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Free Download Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices By Rajendra Vora (editor), Suhas Vasant Palshikar (editor)
2004 | 428 Pages | ISBN: 0761997903 | PDF | 81 MB
This volume examines how Indian democracy has survived the challenges posed by widespread illiteracy, poverty, secessionism and communalism―problems that have felled the fledgling democratic institutions of so many post-colonial societies. The contributors locate the reason for the resilience of Indian democracy in its history―that it was the product of a gradual evolution and not of a sudden imposition from above. The essays in the volume, however, show that despite having stood the test of time, Indian democracy is not a democracy in any substantive sense. The economic policies of successive governments since 1985 have been basically anti-people; rampant casteism, communalism, and the use of money and muscle power have infiltrated the body politic. Mass mobilization has been powered by hate, making it a feature more typical of a nascent neo-fascist state than of a democracy. The `substantialization of democracy’―proper representation and people’s participation in decision making―still remains a distant ideal.

Free Download Silvia Bruti, "Subtitling Today: Shapes and Their Meanings "
English | ISBN: 1443880353 | 2015 | 257 pages | PDF | 1309 KB
Nowadays subtitling accomplishes several purposes; it is meant for diverse audiences and comes in many forms. This collection of innovative contributions explores these different manifestations, and offers a snapshot of the state of the art of a dynamic and ever-evolving field of study. This volume intentionally assembles essays that analyse subtitling in various audiovisual genres, including television series, variety programmes, operas, operettas, feature films and live conferences, and that consider various languages, such as Chinese, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese and Polish. It underscores both traditional and novel viewpoints and approaches to the subject, thus broadening the horizons of such a fascinating field. The diversity of topics tackled will encourage further reflection on a well-established research area, and, as such, the volume will appeal to both novice and expert researchers and professionals.

Free Download Bagoes Wiryomartono, "Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society"
English | ISBN: 1498533086 | 2016 | 160 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society is an examination of the social and cultural geography of Java. This book penetrates and surveys the Javanese world, and examines the traditions, customs, arts, urban habitation, polity, history, and belief systems of people who speak the Javanese language and live on Java Island in the Indonesian archipelago. A primary focus in these essays is to analyze the meanings of locality in the context of arts, architecture, polity, and society, with the hope of unveiling the potential of local culture in enriching and strengthening the diversity of the global world.

Free Download Meanings of Music Participation (Routledge New Directions in Music Education) by C. Victor Fung, Lisa J. Lehmberg
English | August 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1032150386 | 266 pages | PDF | 3.64 Mb
This book uncovers the multifaceted nature of music participation through a collection of studies in a wide variety of musical contexts across the United States. The contributors combine personal voices and vivid narratives with scholarship to present many potential meanings of music participation, and lay out research-based implications for lifelong music education. Exploring music participation in choral and instrumental ensembles; school music classes and community groups; in-person and virtual spaces; among children, young adults, and older adults; and for native-born citizens and immigrants, the 10 original studies in this volume present a diverse portrait of musical engagement. The chapters draw out themes including enjoyment, identity development, learner autonomy, social interaction, motivation, commitment, and quality of life, and draw connections between musical meanings and philosophical principles from both Western and Eastern traditions.

Free Download Spirtual Power Of The Moon And Its Meanings
Published 9/2023
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Cycles of the moon and how we can use them spiritually to empower us

Free Download Janet Giltrow, "Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning: 1 (Foundations in Language and Law [FLL], 1) "
English | ISBN: 3110720914 | 2021 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 782 KB
This collection is about how law makes meaning and how meaning makes law. Through clear methodology and substantial findings, chapters expose the deficits of ‘literal’ meaning and the difficulties in ‘ordinary’ meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. Further, chapters in this volume see the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning.

Free Download Nicolae-Sorin Drgan, "Differences, Similarities and Meanings: Semiotic Investigations of Contemporary Communication Phenomena (Semiotics, Comm"
English | ISBN: 3110658828 | 2021 | 340 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In a world of global communication, where each one’s life depends increasingly on signs, language and communication, understanding how we relate and opening ourselves to otherness, to differences in all their forms and aspects is becoming more and more relevant. Today, we often understand the differences in terms of adversity or opposition and forget the value of the similarities. Semiotic approaches can provide a critical point of view and a more general reflection that can redefine some aspects of the discussion about the nature of these semiotic categories, differences and similarities. The dichotomy differences – similarities is fundamental to understanding the meaning-making mechanisms in language (De Saussure, 1966; Deleuze, 1995), as well as in other sign systems (Ponzio, 1995; Sebeok & Danesi, 2000). Meaning always appears in the "play of differences" (Derrida, 1978) and similarities. Therefore, the phenomena of similarities and differences must be considered complementary (Marcus, 2011). This book addresses and offers new perspectives for analyzing and understanding sensitive topics in the world of global communication (humanities education, responsive understanding of otherness, digital culture and new media power).

Free Download The Magic of Angel Numbers: Meanings Behind 11:11 and Other Number Sequences, and What Your Spirit Guides Are Trying to Tell You by Layla Moon
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BN9WBXJX | 127 pages | EPUB | 0.56 Mb
Discover The Hidden Messages from The Universe and What it’s Trying to Tell You…

Free Download The Return of the Polis: The Use and Meanings of the Word Polis in Archaic and Classical Sources (Historia – Einzelschriften) by Mogens Herman Hansen
English | December 31, 2007 | ISBN: 3515090541 | 276 pages | PDF | 2.00 Mb
Polis, in plural poleis, is the word the ancient Greeks used to describe their principal type of state and community and the most common of all nouns in ancient Greek. In Archaic and Classical sources there are over 11,000 attestations of the word, and they show that it was used in two different senses: (1) town (sometimes including the hinterland) and (2) state (sometimes including the territory). Often it carries both senses simultaneously and denotes both the state and its urban centre. The Copenhagen Polis Centre (1993-2005) conducted a number of investigations into the use and meanings of the term polis in all Archaic and Classical sources to find out what the Greeks thought a polis was. The present volume is a thoroughly revised and updated comprehensive publication of all these studies, to which four new studies have been added. They show that the two different meanings of the word polis are connected through their reference: with very few exceptions every polis town was the urban centre of a polis state, and conversely: virtually every polis state had an urban centre called a polis in the sense of town.