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Book Amar Akbar Anthony

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Elison
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-04
  • ISBN : 0674504488
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Amar Akbar Anthony written by William Elison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 blockbuster Amar Akbar Anthony about the heroics of three Bombay brothers separated in childhood became a classic of Hindi cinema and a touchstone of Indian popular culture. Beyond its comedy and camp is a potent vision of social harmony, but one that invites critique, as the authors show.

Book Intelligence and Security Informatics

Download or read book Intelligence and Security Informatics written by Sharad Mehrotra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2006. Gathers 39 revised full papers, 30 revised short papers, and 56 extended poster abstracts, organized in topical sections including intelligence analysis and knowledge discovery; access control, privacy, and cyber trust; surveillance and emergency response; infrastructure protection and cyber security; terrorism informatics and countermeasures; surveillance, bioterrorism, and emergency response.

Book Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Denise Cush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as identifying new areas of study which have not been addressed previously. The debate over the term 'Hinduism' in the light of post-Orientalist critiques is just one example of how once standard academic frameworks have been called into question. Entries range from 150-word definitions of terms and concepts to 5,000-word in-depth investigations of major topics. The Encyclopedia covers all aspects of Hinduism but departs from other works in including more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to an exclusively textual and historical approach. It includes a broad range of subject matter such as: historical developments (among them nineteenth and twentieth century reform and revival); geographical distribution (especially the diaspora); major and minor movements; philosophies and theologies; scriptures; deities; temples and sacred sites; pilgrimages; festivals; rites of passage; worship; religious arts (sculpture, architecture, music, dance, etc.); religious sciences (e.g. astrology); biographies of leading figures; local and regional traditions; caste and untouchability; feminism and women's religion; nationalism and the Hindu radical right; and new religious movements. The history of study and the role of important scholars past and present are also discussed. Accessibility to all levels of reader has been a priority and no previous knowledge is assumed. However, the in-depth larger entries and the design of the work in line with the latest scholarly advances means that the volume will be of considerable interest to specialists. The whole is cross-referenced and bibliographies attach to the larger entries. There is a full index.

Book Natural Fibers  Biopolymers  and Biocomposites

Download or read book Natural Fibers Biopolymers and Biocomposites written by Amar K. Mohanty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-04-08 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural/Biofiber composites are emerging as a viable alternative to glass fiber composites, particularly in automotive, packaging, building, and consumer product industries, and becoming one of the fastest growing additives for thermoplastics. Natural Fibers, Biopolymers, and Biocomposites provides a clear understanding of the present state

Book Amar a Lawrence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Millet
  • Publisher : Anagrama
  • Release : 2021-01-20
  • ISBN : 8433941631
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Amar a Lawrence written by Catherine Millet and published by Anagrama. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los misterios del deseo femenino. Catherine Millet aborda la vida y obra de D. H. Lawrence. Catherine Millet, autora de la escandalosa La vida sexual de Catherine M., se adentra en la obra de D. H. Lawrence, autor de las en su día escandalosas Mujeres enamoradas y El amante de Lady Chatterley. ¿Por qué Lawrence? Porque el escritor británico exploró como pocos el tema del deseo femenino, cuestionó la moral de su época y fue un literato transgresor. He aquí el nexo de unión con la autora francesa y el porqué de su interés en él y su obra. Millet ha dedicado dos años a leer no solo las novelas de Lawrence sino también su poesía, sus relatos y su epistolario. Y ha analizado las varias biografías escritas sobre el personaje y los testimonios de diversas mujeres que estuvieron relacionadas con él. El estudio en profundidad de todo este material le ha servido para abordar la visión de la sexualidad del escritor, su vida como utopista y nómada, sus exploraciones de lo prohibido, su ideario político y las relaciones amorosas que mantuvo a lo largo de su vida. El resultado es una visión nueva de Lawrence que desmonta viejos tópicos. Pero, al indagar en la vida del británico, Millet acaba hablando también de sí misma, y el libro se convierte en una estimulante mezcla de ensayo y autobiografía en la que confluyen dos autores –la estudiosa y el estudiado– separados por el tiempo, pero unidos por el interés en explorar los misterios del deseo femenino.

