Download or read book Turning the Mirror A View From the East written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning writer Pankaj Mishra.They discuss several of Pankaj’s books, including From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia and An End To Suffering: The Buddha In The World, and his motivations behind them. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, The Weight of History, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. A Different Perspective - Unknown intellectuals and overlooked worldviews II. Demanding a Response - Reacting to an existential challenge III. Inseparable Factors? - Capitalism, imperialism and modernity IV. East and West - A meaningful distinction? V. Discovering Buddhism - Transcending false stereotypes VI. Personal Examinations - Growing up Western in the East VII. At an Impasse - The end of an experiment VIII. Learning From the Past - The benefits of increased historical understanding About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series: This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks. For other books in this series visit our website (https://ideas-on-film.com/ideasroadshow/).
Download or read book A View from the East written by Kwasi Konadu and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View from the Eye of the Storm written by Haim Harari and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-04-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword: The scientist and the taxi driver -- Pt. 1: The raging storm. From Abraham Lincoln to the Internet ; Where is the storm? ; MTA: Master's in terror administration ; The virgins are ready ; A ticking bomb ; Rewriting international law ; The referee is biased -- Pt. 2: The hesitant world. Trouble in Giobania ; Intellectual property and intellectual poverty ; There goes the neighborhood ; The non-Arab crescent ; Freedom fries ; Does the sun rise in the East ; Right is wrong ; Left behind ; Ignorance and apathy -- Pt. 3: The persistent lies. The superficial village ; Words kill ; Pictures lie ; The truth, but not the whole truth ; Some refugees are more equal than others ; Rewriting history ; Life near the end zone ; Fooling most of the people, most of the time -- Pt. 4: The uncertain future. They mean what they say ; Why don't you choose someone else? ; Milli-Giobania in the eye of the storm ; Collective suicide ; Everybody know the solution ; The nuclear stone age ; A correct diagnosis is half a cure ; The world according to my Grandmother.
Download or read book Black Garden Aflame written by Artyom H. Tonoyan and published by East View Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of articles from the Soviet and Russian press paints an intriguing portrait of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Unlike Western media outlets, this conflict has been a mainstay in the Soviet, then Russian press. The present collection of articles--carefully translated, edited, and culled from a vast repository of Russian-language press curated by East View--presents in book form for the first time in English some of the most important material that has appeared from 1988 to the present. By bringing together this unique collection, East View Press aims to provide readers with the immediate context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the lens of Moscow, along with some insight into its complex historical, political and ethnic underpinnings. Black Garden Aflame will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike"--
Download or read book How East Asians View Democracy written by Yun-han Chu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. This book is the first to report the results of a large-scale survey-research project, the East Asian Barometer, in which eight research teams conducted national-sample surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established democracy (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong) in order to assess the prospects for democratic consolidation. The findings present a definitive account of the way in which East Asians understand their governments and their roles as citizens. Contributors use their expert local knowledge to analyze responses from a set of core questions, revealing both common patterns and national characteristics in citizens' views of democracy. They explore sources of divergence and convergence in attitudes within and across nations. The findings are sobering. Japanese citizens are disillusioned. The region's new democracies have yet to prove themselves, and citizens in authoritarian China assess their regime's democratic performance relatively favorably. The contributors to this volume contradict the claim that democratic governance is incompatible with East Asian cultures but counsel against complacency toward the fate of democracy in the region. While many forces affect democratic consolidation, popular attitudes are a crucial factor. This book shows how and why skepticism and frustration are the ruling sentiments among today's East Asians.
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Download or read book Between East and West written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia. An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations. In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.
Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Storm from the East written by Joanna Hathaway and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part war drama, part romance, Storm from the East is the second installment in Joanna Hathaway’s epic Glass Alliance series War has begun, and the days of Athan’s and Aurelia’s secret, summer romance feel a world away. Led by Athan’s father, the revolutionary Safire have launched a secret assault upon the last royal kingdom in the South, hoping to depose the king and seize a powerful foothold on the continent. Athan proves a star pilot among their ranks, struggling to justify the violence his family has unleashed as he fights his way to the capital—where, unbeknownst to him, Aurelia has lived since the war’s onset. Determined to save the kingdom Athan has been ordered to destroy, she partners with a local journalist to inflame anti-Safire sentiment, all while learning this conflict might be far darker and more complex than she ever imagined. When the two reunite at last, Athan longing to shake the nightmare of combat and Aurelia reeling from the discovery of a long-buried family truth come to light, they’ll find the shadow of war stretches well beyond the battlefield. Each of them longs to rekindle the love they once shared . . . but each has a secret they’re desperate to hide. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Download or read book General View of the Agriculture and Rural Economy of East Lothian written by Sir George Buchan Hepburn and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Lake View written by Matthew Nickerson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Lake View is one of Chicago's most popular neighborhoods. But what exactly is East Lake View? It is Wrigleyville, Boystown, and Belmont Harbor. It is New Town, if you talk to a longtimer. Change has swept East Lake View many times, often leaving a new name behind. One thing has stayed the same--the neighborhood's popularity. East Lake View drew tourists as far back as 1854, when Lake View House opened as a rural resort. This book unfolds the history of East Lake View, from the 19th century to the 21st century. Readers will learn about the neighborhood's time as a Swedish enclave and then as a haven for Japanese Americans, including Tokyo Rose. The book charts the wild 1970s on Broadway, the gay 1980s on Halsted, and the beer-soaked 1990s in Wrigleyville. This visual history of East Lake View mines Chicago archives and old-timers' scrapbooks to reveal the neighborhood in hundreds of never before published photographs.
Download or read book Speaking East written by Andrew Hussey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in 1945, he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism, and May ’68. In Speaking East, Andrew Hussey presents a colorful picture of the postwar Left Bank, where Lettrist fists flew in avantgarde punch-ups in Jazz clubs and cafés, and where Isou—as sexy and as charismatic as the young Elvis—gathered around him a group of hooligan disciples who argued, drank, and had sex with the Parisian intellectual élite. This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art.
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