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 Lines in Water: Religious Boundaries in South Asia By Eliza F. Kent (editor), Lines in Water Tazim R. Kassam (editor) 2013 | 428 Pages | ISBN: 081563319X | PDF | 4 MB When asked to distinguish between different faiths, Mughal prince Dara Shikoh is said to have replied, "How do you draw a line in water?" Inspired by this question, the essays in this volume illustrate how ordinary people in South Asia and the diaspora negotiate their religious identities and encounters in creative, complex, and diverse ways. Taking the approach that narratives "from below" provide the richest insight into the dynamics of religious pluralism, the authors examine life histories, oral traditions, cartographic practices, pilgrimage rites, and devotional music and songs. Drawing on both ethnographic and historical data, they illuminate how, like lines in water, religious boundaries are dynamic, fluid, flexible, and permeable rather than permanently fixed, frozen, and inviolable. A distinct feature of the volume is its proposition of a fresh and innovative typology of boundary dynamics. Boundaries may be attractive or porous, firmly drawn or transcended. Attractive boundaries invite confluence while affirming the differences between self and other, whereas permeable boundaries facilitate exchanges that create new identities and in turn form new lines. Although people may recognize the significance of religious borders, they can choose to transcend them. Throughout this volume, the authors highlight the fascinating range of South Asian religious and cultural traditions.  Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family (Popular Culture and Everyday Life) By Kristin Swenson 2013 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 143311044X | PDF | 8 MB Since 1997, advertisements for lifestyle drugs have saturated the U.S. airwaves, print media, and the Internet. Viewers are asked to see their children's difficulty in school as attention deficit disorder, their worry as anxiety, and their flagging sex life as dysfunction. And for each disorder, there is a corresponding pharmaceutical solution. Through the lens of these advertisements, Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family unpacks our contemporary obsession with obtaining easy solutions for difficult problems. The ads' discourse illuminates the experience of living within a society increasingly affected by the policies of neoliberalism, one that requires us to invest and manage our own health with the ultimate goal of a materially productive life. Advertisements for lifestyle drugs promise to make us sexier, happier, and better liked; not to cure us of a disorder, but, ultimately, to make us better workers, suggesting that drugs do indeed work to keep us working.  Manning Marable, Mumia Abu-Jamal, "Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0742560570, 0742560562 | EPUB | pages: 708 | 1.5 mb This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period of black history. The selections represent a broad spectrum of ideology. Conservative, radical, nationalistic, and integrationist approaches can be found in almost every period, yet there have been striking shifts in the evolution of social thought and activism. The editors judiciously illustrate how both continuity and change affected the African-American community in terms of its internal divisions, class structure, migration, social problems, leadership, and protest movements. They also show how gender, spirituality, literature, music, and connections to Africa and the Caribbean played a prominent role in black life and history.  Kenneth M. Ludmerer, "Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine" English | ISBN: 0199744548 | 2014 | 456 pages | EPUB | 717 KB In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M. Ludmerer provides the first-ever account of the residency system for training doctors in the United States. He traces its development from its nineteenth-century roots through its present-day struggles to cope with new, bureaucratic work-hour regulations for house officers and, more important, to preserve excellence in medical training amid a highly commercialized health care system.  Legacies of War and Dictatorship in Contemporary Portugal and Spain (Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity) By Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (editor), Catherine O'Leary (editor) 2011 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 3039118722 | PDF | 3 MB This multi-authored volume offers the first extensive exploration of cultural memory in Portugal and Spain, two countries that are normally studied in isolation from one another due to linguistic divergences. The book contains an important theoretical survey of cultural memory today and a comparative analysis of the historical background influencing studies of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. It includes the work of eleven specialists on contemporary Spanish and Portuguese history, culture and literature and establishes a series of parallel themes that lace the chapters together: resistance; literary and popular representations of the figure of the dictator; gender; intergenerational links and changing paradigms of war stories; and the performance of memory. The essays gathered here will be of interest to scholars of both national cultures as well as those concerned with issues of memory, trauma and the historical legacy of war and dictatorship.  