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Free Download Hasan Kayali, "Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918"
English | ISBN: 0520204468 | | 312 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali's novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali's study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908.

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Free Download Dr. Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, "Approaches to Inclusive English Classrooms: A Teacher's Handbook for Content-Based Instruction "
English | ISBN: 1783093323 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides educators with an accessible guide to best practices concerning content-based instruction (CBI) models and their use in English learner inclusive classrooms. The author effectively bridges the gap between theory and practice with a critical analysis of practical examples and diverse strategies for the inclusion of English learners into K-12 general education courses. The book also raises controversial questions regarding who is qualified to teach English learners and who is responsible for doing so, looking at the difficulties faced by both general educators and ESL teachers in Inclusive Classrooms. By providing a lens through which both ESL teachers and general educators are able to analyze, compare and contrast a range of widely-employed CBI methods, this book allows teachers to make informed decisions in their EL program development and work with English learners in K-12 schools.

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Free Download Maria Chidiroglou, "Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece"
English | ISBN: 1803277491 | 2024 | 280 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens. The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and other practices that focused on the protection of the community as a whole, i.e. the Pharmakos ritual. Archaeology reveals an abundance of material objects thought to have the power to attract benevolent, and avert evil, forces. Traces of ritual practices necessary to ensure prosperity and avert personal disaster are manifest today in the form of amulets, certain semi-precious stones believed to protect women and children, eye-beads found in large numbers in many archaeological assemblages, possibly various types of terracotta figurines, such as nude female grotesques and various ithyphallic characters, to name a few. In addition, symbols and certain iconographic motifs, such as the phallus, the open hand, the Gorgoneion, images of triple Hekate, and Hermes, have been subject to a number of differing interpretations relative to apotropaic power.

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Free Download Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide by Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1098148622 | 344 pages | True PDF | 5.23 MB
Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool-a cost-prohibitive process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way.

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Free Download Angela Stache-Weiske, Hartmut Walravens, "Anton Schiefner (1817-1879). Briefe Und Schriftenverzeichnis"
Deutsch | 2016 | ISBN: 3700180691 | PDF | pages: 526 | 10.7 mb
English summary: The noted linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879), a native of Reval (nowadays Tallinn), occupies a special position in the history of scholarship on account of his versatility, his rich knowledge, his many publications and his extensive network. By training a classical philologist and a lawyer, he subsequently became an Indologist and Finno-Ugrian expert while as a Petersburg academician he was responsible for Tibetology, and was additionally commissioned to translate and edit the works of late, prematurely deceased Finnish explorer and ethnographer Castren as well as Baron von Uslar's research on the Caucasian languages. Schiefner's letters offer a vivid picture of the progress of linguistics and humaniora for a span of almost 30 years. Projects, new publications, young scholars, study trips, also personal information and news on the situation in the Baltic provinces and St. Petersburg are the main topics. Individual focuses of the present volume are connected with the special interests of the addressees - as Calmuck literature (Julg), library matters and (natural) science (Baer), folklore and motif research (Kohler), cultural history (Hehn), the relationship of languages and also the gipsy language (Pott), Indology and mythology (Kuhn), the "Ofenic" language [argot of peddlars] (Diefenbach), onomastics (Forstemann) and library administration (Dziatzko). The letters are extensively annotated and made accessible by an index of names. A completely revised list of Schiefner's publications forms the introduction as the editorial work yielded much new material and allowed correction of previous data. With portraits and index. German description: Der bedeutende, aus Reval (dem heutigen Tallinn) geburtige Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879) nimmt durch seine Vielseitigkeit, seine Fachkenntnisse, die grosse Zahl seiner Veroffentlichungen und sein weitgespanntes Netzwerk eine besondere Stellung in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ein. Vom Studium her klassischer Philologe und Jurist, bildete er sich zum Indologen und Finnougristen; als Petersburger Akademiemitglied vertrat er die Tibetologie, und in amtlichem Auftrag gab er die Werke des fruhverstorbenen finnischen Forschungsreisenden und Ethnographen Castren und die Forschungsergebnisse des Barons Uslar uber die kaukasischen Sprachen heraus. Schiefners Briefe geben ein lebendiges Bild von den Fortschritten der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften fur einen Zeitraum von knapp 30 Jahren. Projekte, neue Publikationen, der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs, Studienreisen, aber auch Personliches, daruber hinaus die Situation in den Ostseeprovinzen sowie in St. Petersburg sind die Hauptthemen. Einzelschwerpunkte des vorliegenden Bandes sind die speziellen Interessen der Adressaten - so die kalmukische Literatur (Julg), Bibliothek und Naturwissenschaften (Baer), Folklore und Motivforschung (Kohler), Kulturgeschichte (Hehn), Sprachverwandtschaft sowie die "Zigeunersprache" (Pott), Indologie und Mythologie (Kuhn), die Ofen'sche Sprache (Diefenbach), Namenforschung (Forstemann) und Bibliothekswesen (Dziatzko). Die Briefe sind reich kommentiert und durch ein Namenregister erschlossen. Die Einleitung bildet ein neues Schriftenverzeichnis, da im Laufe der Werkausgabe eine vollige Revision einer fruher veroffentlichten Publikationsubersicht erforderlich wurde. Mit Portrats und Register.

