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At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America's deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa's career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Australian Women's Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850-1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women's Movement, the Great War of 1914-1918, Australia's imperial occupation of New Guinea, the rise of anti-Western sentiment in China and debates about photography's status as an art form.
A wide-ranging collection of essays that makes the case for the humanities as central to our self-understanding, for theory as the latest incarnation of a perennial concern with the relation between words and things, and for the ancient as constitutive of the modern.
This fully illustrated how-to manual details every possible method for growing taller. The primary focus is on stretching and exercising the cartilage, tendons and ligaments in and around the spine, hips, knees and ankles for maximum height increase in minimum time. Contains over 200 illustrations.
The only fitness book you may ever need! Building a lean, strong, healthy body has never been this easy. This complete, easy-to-read, step-by-step manual will show you how to get in the best shape of your life using the latest, cutting-edge science and exercise techniques. It will show you: * How to use a little-known, natural sea-plant extract to "shut off" the enzymes in your cells that prevent muscles from growing larger.* How to use the simple but powerful technique known as "Progressive Negative Tension" for increased focus and exercise intensity, improved exercise form and enhanced muscle tone.* How to use the "30-minute window" - a natural, biological state that occurs after exercise - to your advantage.* How to design a routine around your unique "neurological efficiency". Neurological efficiency can vary greatly from individual to individual, and the wrong routine for your neurological make-up can actually make you look and feel worse!* How to use the glycemic index to design the best diet for fat loss. Designing a nutrition plan around the glycemic index can be tedious and confusing, but this manual makes it simple, easy and fast!And there is much, much more...
Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first serious study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi. The book makes a case for a subaltern voice speaking and argues that subaltern writing constitutes the silent underside of world literature whose canon it silently challenges and subverts.
Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was renowned as the world's "perfect man" at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year "world tour" of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904-1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare's texts - obviously destined for stage performances - to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads from the written text to visual illustration.
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals--writers, historians, academics, journalists--which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.
This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton's historiography of modern architecture.
This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain's northern roots.
This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette's fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.
In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-called 'New Age'.
This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of "the human" and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.
Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal levels of authority.
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary 'law and' field.
An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of "the Mother of Feminism," many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today.
This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don't see is a real gift. He says, 'It's like a star wheeling round the earth, fertilising the imagination as it goes.' This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form from its imprisoning substance, whether it be from wood, marble, stone or plaster.
Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation's literature arrives onthe international stage.
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 8 through 11 who are candidates for admission to grades 9 through 12.This ISEE Upper Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE.The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 160 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-20 (20 qs): Verbal Reasoning21-40 (20 qs): Sentence Completion1-36 (36 qs): Reading ComprehensionTotal English Questions = 761-37 (37 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-47 (47 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 84This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.
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