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 Catharina Raudvere, "Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey " English | ISBN: 303108022X | 2023 | 337 pages | PDF | 11 MB This book presents gendered readings of cultural manifestations that relate to the Ottoman era as a preferred past and a model for the future. By means of claims of authenticity and the distribution of imaginaries of a homogenous desirable alternative to everyday concerns, as well as invoking an imperial past at the national level. In this mode of thinking, shaped around a polarised worldview, Republican ideals serve as a counter-image to the promoted splendour and harmony of the Ottomans. Yet, the stereotypical gender roles inextricably linked with this neo-Ottoman imaginary remain largely unacknowledged, dissimulated in the construction of the desire of an idealised past. Our adaption of a cultural studies perspective in this volume puts special emphasis on agency, gender, and authority. It provides a shared ground for the interrogation, through the contributions comprising this project of knowledge production about the past in light of what constitutes acceptable legitimacy in interpreting not only the canonical literature, but history at large.
 Eveline van der Steen, "Near Eastern Tribal Societies During the Nineteenth Century: Economy, Society and Politics Between Tent and Town " English | ISBN: 1908049839 | 2005 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB This volume provides an in-depth study of tribal life in the Near East in the 19th century, exploring how tribes shaped society, economy and politics in the desert, as well as in villages and towns. Until the First World War Near Eastern society was tribally organized. Particularly in the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, where the Ottoman empire was weak, large and powerful tribes such as Anaze, Beni Sakhr and Shammar interacted and competed for control of the land, the people and the economy. The main sources for this study are travel accounts of 19th century adventurers and explorers. Their travels, on horseback, on camel or on foot opened a fascinating window on a world with an ideology that was fundamentally different from their own, often Victorian background. One chapter is dedicated to oral traditions in the region, from heroic epics to short poems, which lets the tribes and tribe members themselves speak, giving a voice to the tribal frame of mind. Evidence of tribal organization as a driving force in society can be found in documents and sometimes in the archaeological record from the Bronze Age onwards. While a straight comparison between ancient and subrecent tribal communities is fraught with difficulties and must be treated with caution, a better understanding of 19th century tribal ethics and customs provides useful insights into the history and the power relations of a more distant past. At the same time it may help us understand some of the underlying causes for the present conflicts afflicting the region.  Navigating Ambiguity: Creating Opportunity in a World of Unknowns by Andrea Small English | April 19, 2022 | ISBN: 1984857967 | 144 pages | PDF | 15 Mb A thought-provoking guide to help you lean in to the discomfort of the unknown to turn creative opportunities into intentional design, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school.  Joseph Boyle, "Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader" English | ISBN: 0813232953 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice brings together a selection of essays of the late Joseph Boyle. Boyle was, with Germain Grisez and John Finnis, a founder and developer of the New Classical Natural Law Theory, arguably the most important development in Catholic moral philosophy of the twentieth century. While this theory is indebted to the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, it incorporates an understanding and assessment of that work that is different from that found in other statements of natural law. Boyle made crucial contributions to a wide variety of aspects of this theory, and the volume is divided into two parts.  Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka By Silva Wijeye De; Roshan De Silva Wijeyeratne 2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0415462665 | PDF | 5 MB Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that 'Sinhalese Buddhism' in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State signified a relatively unbounded (although at times boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-'Buddhist' concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, de Silva Wijeyeratne tells us that in contrast modern 'Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism' is a much more reified and bounded concept, one imagined through a 19th century epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-'Buddhist' ideas and people.In this insightful analysis modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature of this modernist moment is that premodern categories (such as the cosmic order) were subject to a bureaucratic re-valuation that generated profound consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. This book goes onto explore how key constitutional and nation-building moments were framed within the cultural milieu of modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism - a nationalism that reveals the power of a re-valued Buddhist cosmic order to still inform the present.Given the intensification of the Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist project following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, this book is of interest to scholars of nationalism, South Asian studies, the anthropology of ritual, and comparative legal history.  Luke Parker, "Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile" English | ISBN: 150176652X | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB  NSU Ro80 - The Complete Story by Buckley, Martin; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0719841747 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 43.73 MB  Adam Knobler, "Mythology and Diplomacy in the Age of Exploration " English | ISBN: 9004324895 | 2016 | 164 pages | PDF | 848 KB In this work, Adam Knobler demonstrates the intimate connection between medieval mythologies of the non-Western world, and early modern European imperial expansion to Africa, Asia and the Americas.  Musical Theatre for Dummies by Rudetsky, Seth; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119889502 | 419 pages | True PDF | 30.9 MB  Music Education Research by Miksza, Peter;Shaw, Julia T.;Kapalka Richerme, Lauren;Hash, Phillip M.;Hodges, Donald A.; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197639755 | 488 pages | True EPUB | 9.31 MB |
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