Remembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro By Goro Shiba
1999 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0824821572 | PDF | 1 MB
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is most often seen as a glorious event marking the overthrow of Tokugawa feudalism and the beginning of Japan's modern transformation. Yet it had its dark side. The Aizu domain in northeastern Japan had staunchly supported the old regime. For this it was attacked by the new government's forces from Choshu and Satsuma in the autumn of 1868. Its castle town was burned to the ground, and during a month-long siege, whole families perished. After defeat, the domain was abolished and its samurai population exiled to barren terrain in the far north.Shiba Goro was born into an Aizu samurai family in 1859. He was just ten years old at the time of the attack, which claimed most of his family. In the cruel world of exile, he lived with his father on the edge of starvation, struggling to survive. Eventually making his way to Tokyo, he became a servant, and though born in an enemy domain, gained entrance to a military school of the new regime. Shiba's abilities were recognized, and he rose through the officer ranks to become a full general - a singular distinction for an Aizu samurai in an army dominated by former samurai of the Choshu domain.Remembering Aizu tells of Shiba's earlier years. It is an extraordinary story that provides insights and material for a social history of the Restoration and its aftermath. But above all, it is a vividly rendered personal account of courage and determination, loss and remembrance.
John Capouya, "Real Men Do Yoga: 21 Star Athletes Reveal Their Secrets for Strength, Flexibility and Peak Performance"
English | ISBN: 0757301126 | 2003 | 280 pages | EPUB | 1402 KB
With its revolutionary approach to yoga and innovative, male-oriented instruction, Real Men Do Yoga will be the definitive guide for both novice and veteran men who are discovering the innumerable physical and mental benefits of yoga.
Michael P. Johnson, "Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 1: To 1877"
English | ISBN: 131921200X | 2019 | 320 pages | PDF | 6 MB
With five carefully selected documents per chapter, this popular two-volume primary source reader presents a wide range of documents representing political, social, and cultural history in an accessible way. Expertly edited by Michael Johnson, co-author of The American Promise, the readings can be used to spark discussion in any classroom and will fit into any syllabus.
Melissa M. Wilcox, "Queer Women and Religious Individualism"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0253221161, 0253353513 | PDF | pages: 293 | 2.3 mb
Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women―from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood, and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in Los Angeles. Queer Women and Religious Individualism is important reading for scholars in religious studies, sociology, women's studies, and LGBT studies.
Karma R. Chavez, "Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0252079582 | PDF | pages: 233 | 3.4 mb
Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "coalitional moments" in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity.
Dianne Chisholm, "Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space In The Wake Of The City"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0816644039, 0816644047 | PDF | pages: 375 | 1.9 mb
"Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. The "gay village," "gay mecca," ""gai Paris," the "lesbian flaneur," the "lesbian boheme"-these and other urban phantasmagoria feature paradoxically in this volume as figures of revolutionary utopia and commodity spectacle, as fossilized archetypes of social transformation and ruins of haunting cultural potential. Dianne Chisholm introduces readers to new practices of walking, seeing, citing, and remembering the city in works by Neil Bartlett, Samuel Delany, Robert Gluck, Alan Hollinghurst, Gary Indiana, Eileen Myles, Sarah Schulman, Edmund White, and David Wojnarowicz. Reading these authors with reference to the history, sociology, geography, and philosophy of space, particularly to the everyday avant-garde production and practice of urban space, Chisholm reveals how-and how effectively-queer narrative documentary resembles and reassembles Walter Benjamin's constellations of Paris, "capital of the nineteenth century." Considering experimental queer writing in critical conjunction with Benjamin's city writing, the book shows how a queer perspective on inner-city reality exposes contradictions otherwise obscured by mythic narratives of progress. If Benjamin regards the Paris arcade as a microcosm of high capitalism, wherein the (un)making of industrial society is perceived retrospectively, in contemporary queer narrative we see the sexually charged and commodity-entranced space of the gay bathhouse as a microcosm of late capitalism and as an exemplary site for excavating the contradictions of mass sex. In Chisholm's book we discover how,looking back on the ruins of queer mecca, queer authors return to Benjamin to advance his "dialectics of seeing"; how they cruise the paradoxes of market capital, blasting a queer era out of the homogeneous course of history.
Quantitative Phase Microscopy and Tomography: Techniques using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light
by Dalip Singh Mehta, Ankit Butola and Veena Singh
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0-7503-3987-2 | 173 pages | True PDF EPUB MOBI | 85.31 MB
Python for network automation: A technical guide for administrators by Damien Perrin
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BNQXBBXB | 143 pages | EPUB | 2.20 Mb
Python to automate your networking tasks
Python and Machine Learning for Beginners:
A complete easy guide to learning python and machine learning in one go!
English | 2022 | ASIN: B0BR8N6F2X | 435 Pages | PDF EPUB | 4.2 MB
Python Programmer For Beginners: The Ultimate Guide To Learning Python Basics With Hands-On Exercises | Learn Python Programming Faster And Effectively For Beginners by Felipe Oneill
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BNW69KKV | 196 pages | EPUB | 6.46 Mb
Have you always wanted to learn Python programming but gave up thinking it was too difficult to learn?