Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature: Reforming Contentment
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009271660 | 225 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
This book offers the first full-length study of early modern contentment, the emotional and ethical principle that became the gold standard of English Protestant psychology and an abiding concern of English Renaissance literature. Theorists and literary critics have equated contentedness with passivity, stagnation, and resignation. However, this book excavates an early modern understanding of contentment as dynamic, protective, and productive. While this concept has roots in classical and medieval philosophy, contentment became newly significant because of the English Reformation. Reformers explored contentedness as a means to preserve the self and prepare the individual to endure and engage the outside world. Their efforts existed alongside representations and revisions of contentment by authors including Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. By examining Renaissance models of contentment, this book explores alternatives to Calvinist despair, resists scholarly emphasis on negative emotions, and reaffirms the value of formal concerns to studies of literature, religion, and affect.
Waves in Nonlinear Layered Metamaterials, Gyrotropic and Plasma Media
by Yuriy Rapoport and Vladimir Grimalsky
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0-7503-2336-9 | 386 pages | True PDF EPUB MOBI | 64.94 MB
Elections in India: An Overview By Sanjay Kumar
2021 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 0367535963 | PDF | 4 MB
The 2019 General election in India was the world's largest democratic exercise in history. Often, elections have been referred to as the dance of democracy or festival of democracy in India. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the broad patterns and trends in Indian elections from 1952 - the first elections in independent India - to 2019. With the help of extensive empirical data, it discusses themes like evolution of the Indian electoral systems; the model code of conduct and it's violations; the institution of election commission in India; story of participatory upsurge; analysis of turnout in regional and national elections; the story of victory margins; irregular delimitation; challenges of money and muscle power; and, rationale behind simultaneous election. Topical and comprehensive, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of election studies, political studies, Indian politics, South Asian studies, political sociology, public administration as well as for journalists and think tanks.
Efficient Organization
by Ketokivi, Mikko;Mahoney, Joseph T.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197610285 | 313 pages | True PDF EPUB | 16.97 MB
East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War By Stephen Wagg (editor), David Andrews (editor)
2007 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0415359260 | PDF | 4 MB
The Cold War spanned some five decades from the devastation that remained after World War Two until the fall of the Berlin wall, and for much of that time the perception was that only on the Eastern side were politics and sport inextricably linked. However, this assumption underestimates the extent to which sport was an important symbol for both power blocs in their ongoing ideological struggle. This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.
M J Toswell, Lindy Brady, "Early English Poetic Culture and Metre: The Influence of G. R. Russom"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1580442420 | PDF | pages: 200 | 2.6 mb
This volume develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English metre and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative metre, and the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Ten eminent scholars from across the field take up Russom's ideas to lead readers in new and exciting directions.
Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema By Hamid Dabashi (editor); preface by Edward Said
2006 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 1844670880 | PDF | 17 MB
A collection of essays and interviews in which filmmakers, critics and scholars reflect on Palestinian cinema.
Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo, Fritz Pino, "Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 081013652X, 0810136511 | PDF | pages: 377 | 12.3 mb
Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries is the first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of leading scholars, artists, and activists who reflect on the contributions of queer Filipinos to Canadian culture and society.
Gjoko Muratovski, "Design in the Age of Change"
English | ISBN: 1789385458 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 171 MB
How design can change the world.
Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction: The United States & Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan & Iraq By Matthew Alan Hill
2011 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0415588928 | PDF | 3 MB
This book investigates US foreign policy and tests the hypothesis that transition-inspired democracy promotion will successfully establish liberal democracy around the world, and thus fulfil the aims of the American mission and its application of the democratic peace. It features two detailed case studies exploring political liberalization in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and suggests that the conclusions are applicable to other cases by highlighting the US mission in Iraq.The author critically examines US foreign policy in a theoretical and historical context, focusing on the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) democracy assistance. It demonstrates that if liberal democracy is the end-goal of USAID's strategy then the theoretical and practical limitations of transition-inspired assistance will impede the attainment of this goal. In examining US democracy promotion in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the book concludes by considering its future during the Obama administration. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, US Foreign Policy and Democratization Studies.A video of a panel discussing Matthew Hill's book and associated topics in more detail can be found here: http://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/politics-development-human-rights/old-wine-new-bottle-democratisation-lessons-af