Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies By Meaghan Morris (editor), Mette Hjort (editor)
2012 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1932643206 | PDF | 2 MB
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programs and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up research centers and postgraduate schools, editing field-shaping book series and journals, establishing international artist-in-residence programs, and founding social activist networks. This book also investigates the impact of managerialism, marketization, and globalization on university cultures, asking what critical cultural scholarship can do in such increasingly adversarial conditions. Experiments in Asian universities are emphasized as exemplary of what can or could be achieved in other contexts of globalized university policy. Contributors. Tony Bennett, Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Douglas Crimp, Dai Jinhua, John Nguyet Erni, Mette Hjort, Josephine Ho, Koichi Iwabuchi, Meaghan Morris, Tejaswini Niranjana, Wang Xiaoming, Audrey Yue

Mary Carver, "Courageous Joy: Delight in God through Every Season "
English | ISBN: 0800738098 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
There's an unspoken tension between happiness and discontentment. You love your family and friends, but complicated relationships drain and discourage you. You're grateful for work but sometimes feel overlooked. You want to follow Jesus yet feel pulled in a dozen different directions. You know God loves you, yet insecurities bully you. The voices of this world are so loud, how can someone possibly hear God's still small voice? The injustice and wounds of this world are so great, how can someone possibly experience lasting joy?

Harriet Brundle, "Continents Infographics"
English | 2019 | pages: 32 | ISBN: 1786376318, 1786372045 | PDF | 4,2 mb
Through the use of stylish, informative graphics,this title explores the science behind continental drift and discusseshow this process has shaped our planet.

Frederick Moehn, "Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene"
English | 2012 | pages: 318 | ISBN: 0822351552 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have reinvigorated Brazilian genres, such as samba and maracatu, through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists, including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luís, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. He describes how these artists manage their careers, having reclaimed some control from record labels. Examining the specific meanings that their fusions have in the Carioca scene, he explains that musical mixture is not only intertwined with nationalist discourses of miscegenation, but also with the experience of being middle-class in a country confronting neoliberal models of globalization. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.

Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th Edition
by Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1978824750 | 561 Pages | True PDF | 4.9 MB

Community Health Needs in South Africa By Ntombenhle Protasia Khoti Torkington
2000 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 1138716278 | PDF | 28 MB
This title was first published in 2000. Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in order to eliminate the disadvantages it created for the health of black people at both micro and macro levels. This book presents the findings of a study commissioned to assess and respond to the health needs of black people in South Africa. The hope expressed by those who participated is that the study is considered within the wider context of understanding the apartheid system and the scars it left behind. Community Health Needs in South Africa represents an excellent example of how action research can be used as a tool to make a difference in people's lives.

Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Traditions By Lex Hixon
1995 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0943914744 | PDF | 43 MB
Explores the experience of enlightenmentin sacred traditions and how it affects those who experience it.

Collins Beginner's German Dictionary, 3rd Edition By HarperCollins Publishers
2007 | 669 Pages | ISBN: 0061349631 | PDF | 28 MB
Easy to read, easy to use, easy to understandIdeal for school use and anyone starting to learn GermanClear, innovative color layout allows for maximum ease of useUnique games section that helps readers have fun while learningSpecial entries on German life and cultureTable of common German verbs

Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present By W. J. T. Mitchell
2011 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0226532593 | PDF | 3 MB
The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, and that spawned it.Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, Mitchell finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality. At the same time, Mitchell locates in the concept of clones and cloning an anxiety about new forms of image-making that has amplified the political effects of the War on Terror. Cloning and terror, he argues, share an uncanny structural resemblance, shuttling back and forth between imaginary and real, metaphoric and literal manifestations. In Mitchell's startling analysis, cloning terror emerges as the inevitable metaphor for the way in which the War on Terror has not only helped recruit more fighters to the jihadist cause but undermined the American constitution with "faith-based" foreign and domestic policies.Bringing together the hooded prisoners of Abu Ghraib with the cloned stormtroopers of the Star Wars saga, Mitchell draws attention to the figures of faceless anonymity that stalk the ever-shifting and unlocatable "fronts" of the War on Terror. A striking new investigation of the role of images from our foremost scholar of iconology, Cloning Terror will expand our understanding of the visual legacy of a new kind of war and reframe our understanding of contemporary biopower and biopolitics.

Mark D. Baker, "Centered-Set Church: Discipleship and Community Without Judgmentalism"
English | ISBN: 1514000946 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Christians can be adept at drawing lines, determining what it means to be "a good Christian" and judging those who stray out of bounds. Other times they erase all the lines in favor of a vague and inoffensive faith. Both impulses can come from positive intentions, but either can lead to stunted spiritual life and harmful relationships. Is there another option?