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New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World Bashford Alison

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of earth's origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the global climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New Earth Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we think about the earth.The chapters consider debates about the age and structure of the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and how empire has been conceived in multiple

The Wild Between Us Hagstrom Amy

The rescue of two missing boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains relies on unraveling the mysteries of the past in an addictive novel of heartrending suspense.After inheriting his uncle's lodge, Silas Matheson hopes the grandeur of the California Sierra Nevada will be a fresh start for his two young sons, and a chance to finally face his demons. It was here, fifteen years ago, that Silas and his friends Jessica, Danny, and Meg ventured into the mountain wilderness and Jessica vanished without a trace. When his boys go missing in the same dark woods, the fear and guilt that Silas has been running from ever since come crashing back.Silas's panicked call brings in the local search and rescue unit, and two familiar faces: Danny and Meg. As the frantic search gets underway, the three friends are plunged into a painfully recurring nightmare, each of them thinking, This

Sound Pressure: How Speaker Systems Influence, Manipulate and Torture Heys Toby

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century. The networked Wired Radio speakers of the 1920's industrialised factory, acoustically anchor a narrative based on the functional utilisation of sound systems for insidious purposes; from the surround-sound techniques of the Waco siege, to the application of sonic torture in Guantnamo and Abu Ghraib. Crucially, Sound Pressure identifies the logic behind the miniaturisation and disappearance of visible sound system technologies as they transmute into the ultrasonic dynamics of the Hypersonic Sound System and covert bone conduction techniques of Whispering Windows. The book charts an evolution of speaker technology that has been,

Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature Atherton David C.

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed new life into literary tradition. But how to understand the politics of this body of literature remains contested, in part because the defining characteristics of much early modern fiction--formulaicness, reuse of narratives, stock characters, linguistic and intertextual play, and heavy allusion to literary canon--can seem to hold social and political realities at arm's length.David C. Atherton offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between the challenging formal features of early modern popular literature and the world beyond its pages. Focusing on depictions of violence--one of the most fraught topics for a peaceful polity ruled over by warriors--he connects

Enticing Miss Eugenie Villaret Quinn Ella

Ella Quinn's intriguing and irresistible bachelors are masters in the game of seduction. But nothing has the power to change a single man's mind like a captivating woman . . .William, Viscount Wivenly, plans to remain the most eligible of bachelors. He refuses to surrender to the schemes of husband-hunting ladies and matchmaking mamas. Fleeing the pressure of the ton, he's bent on finding refuge in the West Indies. What he finds instead is a fascinating stranger, a woman so unlike those of his society that he can't resist such a beguiling distraction . . .Determined to let nothing complicate her mission to protect her family's livelihood while covertly rescuing orphaned slave children, Miss Eugnie Villaret does her best to evade suitors. But when dashing William lures her down a path of forbidden adventure and delicious danger, she may

Allies Against Two Evils: Georgian POWs in Wwiis Bergmann Units and the Quest to Liberate the Caucasus from Russian Impe...

An eye-witness account of the Russian/European conflict at the heart of WWII, relevant today as war rages again along similar battle lines in Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus.Dr. Givi Gabliani, a Georgian exile from a noble family living in the United States since the 1950s, recounts his conscription into the Red Army as a young man shortly after his father was killed in Stalin's purges, and his coordinated efforts in the "Bergmann" Unit. These mountain troops, uniquely composed of fellow POWs from the Caucasus, fought against Stalin's forces on the Eastern Front in Ukraine and Crimea. Their goal: to liberate their homelands. He finds unlikely allies among a group of German officers, some later executed after their failed plot to assassinate Hitler, who promise to support Georgian Independence.Gabliani envisions a future Europe supporting a

From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems Kogawa Joy

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003).Kogawa's poems here are evidence that our every vulnerability can open into vast channels of

Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics Quisay Walaa

This book examines the salience of neo-traditionalism in Anglo-American Muslim communities. By tracing the scholarship and impact of the key public pedagogues (shaykhs) associated with this phenomenon - Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad, and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, Quisay shows how their critiques of modernity is solidified as political ideals and strategies. The shaykhs guide their community of followers and students - known as 'seekers of sacred knowledge' - to paradigmatic critique of modernity that emphasises the importance of reconnecting with the tradition, self-purification, religious orthodoxy, and advocating for the notion of traditional metaphysical worldview and recognition and deference to spiritual (and political) authorities. In secluded, spiritual retreats - held by the shaykhs - the seekers hope to opt out of the disenchanted modern in search for a form of re-enchantment

Transforming the U.S. Financial System: An Equitable and Efficient Structure for the 21st Century: An Equitable and Effi...

