayangkan sebelumnya. Bangsawan keji dan kuda misteriusnya yang membara, pria yang terobsesi pada gigi tunangannya, dokter yang menghipnosis pasiennya yang berada di ambang kematian, seekor gagak yang menjumpai seorang kekasih ya…
Each Friday my colleagues and I gather to discuss the week’s wins and losses. As we share ideas and experiences, we focus on the messages we are constructing and hearing. Sometimes, when topics are delicate, we are careful with phrasing and vocal tone, and when the space fills with people, we adjust our volume or move our bodies into closer proximity. The te…
This is a book about The Disabled Child. It is not a book about any particular child or any particular disability, but a book about a figure I call The Dis-abled Child that emerges from the stories parents tell about their real-life children with disabilities. This is a book about an expectation, an idea, and an ideal that is produced and reproduced in stories parents …
In 1975, a reviewer for the Toronto Sun reported on a live performance by Lata Mangeshkar, then the reigning playback voice of Hindi cinema, during her first North American tour. “Lata Mangeshkar is what is known as a ‘playback singer,’” he wrote. “That is the vocalist who replaces the voice of the leading lady [in a film] whenever she breaks into song. …
Have the people of Africa always starved? Most people have never heard this question posed. So ingrained is the idea of “Africa” as a scarce place that the con-tinent has become synonymous with need in popular thought.1 Preoccupied by images of hungry children and drought-ravaged landscapes, we have come to expect that we will find food insecurity in every…
Land undergirds human existence, providing the material conditions for suste-nance, shelter and quality of life. The human past reveals a variety of practices and strategies for land use, given the diversity and instability of environments over time. It is therefore remarkable that land today is classified according to one main characteristic: owne…
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affi…
Budding artists can master the toughest and most treasured technique of all: portraying the beauty, grace, and personality of the human body. This wonderful tutorial, and a variety of inspiring sketches on every page, provide the solid technical foundation needed to depict every type of figure—young or old, male or female, standing, sitting, or in motion—and with style. Intricately detailed…