Recentering The World

Author : Ryan Martínez Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108585460

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Recentering the World by Ryan Martínez Mitchell Pdf

Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.

Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400096336

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The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto Pdf

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.

Author : Schnackenberg, Heidi L.,Simard, Denise A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668485989

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Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education: Realigning, Recentering, and Rebuilding by Schnackenberg, Heidi L.,Simard, Denise A. Pdf

Stabilizing and Empowering Women in Higher Education: Realigning, Recentering, and Rebuilding is a book that addresses the challenges faced by women leaders in higher education during the current pandemic. The book is written by experts in the field and draws on emerging evidence-based practices and personal narratives to provide insights into strategies for emotional balance, self-care, and wellbeing for women leaders. It explores the challenges faced by women leaders in higher education and offers solutions for their wellbeing, including reframing and reinventing oneself during the pandemic. This volume is an essential read for women in leadership, faculty, administrators, professional staff, graduate students, and researchers. It provides valuable information and perspectives on creating access for marginalized groups, using roles as women leaders to create change, and nurturing and empowering women in leadership. Overall, it is a persuasive and powerful book that will help readers to realign, recenter, and rebuild in their personal and professional lives.

Author : Dan McIntyre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027233356

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Point of View in Plays by Dan McIntyre Pdf

This is the first book-length study of how point of view is manifested linguistically in dramatic texts. It examines such issues as how readers process the shifts in viewpoint that can occur within such texts. Using insights from cognitive linguistics, the book aims to explain how the analysis of point of view in drama can be undertaken, and how this is fruitful for understanding textual and discoursal effects in this genre. Following on from a consideration of existing frameworks for the analysis of point of view, a cognitive approach to deixis is suggested as being particularly profitable for explaining the viewpoint effects that can arise in dramatic texts. To expand on the large number of examples discussed throughout the book, the penultimate chapter consists of an extended analysis of a single play. This book is relevant to scholars in a range of areas, including linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.

Author : Tamara L. Britton
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616139513

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World Trade Center by Tamara L. Britton Pdf

Describes the history, design, construction, and original controversial nature of the World Trade Center, as well as the terrorist attack that destroyed it on September 11, 2001.

Author : Ryan Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190949754

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Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics by Ryan Pierson Pdf

"How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for figures--arrangements that seem to intuitively hold together--and forces--underlying units of attraction, repulsion, and direction--Pierson reveals startling new possibilities for animation criticism, history, and theory. Drawing on concepts from Gestalt psychology, Pierson offers a wide-ranging comparative study of four animation techniques--soft-edged forms, walk cycles, camera movement, and rotoscoping--as they appear in commercial, artisanal, and avant-garde works. In the process, through close readings of little-analyzed films, Pierson demonstrates that figures and forces make fertile resources for theoretical speculation, unearthing affinities between animation practice and such topics as the philosophy of mathematics, scientific and political revolution, and love. Beginning and ending with the imperative to "look closely," Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics is a performance in seeing the world of motion anew. Keywords: animation, film theory, Gestalt psychology, phenomenology, film-philosophy, modernism"--

Author : Brantly Womack,Wang Gungwu,Wu Yu-Shan,Qin Yaqing,Evelyn Goh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009393812

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Recentering Pacific Asia by Brantly Womack,Wang Gungwu,Wu Yu-Shan,Qin Yaqing,Evelyn Goh Pdf

Argues that China's roots are in Pacific Asia, and its response to regional challenges will ultimately determine its global prospects.

Author : Yufang Ho
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441197214

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Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice by Yufang Ho Pdf

In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach. The Magus was first published in 1966 and was revised and republished by Fowles in 1977. Fowles' own comment on the second edition was that it was 'rather more than a stylistic revision.' The book explores how the revised version is linguistically different from the original, especially in terms of point of view (re) representation. The corpus stylistic approach adopted combines qualitative and quantitative comparison to confirm the overall text style difference. The analysis demonstrates that computer assisted methods can identify significant linguistic features which literary critics have not noticed and provide a more detailed descriptive basis for literary interpretation of (either edition) of the novel. This analysis of The Magus serves as a case study and exemplar of how corpus techniques may be used generally in the study of linguistics.

Author : Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822383529

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Staging the World by Rebecca E. Karl Pdf

In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview. The emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from China’s position vis-à-vis Japan and the West. Karl has mined the archives of the late Qing period to discern the foci of Chinese intellectuals from 1895 to 1911 to assert that even though the China/Japan/West triangle was crucial, it alone is an incomplete—and therefore flawed—model of the development of nationalism in China. Although the perceptions and concerns of these thinkers form the basis of Staging the World, Karl begins by examining a 1904 Shanghai production of an opera about a fictional partition of Poland and its modern reincarnation as an ethno-nation. By focusing on the type of dialogue this opera generated in China, Karl elucidates concepts such as race, colonization, globalization, and history. From there, she discusses how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the “discovery” of Hawai’i as a center of the Pacific, the Philippine revolution against the United States, and the relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the Boer War in South Africa.

Author : Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399519632

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Italy and the Islamic World by Ali Humayun Akhtar Pdf

Italy and the Islamic World tells the story of how Italian cities have been centres of international exchange for centuries, linking Europe with the most storied marketplaces of the Middle East and North Africa. From the Ancient Roman period and the Renaissance to the rise of the Italian Republic, Italy has been a global crossroads for more than two millennia. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of European history, Italy's debates about trade with its southern neighbours evoke an earlier era of encounters - one that sheds light on where the EU is heading today.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045078503

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Miscellaneous by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : John Friedlander
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591434382

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Recentering Seth by John Friedlander Pdf

• Reframes Jane Roberts’s Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions • Examines how we create our reality through our conscious beliefs but how no one controls spontaneous reality so you cannot simply will your desires into being • Synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts, schools, and influences, from aura reading and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and Theosophy to nondual awareness, multipersonhood, and communication theory The Seth books, channeled by the late Jane Roberts in the 1970s, galvanized a whole generation of spiritual explorers. The entity known as Seth turned familiar mystical concepts into a radically new framework and introduced a unique understanding of how we create our own reality with our conscious beliefs. After nearly five decades exploring Seth’s ideas, John Friedlander has reframed the groundbreaking Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions. He synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts and influences, from aura reading, healing, and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and reincarnation to conscious dying and nondual awareness. He reveals how you do create your own reality, but that no one controls reality, which is spontaneous and surprisingly creative.

Author : Bonnie Honig,Lori J. Marso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190600174

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Politics, Theory, and Film by Bonnie Honig,Lori J. Marso Pdf

Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clichéd, the editors argue that he intensifies the "clichés of our times" in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world. The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranciére, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies.

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467716628

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Recentering the Universe by Ron Miller Pdf

In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Anaximander theorized that Earth was at the center of the cosmos. That idea became ingrained in scientific thinking and Christian religious beliefs for more than one thousand years. Defiance of church doctrine could mean death, so no one dared dispute this long-accepted idea. No one except a handful of courageous scientists. In the 1500s and 1600s, men like Nicolaus Copernicus, Johanned Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton began to ask questions. What if Earth actually orbited the sun, instead of the other way around? What if the universe was much bigger than anyone imagined? These scientists risked their reputations—even their lives—to challenge the very heart of Catholic dogma and scientific tradition. Yet, in less than 200 years, their radical thinking overturned theories that had lasted more than a millennium. Join these bold thinkers on the journey of discovery that forever changed our understanding of the cosmos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Occupational retraining
ISBN : IND:30000099070447

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Corpsman by Anonim Pdf