This work challenges the conventional understanding of Hong Kong's political culture as one of indifference. It takes a historical look at political participation in the former colony and includes an in-depth analysis of 13 selected

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Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education Venet Alex Shevrin

Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school.Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity.In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice,

Holbein at the Tudor Court Heard Kate

A collection of portraits made during Hans Holbein's time as the leading artist at the court of Henry VIII.Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) first went to England in 1526, and by 1535 he was King's Painter to Henry VIII. Holbein at the Tudor Court focuses on the internationally significant collection of portraits by Holbein from that period that is part of the Royal Collection. Along with beautiful reproductions of Holbein's drawings, miniatures, and paintings, the book offers an introductory essay as the artist of the Tudor court in England, as well as a series of entries on individual works. It delivers insights about the portraits and their subjects, and it also brings in voices from the period, as found in letters, poems, administrative records, and diplomatic accounts, to bring the world of the sixteenth-century English court to life.

In Focus Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration the philosopher enjoyed for her own ends and installed the Nietzsche Archive in the building. Initially very popular amongst Europe's avant-garde later Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche allowed the archive to be instrumentalized by the National Socialists before it became a taboo topic in the GDR. Featuring many colored illustrations, the book relates the turbulent history of a memorial that reflects the ambivalence of modernism.

First Steps in Science: What is Motion? Barnham Kay

Fundamental and FUN first science concepts for kids, and the great thing is: there are

The Body in Jean-Luc Godards New Wave Films Hardy Francesca Minnie

This original study examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard, perhaps the central figure of the French New Wave.Through analysis of bout de souffle, Une femme est une femme, Le Mpris and Alphaville, alongside discussion of some of Godard's lesser-known French New Wave films, the book explores the interrelation between bodies, books, and bathrooms that they facilitate. In so doing, it aims to destabilise the French New Wave's myth of male exceptionalism and denaturalise the gender dynamic most commonly viewed at its heart, revealing that the women who make up a fundamental part of its fabric are not textually trapped by Godard's authorial presence. Instead, their corporeality disrupts any purported authorial and national ownership of their bodies.Given the

Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure Kfeoğlu Sinan

Critical infrastructure sectors are those whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are deemed so important to nations that their incapacitation or destruction would have a crippling effect on national security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of these. Each country might define their unique critical infrastructure. In this book, we compiled nine critical infrastructure sectors: Emergency Services, Energy, Finance, Food, Government, Health, Telecommunications, Transport, and Water. The continuity of services in these sectors is vital for the daily lives of societies and economies. This study introduces 49 case studies from various parts of the world.This book investigates Cyber Resilience in Critical Infrastructure by paying attention to recommending a national-level cyber resilience framework for all

Mind Games Alzheimers Society

Boost your brain health and help reduce your risk of dementiaWith regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. Featuring 150 puzzles of varying difficulty, Mind Games aims to target different areas of the brain and improve cognition. With puzzles to challenge memory or skills with pictures, words, numbers or logic, Mind Games offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions.But Mind Games is more than just a collection of puzzles - this book will help you to create new habits to keep your grey matter active and healthy. Here, Dr. Tim Beanland, Head of Knowledge at Alzheimer's Society, provides expert insights into the science of brain health and the benefits of regular mental exercise. Also included is a 7-day programme, plus practical tips and advice to keep your mind active and

Game of Thrones: A to Z Guide & Trivia Deck McDermott Jim

Prove you're ready to sit on the Iron Throne by challenging your friends to the ultimate Game of Thrones trivia

