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.

Blagoy Kiroff, "Jacques Louis David: 135 Master Drawings"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1514717492 | EPUB | pages: 40 | 12.5 mb
Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the pre-eminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime. He later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre, and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release, that of Napoleon I. It was at this time that he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleon's fall from power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels in the then-United Kingdom of the Netherlands where he remained until his death. David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

Italianness and Migration from the Risorgimento to the 1960s
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030889637 | 255 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
This edited collection explores the notion of Italianness - or Italianità - through migration history. It focuses on the interaction between Italians circulating around the world, and their relationship with Italy from a political and cultural perspective. Answering the important question of how migration affects Italianness, the authors explore the ways in which migrants retained their Italian culture, customs and practices during and after their travels. Spanning a long period from the Risorgimento up until the 1960s, the book sheds light on the institutions and social structures that contributed to the construction of cultural links between Italian migrants and their country of origin. Not only broad in its temporal scope, the volume covers a wide geographic area, examining the lives of Italian migrants in North America, South America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Bringing together a wealth of research on Italians, alongside the different migratory routes taken by these men and women, this book provides new insights into Italian culture and seeks to strengthen our understanding of Italian migration history.

Kim Papaioannou, Ioannis Giantzaklidis, "Israel, Covenant, Law: A Third Perspective on Paul"
English | 2017 | pages: 182 | ISBN: 1532637284, 1532637306 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Pauline studies are in a conundrum. The Reformation perspectives championed by great men like Martin Luther and John Calvin have been challenged recently by the rise of the new perspective on Paul. The main point of contention seems to be the place of biblical law in salvation. While the Reformation perspectives, based in part on Paul's apparent attacks on law, assert that salvation is a free gift unmerited by human works, the new perspective suggests the law is an integral part of the work of salvation. It holds that Paul's attacks on the law were focused only on specific aspects of law, the so-called boundary markers. This book, while having points of contact with both outlooks, takes a different view on Paul and the law. Building on Paul's self-identification as a Christian, and Christian views on the covenant, it endeavors to give biblical law its due place in the plan of salvation and the life of the believer.

Islam, Media and Education in the Digital Era
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032112646 | 722 Pages | PDF True | 11 MB
The proceedings of the Social and Humanities Research Symposium (SoRes) shares ideas, either research results or literature review, on islam, media and education in the digital era. Some recent issues consists of innovative education in the digital era, new media and journalsm, islamic education, human wellbeing, marketing and fintech in terms of islamic perspective, economic welfare, law and ethics. It is expected that the proceedings will give new insights to the knowledge and practice of social and humanities research. Therefore, such parties involved in social and humanities research as academics, practitioners, business leaders, and others will acquire benefits from the contents of the proceedings.

Introduction to Ring Theory By P. M. Cohn BA, MA, PhD, FRS (auth.)
2000 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 1852332069 | PDF | 9 MB
Most parts of algebra have undergone great changes and advances in recent years, perhaps none more so than ring theory. In this volume, Paul Cohn provides a clear and structured introduction to the subject.After a chapter on the definition of rings and modules there are brief accounts of Artinian rings, commutative Noetherian rings and ring constructions, such as the direct product. Tensor product and rings of fractions, followed by a description of free rings. The reader is assumed to have a basic understanding of set theory, group theory and vector spaces. Over two hundred carefully selected exercises are included, most with outline solutions.

Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia by Alanna Kamp
English | April 26, 2022 | ISBN: 0367674297 | 280 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Intersectional Lives explores the lives of contemporary Chinese Australian women and how their everyday experiences have played out in diverse and uneven ways across time and place. Interrogations of personal reflections are coupled with a postcolonial feminist reading of official records, demonstrating that the women's varied experiences as migrants, mothers, daughters, wives, students, workers, business owners and cultural custodians are influenced by their multiple and fluid identities. This book offers new ways to conceptualize Chinese women in the diaspora as gendered, classed, culturally varied and racialized individuals with multiple identifications, forms of agency and mobility. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. It also demonstrates how historical geography, informed by postcolonial feminist approaches, can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that include women's diverse experiences at a variety of scales. This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers with additional audiences of interest in ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, gender and feminist studies.

Internationalizing the Social Sciences in China:
The Disciplinary Development of Sociology at Tsinghua University
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811901627 | 239 Pages | PDF | 6 MB