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Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives


Free Download Bina Sengar, "Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World: Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 9811987211 | 2023 | 338 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This edited book provides perceptions on "indigeneity" through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of "indigenous" in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars whoare engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

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How Covid-19 Changed the World (Scientific American Explores Big Ideas)


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English | July 30, 2022 | ISBN: 1684169968 | 160 pages | PDF | 2.67 Mb
COVID-19 has affected nearly every aspect of life-from short- and long-term health problems to how students attend school to the availability of milk in the grocery store. In this book, Scientific American explores how COVID has changed the world over the past two years: how it has disrupted society, accelerated research, and amplified the need for science and humanity. We look at endeavors that have been directly and dramatically transformed, such as disease testing and vaccine development, as well as some of the more unexpected impacts, such as on climate conferences and rocket launches.

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Hip Hop World A Groundwork Guide


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 0888999119, 0888999100 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 2.8 mb
In Hip Hop World, Dalton Higgins comprehensively examines the hip hop scene as it exists throughout the world. The book reveals the form’s musical inspirations from Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, African American sex satirists, comedians, civil rights-fuelled funk musicians, spoken word luminaries, and dub and Nuyorican poetry. Author Higgins examines hip hop’s racial, multicultural, and multilingual listening audiences, the development of global rap slanguage and its influence on standard English lexicons, and hip hop herstory and cultural taboos around sexuality. He highlights the burgeoning Aboriginal hip hop scenes in Canada and Australia, and movements in colleges across North America and Europe that use hip hop lyrics and artistry to help engage students in learning. Critical of hip hopsters’ use of language, the cult of bling, violence, and money, this book takes readers beyond a superficial look and delves into all the issues surrounding this form. Higgins taps into his own powers of pop culture prognostication to predict the future of the genre and the youth culture that spawned it, as this irresistible musical and cultural form spreads literally to the furthest reaches of humanity.

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Gunfire! British Artillery in World War II


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English | November 21, 2017 | ISBN: 147389560X | 416 pages | EPUB | 17 Mb
This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example.

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Greek Myths for a Post-Truth World


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English | ISBN: 1350376566 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our ‘post-truth’ times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our experiences, while also assuming new meanings in contemporary culture that suggest a diversity of possible answers to questions that preoccupy us today. In addition to acting as fountains of meaning when meaning is precarious and fragmented, Greek myths have a therapeutic power connecting us to the predicaments that humans have faced across the ages.

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Germany After the First World War


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English | 1993 | ISBN: 0198219385, 0198205864 | PDF | pages: 342 | 21.2 mb
A social history of Germany in the years following the First World War, this book explores Germany’s defeat and the subsequent demobilization of its armies, events which had devastating social and psychological consequences for the nation. Bessel examines the changes brought by the War to Germany, including those resulting from the return of soldiers to civilian life and the effects of demobilization on the economy. He demonstrates that the postwar transition was viewed as a moral crusade by Germans desperately concerned about challenges to traditional authority; and he assesses the ways in which the experience of the War, and memories of it, affected the politics of the Weimar Republic. This is an original and scholarly book, which offers important insights into the sense of dislocation, both personal and national, experienced by Germany and Germans in the 1920s, and its damaging legacy for German democracy.

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