K. A. Wisniewski, "Polish Literature as World Literature "
English | ISBN: 1501387103 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to the 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged with their foreign counterparts and other traditions, active participants in the global literary network and the conversations of their day.
Michael Dutton, "Policing Chinese Politics: A History"
English | 2005 | pages: 427 | ISBN: 0822334771 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political passion that propels it. "Who are our enemies, who are our friends, that is a question germane to the revolution," wrote Mao Zedong in 1926. Michael Dutton shows just how powerful this one line was to become. It would establish the binary division of life in revolutionary China and lead to both passionate commitment and revolutionary excess. The political history of revolutionary China, he argues, is largely framed by the attempts of Mao and the Party to harness these passions.
Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love By Cristina Maria Cervone
2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0812244516 | PDF | 4 MB
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh" - an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing shape, and even their ideas about language itself.In 'Poetics of the Incarnation' Cristina Maria Cervone examines the work of fourteenth-century writers who, rather than approaching the mystery of the Incarnation through affective identification with the Passion, elected to ponder the intellectual implications of the Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. Cervone argues that a poetics of the Incarnation becomes the grounds for working through the philosophical and theological implications of language, at a point in time when Middle English was emerging as a legitimate, if contested, medium for theological expression.In brief lyrics and complex narratives, late medieval English writers including William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, and the anonymous author of the Charters of Christ took the relationship between God and humanity as a jumping-off point for their meditations on the nature of language and thought, the elision between the concrete and the abstract, the complex relationship between acting and being, the work done by poetry itself in and through time, and the meaning latent within poetical forms. Where Passion-devoted writing would focus on the vulnerability and suffering of the fleshly body, these texts took imaginative leaps, such as when they depict the body of Christ as a lily or the written word. Their Incarnational poetics repeatedly call attention to the fact that, in theology as in poetics, form matters.
Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work by Simon Derpmann, David P. Schweikard
English | PDF | 2016 | 164 Pages | ISBN : 3319261010 | 2.3 MB
This volume documents the 16th Münster Lectures in Philosophy and examines five themes that are prominent in the work of philosopher and political theorist Philip Pettit. These themes are: Epistemology and Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, Consequentialism, Group Agency, and Republicanism.
Thomas E. Sebrell II, "Persuading John Bull: Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860-65"
English | ISBN: 0739185101 | 2014 | 254 pages | EPUB | 472 KB
This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Adams Knight, a Northern American based in the British capital. The newspaper's successes and failures in attempts to manipulate British public opinion during the war are compared with that of The Index, its rival Confederate propaganda weekly headquartered two doors down London's Fleet Street.
Elizabeth A. Wood, "Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia"
English | 2005 | pages: 311 | ISBN: 0801442575 | PDF | 5,8 mb
After seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating and bringing culture to the vast and often illiterate mass of Soviet soldiers, workers, and peasants. As part of this campaign, civilian educators and political instructors in the military developed didactic theatrical fictions performed in workers' and soldiers' clubs in the years from 1919 to 1933. The subjects addressed included politics, religion, agronomy, health, sexuality, and literature. The trials were designed to permit staging by amateurs at low cost, thus engaging the citizenry in their own remaking.
Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition
by Diane Engelhardt;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1264285639 | 345 pages | True PDF | 9.51 MB
People of the Wachusett: Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 By David P. Jaffee
1999 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0801436109 | PDF | 71 MB
Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew―Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole―and with each new community the myth of America flourished.In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals―all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.
Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction to Analytical and Numerical Methods
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031133781 | 465 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 32 MB
This textbook introduces the study of partial differential equations using both analytical and numerical methods. By intertwining the two complementary approaches, the authors create an ideal foundation for further study. Motivating examples from the physical sciences, engineering, and economics complete this integrated approach.
Pandas Workout (MEAP V12)
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617299728 | 418 pages | PDF,EPUB | 2.12 MB
Practice makes perfect pandas. Work out your pandas skills against dozens of real-world challenges, each carefully designed to build an intuitive knowledge of essential pandas tasks.