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Book Biogeography and Ecology in South America

Download or read book Biogeography and Ecology in South America written by E. J. Fittkau and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Something s Cooking

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  • Author : J'Something
  • Publisher : Quivertree Publications
  • Release : 2017-11-05
  • ISBN : 1928429092
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Something s Cooking written by J'Something and published by Quivertree Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal born Joao Da Fonseca, a.k.a. J'Something, is known to millions of fans for his award winning hits as the lead singer and song writer of South African band Mi Casa. His spicy authentic Portuguese heritage and hearty homegrown South African food has become his trademark. This book provides a fascinating insight into the musician and soul foodie's guarded private life with never released before recipes from his restaurant and national hit television program, Something's Cooking.

Book New South African Review 6

Download or read book New South African Review 6 written by Devan Pillay and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in their wake. Contributors survey the extent and consequences of inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability, agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with that of other major countries of the global South which themselves are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those general readers, policy makers, researchers and students who are demanding a more equal world.

Book Murder at Small Koppie

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  • Author : Greg Marinovich
  • Publisher : African History and Culture
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781611862768
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Murder at Small Koppie written by Greg Marinovich and published by African History and Culture. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning investigation that has been called the most important piece of journalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Murder at Small Koppie delves into the truth behind the massacre that killed thirty-four platinum miners and wounded seventy-eight more in August of 2012 at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa's North West province. News footage of the event caused global outra≥ however, it captured only a dozen or so of the dead. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Marinovich focuses on the violence that took place at Small Koppie, a collection of boulders where a second massacre took place off-camera and in cold blood. Combining his own meticulous research, eyewitness accounts, and the findings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, Marinovich has crafted a vivid account of the tragedy and the events leading up to it. By taking readers into the mines, the shacks where the miners live, and the boardroom, Marinovich puts names, faces, and stories to Marikana's victims and perpetrators. He addresses the big questions that any nation must ask when justice and equality are subverted by conflicts around class, race, money, and power, as well as the subsequent denial and finger-pointing that characterized the response of the mine owner, police, and government. This is a story that is both stirring and accurate.

Book The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation

Download or read book The Psychological Birth Of The Human Infant Symbiosis And Individuation written by Margaret S. Mahler and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback to a new generation of students and clinicians on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.

Book Of Religion and Empire

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  • Author : Robert P. Geraci
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780801433276
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Of Religion and Empire written by Robert P. Geraci and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to investigate the role of religious conversion in the long history of Russian state building, with geographic coverage from Poland and European Russia to the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia, and Alaska.

Book The Germans

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  • Author : Norbert Elias
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 1997-12-08
  • ISBN : 9780745620091
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book The Germans written by Norbert Elias and published by Polity. This book was released on 1997-12-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Elias's last great work in which he used his key ideas to analyse the development of the particular features of German personality, social structure and behaviour.

Book Tsar and Sultan

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  • Author : Victor Taki
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-20
  • ISBN : 0857728032
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Tsar and Sultan written by Victor Taki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encounters. Through war diaries and memoirs, accounts of captivity and diplomatic correspondences, Victor Taki's analysis of military documents demonstrates a crucial aspect of Russia's discovery of the Orient based on its rivalry with the Ottoman Empire. Narratives depicting the brutal realities of Russian-Turkish military conflicts influenced the Orientalisation of the Ottoman Empire. In turn, Russian identity was built as the counter-image to the demonised Turk. This book explains the significance of Russian Orientalism on Russian identity and national policies of westernisation. Students of both European and Middle East studies will appreciate Taki's unique approach to Russian-Turkish relations and their influence on Eurasian history.

Book Forest Flora of Japan

Download or read book Forest Flora of Japan written by Charles Sprague Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arthur Youngs Sechsmonatliche Reise durch die n  rdlichen Provinzen von England      Arthur Youngs   konomische Reise durch die   stlichen Provinzen von England   Nach der zweyten englischen Ausgabe   bersetzt   With plates

Download or read book Arthur Youngs Sechsmonatliche Reise durch die n rdlichen Provinzen von England Arthur Youngs konomische Reise durch die stlichen Provinzen von England Nach der zweyten englischen Ausgabe bersetzt With plates written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia s Orient

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  • Author : Daniel R. Brower
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1997-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780253211132
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Russia s Orient written by Daniel R. Brower and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Japan Chronicle

Download or read book The Japan Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Savage Systems

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  • Author : David Chidester
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780813916644
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Savage Systems written by David Chidester and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the emergence of the concepts of religion and religions on 19th-century colonial frontiers. It analyzes the ways in which European settlers, and indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural activity.

Book Sechs monatliche Reise durch die n  rdlichen Provinzen von England  in Absicht auf den Zustand der Landwirthschaft  der Manufakturen  der Malerey und   brigen sch  nen K  nste

Download or read book Sechs monatliche Reise durch die n rdlichen Provinzen von England in Absicht auf den Zustand der Landwirthschaft der Manufakturen der Malerey und brigen sch nen K nste written by Young and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Orientalism

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  • Author : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-20
  • ISBN : 0300162898
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Russian Orientalism written by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.

Book Culture and Explosion

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  • Author : Juri Lotman
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 3110218453
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Culture and Explosion written by Juri Lotman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience 'reality'. This work is suitable for students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary intellectual life.

Book Russia s Own Orient

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  • Author : Vera Tolz
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2011-02-10
  • ISBN : 0191616443
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Russia s Own Orient written by Vera Tolz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.