Download or read book Dusu Path of the Ancient 2 written by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And when man and beast are one, the world shall hold its breath in fear.” Dusu’s Path is clouded with the discovery of love and the outside world, and so too are his senses. Unnoticed by the young warrior, another picks up his scent and tracks him to where his Galemren family dwell. The Ancient Wolf has come, older than the mountains, with a hunger that is legend. This is dark, brutal fantasy as you have never seen it. “Powerful storytelling and lush artwork, Stranger Comics’ Dusu: Path of the Ancient will echo like a primal scream within the deep recesses of your imagination.” -- LLOYD LEVIN (Watchmen, Hellboy, Boogie Nights) "Once again, Sebastian A. Jones and Stranger Comics have cleverly combined classic elements of pulp adventure with their own unique brand of dark fantasy, resulting in Dusu: Path of the Ancient, a mythic tale that is wonderfully familiar and yet somehow completely original." -- ANDREW COSBY (2 Guns, Founder of BOOM!, Creator of Eureka) “Dusu: Path of the Ancient stands among some of the best graphic storytelling I have ever had the pleasure to read.” -- BALOGUN OJETADE (Komplicated, Sword and Soul)) “It's as if Frazetta decided to do a graphic novel.” -- MILTON DAVIS (Wagadu, Sword and Soul) “It’s rare that one finds a book full of lush painted tapestry that you can only describe as a masterpiece but Dusu is that, if not more. 5/5” -- RYAN FRASER (Black Heroes)

Download or read book Dusu Path of the Ancient 4 written by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have what you crave." After destroying Dusu's village, Delgoth has followed the Cat's scent to Ujoa. Descending upon the city with a barbarian horde, the Wolf found not what he sought, but what he needed... the perfect bait. As the city burned, Delgoth claimed his prize, Idanya, Dusu's human girl. The ground rumbles as the fury of the wild elves and the hunger of a newborn Ancient descend upon the city. This is dark, brutal fantasy as you have never seen it. “Powerful storytelling and lush artwork, Stranger Comics’ Dusu: Path of the Ancient will echo like a primal scream within the deep recesses of your imagination.” -- LLOYD LEVIN (Watchmen, Hellboy, Boogie Nights) "Once again, Sebastian A. Jones and Stranger Comics have cleverly combined classic elements of pulp adventure with their own unique brand of dark fantasy, resulting in Dusu: Path of the Ancient, a mythic tale that is wonderfully familiar and yet somehow completely original." -- ANDREW COSBY (2 Guns, Founder of BOOM!, Creator of Eureka) “Dusu: Path of the Ancient stands among some of the best graphic storytelling I have ever had the pleasure to read.” -- BALOGUN OJETADE (Komplicated, Sword and Soul)) “It's as if Frazetta decided to do a graphic novel.” -- MILTON DAVIS (Wagadu, Sword and Soul) “It’s rare that one finds a book full of lush painted tapestry that you can only describe as a masterpiece but Dusu is that, if not more. 5/5” -- RYAN FRASER (Black Heroes)

Download or read book Dusu Path of the Ancient 1 written by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Within every heart sleeps the animal. The One awakened will be lord of all.” Hidden from his kin and sheltered from his future, Dusu is raised among the Galemren wild elves in the secret heart of the Ugoma Jungle, a world in which he does not belong. But Dusu is not entirely human either. He is on the Path to something more… Dusu must focus his rage and become the savior of Ugoma before all he loves is destroyed. This is dark, brutal fantasy as you have never seen it. “Powerful storytelling and lush artwork, Stranger Comics’ Dusu: Path of the Ancient will echo like a primal scream within the deep recesses of your imagination.” -- LLOYD LEVIN (Watchmen, Hellboy, Boogie Nights) "Once again, Sebastian A. Jones and Stranger Comics have cleverly combined classic elements of pulp adventure with their own unique brand of dark fantasy, resulting in Dusu: Path of the Ancient, a mythic tale that is wonderfully familiar and yet somehow completely original." -- ANDREW COSBY (2 Guns, Founder of BOOM!, Creator of Eureka) “Dusu: Path of the Ancient stands among some of the best graphic storytelling I have ever had the pleasure to read.” -- BALOGUN OJETADE (Komplicated, Sword and Soul)) “It's as if Frazetta decided to do a graphic novel.” -- MILTON DAVIS (Wagadu, Sword and Soul) “It’s rare that one finds a book full of lush painted tapestry that you can only describe as a masterpiece but Dusu is that, if not more. 5/5” -- RYAN FRASER (Black Heroes)

