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 Anna Bernard, "What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say " English | ISBN: 1138547697 | 2018 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, not least because of the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that these insights no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field should address beyond its general commitments. Yet the renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides an important opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the economic rise of Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies, international relations, disaster studies), overlooked locations and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the commons), and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both the contemporary world and world literary systems.  Web and Digital for Graphic Designers by Neil Leonard, Andrew Way English | 2020 | ISBN: 1350027553 | 218 Pages | PDF | 76 MB  Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) by Joshua Stacher English | Mar 31, 2020 | ISBN: 0815636776, 0815636873 | 288 pages | PDF | 7 MB In Egypt, something that fails to live up to its advertised expectations is often called a watermelon: a grand promise that later turns out to be empty talk. The political transition in Egypt after protests overthrew Husni Mubarak in 2011 is one such watermelon. Stacher examines the uprising and its aftermath to show how the country's new ruling incumbents deferred the democratic dreams of the people of Egypt. At the same time, he lays out in meticulous fashion the circumstances that gave the army's well-armed and well-funded institution an advantage against its citizens during and after Egypt's turbulent transition. Stacher outlines the ways in which Egypt's military manipulated the country's empowering uprising into a nightmare situation that now counts as the most repressive period in Egypt's modern history. In particular, Stacher charts the opposition dynamics during uprisings, elections, state violence, and political economy to show the multiple ways autocratic state elites try to construct a new political regime on the ashes of a discredited one. As they encounter these different aspects working together as a larger process, readers come to grips with the totality of the military-led counterrevolution as well as understand why Egyptians rightfully feel they ended up living in a watermelon democracy.  Water: Nature and Culture (Earth) by Reaktion Books English | July 15, 2015 | ISBN: 1780234325 | 224 pages | EPUB | 26 Mb As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a historywithwater, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. InWater, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible examination of the crucial properties that make water so unique alongside the complex story of our evolving relationship with it.
 Christine Sylvester, "War as Experience: Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis " English | ISBN: 0415775981 | 2012 | 160 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book is a major new contribution to our understanding of war and international relations (IR). Divided into two sections, the first part surveys the state of war and war studies in international relations, security studies and in feminist international relations. The second part addresses a missing area of IR studies of war that feminism is well-placed to fill in: the emotional and physical aspects of war.  War Comics: A Postcolonial Perspective by Jeanne-Marie Viljoen English | Jul 6, 2020 | ISBN: 0367533154 | 232 pages | PDF | 12,6 MB This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form may help us with this. The book uses the concept of the ineffable to expand the notion of representation beyond the confines of a western, individualist notion of trauma as event based. In so doing, it engages a postcolonial perspective of trauma, which treats violence as ongoing and connected to several incidents of violence across time and space. This book demonstrates how the formal qualities of visual, non-fiction may help close the gap between representation and experience through the process of 'dark' writing.  Viruses against Humanity: past, present and future by Samuel Greenberg English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0871RD5XB | 91 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 0.56 Mb What you need to know about viruses and epidemics  Vampires: The Myths, Legends, and Lore by Aubrey Sherman English | July 31, 2014 | ISBN: 1440580766 | 224 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 5.73 Mb A thrilling treasury of vampire lore!  Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment by James Montier English | ISBN: 0470683597 | 2009 | EPUB | 414 pages | 4,8 MB "As with his weekly column, James Montier's Value Investing is a must read for all students of the financial markets. In short order, Montier shreds the 'efficient market hypothesis', elucidates the pertinence of behavioral finance, and explains the crucial difference between investment process and investment outcomes. Montier makes his arguments with clear insight and spirited good humor, and then backs them up with cold hard facts. Buy this book for yourself, and for anyone you know who cares about their capital!"  Urban Operating Systems: Producing the Computational City (Infrastructures) by Andres Luque-Ayala English | 2020 | ISBN: 0262539810 | 290 Pages | PDF EPUB | 21 MB |
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