Julia K. Murray, "The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai"
English | ISBN: 1316516326 | 2022 | 356 pages | PDF | 32 MB
The Aura of Confucius is a ground-breaking study that reconstructs the remarkable history of Kongzhai, a shrine founded on the belief that Confucius' descendants buried the sage's robe and cap a millennium after his death and far from his home in Qufu, Shandong. Improbably located on the outskirts of modern Shanghai, Kongzhai featured architecture, visual images, and physical artifacts that created a 'Little Queli,' a surrogate for the temple, cemetery, and Kong descendants' mansion in Qufu. Centered on the Tomb of the Robe and Cap, with a Sage Hall noteworthy for displaying sculptural icons and not just inscribed tablets, Kongzhai attracted scholarly pilgrims who came to experience Confucius's beneficent aura. Although Kongzhai gained recognition from the Kangxi emperor, its fortunes declined with modernization, and it was finally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Unlike other sites, Kongzhai has not been rebuilt and its history is officially forgotten, despite the Confucian revival in contemporary China.

Matthew Specter, "The Atlantic Realists"
English | ISBN: 1503603121 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major features emerged from a century-long dialogue between American and German intellectuals beginning in the late nineteenth century. Specter uncovers an "Atlantic realist" tradition of reflection on the prerogatives of empire and the nature of power politics conditioned by fin de siècle imperial competition, two world wars, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Focusing on key figures in the evolution of realist thought, including Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and Wilhelm Grewe, this book traces the development of the realist worldview over a century, dismantling myths about the national interest, , and the "art" of statesmanship.

Anoma Pieris, "The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War "
English | ISBN: 131651918X | 2022 | 330 pages | PDF | 21 MB
In this global and comparative study of Pacific War incarceration environments we explore the arc of the Pacific Basin as an archipelagic network of militarized penal sites. Grounded in spatial, physical and material analyses focused on experiences of civilian internees, minority citizens, and enemy prisoners of war, the book offers an architectural and urban understanding of the unfolding history and aftermath of World War II in the Pacific. Examples are drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, and North America. The Architecture of Confinement highlights the contrasting physical facilities, urban formations and material character of various camps and the ways in which these uncover different interpretations of wartime sovereignty. The exclusion and material deprivation of selective populations within these camp environments extends the practices by which land, labor and capital are expropriated in settler-colonial societies; practices critical to identity formation and endemic to their legacies of liberal democracy.

Jan Stöckmann, "The Architects of International Relations: Building a Discipline, Designing the World, 1914-1940"
English | ISBN: 1316511618 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline. Contrary to traditional accounts, it argues that IR was not invented by Anglo-American men after the First World War. Nor was it divided into neat theoretical camps. To appreciate the twists and turns of early IR scholarship, the book follows a diverse group of men and women from across Europe and beyond who pioneered the field since 1914. Like architects, they built a set of institutions (university departments, journals, libraries, etc.) but they also designed plans for a new world order (draft treaties, petitions, political commentary, etc.). To achieve these goals, they interacted closely with the League of Nations and its bodies for intellectual cooperation, until the Second World War put an end to their endeavour. Their story raises broader questions about the status of IR well beyond the inter-war period.

Mihai Popa, "The Anthropology of Poiesis"
English | ISBN: 1527578283 | 2022 | 150 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The volume addresses a distinct field in the anthropology of culture, namely that of creativity. It defines the cultural field of poiesis, which includes not only the poetic creation, but also the scientific and philosophical one, and, above all, insists on the connection of creativity with the metaphysical spirituality, the mythological imaginary, and the sacred realm. Creation is primarily personal―this phenomenon is obvious both in the field of art and of theory. This book considers that it is necessary to emphasize, from the perspective of cultural anthropology, the importance and significance of the creative act that binds all fields of culture. To this end, it gives new meanings to the relationship between the symbolic and abstract in the field of cultural creation, a relationship considered from the perspective of three concepts―beauty, harmony and dynamic asymmetry―as well as the relationship between creative intuition and constructive reason. The book adopts a historical-comparative approach, from the perspective of the dialectic of the creative act, the becoming and synthesis of some opposite elements, coordinated by the abstract-creative principle: dynamis and symetros, rational and symbolic, immanent and transcendent. It shows that the meaning of experience as a creative synthesis is primordial and fundamental to human existence. The book is addressed both to specialists in the field of philosophy of art or cultural anthropology, and to the general reader who wants to approach the original meaning of spiritual creation, poiesis, which is the unification of all possible experiences, both feelings and knowledge.