Cambridge Prescribers Guide in Psychiatry Hafizi Sepehr

Based on the best-selling Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, this essential guide to psychiatric prescribing has been developed by leading psychiatrists and medical students from the University of Cambridge to support all mental health professionals in achieving optimal care for their patients. Written with the authority of evidence and the guidance of clinical wisdom the formulary covers the psychotropic medications used in daily care including dosing recommendations and drug interactions. With its easy-to-use, full-colour template-driven navigation system, the book combines evidence-based data with clinically informed advice, including guidance on prescribing for children and adolescents and people with addictions. Drugs are presented in the same format to facilitate rapid access to information and are broken down into sections designated by a unique colour background thereby clearly

The Fighting Doc: The Rhodesian Bush War Diary of John Coey, Kia 19 July 1975 Coey John

It is Saturday afternoon, 19 July 1975, next to a dry riverbed in Rhodesia's northeastern operational area, in a war against communist-backed guerrillas. A Rhodesian combat medic receives an order to descend into the riverbed to attend to two critically wounded troopers, their figures seemingly lifeless on the sand. The whereabouts of the insurgents is not known. As the medic, displaying a red cross, moves in, shots ring out and he sustains a fatal head wound. That medic is 24-year-old American John Alan Coey. Driven by his Christian faith and an ardent belief in the threat of global communist hegemony, Coey had come to Rhodesia to fulfill an overriding passion to help the beleaguered southern African country in its fight against what he perceived to be a communist bid to secure the subcontinent. John was a very complex individual who, right until his death, was in a permanent state of

Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies: Surgical, Prosthetic, and Rehabilitation Principles Krajbich Joseph Ivan

Now in one convenient volume, Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies: Surgical, Prosthetic, and Rehabilitation Principles, Fifth Edition, remains the definitive reference on the surgical and prosthetic management of acquired and congenital limb loss. Developed in partnership with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and edited by Joseph Ivan Krajbich, MD, FRCS(C), Michael S. Pinzur, MD, FAAOS, COL Benjamin K. Potter, MD, FAAOS, FACS, and Phillip M. Stevens, MEd, CPO, FAAOP, it discusses the most recent advances and future developments in prosthetic technology with in-depth treatment and management recommendations for adult and pediatric conditions. With coverage of every aspect of this complex field from recognized experts in amputation surgery, rehabilitation, and prosthetics, it is an invaluable resource for surgeons, physicians, prosthetists,

Cage Jardine Quintin

From acclaimed author Quintin Jardine comes the latest gripping mystery in his bestselling Bob Skinner series, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter

Luck Randall Margaret

Fearless personal essays from a treasured feminist poet and activistLuck is a collection of essays covering such topics as memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, pandemics, war, violence, feminism, lies, imagination, death, power, identity, and of course luck. Some are full-blown explorations, others brief riffs. Some are prose poetry, others straightforward prose. The author combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to

Zodiac Guide to Leo Carvel Astrid

Delve into these pages to unveil the secrets of the proud and generous fire sign, Leo. Discover what really makes a Leo tick, from health and career to love and romance, learn self-care rituals tailored to your star sign, and find out what your birth chart can tell you about yourself and your

The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics Serazio Michael

In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another. It characterizes Donald Trump's willful disregard for political correctness (and proofreading) and inspires multinational corporations to stake activist claims in ways that few "woke" brands ever dared before. It buttresses a multibillion-dollar influencer industry of everyday folks shilling their friends with #spon-con and burnishes the street cred of rock stars and rappers alike. But, ironically, authenticity's not actually real: it's as fabricated as it is ubiquitous.In The Authenticity Industries, journalist and scholar Michael Serazio combines eye-opening reporting and lively prose to take readers behind the scenes with those who make "reality"--and the ways it tries

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Low Carbon Transition in Emerging Economies

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Matt Spike And The Vampire's Curse

Sakura, Saku - Tome 2

Saku rencontre enfin Ryôsuke, le garçon dont elle rêvait. Mais elle découvre avec stupéfaction qu'il n'est pas celui qui lui est venu en aide et qu'elle était amoureuse de lui sur un malentendu ! Même si Saku commence à être attirée par Haruki, qui ne cesse de la soutenir, elle ne comprend plus le sentiment amoureux et n'ose pas se lancer...Le printemps arrive avec le pressentiment d'un nouvel amour !