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Book Sights  Sounds  Memories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian van der Waag
  • Publisher : African Sun Media
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 1928480918
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Sights Sounds Memories written by Ian van der Waag and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.

Book The Sights  Sounds  and Silences of Italy

Download or read book The Sights Sounds and Silences of Italy written by Amy Szarkowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's reflections from a year abroad as a Fulbright scholar when pursuing a degree in clinical psychology at Gallaudet University.

Book Sights  Sounds  Soul

Download or read book Sights Sounds Soul written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of musicians, artists, and everyday scenes from the Twin Cities African American community of the 1970s and '80s by a renowned local photographer.

Book Sights  Sounds  and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

Download or read book Sights Sounds and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unlocks the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of justice for massive human rights abuses. Twenty-nine expert authors examine the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned. This book is chockful of images. It serves up remarkably diverse content. It treks around the globe: from Pacific war crimes trials in the aftermath of the Second World War to Holocaust proceedings in contemporary Germany, France, and Israel; from absurd show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia to international courtrooms in Arusha, Phnom Penh, and The Hague. Readers embark on a journey that transcends myriad dimensions, including photographic representations of grandfatherly old torturers in Argentina, narco-trafficking in Mexico, colonialisation in India, disinformation and misinformation pixelated in cyberspace, environmental degradation in Cambodia, militarism in Northern Ireland, and civil rights activism in Atlanta. Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions reimagines what an atrocity means, reconsiders what drives the manufacture of law, and reboots the role of courtrooms and other mechanisms in the pursuit of justice. It unveils how law translates sensory experience into its procedures and institutions, and how humanistic inputs shape perceptions of right and wrong. This book thereby offers a refreshing primer on the underappreciated role of aesthetics, time, and emotion in the world of law. Drumbl and Fournet have done us all a great service in knitting together – in a single, powerfully imagined, volume – these essays about how we might experience the institutionalisation of judgment in atrocity trials. – Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School (London). Contributions to this volume offer a unique opportunity to delve into law’s hidden landscape using the primary reality of the five senses. – Marina Aksenova, Assistant Professor in Comparative and International Criminal Law, IE Law School (Madrid).

Book Razabilly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas F. Centino
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1477323511
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Razabilly written by Nicholas F. Centino and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocals tinged with pain and desperation. The deep thuds of an upright bass. Women with short bangs and men in cuffed jeans. These elements and others are the unmistakable signatures of rockabilly, a musical genre normally associated with white male musicians of the 1950s. But in Los Angeles today, rockabilly's primary producers and consumers are Latinos and Latinas. Why are these "Razabillies" partaking in a visibly "un-Latino" subculture that's thought of as a white person's fixation everywhere else? As a Los Angeles Rockabilly insider, Nicholas F. Centino is the right person to answer this question. Pairing a decade of participant observation with interviews and historical research, Centino explores the reasons behind a Rockabilly renaissance in 1990s Los Angeles and demonstrates how, as a form of working-class leisure, this scene provides Razabillies with spaces of respite and conviviality within the alienating landscape of the urban metropolis. A nuanced account revealing how and why Los Angeles Latinas/os have turned to and transformed the music and aesthetic style of 1950s rockabilly, Razabilly offers rare insight into this musical subculture, its place in rock and roll history, and its passionate practitioners.

Book Simon Says

    Book Details:
  • Author : George T. Simon
  • Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Simon Says written by George T. Simon and published by New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House. This book was released on 1971 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forerunner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Forerunner written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research in Education

Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sights and Sounds   Level

    Book Details:
  • Author : LuAnn Santillo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01
  • ISBN : 9781592561261
  • Pages : 7 pages

Download or read book A Sights and Sounds Level written by LuAnn Santillo and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of 36 half-pint readers (sets 1-6) that introduces the consonant sounds, short vowel sounds and 33 sight words."

Book AI for Games  Third Edition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Millington
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2019-03-18
  • ISBN : 1351053299
  • Pages : 1010 pages

Download or read book AI for Games Third Edition written by Ian Millington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers. This revised and updated Third Edition includes new techniques, algorithms, data structures and representations needed to create powerful AI in games. Key Features A comprehensive professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games Includes new exercises so readers can test their comprehension and understanding of the concepts and practices presented Revised and updated to cover new techniques and advances in AI Walks the reader through the entire game AI development process