Download or read book Dusu Path of the Ancient 3 written by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I name you betrayer of Ugoma!” Led by Delgoth, the Ancient of the Wolf, the relentless hordes of Sil-Sakramoor have devoured the Tribe of the Gathering Wind, leaving few survivors. The heart of Ugoma has been scorched, and Waso lays the blame on his adopted brother Dusu. The two must put aside their differences if they have any hope of saving the Ugoma jungle before all is left to ruin and ash. This is dark, brutal fantasy as you have never seen it. “Powerful storytelling and lush artwork, Stranger Comics’ Dusu: Path of the Ancient will echo like a primal scream within the deep recesses of your imagination.” -- LLOYD LEVIN (Watchmen, Hellboy, Boogie Nights) "Once again, Sebastian A. Jones and Stranger Comics have cleverly combined classic elements of pulp adventure with their own unique brand of dark fantasy, resulting in Dusu: Path of the Ancient, a mythic tale that is wonderfully familiar and yet somehow completely original." -- ANDREW COSBY (2 Guns, Founder of BOOM!, Creator of Eureka) “Dusu: Path of the Ancient stands among some of the best graphic storytelling I have ever had the pleasure to read.” -- BALOGUN OJETADE (Komplicated, Sword and Soul)) “It's as if Frazetta decided to do a graphic novel.” -- MILTON DAVIS (Wagadu, Sword and Soul) “It’s rare that one finds a book full of lush painted tapestry that you can only describe as a masterpiece but Dusu is that, if not more. 5/5” -- RYAN FRASER (Black Heroes)

Download or read book Developing Minds written by Elise Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target ‘development’ interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relationship between development and psychology, tracing the deployment of psychological knowledge in the production/reproduction of power relations within the context of neoliberal development policy and intervention. It examines knowledge production and implementation by actors of development policy such as the World Bank and the neo-colonial state - and ends by examining the proposition of a critical psychology for more emancipatory forms of development. The role of psychology in development studies remains a relatively unexplored area, with limited scholarship available. This important book aims to fill that gap by using critical psychology perspectives to explore the focus of the psychological domain of agency in development interventions. It will be essential reading for students, researchers, and policy makers from fields including critical psychology, social psychology, development studies and anthropology.

Download or read book The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective Volume One written by Joanna Jurewicz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume form a multifaceted discourse on religious, philosophical, historical, ethnocultural and sociocultural, literary and linguistic issues. A multicultural approach to the problem of the soul allows the presentation of it on a microscale, focused on national and regional specificity, as well as on the macroscale, oriented toward universal values which can be observed in the cultures of peoples distant from each other in both time and space. The book consists of 28 chapters, addressing the fundamental themes of human existence, which find expression in cultural texts in both colloquial and artistic language, and which have a prominent place in anthropological, psychological, metaphysical and theological debates.

Download or read book Master poets ritual masters written by James J. Fox and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period of 50 years. Each of these poets offers his version of what is culturally considered to be the ‘same’ ritual chant. These compositions are examined in detail and their oral formulae are carefully compared to one another. Professor James J. Fox is an anthropologist who carried out his doctoral field research on the Island of Rote in eastern Indonesia in 1965–66. In 1965, he began recording the oral traditions of the island and developed a close association with numerous oral poets on the island. After many subsequent visits, in 2006, he began a nine-year project that brought groups of oral poets to Bali for week-long recording sessions. Recitations gathered over a period of 50 years are the basis for this book.

