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In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, the idea, and the people. She ex...

In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, the idea, and the people. She ex...

This book divides the engineering reliability process into multiple parts. Part I focuses on system reliability estimation for time independent and time dependent models, helping engineers create a "firm" design. Part II presents the concept of constructing the likelihood function and its use in estimating the parameters of a failure time distribution. This aids the reader in assembling necessary components and configures them to achieve desir...

Thomas Banister (1750-1826) fought for the British during the American Revolution and lost his inheritance, real estate valued at thousands of pounds. The Crown gave him land in far-off Nova Scotia, when his hopes were to be compensated for his losses and return to his country. His older brother, John Banister (1744-1807), married with a child, swore allegiance to the United Colonies, then witnessed the destruction of his Newport lands by the ...

Everybody has heard the statements "she's a pack rat" or "he's a hoarder, " but how many of us really know what that means? Pathological hoarding was first formally conceptualized as a syndrome separate from OCD in the early 1990s, yet it wasn't until 2013 that hoarding received formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria in the DSM. How can a mental health professional who sees clients in an office determine if hoarding is a factor in a client's ...

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Drawing on exclusive interviews, choreographic analysis, and the author's own dance experience, Flexible Bodies reveals how South Asian dancers in Britain use their craft and creativity to navigate often precarious economic, national, and racial terrain.

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Contemporary Literary Criticism assembles critical responses to the writings of the world's most renowned novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creat...

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefac...

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution's history in A...

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution's history in A...

Ted the bear and best friend Fleur are going on a Solar System adventure! So zip up your spacesuit and join them - you'll visit planets, the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Just make sure you're back before breakfast!

Translating popular song lyrics into Latin, from Marvin Gaye to Madonna, Take That to Taylor Swift

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Ein Querschnitt durch das, was Abenteuer ausmacht: Reinhold Messner, Rüdiger Nehberg, Christine Thürmer und andere berichten vom Aufbrechen und Ankommen, von Erkenntnissen und Widerständen, von lebensverändernden Begegnungen. Sie erzählen von ihrer Faszination für Landschaften und Reiseformen, für Wälder und Wüsten, fürs Bezwingen von Bergen und Von-Deutschland-nach-Tibet-Laufen - dafür, in die Welt aufzubrechen und hinter das Offensichtliche ...

An accessible, comic book-like, illustrated introduction to how the internet works under the hood, designed to give people a basic understanding of the technical aspects of the Internet that they need in order to advocate for digital rights.A Cat's Guide to Internet Freedom is a comic book-like introduction to the technical side of the internet, narrated by a cute cat character. The book contains playful illustrations and concise explanations ...

Die kleine Hummel Bommel ist voller Vorfreude. Endlich ist Weihnachten! Doch dann geht erst einmal alles schief ... Ob am Ende wohl trotzdem alle zusammen ein schönes Weihnachtsfest feiern können? Ein honigsüßes Weihnachtshörspiel mit der zeitlosen Botschaft: Es kommt nicht auf die Geschenke und den schönsten Weihnachtsbaum an - was wirklich zählt, sind Freunde und Familie. Das aufwendig und liebevoll inszeniertes Hörspiel basiert auf dem Buch...

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Volume One of Pacific Profiles presents detailed profiles and descriptions of Japanese Army Air Force aircraft and units operating in New Guinea and the Solomons from December 1942 to April 1944.