Justin D. Edwards, "Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene"
English | ISBN: 1517911230 | 2022 | 372 pages | PDF | 3 MB
An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
Brendan Taylor, "Dangerous Decade "
English | ISBN: 0367437481 | 2019 | 148 pages | EPUB | 620 KB
Taiwan's position looks increasingly precarious, and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reunification with Taiwan a central pillar of his vision for China, and has ramped up diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan. Its inhabitants are increasingly estranged from the mainland, and Tsai Ing-wen's administration refuses to conduct relations with China on Beijing's terms. Taiwan could take on renewed strategic significance amid the backdrop of the deepening rivalry between China and the United States, and find itself at the centre of a Cold War-style superpower confrontation.
Christian Wirth, "Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics: Securing the Seas, Securing the State "
English | ISBN: 1138092924 | 2017 | 238 pages | EPUB | 766 KB
Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, it includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North Korea-South Korea clashes in the Yellow Sea, controversies in Japan's relations with both Koreas and the so-called 'history disputes', including recognition of World War II atrocities across the region. In doing so, this book explores a range of themes from the ecological environment to the globalized nature of shipping and therein links the East Asian maritime sphere directly to the dynamics and developments in the domestic politics of each country. Thus, it serves to demonstrate how several controversial debates in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific are ultimately and inextricably intertwined.
Danger Forward: The Forgotten Wars of General Paul F. Gorman by Mike Guardia
English | November 8, 2021 | ISBN: 0999644386 | 290 pages | EPUB | 1.90 Mb
Combat leadership in action. From Korea to Vietnam...from Panama to the Iron Curtain.
Dancing with Time: The Garden as Art (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) By John Powell
2019 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1789971411 | PDF | 5 MB
Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book shines new light on long-held assumptions about gardens and proposes novel ways in which we might reconsider them. The author challenges traditional views of how we experience gardens, how we might think of gardens as works of art, and how the everyday materials of gardens - plants, light, water, earth - may become artful. The author provides a detailed analysis of Tupare, a garden in New Zealand, and uses it as source material for his analysis of the philosophical issues art gardens raise. His new account of gardens highlights the polymodal, multi-sensual, and improvisatory character of the garden experience, it offers an ontological comparison between gardens and humans and other animals, and it explains how identical plants, and arrangements of plants, may be mundane when encountered beyond the garden but artful, meaningful, and aesthetically valuable when experienced within it.
Marlene Zuk, "Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters"
English | ISBN: 1324007222 | 2022 | EPUB | 352 pages | 1 MB
A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves.
Ashok Kumar Mocherla, "Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology and Lived Religion"
English | ISBN: 113836679X | 2020 | 140 pages | EPUB | 857 KB
This ethnographic study of Dalit Lutherans in South India examines how the lived religion of Dalit Christians contests the structures of caste domination in rural Andhra. It shows how the emergence of Dalit Christianity generated new religious ideas, patterns, terrains, rituals, and practices that challenge the traditional notions of caste privilege and impact the politics of the region. It highlights the transforming role of Dalit agency in the development of Christianity, which is largely unexplored in the studies of Christian missions and anthropology of Christianity in India. The book looks at the social history of Christianity, critical events of protest, platforms of community politics, caste ideology, and local politics and interlocking of caste with congregation to provide a constructive critique of the dominant paradigm of the Dalit movement, which often treats Dalits as a homogenous social group. It discusses the pragmatic changes within the politics of Dalit Christianity as viewed from the margins of Indian society and incorporated through engagement with political ideologies (from communism to the Ambedkarite movement) and religious belief systems (from Hinduism to Christianity).
DK Eyewitness Northern Spain (Travel Guide) by DK Eyewitness
English | June 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0241566088 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 289 MB
Explore wild mountain terrain, vibrant cities and romantic coastline. Whether you want to trek the dramatic peaks of the Picos de Europa, appreciate contemporary art at Museo Guggenheim or hop from bar to bar in the side streets of San Sebastian, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Northern Spain has to offer.
DK Eyewitness Madrid: Inspire / Plan / Discover / Experience (Travel Guide) by DK Eyewitness
English | June 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0241566061 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 242 MB
With its historic plazas, glorious gardens and regal architecture, Madrid dazzles with opulence. But for all its trappings of royalty, this intimate city is also a creative powerhouse, home to world-class art galleries, bustling markets and musical spectacles.
Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present : Visions and Realities: Essays in Honour of Robert Holland
by Anastasia Yiangou, Antigone Heraclidou
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138707953 | 264 Pages | True PDF | 7.2 MB