Download or read book Mathematical Cuneiform Texts written by Albrecht Götze and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shortest Path Solvers From Software to Wetware written by Andrew Adamatzky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers advanced parallel and distributed algorithms and experimental laboratory prototypes of unconventional shortest path solvers. In addition, it presents novel and unique algorithms of solving shortest problems in massively parallel cellular automaton machines. The shortest path problem is a fundamental and classical problem in graph theory and computer science and is frequently applied in the contexts of transport and logistics, telecommunication networks, virtual reality and gaming, geometry, and social networks analysis. Software implementations include distance-vector algorithms for distributed path computation in dynamics networks, parallel solutions of the constrained shortest path problem, and application of the shortest path solutions in gathering robotic swarms. Massively parallel algorithms utilise cellular automata, where a shortest path is computed either via matrix multiplication in automaton arrays, or via the representation of data graphs in automaton lattices and using the propagation of wave-like patterns. Unconventional shortest path solvers are presented in computer models of foraging behaviour and protoplasmic network optimisation by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and fluidic devices, while experimental laboratory prototypes of path solvers using chemical media, flows and droplets, and electrical current are also highlighted. The book will be a pleasure to explore for readers from all walks of life, from undergraduate students to university professors, from mathematicians, computers scientists and engineers to chemists and biologists.

Download or read book Capability Promoting Policies written by Hans-Uwe Otto and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and systematic strategies for human development policies at the local, national and international level. International contributors innovatively combine the hitherto unpaired perspectives of the capability approach and the tradition of critical social policy with empirical examples using case studies from South-Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. The result is a call for a new, feasible approach towards more socially balanced, democratic and innovative capability-promoting policy activities, models and programmes that reduce social and human suffering to promote an enhanced social quality of current societies around the world.

Download or read book An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary written by Mark E. Cohen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200–3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first millennium BCE. This volume presents the first comprehensive English-language scholarly lexicon of Sumerian. This dictionary covers all the nuances of meaning for Sumerian terms found in historical inscriptions and literary, administrative, and lexical texts dating from about 2500 BCE to the first century BCE. The entries are organized by transcription and are accompanied by the transliteration and translation of passages in which the term occurs and, where relevant, a discussion of the word’s treatment in other publications. Main entries bring together all the parts of speech and compound forms for the Sumerian term and present each part of speech individually. All possible Akkadian equivalents and variant syllabic renderings are listed for lexical attestations of a word, and a meaningful sample of occurrences is given for literary and economic passages. Entries of homonyms with different orthographies and unrelated words with the same orthography are grouped together, each being assigned a unique identifier, and the dictionary treats the phoneme /dr/ as a separate consonant. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary is an essential reference for Sumerologists and Assyriologists and a practical help to students of ancient cultures.

Download or read book Language Contact and Change in Chinese written by Guangshun Cao and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book sheds light on the fascinating evolution of contact-induced grammatical features in Chinese syntax. For more than two thousand years, Chinese has been in large scale language contact with languages such as Sanskrit, Mongolian, and Manchurian. Originally published in Chinese in renowned academic journals, the contributions are made available for the first time to the English speaking world.

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone written by Magbaily C. Fyle and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sierra Leone was founded, albeit under British control, with the highest hopes of being a refuge for liberated Africans and freed slaves. When the country received its independence, hopes for the future grew even stronger. Alas, its expectations came crashing down when the country's situation grew steadily worse after repeated military interventions and a devastating ten-year civil war that raged throughout the 1990s. Now that the war is over, there is once again renewed cause for optimism about the country's future, as Sierra Leone becomes an active participant in African and world affairs. This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the recent past. The chronology briefly traces its history and the introduction provides an essential overview of all the recent developments in the country. Hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries describe significant leaders, events, political parties and movements, ethnic groups, and related political, economic, and social aspects. A bibliography is included to facilitate further research.

