Mu-Chou Poo, "Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China"
English | ISBN: 1316514676 | 2022 | 350 pages | PDF | 4 MB
For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were far more serious beings, as they could affect the life and death of people and cause endless fear and anxiety. How did ancient societies imagine what ghosts looked like, what they could do, and how people could deal with them? From the vantage point of modernity, what can we learn about an obscure, but no less important aspect of an ancient culture? In this volume, Mu-chou Poo explores the ghosts of ancient China, the ideas that they nurtured, and their role in its culture. His study provides fascinating insights into the interaction between the idea of ghosts and religious activities, literary imagination, and social life devoted to them. Comparing Chinese ghosts with those of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, Poo also offers a wider perspective on the role of ghosts in human history.

Leonard Lahey, "Getting Around the Rock: By Land, Sea, and Air"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1771175206 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 8.6 mb
Stories of Trains, Boats, and Airplanes in Newfoundland

Daniel Marwecki, "Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding"
English | ISBN: 1787383180 | 2020 | 254 pages | PDF | 10 MB
According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons-to atone for its Nazi past-but did not play a significant role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not sustain this narrative.

Janne Bondi Johannessen, Joseph C. Salmons, "Germanic Heritage Languages in North America"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 9027234981 | PDF | pages: 424 | 9.1 mb
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of 'heritage language': acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Banno Eri, "Genki - An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Teacher's Guide - 3rd Edition"
English, 日本語 | ISBN: 4789017346 | 2021 | PDF | 114 MB
Genki Method Teacher's Book - An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. This teacher's book includes information on the 23 units that make up the two main beginner-level books for this method. In each topic, tips and strategies are detailed that teachers can use when introducing and teaching grammar or vocabulary to students. In addition, this book includes all the answers to the exercises in the 4 books that make up the beginner level: the two textbooks and the two exercises. Transcripts of all audios are also included. Supplementary Volume) Answer Key ・ Answer for GENKI I (Textbook) ・ Answer for GENKI II (Textbook) ・ Answer for GENKI I (Workbook) ・ Answer for GENKI II (Workbook) ・ Scripts of Listening Comprehension in Workbook

Gender in Cuban Cinema: From the Modern to the Postmodern By Guy Baron
2011 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 3034302290 | PDF | 3 MB
A film institute was the first cultural institution to be created by the new Cuban revolutionary government in 1959. One of its aims was to create a new cinema to suit the needs of the Revolution in a climate of transformation and renewal. During the same period, issues of gender equality and gender relations became important as the Revolution attempted to eradicate some of the negative social tendencies of the past. Through the prism of the gender debate, Cuban cinema both reflected and shaped some of the central ideological concerns on the island at this time. This book brings together these two extremely significant aspects of the Cuban revolutionary process by examining issues of gender and gender relations in six Cuban films produced between 1974 and 1990. Using close textual analysis and theoretical insights from feminism and postmodernism, the author argues that the portrayal of aspects of gender relations in Cuban cinema developed along a progressive path, from expressions of the modern to expressions of the postmodern.

From Stage to Page: Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the London Theatre, 1925-1996 By Peter James Harris
2011 | 299 Pages | ISBN: 3034302665 | PDF | 3 MB
In December 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, which led to the creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland the following year. The consequences of that attempt to reconcile the conflicting demands of republicans and unionists alike have dictated the course of Anglo-Irish relations ever since. This book explores how the reception of Irish plays staged in theatres in London's West End serves as a barometer not only of the state of relations between Great Britain and Ireland, but also of the health of the British and Irish theatres respectively. For each of the eight decades following Irish Independence a representative production is set in the context of Anglo-Irish relations in the period and developments in the theatre of the day. The first-night criticism of each production is analysed in the light of its political and artistic context as well as the editorial policy of the publication for which a given critic is writing. The author argues that the relationship between context and criticism is not simply one of cause and effect but, rather, the result of the interplay of a number of cultural, historical, political, artistic and personal factors.

Jennie Egerdie, Ellie Hajdu, "Frog and Toad are Doing Their Best [A Parody]: Bedtime Stories for Trying Times"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0762478462 | 96 pages | EPUB | 3.8 MB
At home, work, and out in our ever-changing world, we're all just doing our best. In this modern parody, Frog and Toad are here to commiserate and lend some laughter.

Catherine Lampert, "Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0500239258 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 69.9 mb
A rare and fascinating account of one of modern and contemporary painting's most powerful creative minds

Four Sisters of Hofei: A History By Annping Chin
2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0743244664 | EPUB | 6 MB
The true story of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914 in China, Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with history. The Chang sisters lived through a period of astounding change and into the twenty-first century. Unusual opportunities and an extraordinary family education launched them into varied worlds -- those of the theater, modern literature, classical studies, and calligraphy -- but their collective experience offers a cohesive portrait of a land in transition. With the benefit of letters, diaries, poetry, and interviews, writer and historian Annping Chin shapes the Chang sisters' stories into a composite history steeped in China's artistic tradition and intertwined with the political unrest and social revolutions of the twentieth century.