Margaret Geoga, "The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, Ca. 1600-1800 "
English | ISBN: 9004129324 | 2022 | 420 pages | PDF | 69 MB
How was the ancient Middle East-including Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia- imagined and employed for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America, circa 1600-1800 ?

James A. Tyner, "The Alienated Subject: On the Capacity to Hurt"
English | ISBN: 1517911354 | 2022 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy

Carolyn Behrman, Bill Lyons, Patricia Hill, "The Akron Story Circle Project: Rethinking Race in Classroom and Community"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1629220523 | PDF | pages: 266 | 3.1 mb
Cultures around the world have long employed storytelling to transmit important values and beliefs and to build community. Further, some research has indicated that individuals retain more from stories than other forms of information transmission like lectures. The pedagogical use of storytelling might have even more relevance in our digital society in which communication is shorter and less personal.Using ideas and practices generated by John O'Neal and Theresa Holden through their Color Line Project, several faculty members at the University of Akron began a storytelling project coinciding with Akron's "Rethinking Race" event. The project brought together an intergenerational and intercultural group of students, community members, and other parties on an equal playing field, allowing participants to operate as co-creators of a community's consciousness. The interactions brought a level of understanding about race that could not have been achieved in isolation. Moreover, the conversations, the stories, resulted in rich new avenues of academic engagement and extended artistic projects.This book is part user's manual and part users' stories. Mostly, it is the tale of a journey. Unlike a traditional classroom, in which an instructor has control, stories can veer anywhere, which can be a risky proposition. However, the results in understanding and learning cannot be denied. As one of the Akron faculty members put it: "we likely fail as teachers if our lesson plans do not generate hot moments, difficult dialogues, of both the foreseeable and the unanticipated variety." The Akron Story Circle Project has initiated a process of lifetime learning and reassessment. One student was quite direct: "While we may look different on the outside, come from different cities or towns, grow up in different kinds of family, we all are participating in the same world and we all are trying to find what's right, do what's right, or simply survive this crazy thing we call life."

Usha Paul, N. P. Bali, "Textbook of Engineering Mathematics"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 8131808424 | PDF | pages: 468 | 15.1 mb
The book 'A Textbook of Engineering Mathematics' (Semester-II) has been written keeping in mind the interest of all types of engineering students (meritorious, average and below average). As engineering students have to do maximum work in minimum times, so in this book emphasis is on the presentation of the fundamental and theoretical concepts in an intelligible and easy to understand manner. Simple as well as typical examples have been used to explain each theoretical concept. All questions from last ten year papers of various universities have been included in the book at proper places. For the convenience of students reference topics, working rules of lengthy formulae, hints to difficult problems and lists of important results are given in the chapters.

Lana Burroughs, Tim Lancaster, Grant Rimbey with the Temple Terrace Preservation Society, "Temple Terrace"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0738586544, 1531657893 | EPUB | pages: 127 | 72.0 mb
The influential and adventurous Chicago socialite Mrs. Potter Palmer (Bertha) struck out for Florida in 1910, eventually buying thousands of acres of land across the state. In 1914, after setting up residence in Sarasota, she established Riverhills, a hunting preserve on 19,000 acres in the area now known as Temple Terrace. Local historians believe it was Palmer's vision to create one of America's first planned golf course communities, where every Mediterranean Revival villa sold would include its own grove. Intended to provide a hobby and part-time income for the wealthy Northerners lured to the Sunshine State, 5,000 acres were planted with the exotic hybrid Temple orange-making up the largest citrus grove in the world at the time. The new city was named after the orange and for the sloping terrain of the land along the Hillsborough River.