Book India s Princely States

    Book Details:
  • Author : Waltraud Ernst
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-10-18
  • ISBN : 1134119879
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book India s Princely States written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states. Contributions are from international, reputable scholars, and they present historiographic, analytical and methodological approaches, placing attention to concepts, theories and sources. Inter-disciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers of South Asia, studies of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics and economic history and the social history of health and medicine.

Book America s Unwritten Constitution

Download or read book America s Unwritten Constitution written by Akhil Reed Amar and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading between the lines: America's implicit Constitution -- Heeding the deed: America's enacted Constitution -- Hearing the people: America's lived Constitution -- Confronting modern case law: America's "warrented" Constitution -- Putting precedent in its place: America's doctrinal Constitution -- Honoring the icons: America's symbolic Constitution -- "Remembering the ladies" : America's feminist Constitution -- Following Washington's lead: America's "Georgian" Constitution -- Interpreting government practices: America's institutional Constitution -- Joining the party: America's partisan Constitution -- Doing the right thing: America's conscientious Constitution -- Envisioning the future: America's unfinished Constitution -- Afterward -- Appendix: America's written Constitution.

Book Transfigurations of the Maghreb

Download or read book Transfigurations of the Maghreb written by Winifred Woodhull and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a critical perspective on many of the best-known texts of Algerian literature in French. It also discusses Maghrebian immigration into France; contemporary French writing about the Maghreb; and "nomadic" poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity and sociality. Woodhull offers a thorough and detailed exploration of the historical context and the ways in which femininity has been represented in the texts of North African and French writers since the mid-1950s. She aims to provide an important corrective to some (male) models of anticolonialist ideology. Through informed readings of texts by "metropolitan" writers such as Le Clezio, Tournier, Cardinal, and Sullerot, Woodhull challenges the sterile dichotomies which continue to occur in the institutional organization of French departments - namely, the separation between French and Francophone literatures and cultures. In her refusal to allow nationalist concerns to take precedence over the needs of women, Woodhull breaks away from traditional Marxist readings of literature. "Transfigurations of the Maghreb" reveals how Maghrebian texts challenge the very existence of a repressive paternal law, while also attending to the historical contexts from which Maghrebian writing emerges, and the national and global conflicts that encumber its efforts to displace restrictive identities of sex, class, race, nationality and language.

Book Homintern

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Woods
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 0300219563
  • Pages : 455 pages

Download or read book Homintern written by Gregory Woods and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called “the Homintern” (an echo of Lenin’s “Comintern”) by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.

Book Michigan Law Review

Download or read book Michigan Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constitutional Interpretation

Download or read book Constitutional Interpretation written by Sotirios A. Barber and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presuppositions of constitutional interpretation -- The principal questions of constitutional interpretation -- The principal features of the American constitutional order : the positive constitutionalism of The federalist -- Approaches to constitutional interpretation -- Textualism and consensualism -- Narrow originalism/intentionalism -- Broad originalism -- Structuralism -- Doctrinalism and minimalism -- The philosophic approach -- Pragmatism -- Epilogue: a fusion of approaches to constitutional interpretation.

Book Constitutional Cliffhangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian C. Kalt
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-24
  • ISBN : 0300178018
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Constitutional Cliffhangers written by Brian C. Kalt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controversies, such as the criminal prosecution of a sitting president, a two-term president's attempt to stay in power, the ousting of an allegedly disabled president, and more. None of these things has ever occurred, but in recent years many of them almost have. Besides being individually dramatic, these controversies provide an opportunity to think about how constitutional procedures can best be designed, interpreted, and repaired. Also, because the events Kalt describes would all carry enormous political consequences, they shed light on the delicate and complicated balance between law and politics in American government.

Book Report of the Auditor Public Accounts

Download or read book Report of the Auditor Public Accounts written by Mississippi. Auditor of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Plant Disease Bulletin

Download or read book The Plant Disease Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Loma   A MacIver Kids Adventure

Download or read book Loma A MacIver Kids Adventure written by and published by Dang Good Digital Design. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular National Basketball Association All Stars

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular National Basketball Association All Stars written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Culture in a Globalised India

Download or read book Popular Culture in a Globalised India written by K. Moti Gokulsing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores India’s rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.