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 Making Media : Production, Practices, and Professions by Mark Deuze and Mirjam Prenger English | 2019 | ISBN: 9462988110 | 493 Pages | PDF | 2.9 MB  Arindam Chakrabarti, "Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics" English | ISBN: 0415710553 | 2014 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the 'timeless' classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharata in the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the 'written text' as we have it today. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian and comparative philosophy, Indian and comparative literature, cultural studies, and history.  Hanoch Ben-Yami, "Logic & Natural Language: On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance " English | ISBN: 0754637433 | 2004 | 168 pages | PDF | 17 MB Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic. The calculus' place in logic is so central that many philosophers think, in fact, of it when they think of logic. This book challenges the position in contemporary logic and philosophy of language of the predicate calculus claiming that it is based on mistaken assumptions. Ben-Yami shows that the predicate calculus is different from natural language in its fundamental semantic characteristics, primarily in its treatment of reference and quantification, and that as a result the calculus is inadequate for the analysis of the semantics and logic of natural language. Ben-Yami develops both an alternative analysis of the semantics of natural language and an alternative deductive system comparable in its deductive power to first order predicate calculus but more adequate than it for the representation of the logic of natural language. Ben-Yami's book is a revolutionary challenge to classical first order predicate calculus, casting doubt on many of the central claims of modern logic.  Walter Goebel, "Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres " English | ISBN: 0415539609 | 2012 | pages | PDF | 3 MB This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.  Lava Asaad, "Literature with A White Helmet: The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming, and Representing Refugees " English | ISBN: 0367273594 | 2019 | pages | PDF | 2 MB Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee's body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists. The book relies on a broad selection of texts by authors who, in one way or another, have experienced displacement, witnessed it, imagined it, or co-written about it.  Cole "CTS" South, Tri "SlowHabit" Nguyen, "Let There Be Range!: Crushing SSNL/MSNL No-Limit Hold'em Games" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0982402252 | 80 pages | PDF | 9,5 MB From the man who literally CREATED the poker ebook market, Let There Be Range offers serious-minded players a high-level yet accessible discussion of no-limit hold'em cash game strategy and theory. Self-made poker millionaires Cole South and Tri Nguyen will show you the concepts they used to win millions playing poker.  Edward Nolfi, "Legal Terminology Explained" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0073511846 | PDF | pages: 432 | 13.7 mb The Nation's First Comprehensive Legal Terminology Textbook!  Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190466456 | 252 pages | EPUB | 4.1 MB This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. Closely intertwined in history and memory, pogroms and blood libels were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late Tsarist Russia, the only country on earth with large scale anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. But their persistence and memory under the Bolsheviks-a chapter that is largely overlooked by the existing scholarship-significantly shaped the Soviet Jewish experience.  Ato Sekyi-Otu, "Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays" English | ISBN: 1138611786 | 2018 | 308 pages | PDF | 3 MB Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Consisting of five intertwined essays, the book claims that centering such arguments and commitments on a particular place, in this instance the African world, is entirely compatible with that foundational universalism. Ato Sekyi-Otu thus proposes a less conventional mode of Africacentrism, one that rejects the usual hostility to universalism as an imperialist Eurocentric hoax. Sekyi-Otu argues that universalism is an inescapable presupposition of ethical judgment in general and critique in particular, and that it is especially indispensable for radical criticism of conditions of existence in postcolonial society and for vindicating visions of social regeneration. The constituent chapters of the book are exhibits of that argument and question some fashionable conceptual oppositions and value apartheids.  Bidyut Chakrabarty, "Left Radicalism in India " English | ISBN: 0415810329 | 2014 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB Left radicalism in India was rooted in the nationalist movement and was set in motion in the 1920s with the formation of the communist party. The communist movement manifested itself differently in each phase of India's political history and Communism continues to remain a meaningful alternative ideological discourse in India. |
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