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 Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia - Vietnamese By Teri Shaffer Yamada (editor) 2002 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0472067893 | PDF | 23 MB Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Their short stories reflect the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes experienced in the region during an age of rapid modernization. Both award-winning writers and new talent are represented, including Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Shahnon Ahmad (Malaysia), and Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam). With keen wit, satire, and pathos their stories poignantly illustrate contemporary life and literary currents in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century.Short introductions to each story provide a sketch of the country's literary history, revealing the interaction between individual writers and their sociopolitical situations. Many of the stories are ethnographic and provide snapshots of cultures at a specific historical moment. The stories also reflect gender balance, diversity of style, and quality of literary expression. Exploring everything from the realities of being a middle-aged woman in Burma in the witty drama "An Umbrella" to the difficult choice between appeasing a troubled Vietnamese community or tending to an ailing father in "Tu Ben the Actor," this collection is sure to appeal to a variety of readers the world over.This anthology will be useful in courses in comparative translation and culture, postcolonial studies, political science, Asian history, and gender studies. It is also appropriate for a literary reading public interested in comparative world literature.Teri Shaffer Yamada is Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach.  Tami Navarro, "Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the Us Virgin Islands" English | ISBN: 1438486022 | 2022 | 254 pages | EPUB | 640 KB Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands-St. Croix-has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis,
 Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria By David Todd Doris 2011 | 420 Pages | ISBN: 0295990732 | PDF | 7 MB Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties―farms, gardens, market goods, firewood―from the ravages of thieves. Aale are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape: a dried seedpod tied with palm fronds to the trunk of a fruit tree, a burnt corncob suspended on a wire, an old shoe tied with a rag to a worn-out broom and broken comb, a ripe red pepper pierced with a single broom straw and set atop a pile of eggs. Consequently, aale have rarely been discussed in print, and then only as peripheral elements in studies devoted to other issues. Yet aale are in no way peripheral to Yoruba culture or aesthetics.In Vigilant Things, David T. Doris argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life. The humble, often degraded objects that comprise aale reveal as eloquently as any canonical artwork the channels of power that underlie the surfaces of the visible. Aale are warnings, intended to trigger the work of conscience. Aale objects symbolically threaten suffering as the consequence of transgression―the suffering of disease, loss, barrenness, paralysis, accident, madness, fruitless labor, or death―and as such are often the useless residues of things that were once positively valued: empty snail shells, shards of pottery, fragments of rusted iron, and the like. If these objects share "suffering" and "uselessness" as constitutive elements, it is because they already have been made to suffer and become useless. Aale offer would-be thieves an opportunity to recognize themselves in advance of their actions and to avoid the thievery that would make the "useless" people.  Venom Squadron by Robert Jackson English | July 27, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01J8FBO0M | 145 pages | EPUB | 0.22 Mb The Suez Crisis.  Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans By Timothy Moss, Simon Marvin, Simon Guy (editor) 2000 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 185383694X | PDF | 5 MB Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter environmental standards, new economic incentives, competing technologies and changing consumption patterns. The authors show how changes in the management of utility services can contribute to achieving greater sustainability in urban regions. Whilst more efficient technology has a part to play, truly significant improvements in quality of life will be delivered only when the flow of material and energy through cities is focused on the goal of sustainability in each local context.  Denis Ryan, Peter Hoysted, "Unholy Trinity: The Hunt for the Paedophile Priest Monsignor John Day" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1760529621 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2.1 MB One policeman's desperate and moving account of his struggle to bring a depraved paedophile priest to justice?only to find himself obstructed by the Catholic Church and betrayed by his own police force.  Peter N. Gregory, "Tsung Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism" English | 1991 | ISBN: 0691073732, 082482623X | PDF | pages: 364 | 19.1 mb This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.  Nicole R. Fleetwood, "Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0226253031, 0226253023 | PDF | pages: 297 | 2.1 mb Troubling Vision addresses American culture's fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investigate the black body as a troubling presence to the scopic regimes that define it as such? How is value assessed based on visible blackness?  Transition to Triumph: Indian Navy 1965: 1975 By Vice Adm G. M. Hiranandani 2012 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 1897829698 | PDF | 3 MB This volume of the history of the Indian navy covers the period from 1965 to 1975. Several major developments occurred during this decade. The latest design of the Royal Navy's Leander class frigates started being produced in Mazagon Docks in India with British collaboration. The first submarine arrived in 1968, and by 1975, the Submarine Arm had grown to eight submarines. The Air Arm was augmented by additional Seahawks, Alizes, and the latest British SeaKing antisubmarine helicopters equipped with dunking sonar. Along with the induction of modern fire-control systems in ships, submarines, and aircraft, the navy acquired its first guided missiles and homing torpedoes.  Sonal Bhatt, "Totally Beads" English | 2002 | ISBN: 080698399X, 0806979119 | 30 pages | PDF | 8.3 MB "[For] the young at heart...37 items to craft concentrate on hair ornaments and necklaces, bracelets, and anklets; most are fairly simple to fashion...the book is frontloaded with the how-tos, a good basic explanation of threads, needles, clasps catches, knots, and other challenges a novice beader just might encounter....Totally for young people-from styles to execution."-Booklist. "A 'how-to' delight for any budding bead enthusiast."-Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot. |
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