Learning Functional Programming: Managing Code Complexity by Thinking Functionally English | 2022 | ISBN: 1098111753 | 200 Pages | MOBI EPUB (True) | 3 MB Learn how to think and write code like a functional programmer. With this practical guide, software developers familiar with object-oriented programming will dive into the core concepts of functional programming and learn how to use both functional and OOP features together on large or complex software projects. Author Jack Widman uses samples from Java, Python, C#, Scala, and jаvascript to help you gain a new perspective and a set of tools for managing the complexity in your problem domain. You'll be able to write code that's simpler, reusable, easier to test and modify, and more consistently correct. This book also shows you how to use patterns from category theory to help bridge the gap between OOP and functional programming. Learn functional programming fundamentals and explore the way functional programmers approach problems Understand how FP differs from object-oriented and imperative programming Use a set of practical, applicable design patterns that model reality in a functional way Learn how to incorporate FP and OOP features into software projects Apply functional design patterns appropriately and use them to write correct, robust, and easily modifiable code  Learn to Draw With Colour Pencils in 30 Days by Kevn Todd English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B8ZR5NY2 | 860 pages | EPUB | 70 Mb The colorful color pencils will surely make you love it, but without a solid foundation of sketching, you will feel overwhelmed when drawing color pencils. This book is "Sketching + Drawing". This book is the landscape volume in the series of "Sketch + Pencil, 30 Days to Learn to Draw". The book is divided into 30 lines of teaching, the first day to the twelfth day, explained the tools, brush strokes, outline, light and dark, texture, composition, details and other sketching basics, so that readers initially understand the necessary theoretical knowledge and drawing skills when drawing landscape sketching, for color pencil drawing good foundation; the thirteenth day to the thirtieth day, respectively, explained the sky, beach, mountains and rivers, flowers, trees, street scenes and other cases from easy to difficult The 13th to the 30th days, the sketching techniques and color pencil drawing methods are explained respectively, and the methods and techniques that can be applied to three cases are extracted from them, so that readers can really master the drawing methods of color pencil drawing based on the understanding of sketching relationships. Take your time, pick up a color pencil, and paint a stunningly beautiful landscape! The colorful color pencils will surely make you love them, but without a solid foundation of sketching, you will feel overwhelmed when drawing color pencils. This book is divided into 30 lines.  Learn Italian with Paul Noble By Paul Noble 2012 | 40 Pages | ISBN: 0007363966 | PDF | 2 MB 'Italian with Paul Noble' combines an exciting, new non-traditional approach to language learning with the easy, relaxed appeal of an audio-only product. No books. No rote memorisation. No chance of failure.  Learn French For Adult Beginners: 3 Books in 1: Speak French In 30 Days! by Explore ToWin English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09QZZ7WBT | 172 pages | EPUB | 0.34 Mb With This Book, You'll Be Speaking a Foreign Language in Just 30 Days! - The Perfect Beginners Guide to Quickly Teach Adults Conversational French. With Grammar, Vocabulary, and Speaking Exercises  Learn Coding Basics in Hours with jаvascript by Jack C. Stanley English | November 17, 2017 | ISBN: 0997326468 | 140 pages | MOBI | 1.62 Mb Newly updated for 2021! Want to learn how to code in less than a day? This book was designed for absolute beginners - you don't need any prior experience or knowledge. Written by the Co-Founders of The Tech Academy (learncodinganywhere.com), this book serves as a perfect introduction to computer programming for anyone. This book utilizes jаvascript, one of the most popular programming languages in the world. You will also learn some basic HTML and CSS. Learn Coding Basics in Hours with jаvascript is easy and simple, and it can be completed fast.The Tech Academy is a technology school that specializes in coding bootcamps. You can enroll online and study their programs from anywhere in the world. For more information about The Tech Academy, their books and training programs, visit: learncodinganywhere.com |
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