Download or read book Images Power and Politics written by Barbara N. Porter and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assyrians have usually been charcterized as the strongmen of the ancient Near East, controlling their empire largely through military force, terror, and intimidatin. The new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign offered here, hwever, suggests that his success in dealing with conquered Babylonia lay in his masterful use of non-violent tools of government: public works programs, royal public appearnces, and especially the use of documents which presented different images of the king and his policies to different national audiences. Traces of these techniques in the policies of earlier Assyrian kings suggest that the Assyrians had long used such techniques, as well as terror, to control their empire. This study also prposes some new approaches to reading Assyrian royal inscriptions. It suggests, for example, that Assyrian building documents, although often buried in foundaitons, wer first read to contemporary audiences and were primarily designed for them. An analysis of subtle differences in Esarhaddon's Babylon inscriptions suggests that variants may be clues to the identificaiton of different intended audiences for texts which were once thought of as duplicates. This book combines documentary and archeological evidence to propose a new interpretation of Esarhaddon's reign based onc lose reading of texts. it also proposes a new, more complex model of the techniques by which Assyria succeeded in governing her empire.

Download or read book Born Red written by Yuan Gao and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's father was a county political official who was in and out of trouble during those years, and the intense interplay between father and son and the differing perceptions and impact of the Cultural Revolution for the two generations provide both an unusual perspective and some extraordinary moving moments. He also makes deft use of traditional mythology and proverbial wisdom to link, sometimes ironically, past and present. Gao relates in vivid fashion how students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies against 'capitalist roader' teachers and administrators, marching them through the streets to the accompaniment of chants and jeers and driving some of them to suicide. Eventually the students divided into two factions, and school and town became armed camps. Gao tells of the exhilaration that he and his comrades experienced at their initial victories, of their deepening disillusionment as they utter defeat as the tumultuous first phase of the Cultural Revolution came to a close. The portraits of the persons to whom Gao introduces us - classmates, teachers, family members - gain weight and density as the story unfolds, so that in the end we see how they all became victims of the dynamics of a mass movement out of control.

Download or read book Empire of Texts in Motion written by Karen Laura Thornber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan’s military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the metropole and sending thousands of Japanese to other parts of East Asia. The constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire created numerous literary contact nebulae, fluid spaces of diminished hierarchies where writers grapple with and transculturate one another’s creative output. Drawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book analyzes the most active of these contact nebulae: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature. It explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan’s cultural authority. Such efforts not only blurred distinctions among resistance, acquiescence, and collaboration but also shattered cultural and national barriers central to the discourse of empire. In this context, twentieth-century East Asian literatures can no longer be understood in isolation from one another, linked only by their encounters with the West, but instead must be seen in constant interaction throughout the Japanese empire and beyond.

Download or read book Religious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab written by Shirin Akiner and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatars from the Golden Horde settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th-16th centuries. By descent they were Turco-Mongols, by religion Muslim. Within a few generations they lost their native language(s) and spoke only Belarusian and Polish. In order to record and hand on the essentials of their faith they translated essential religious works into Belarusian Polish. These languages were normally written in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets - 'Christian' scripts and so unsuitable for Islamic texts. The Tatars therefore devised their own system of orthography, using Arabic letters to convey the phonology of the Slav languages. They also created a religious vocabulary that was suited to the expression of Islamic ideas. For general ethical concepts they drew on Belarusian and Polish, but for terms relating to Islamic doctrine and practice they used Arabic loanwords, 'Slavicising' them morphologically and phonetically. This linguistic fusion represents a remarkable cultural monument of Islam in Europe. The first part of the present work traces the six-hundred year history of the Tatars in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - a territory now divided between Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. It draws on a wide range of sources, including contemporary accounts in Latin, Old Russian, medieval French, Polish, Italian and Turkish. The second part consists of a detailed study of a Tatar manuscript (Kitab) held in the British Library. Extracts of such manuscripts have previously appeared in print, but this is the first full-length examination of a Tatar text. The main language is Belarusian (mixed standard and dialect forms), and in places heavily Polonized.A CD-ROM with a Latin-script transliteration of the entire Belarusian-Polish British Library Kitab is included in the sleeve of the book.