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 Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan By Helen Hardacre 1997 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 0520205537 | PDF | 20 MB Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo-a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts of fetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual atonement for women who, sometimes decades previously, chose to have abortions. As she explores the complex issues that surround this practice, Hardacre takes into account the history of Japanese attitudes toward abortion, the development of abortion rituals, the marketing of religion, and the nature of power relations in intercourse, contraception, and abortion.Although abortion in Japan is accepted and legal and was commonly used as birth control in the early postwar period, entrepreneurs used images from fetal photography to mount a surprisingly successful tabloid campaign to promote mizuko kuyo. Enthusiastically adopted by some religionists as an economic strategy, it was soundly rejected by others on doctrinal, humanistic, and feminist grounds.In four field studies in different parts of the country, Helen Hardacre observed contemporary examples of mizuko kuyo as it is practiced in Buddhism, Shinto, and the new religions. She also analyzed historical texts and contemporary personal accounts of abortion by women and their male partners and conducted interviews with practitioners to explore how a commercialized ritual form like mizuko kuyo can be marketed through popular culture and manipulated by the same forces at work in the selling of any commodity. Her conclusions reflect upon the deep current of misogyny and sexism running through these rites and through feto-centric discourse in general.  Rostislav Berezkin, Victor H. Mair, "Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0295742526, 0295742518 | PDF | pages: 273 | 41.6 mb The story of Mulian rescuing his mother's soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illuminates changes in the literary and religious characteristics of the genre. He also examines material from other forms of Chinese literature and from modern performances of baojuan, tracing their transformation from tools of Buddhist proselytizing to sectarian propaganda to folk ritualized storytelling. Ultimately, he reveals the special features of baojuan as a type of performance literature that had its foundations in multiple literary traditions.  Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications by Ralph Abraham, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor Ratiu English | PDF | 1988 | 666 Pages | ISBN : 0387967907 | 43.5 MB The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid me chanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and control thcory arc given in Chapter 8, using both invariant and index notation. The current edition of the book does not deal with Riemannian geometry in much detail, and it does not treat Lie groups, principal bundles, or Morse theory.  Management and Leadership for a Sustainable Africa, Volume 3: Educating for Sustainability Outcomes English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031052838 | 310 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB To effectively deliver sustainable management in practice for Africa, we need responsible leadership.We need to deepen our understanding of sustainability in the unique socio-political and economic context of the continent. The rolesof various actors across public, private and non-profit sectors as enablersof sustainable development needto be explored to understand the social, economic and environmental (SEE) trends in Africa and its emerging and developing economies, as well as to chart the way forward for the continent.  Making Your Website Work: Achieve Massive Results & Better Conversation Using the Latest SEO Techniques and Website Conversion Triggers | Website Design for Small Business & eCommerce Platforms by Patrick Ejeke English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BLZXLDFM | 230 pages | EPUB | 0.93 Mb Do you want to Attract Lots Of Traffic and Achieve Massive Conversion Rates on your website on Autopilot?  Making Phaser 3 Dress-UP Browser Games: Creating Designer Fashions Game Mechanics for Phaser.js Gaming Frameworks v3.16+ by Stephen Gose English | November 18, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08NVG13ZL | 140 pages | EPUB | 3.39 Mb Making Dress-up Fashions Games with Phaser III Series is a tutorial hands-on guide for creating online games using Phaser v3.15+ released edition. This tutorial is a single chapter focused on building a Dress-up Fashions game logic and mechanics. It is only one chapter in a series of 16+ great classic game mechanics techniques. I decided to sell each chapter separately. All tutorials in this series are written in a fun, friendly style with several completed game projects and open-ended exercises that encourage you to build include your own game assets and features. You also have access to bonus content downloads, supporting tools, and source code snippets to add your own modification. Making Dress-up Fashions Games is book 3 in this series and contains several sections. It starts with a Game Overview into the