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 National Movement and Politics in Orissa, 1920-1929 (SAGE Series in Modern Indian History) By Pritish Acharya 2008 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0761936270 | PDF | 1 MB This book is a comprehensive study of the national freedom movement and politics in the state of Orissa in the 1920s. The emergence of nationalism and the Non-Cooperation Movement and its aftermath, are the main issues of discussion in this work. The book focuses on the regional peculiarities like the Oriya Linguistic and Cultural Identity movement in the context of the larger national freedom struggle. Many of the earlier works, on Orissa during that period, have looked at the regional political leadership as a contrast to the nationalists outside. But, this book provides a different aspect of that period, in that it argues that the leaders of the local movement and the leaders of the national movement were never hostile to each other.  National Interest and International Solidarity: Particular and Universal Ethics in International Life By United Nations University 2008 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 9280811479 | PDF | 2 MB Taking as its point of departure the perennial tension between particular and universal ethics in international society, this book seeks to explore and understand the motivations of actors in different international contexts where national interests and solidarity concerns intersect. Focusing on a range of regional cases, the book evaluates the respective weight of national interest and internationalist (solidarity) considerations. Ultimately, while classical national interest considerations remain to this day a powerful motivation for power projection, the book shows how an enlightened conception of national interest can encompass solidarity concerns, and how such a balancing of the imperatives of both national interest and solidarity is the major challenge facing decision-makers.  National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism (Global, Area, and International Archive) By Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir 2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0520098609 | PDF | 1 MB Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.Contributors: Howard Adelman, Colm Campbell, Pilar Domingo, Richard Falk, David Forsythe, Wolfgang S. Heinz, Pedro Ibarra, Todd Landman, Salvador Mart?, Daniel Wehrenfennig  National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction 2024 Edition by AWC English | 2024 | ISBN: 1940383609 | 211 Pages | PDF | 20 MB  National Design Specification (NDS) Supplement: Design Values for Wood Construction 2024 Edition by AWC English | 2024 | ISBN: 1940383609 | 103 Pages | PDF | 3.1 MB  Arpan Roy, "Naseej: Life-Weavings of Palestine" English | ISBN: 0745350844 | 2025 | 216 pages | PDF | 9 MB "In its vivid close-ups of the diverse and dynamic communities for whom Palestine was home, Naseej offers both a heart-breaking account of what colonists have cost the world, and a hopeful template for the future. This is the book that is Palestine." Ahdaf Soueif, novelist  Narrow Roads of Gene Land: The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton Volume 3: Last Words By Mark Ridley (Editor) 2006 | 495 Pages | ISBN: 0198566905 | PDF | 4 MB W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000) has been described by Richard Dawkins as 'a good candidate for the title of most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin'. His work on evolutionary biology continues to influence scientists working across a wide variety of disciplines, including evolution, population genetics, animal behaviour, genetics, anthropology, and ecology. This third and final volume of Narrow Roads of Gene Land contains Hamilton's key papers published between 1990 and 2000, a period in which he covered a great diversity of topics, often in collaboration with other scientists. Many of the papers in this volume continue his work on sex, and particularly its relation to parasitic disease, but other topics covered include the Gaia theory, the colours of autumn leaves, and the still-controversial hypothesis that the AIDS pandemic accidentally originated in a polio vaccination campaign in Africa.Each of the co-authored papers in this volume is preceded by an introduction written by one of Hamilton's co-authors, following the model of the previous two volumes in this series, which brings the reader closer to Hamilton's extraordinary personality and intellect, providing the intellectual and physical contexts within which each piece of research was developed. Also included are a chapter by Jeremy Leighton John on the Hamilton archive - 'Bill's last great work' - complete with irresistible pictures, and Alan Grafen's biographical memoir, which presents an overview of Bill's life and work. Together, this unique collection of papers with their biographical introductions provides a profound portrait of one of the twentieth century's most innovative scientists.  Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Self-Identity in a Small Firm By Simon Down 2006 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1843767678 | PDF | 1 MB Simon Down's timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic philosophy and social-psychology to sociology and organizational theory. Written in a strong narrative style, the book succeeds in making the often complex and inaccessible theories on self-identity easy to understand and convincing in relation to other notions of individual agency. Social aspects of self-identity are examined and elaborated on via the development of concepts such as clich?s, generations, space and relationships. These concepts are, in turn, drawn from the narrative, temporal, spatial and relational frameworks through which individuals express self-identity. Neither super-heroes nor villains, the case-study entrepreneurs in Narratives of Enterprise emerge as normal people who seek to make sense of the world through their enterprising activity. Providing a much needed and sophisticated empirical benchmark in a range of debates current in enterprise and organization studies, this highly accessible book is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in the intersection of self-identity and the character of the entrepreneur.  Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich (European Studies in North American Literature and Culture) By Caroline Rosenthal 2003 | 202 Pages | ISBN: 1571132678 | PDF | 1 MB This study brings together analysis of novels by three contemporary North American women from diverse backgrounds in order to make contributions not only to gender studies, but also to narrative theory. Audrey Thomas and Daphne Marlatt are contemporary Anglo-Saxon Canadian writers whose work has been extensively analyzed within the field of feminist literary theory. Louise Erdrich is a best-selling American author of Chippewa and German-American descent. Marlatt's and Thomas's works have never been studied outside a Canadian context, and Erdrich's work has mostly been looked at in the context of ethnic women writers or Native American literature. By analyzing the works of these authors through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their writings. Although all three authors write metafictions that challenge literary realism and dominant views of gender, the forms of their counter-narratives vary. In her novel Intertidal Life, Thomas traces the disintegration of an identity through narrative devices that unearth ruptures and contradictions in stories of gender. In contrast, Marlatt, in Ana Historic, challenges the regulatory fiction of heterosexuality. She offers her protagonist a way out into a new order that breaks with the law of the father, creating a "monstrous" text that explores the possibilities of a lesbian identity. In her tetralogy of novels made up of Love Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich resists definite readings of femininity altogether. By drawing on trickster narratives, she creates an open system of gendered identities that is dynamic and unfinalizable, positing the most fragmented worldview as the most enduring. By applying gender and narrative theory to nuanced analysis of the texts, Rosenthal's study elucidates the correlation between gender identity formation and narrative. Caroline Rosenthal is assistant professor of American Studies at the University o  Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable' By Giti Chandra 2009 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0230219624 | PDF | 1 MB A study of distinct forms of mass violence, the narrativeseach kind demands, andthe collective identities constructed from and upon these, this bookfocuses around readingsofpopular andinfluential novels such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, Amy Tans The Joy Luck Cluband Isabel Allendes The House of Spirits. |
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