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Start your reading journey today on DL4ALL.org and unlock a world of imagination, knowledge, and inspiration!  Law as Refuge of Anarchy: Societies without Hegemony or State by Hermann Amborn English | 2019 | ISBN: 0262536587 | 232 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.  Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment By Darlene J. Sadlier, Darlene J. Sadlier 2009 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0252076559 | PDF | 2 MB Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship.Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D'Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.  Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians By John-Paul Himka 2009 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0802098096 | PDF | 36 MB Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines images of the last judgment from the fifteenth century to the present in the Carpathian mountain region of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania, as a way to consider history free from the traditional frameworks and narratives of nations. Over ten years, John-Paul Himka studied last-judgment images throughout the Carpathians and found a distinctive and transnational blending of Gothic, Byzantine, and Novgorodian art in the region.Piecing together the story of how these images were produced and how they developed, Himka traces their origins on linden boards and their evolution on canvas and church walls. Tracing their origins with monks, he follows these images' increased popularity as they were commissioned by peasants and shepherds whose tastes so shocked bishops that they ordered the destruction of depictions of sexual themes and grotesque forms of torture. A richly illustrated and detailed account of history through a style of art, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians will find a receptive audience with art historians, religious scholars, and slavists.  Katherine Kurtz, "Lammas Night" English | 2018 | pages: 484 | ISBN: 1504049799 | EPUB | 1,1 mb An ingenious melding of espionage and the occult based in part on a true event in the secret history of the Battle of Britain during World War II.  Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed By Matthew J. Gordon 2013 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1441192506 | PDF | 2 MB William Labov (b. 1927) has been a driving force in linguistics for over four decades. Throughout North America, and in much of the rest of the world, his name is synonymous with sociolinguistics. This new Guide for the Perplexed summarizes Labov's work in a number of subfields, including historical linguistics, discourse analysis and not least sociolinguistics. It also sketches a broader context for appreciating Labov's major innovations. His considerable and growing legacy is discussed with comparative glances to other ways of approaching language within linguistics and in neighboring disciplines. Since the publication of The Social Stratification of English in New York City in 1966, Labov has pushed the boundaries of sociolinguistics decade after decade but there has been no one volume guide to his work. This is that guide.  Kubernetes Native Development: Develop, Build, Deploy, and Run Applications on Kubernetes English | 2022 | ISBN: 1484279417 | 424 Pages | EPUB | 19 MB Building applications for Kubernetes is both a challenge and an opportunity-a challenge because the options and complexity to develop for Kubernetes are evolving rapidly, an opportunity because, if done right, your applications will go into production quicker, scale easier, and run smoother.  Karl Brunner and Monetarism (The MIT Press) by Thomas Moser, Marcel Savioz English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0262046911 | 504 pages | True EPUB | 15.72 MB Economists consider the legacy of Karl Brunner's monetarism and its influence on current debates over monetary policy.  Nina B. Huntemann, Matthew Thomas Payne, Ian Bogost, "Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games" English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415996597, 0415996600 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 0.7 mb Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games began as entertainment, military organizations soon saw their potential as combat simulation and recruitment tools. A profitable and popular relationship was established between the video game industry and the military, and continues today with video game franchises like America's Army, which was developed by the U.S.Army as a public relations and recruitment tool.  Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity By Leigh Edwards 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0253220610 | PDF | 2 MB Throughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted-and has depicted himself-as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodies irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience, such as the tensions between freedom and patriotism, individual rights and nationalism, the sacred and the profane. She illustrates how this model of ambivalence is a vital paradigm for American popular music, and for American identity in general. Making use of sources such as Cash's autobiographies, lyrics, music, liner notes, and interviews, Edwards pays equal attention to depictions of Cash by others, such as Vivian Cash's publication of his letters to her, documentaries and music journalism about him, Walk the Line, and fan club materials found in the archives at the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, to create a full portrait of Cash and his significance as a cultural icon.  Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations By Sanford Josephson 2009 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 0313357005 | PDF | 1 MB Meet the greatest musicians in the history of jazz. From Hoagy Carmichael to David Sanborn, these interviews and their subjects reflect the diverse appeal and deep roots of a truly American art form. Some of the interviews in Jazz Notes: Interviews across the GenerationS≪/i> remain intact from their original publication. Others are updated to include conversations with younger artists, influenced by these legends and attempting to carry on their legacies. The interviews range from the 1970s to the present day and are followed by a concluding section that provides perspective from current artists.In the course of the interviews, the history of American art and culture receives interesting augmentation. Some artists, such as Dave Brubeck and Maynard Ferguson, discuss how they broke through to the top of the pop charts. Of course, many African American jazz musicians endured difficult and demeaning conditions while on the road in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and their memories of these experiences are a bittersweet counterpoint to remembered triumphs. |
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