Book The Wicked Traveler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Tomb
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0761135928
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Wicked Traveler written by Howard Tomb and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respond to Japanese Noh theater like a native: Kazoku sorrote no seppuku ga yokatta. (ÒI love the part where the whole family disembowels themselves.Ó) Speak to homicidal Parisian taxi drivers in a language they'll understand: Ou avez-vous appris ˆ conduire? En Italie? (ÒWhere did you learn to drive? Italy?Ó) Discuss Italian olive oil with the proper degree of reverence: Un assaggio ti dice che le olive sono maturate di fronte ad una cattedrale. (ÒOne taste tells you the olives grew in full view of the cathedral.Ó) Establish privacy needs in Mexico: Preferir’a una habitaci—n sin alacranes. (ÒI'd prefer a room without scorpions.Ó) With seven titles and over 1.2 million copies in print, Howard Tomb's Wicked phrase book series is the fiendishly irreverentÑand very successfulÑcollection that gives travelers the words they wish they could utter while, say, attempting to find the exit of the Louvre or facing a plate of fugu (poisonous blowfish) in Japan. Now, the five most popular Wicked booksÑItalian, French, Japanese, German, and SpanishÑ have been updated and compiled into The Wicked Traveler. A$25 value for $8.95, it's the ultimate impulse gift for anyone who'd like to know how to say silly things in five different languages. Because, as Howard Tomb writes in his new introduction: ÒEvery country is different, but all foreign places have one thing in common: they're weird.Ó

Book The Streets of Europe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Ladd
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 022667813X
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Streets of Europe written by Brian Ladd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a sensory history and a sensual story told from street level . . . a clear and powerful account of the transformation of street life in Europe.” —Leora Auslander, author of Taste and Power Merchants’ shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities—London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today’s world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life. “[A] dazzlingly kaleidoscopic overview of city life, city living, and city dying.” —Judith Flanders, author of The Invention of Murder

Book People Are Animals Too

Download or read book People Are Animals Too written by Shona Kowtecky and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a fresh perspective by stepping into another’s... paws? “Chase what you want. Advocate for your needs. Set boundaries and goals. Learn to let go. Take care of yourself.” This can be good advice, but what if you don’t know what you want? Or need? What boundaries are worth setting for you? Or how to decide what to let go of, and what to hold on to? What if focusing on yourself seems uncomfortable, selfish, unnecessary, or a bit too “fluffy”? As a veterinarian, Dr. Shona Kowtecky has spent almost 20 years learning about, paying attention to, advocating for, and taking care of thousands of animals... while simultaneously watching thousands of people struggle to do the same for themselves. Whether or not you are a pet-parent or animal-lover, self-awareness is a key starting point for optimal health and a good quality of life, yet it’s often overlooked, oversimplified, or too ambiguous to be practical. People Are Animals Too provides a structured and creative approach to encourage self-examination, compassion, and curiosity through insightful questions and humorous anecdotes centered around the question: What if we cared for ourselves the way we care for the animals we love? Or better yet, what if we simply remembered that people are animals too?

Book Sights  Sounds  Memories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian van der Waag
  • Publisher : African Sun Media
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 192848090X
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Sights Sounds Memories written by Ian van der Waag and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.

Book The Ethics of Sightseeing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dean MacCannell
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-05-19
  • ISBN : 0520257820
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Ethics of Sightseeing written by Dean MacCannell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is quintessential MacCannell. It is quirky, brilliant, profound, and thought provoking. There are new insights on almost every page. A great read." —Edward Bruner, author of Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel "This is an extraordinary, engaging, and provocative work by one of the distinctive leaders in what has become a lively intellectual field. It also speaks to much broader questions about culture, economy, social life, and experience than the touristic – this is powerful social theory in transit." —Don Brenneis, co-editor of Law and Empire in the Pacific “The Ethics of Sightseeing is vintage MacCannell. It draws together topics—some of which have already appeared as separate papers—in an analytical whole in the same way he did in his original 1976 book The Tourist. And like The Tourist, this book is full of brilliant insights drawn from personal experiences, anecdotes, and a wide knowledge of the humanistic and social science literature. It is eye-opening and pushes the boundaries of knowledge and disciplines. It will go well beyond academic and classroom audiences in providing a new twist to cultural studies interpretations of modern society.” —Nelson Graburn, co-editor of Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Book In Search of Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Walter Heinrichs
  • Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0195122194
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book In Search of Madness written by R. Walter Heinrichs and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the progress of schizophrenia science by summarizing what is known about how patients with the illness differ from healthy people. The tools of meta-analysis are first explained and then employed to make the strength and consistency of these differences explicit. Beginning with the study of symptoms, then moving through the search for objective disease markers, findings on the cognitive functions, structure, physiology, chemistry, and development of the brain, this book is a journey into the enigma of madness and its science. What emerges is an illness that reveals itself most strongly in thought processes, not biology. Schizophrenia is an anomaly at the frontier of mind and brain, but In Search of Madness points the way to its solution.

Book Kootenai National Forest  N F    Montanore Project

Download or read book Kootenai National Forest N F Montanore Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: