Beyond The Boundary

Author : C L R James
Publisher : Random House
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446496657

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Beyond A Boundary by C L R James Pdf

'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian 'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is the greatest sports book ever written; that it brings the outsider a privileged insight into West Indian culture; that it is a severe examination of the colonial condition. All are true' Sunday Times C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game's psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Author : Crystal Lynn Webster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663241

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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood by Crystal Lynn Webster Pdf

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional records, school primers and penmanship books, biographical sketches, and unpublished documents is a rich archive that reveals the social and affective worlds of northern Black children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War. Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the nineteenth century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. But Webster shows that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations. Reading her sources against the grain, Webster reveals a complex reality for antebellum Black children. Lacking societal status, they nevertheless found meaningful agency as historical actors, making the most of the limited freedoms and possibilities they enjoyed.

Author : KHEM RAJ
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642497724

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BEYOND THE BOUNDARY by KHEM RAJ Pdf

This is a poignant tale of Rahul and Ayesha, who belong to different religions and countries. As love across the tenuous border of India and Pakistan blossoms over social media, the two of them go through an excruciatingly difficult time that tests every ounce of will and courage in them. Will true love help them conquer all odds? Does the love story of Rahul and Ayesha have a happily-ever-after ending that they deserve? Read Beyond the Boundary to find out.

Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743095300

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Walking The Boundaries by Jackie French Pdf

'French knows how to conjure [an] imagined past, full of detail about how people lived during particular periods and within particular cultures' -- Viewpoint Martin lives in the city with his mum. He's come to walk the boundaries of the farm that's been in his family for generations. It sounds easy, especially as he'll own the land when he gets back. Martin's great-grandfather, Ted, doesn't even want him to walk around the farm's fences, just up the gorge and along the hills. But up in the gorge Martin meets Meg from almost a century ago and Wullamudulla from thousands of years in the past. Despite their differences they discover that they're all on the same journey ... and that walking the boundaries means more than following lines on a map. PRAISE FOR NANBERRY: BLACK BROTHER WHITE 'For really, really good Australian young-adult (and middle-grade) historical fiction, Jackie French has always been a winner ... With Nanberry: Black Brother White she delivers an excellent fictionalised account of the First Fleet's settlement at Sydney Cove ... a powerful novel' -- Australian Bookseller & Publisher, 5 stars 'She is one of few masters who can embed historic characters in rattling good tales, and her meticulous research is seamlessly inserted so that you live the detail rather than learn it. Even if you are not into history, Nanberry will hook you in ... Irresistible for history buffs of any age' -- Good Reading Magazine, 5 stars 'I've been telling all my friends to read this book, and to give it to their kids to read. It's absolutely engrossing' -- Herald Sun

Author : Karin L. Stanford
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 079143446X

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This first book-length study of Jesse Jackson's international activities places his activism abroad in theoretical and historical perspective and shows how it belongs to a tradition of U.S. citizen diplomacy as old as the Republic.

Author : Miguel Nicolelis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 142995079X

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A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self—and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach. Beyond Boundaries draws on Nicolelis's ground-breaking research with monkeys that he taught to control the movements of a robot located halfway around the globe by using brain signals alone. Nicolelis's work with primates has uncovered a new method for capturing brain function—by recording rich neuronal symphonies rather than the activity of single neurons. His lab is now paving the way for a new treatment for Parkinson's, silk-thin exoskeletons to grant mobility to the paralyzed, and breathtaking leaps in space exploration, global communication, manufacturing, and more. Beyond Boundaries promises to reshape our concept of the technological future, to a world filled with promise and hope.

Author : David Featherstone,Christopher Gair,Christian Høgsbjerg,Andrew Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781478002550

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Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket by David Featherstone,Christopher Gair,Christian Høgsbjerg,Andrew Smith Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential sports books of all time, C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary is—among other things—a pioneering study of popular culture, an analysis of resistance to empire and racism, and a personal reflection on the history of colonialism and its effects in the Caribbean. More than fifty years after the publication of James's classic text, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate Beyond a Boundary's production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and English and Caribbean identity. Including a previously unseen first draft of Beyond a Boundary's conclusion alongside contributions from James's key collaborator Selma James and from Michael Brearley, former captain of the English Test cricket team, Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket provides a thorough and nuanced examination of James's groundbreaking work and its lasting impact. Contributors. Anima Adjepong, David Austin, Hilary McD. Beckles, Michael Brearley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Paget Henry, Christian Høgsbjerg, C. L. R. James, Selma James, Roy McCree, Minkah Makalani, Clem Seecharan, Andrew Smith, Neil Washbourne, Claire Westall

Author : Susan E. Alcock,Mariana Egri,James F. D. Frakes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064719

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Beyond Boundaries by Susan E. Alcock,Mariana Egri,James F. D. Frakes Pdf

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative ways to discuss the nature and development of the art and archaeology of the Roman provinces. The result is a collection of nineteen compelling essays—accompanied by carefully curated visual documentation, seven detailed maps, and an extensive bibliography—organized around the four major themes of provincial contexts, tradition and innovation, networks and movements, and local accents in an imperial context. Easy assumptions about provincial dependence on metropolitian models give way to more complicated stories. Similarities and divergences in local and regional responses to Rome appear, but not always in predictable places and in far from predictable patterns. The authors dismiss entrenched barriers between art and archaeology, center and provinces, even “good art” and “bad art,” extending their observations well beyond the empire’s boundaries, and examining phenomena, sites, and monuments not often found in books about Roman art history or archaeology. The book thus functions to encourage continued critical engagement with how scholars study the material past of the Roman Empire and, indeed, of imperial systems in general.

Author : Patrick L. Bourgeois
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791491324

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Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason by Patrick L. Bourgeois Pdf

In Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Patrick Bourgeois clarifies that, although deconstruction has much to offer contemporary thinking, it has gone to some philosophical extremes. Taking a cue from this thinking, Bourgeois develops an alternative direction of thought, turning to the position of Paul Ricoeur. Ricoeur, in the context of recent postmodern deconstruction, has taken into account its positive aspects, but has provided a viable alternative. Ricoeur is one of the best voices within this context today, but accepts an entirely different view of the basic interpretations of meaning, expressing, language, and the living present. In his own critical move beyond Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian hermeneutics, and in his efforts to complete the philosophy of Kant on essential points, he has not lost their gains, but, rather, has transformed them within a more appropriate ethicomoral philosophy. This investigation puts Ricoeur in his rightful place in the center of contemporary philosophical thinking.

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786630155

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A Life Beyond Boundaries by Benedict Anderson Pdf

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his research in Thailand and the Philippines, producing a very fine study of the Filipino novelist and patriot José Rizal in The Age of Globalization. In A Life Beyond Boundaries, Anderson recounts a life spent open to the world. Here he reveals the joys of learning languages, the importance of fieldwork, the pleasures of translation, the influence of the New Left on global thinking, the satisfactions of teaching, and a love of world literature. He discusses the ideas and inspirations behind his best-known work, Imagined Communities (1983), whose complexities changed the study of nationalism. Benedict Anderson died in Java in December 2015, soon after he had finished correcting the proofs of this book. The tributes that poured in from Asia alone suggest that his work will continue to inspire and stimulate minds young and old.

Author : Philip J. Ivanhoe,Owen Flanagan,Victoria S. Harrison,Eric Schwitzgebel,Hagop Sarkissian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231544634

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The Oneness Hypothesis by Philip J. Ivanhoe,Owen Flanagan,Victoria S. Harrison,Eric Schwitzgebel,Hagop Sarkissian Pdf

The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with other people, creatures, and things. Such views present profound challenges to Western hyperindividualism and its excessive concern with self-interest and tendency toward self-centered behavior. This anthology presents a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and implications of the oneness hypothesis. While fundamentally inspired by East and South Asian traditions, in which such a view is often critical to their philosophical approach, this collection also draws upon religious studies, psychology, and Western philosophy, as well as sociology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive neuroscience. Contributors trace the oneness hypothesis through the works of East Asian and Western schools, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Platonism and such thinkers as Zhuangzi, Kant, James, and Dewey. They intervene in debates over ethics, cultural difference, identity, group solidarity, and the positive and negative implications of metaphors of organic unity. Challenging dominant views that presume that the proper scope of the mind stops at the boundaries of skin and skull, The Oneness Hypothesis shows that a more relational conception of the self is not only consistent with contemporary science but has the potential to lead to greater happiness and well-being for both individuals and the larger wholes of which they are parts.

Author : Anthony Laker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135701277

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Beyond the Boundaries of Physical Education by Anthony Laker Pdf

This book sets out to celebrate physical education and sport, and by doing so, encourage the educational establishment to embrace the subject area as a vehicle for the complete development of the individual. In addition, it shows that the benefits of physical activity far outweigh the shallow claims of populous magazines - there are benefits for the individual, the community and for society as a whole. Laker contends that the importance of physical education and sport in many areas of social life has been overlooked at best, and misused at worst. Physical activity has a vast contribution to make, not only as a topic of small talk on a Monday morning, but also to the personal and social development of individuals and possibly to the well-being of the global community as a whole. This book explores the land 'beyond the boundaries of the game.'

Author : John L Williams
Publisher : Constable
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472130112

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CLR James by John L Williams Pdf

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and was a profound influence on the British Black Power movement. And yet by the late 1970s, CLR James was all but forgotten. The books he had written over the past half century were nearly all out of print. There were a few circles in which his name rang a bell: serious students of Black history; obsessive cricket fans. But that was it. When he died in Brixton in 1989, CLR James was internationally famous - lauded as the greatest of Black British intellectuals: the 'Black Plato', according to The Times. The ideas he put forward in his own time - of the importance of identity alongside class, of rebellion coming from below, of the leading roles of Black people, women and youth in political struggle - have gradually made their way to the forefront of our political thinking. His two great books, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, still have the power to change readers' understanding of the world today. But while CLR James's work has been much examined, his long and remarkable life story has often been overlooked. For the first time, in a biography full of original research, human drama and keen insight, John L. Williams unveils the rich and compelling story of an intellectual giant. In doing so, he firmly establishes the importance of CLR James for the twenty-first century - if Black Britain has had a presiding genius, it remains CLR James.

Author : Woody Goodell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 1532005202

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Beyond the Boundary by Woody Goodell Pdf

While deep in the north woods on a fishing trip, Wilson "Tuck" Tucker and his best friend, Bob Haney, stumble across a crashed twin engine airplane with two dead bodies in the cockpit. After the good Samaritans notify the local authorities, they discover the plane contains an earth-shattering secret that, if released, could change the world as they know it and prompt even honest men to do whatever it takes to obtain it. Tuck and Bob quickly realize that their lives are in danger now that their location is known. A few hours after the men report the wreckage, a pontoon plane lands on an isolated lake next to the crash site. Tuck and Bob have no idea if the men aboard have evil intent and are seeking the secret or if the passengers are from the government to investigate the crash. After Tuck and Bob quickly formulate a plan they hope will assure their safety, now only time will tell if the two will be able to survive what awaits them--and keep a powerful secret from getting into the wrong hands. In this north woods thriller, two men discover a crashed airplane that holds world-changing information that places their lives in jeopardy.

Author : David Urquhart
Publisher : Glasgow : J. Smith
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Boundaries Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001788826Q

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Exposition of the Boundary Differences Between Great Britain and the United States, Subsequently to Their Adjustment by Arbitration by David Urquhart Pdf