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 Literary Land Claims: The "Indian Land Question" from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat By Margery Fee 2015 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 177112119X | PDF | 5 MB Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming "savages" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions.Margery Fee examines John Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations. She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England.Fee concludes that despite support in social media for Theresa Spence's hunger strike, Idle No More, and the Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the story about "savage Indians" and "civilized Canadians" and the latter group's superior claim to "develop" the lands and resources of Canada still circulates widely. If the land is to be respected and shared as it should be, literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and intellectuals.  Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003106890 | 255 pages | True PDF | 4.79 MB At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing debates about knowledge and knowing in English in dialogue with an investigation of how English teachers are made in the 21st century.  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. |
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