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 Greater Than a Tourist- Grand Cayman: 50 Travel Tips from a Local (Greater Than a Tourist Caribbean) by Aoife Brophy English | January 22, 2018 | ISBN: 1976947626 | 78 pages | EPUB | 0.21 Mb Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist- Grand Cayman by Aoife Brophy offers the inside scoop on Cayman. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.  Melody Beattie, "Gratitude: Inspirations by Melody Beattie" English | 2007 | ISBN: 1592854087 | EPUB | pages: 107 | 2.5 mb Melody Beattie encourages and inspires readers to reconnect with what's truly important in life.  Graph Theory: Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems - 1 by Ralucca Gera English | PDF | 2016 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 3319319388 | 8.1 MB This is the first in a series of volumes, which provide an extensive overview of conjectures and open problems in graph theory. The readership of each volume is geared toward graduate students who may be searching for research ideas. However, the well-established mathematician will find the overall exposition engaging and enlightening. Each chapter, presented in a story-telling style, includes more than a simple collection of results on a particular topic.  Marco Fonseca, "Gramsci's Critique of Civil Society: Towards a New Concept of Hegemony " English | ISBN: 1138185876 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist thinker whose radical ideas on how to build an alternative world from below remain vigorously relevant today. Gramsci's philosophy of praxis critically dissects the institutions of modern liberal democracy to reveal what is perhaps its deepest secret: it is the most successful political system in modernity at preserving an objective condition of domination while transforming it into a subjective conviction of freedom.  Madison N. Pierce, "Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature" English | ISBN: 1316514463 | 2022 | 275 pages | PDF | 4 MB Before the early Christian evangelists were Gospel writers, they were Gospel readers. Their composition process was more complex than simply compiling existing traditions about Jesus, then ordering them into a narrative frame. Rather, these writers were engaged in a creative and dynamic act of theological reception. 'Gospel reading' refers to this innovative and often artistic use of source materials - from Israel's Scriptures to pre-existing narratives of Jesus- to produce updated, expanded, or even alternative renditions. This volume explores that process. The common thread running through each chapter is the conviction that the early Christian practice of writing 'gospel' and the 'Gospels' was one of the most hermeneutically creative exercises in ancient literary culture, one that was prompted by the perceived theological significance of Jesus. The contributors seek to demonstrate the intricate dynamics of this controversial figure's theological and textual reception through foundational essays on specific texts and themes.  Goal for It 2.0: Imagine More Success-Master Roadblocks to Goal Achievement by Syndee Hendricks English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09RM6NDVB | 155 pages | EPUB | 1.71 Mb Most of us struggle with roadblocks when we work so diligently to achieve goals and success in life and in business. How would you feel if you had a roadmap to solve those roadblocks in your efforts to get those goals to fruition? Inside these pages are the secrets shared by successful professionals on the roadmaps to their successes! And best of all, many have offered a complimentary discovery session to work with them.  Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas English | 2021 | ISBN: 110718231X | 411 Pages | PDF | 11 MB China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field research across China and Latin America, Stephen Kaplan finds that China's patient capital endows national governments with more room to maneuver in formulating domestic policies. The author goes on to evaluate the potential costs of Chinese financing, raising the question of how Chinese lenders will react to developing nation's ongoing struggles with debt and dependency. By disaggregating the structure of international finance, Globalizing Patient Capital has significant implications for the rise of China in Latin America, offering new insights about globalization and showing the costs and benefits of state versus market approaches to development.  Global eSports: Transformation of Cultural Perceptions of Competitive Gaming by Dal Yong Jin English | March 25, 2021 | ISBN: 150136877X, 1501369253 | 336 pages | PDF | 8,5 MB Global esports explores the recent surge of esports in the global scene and comprehensively discusses people's understanding of this spectacle. By historicizing and institutionalizing esports, the contributors analyze the rapid growth of esports and its implications in culture and digital economy. Dal Yong Jin curates a discussion as to why esports has become a global phenomenon.  Lucinda Ramberg, "Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion" English | 2014 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0822357100 | PDF | 1,7 mb Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations-between and among humans and deities-that exceed such categories.  Clare Bradford, "Girls, Texts, Cultures " English | ISBN: 1771120207 | 2015 | 339 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. |
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