goals, game ludology, workstation set-up, and generation tools. In a matter of hours, you will have a working game prototype for this game's mechanics. All that remains is to add your own artwork and additional game features; then over the next few days, you will have a completed game ready to deploy in any "apps" stores. You'll find detailed working examples, with dozens of illustrations and many concepts you can freely apply to your own gaming projects. All the source code annotations enhance the book's explanation. What you'll learn:By the end of this workbook, you'll have integrated into your own game designs: - Adopted processes for business project management and agile software development. - Organized a standard file structure for developing games in general; - Used a blank game template to scaffold further game projects; - Imported resources and game assets; - Displayed, animated and moved game avatars on various screen renderings; - Deployed heads-up display (HUD) on game scenes both inside and outside the canvas; - Used customized web fonts; - Incorporated multiple game-inputs (touch, multi-touch, accelerometer, mouse, and keyboard); - Rendered several physics systems in v3.15+; - Included graphics effects (gfx) (particle systems, rotations, fades, shaders and more); - Created and managed game state-phases; - Managed permanent game assets across state-phases; - Optimized your game for various mobile devices; - Integrated 3rd-party scripts, plug-ins, and services for v3.15+. - Deploy single- and multi-player games. - Web Sockets demystified for scalable massive online game deployments. Who This Book Is For:Students of - and professionals in - game art and animations with some experience in HTML5 and jаvascript who want to enhance - or begin learning - the essential techniques of game programming skills in both the Phaser v2.x.x official and community editions. If you are interested in making Dress-up Fashions Games, especially for the mobile market, then Making Dress-up Fashions Games Series is a perfect choice.  Making Dating & Quiz Trivia Browser Games: Creating "Trivia Quiz" Game Mechanics for Phaser.js Gaming Frameworks v3.x.x & v2.x.x by Stephen Gose English | April 27, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B087SDP1ND | 248 pages | EPUB | 3.03 Mb Discover how to create online "Dating & Trivia Quiz" games using the methods in this single chapter from the Phaser Game Starter Kit Collection. When you finish this chapter, you will have a production pipeline ready to create as many different "quiz" games as your imagination can dream of!
 Lois Rita Helmbold, "Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression" English | ISBN: 1978826435 | 2022 | 282 pages | PDF | 11 MB Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women's survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers, Lois Helmbold discovered that Black women lost work more rapidly and in greater proportions. The benefits that white women accrued because of structural racism meant they avoided the utter destitution that more commonly swallowed their Black peers. When let go from a job, a white woman was more successful in securing a less desirable job, while Black women, especially older Black women, were pushed out of the labor force entirely. Helmbold found that working-class women practiced the same strategies, but institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse.  C. Rajagopalachari, "Mahabharata" English | 2018 | ISBN: 8172764766 | PDF | pages: 217 | 0.7 mb A long time ago two families were to inherit a vast kingdom known as the Kuru Empire The five sons of Pandu called the Pandavas were brave warriors each of them born with divine blood running through their veins They were virtuous examples of humanity at its peak They were endowed with wisdom patience strength knowledge and compassion Their cousins the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra were called the Kauravas The Kauravas were greedy always hankering after more wealth Since neither Pandu nor Dhritarashtra were suited to reign over the kingdom the throne had to be equally divided between these two families However the Kauravas cheated the Pandavas out of their share and drove them into a long exile They constantly try to kill them throughout their exile but the Pandavas persist At long last they return to claim their rightful inheritance but the Kauravas are not ready to part with even a portion of the kingdom With the stage set the Pandavas and the Kauravas meet in an epic battle on a fie  Machine Learning in Information and Communication Technology: Proceedings of ICICT 2021, SMIT English | 2023 | ISBN: 981195089X | 337 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB This book presents collection of research papers presented at International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2021) organized by Department of Information Technology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India, during 23-24 December 2021. The book includes papers in the research area ofcommunication networks,data science,healthcare informatics,bio-medical image processing,security of information including cryptography,machine learning applications, andAI applications. |
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