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Free Download Hartmut Walrvaens, Agnes Stache-Weiske, "Anton Schiefner (1817-1879) und seine indologischen Freunde"
Deutsch | 2016 | ISBN: 3700177992 | PDF | pages: 455 | 21.2 mb
Anton Schiefner was one of the most talented and best-connected linguists of the 19th century. Born at Reval (now Tallinn), as the son of a Bohemian glass merchant, he studied law and philology, taught the classical languages at Saint Petersburg and worked there also as librarian and member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. He became the successor to Isaak Jakob Schmidt as an expert in Tibetan and achieved reputation as editor of the collected works of the Finnish ethnologist Matthias Alexander Castrén, as translator of the Finnish national epic Kalevala and the heroic songs of the Minussinsk Tatars into metric German, and as editor of the Turkic oral folk traditions collected by Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff in Central Asia. In addition he studied Finnic languages in Russia and revised and edited Baron Peter von Uslar's pioneer collections of Caucasian language material. He was good friends with many linguists and folklorists of his time, such as Otto von Böhtlingk, Rudolf Roth, Albrecht Weber, Adalbert Kuhn and Bernhard J|lg. Many of his often long and detailed letters to his colleagues are still extant and are an interesting source for the history of linguistic and Oriental study of the period. Schiefner, as a seasoned traveler, was not only in contact with scholars in Central Europe but in France and Great Britain as well. The present edition of letters is copiously annotated, enriched with portraits of the correspondents while an index facilitates access.

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Free Download JPB Gerald, "Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness "
English | ISBN: 1800413270 | 2022 | 192 pages | PDF | 489 KB
The centering of whiteness in English Language Teaching (ELT) renders the industry callous, corrupt and cruel; or, antisocial. Using the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder as a rhetorical device, this book examines major issues with the ideologies and institutions behind the discipline of ELT and diagnoses the industry as in dire need of treatment, with the solution being a full decentering of whiteness. A vision for a more just version of ELT is offered as an alternative to the harm caused by its present-day incarnation. With a unique linkage of discourse on whiteness, language and ability, this book will be necessary reading for students, academics and administrators involved in ELT around the world.

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Free Download Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0143105825 | PDF | pages: 436 | 14.3 mb
An"introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface)

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Free Download Dragos Gheorghiu, "Anthropomorphism, Anthropogenesis, Cognition"
English | ISBN: 178969499X | 2024 | 218 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Anthropomorphism could be described as a production of analogies generated by human cognition. As a result, anthropomorphism is a universal cultural trait present in all cultures at all times, and one of the cognitive fundamentals of humankind: that of projecting a human corporal image over the surrounding world. It is present in the imaginary, mythologies, religions, and material culture of all ages, being an important subject of archaeology. This book approaches anthropomorphism from the moment of anthropogenesis, tracing its presence in nature and material culture in prehistory and Antiquity. The cover image serves as a metaphor, joining together two perceptions of anthropomorphism: a rational one, that of the female columns at the Erechtheion temple in Athens; and a case of pareidolia, namely a figure with outstretched arms on a rock pillar at the Externsteine rocks in Germany.

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Free Download Kristin Norget, "Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader"
English | ISBN: 0520288440 | 2017 | 384 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism's long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers to key studies in the field, as well as to current analyses on the present and possible futures of Catholicism globally. This reader provides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, demonstrating how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.

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