Anna M. Shields, "One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China"
English | 2015 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 0674504372 | PDF | 3,3 mb
The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)―between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi―became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired mid-Tang literati to write about their friendships with such zeal? And how did these writings influence Tang literary culture more broadly? In One Who Knows Me, the first book to delve into friendship in medieval China, Anna M. Shields explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value its writers discovered in friendship―as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and interweaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts. For mid-Tang literati, writing about friendship became a powerful way to write about oneself and to reflect upon a shared culture. Their texts reveal the ways that friendship intersected the public and private realms of experience and, in the process, reshaped both.
Elizabeth S. Anker, "On Paradox: The Claims of Theory"
English | ISBN: 1478016337 | 2022 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for exposing and dismantling hierarchies. Tracing the ascent of paradox in theories of modernity, in rights discourse, in the history of literary criticism and the linguistic turn, and in the transformation of the liberal arts in higher education, Anker suggests that paradox not only generates the very exclusions it critiques but also creates a disempowering haze of indecision. She shows that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic: it engrains a startling homogeneity of thought while undercutting the commitment to social justice that remains a guiding imperative of theory. Rather than calling for a wholesale abandonment of such reasoning, Anker argues for an expanded, diversified theory toolkit that can help theorists escape the seductions and traps of paradox.
Philip Jenner, Paul Sidwell, "Old Khmer Grammar"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0858836130 | PDF | pages: 100 | 0.8 mb
The Old Khmer Grammar has been brewed from a mass of memoranda and citations accumulated over long years of teaching Old Khmer to a succession of able graduate students. It is meant to serve the immediate needs of readers embarking on the study of the inscriptions, and assumes that they have some acquaintance with modern Khmer. Designed for easy reference, it addresses the main points of grammar and style in the great majority of the texts. A few matters of special interest not previously brought to public notice are discussed in fair detail. Included are a bibliography designed to assist students, and a lexicon of Old Khmer words occurring in the text. It can be considered a companion volume to Prof. Jenner's A Dictionary of pre-Angkorian Khmer and A Dictionary of Angkorian Khmer (Pacific Linguistics 2009).
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1843846500 | 313 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.
Off Grid Living: How To Start Your Off Grid Journey by Mike Holsworth
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07N1S91FR | 100 pages | EPUB | 0.25 Mb
Surrender your fear and anxiety, trust your instincts, and choose a life that's compassionate, accountable, and free. Is that what it means to be living off the grid?
Oceans under Glass
by Muka, Samantha;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0226824136 | 251 pages | True PDF | 5.17 MB
Occupational and Activity Analysis
by Thomas, Heather;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1630918903 | 271 pages | True PDF | 11.31 MB
Nutrition, Obesity and Eating Disorders Handbook and Resource Guide
by Mars, Laura;
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1637000634 | 550 pages | True PDF | 57.27 MB
Martha Craft-Rosenberg, Janice A. Denehy, "Nursing Interventions for Infants, Children, and Families"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0761907254 | PDF | pages: 745 | 36.5 mb
Designed for nurses and student nurses who work with this group, this book covers interventions for infants and children as clients, as well as the family as a client. Each chapter examines the theoretical and research literature support for the invention and links to appropriate nursing diagnoses and outcomes. A case study is presented to illustrate how each intervention is used in nursing practice. Implications for further research are presented with the goal of advancing nursing science by stimulating further study of nursing interventions.
Ebook: Nurses! Test Yourself in Essential Calculation Skills
by Rogers, Katherine;Scott, William;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0335250637 | 156 pages | True PDF | 8.65 MB