Author: Geir Sigurosson
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A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.Geir Sigursson offers a reconsideration of li, often translated as ritual or ritual propriety, one of the most controversial concepts in Confucian philosophy. Strong associations with the Zhou period during which Confucius lived have put this concept at odds with modernitys emphasis on progressive rationality and liberation from the yoke of tradition. Sigursson notes how the Confucian perspective on learning provides a more balanced understanding of li. He goes on to discuss the limitations of the critique of tradition and of rationalitys claim to authority, referencing several Western sources, notably Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Dewey, and Pierre Bourdieu. An exposition of the ancient Chinese worldview of time and continuous change further points to the inevitability of lis adaptable and flexible nature. Sigursson argues that Confucius and his immediate followers did not endorse a program of returning to the Zhou tradition, but rather of reviving the spirit of Zhou culture, involving active and personalized participation in traditions sustention and evolution.
Author: Ralph Sprenkels
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El Salvadors 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sanchez Ceren became the countrys second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvadors FMLN from armed insurgency to a competitive political party. At the end of the war in 1992, the historical ties between insurgent veterans enabled the FMLN to reconvert into a relatively effective electoral machine. However, these same ties also fueled factional dispute and clientelism. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Ralph Sprenkels examines El Salvadors revolutionary movement as a social field, developing an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of insurgent movements in general and their aftermath in particular, while weaving in the personal stories of former revolutionaries with a larger historical study of the civil war and of the transformation process of wartime forces into postwar political contenders. This allows Sprenkels to shed new light on insurgencys persistent legacies, both for those involved as well as for Salvadoran politics at large. In documenting the shift from armed struggle to electoral politics, the book adds to ongoing debates about contemporary Latin America politics, the pink tide, and post-neoliberal electoralism. It also charts new avenues in the study of insurgency and its aftermath. **
Author: Kerry Ferris
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The most relevant textbook for todays students. The Real World succeeds in classrooms because it focuses on the perspective that students care about mosttheir own. In every chapter, authors Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein use examples from everyday life and popular culture to draw students into thinking sociologically and to show the relevance of sociology to our relationships, our jobs, and our future goals. New to the Fifth Edition, two Data Workshops in every chapter give students a chance to apply theoretical concepts to their personal lives and actually do sociology. **
Author: James Hughes
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This book makes an important contribution to the current re-evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Hitherto, Western scholars have focused on leading personalities to analyze the crisis of the New Economic Policy. Dr. James Hughes, however, examines the processes at work under the NEP from the regional perspective of Siberia. He looks at party-peasant relations, the kulak question, Stalins patron-client network in the provinces, the regional impact of the grain crisis of 1927-28 and the use of emergency measures to overcome it. He concludes that Stalins experience of conditions that were unique to Siberia accelerated his negative reappraisal of the NEP and initiated the descent into the cataclysm of his revolution from above in late 1929.Review...Hughes has provided the best discussion of the grain procurement crisis and campaign available in English....this book is an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the political, social and economic underpinnings of the NEP crisis, as well as a landmark in Soviet regional history in the West. Lynne Viola, Russian Review Book DescriptionThis 1991 book makes an important contribution to the evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Dr Hughes presents an in depth examination of the crisis of the New Economic Policy from the regional perspective of Siberia and analyses the events and pressures from below, at the grassroots level of Soviet society.
Author: Kornel Terplan
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A panel of renowned experts from around the world contributed to this authoritative handbook that covers the essential aspects of this most dynamic field of communications and networking activity. Edited by Dr. Kornel Terplan and Patricia Morreale - well known authorities in telecommunications- this important new handbook provides basic principles and definitions, details the tremendous advances in technology, outlines implementation techniques, and discusses the outstanding issues and key challenges faced by communications and networking specialists.The telecommunications topics addressed includeo Basic principles o Services on broadband networks o Signal processing and coding schemes o Mobile and wireless networks o DSL technologies o Digital video and multimedia o Quality of service o Regulation o Standards o Emerging technologiesExhaustive in scope and packed with diagrams, tables, and illustrations, The Telecommunications Handbook is an indispensable, detailed reference for engineers, analysts, managers, and students involved in a wide range of telecommunication and networking activities.**
Author: Stuart Murray
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Could there really be life on Mars? From massive volcanoes twice the size of Mount Everest to a grand canyon as big as America, become a Mars explorer and discover everything there is to know about the Red Planet. Perfect for projects or homework at Key Stage 2.
Author: Witold Gombrowicz
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Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowiczs most personal noveland arguably his most iconoclasticTrans-Atlantyk is written in the style of a gaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent adoption by the Polish embassy staff and emigre community. Based loosely on Gombrowiczs own experiences as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores.The novels themes are universal and its execution ingeniousa masterwork of twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike called one of the profoundest of the late moderns. Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowiczs most personal noveland arguably his most iconoclasticTrans-Atlantyk is written in the style of a gaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent adoption by the Polish embassy staff and emigre community. Based loosely on Gombrowiczs own experiences as an expatriate, Trans-Atlantyk is steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores.The novels themes are universal and its execution ingeniousa masterwork of twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike called one of the profoundest of the late moderns. **From Publishers Weekly Gombrowicz (1904-1969) is best known in this country for the meditations on life and literature contained in his Diary , but he wrote several novels that are highly regarded for their dazzling stylistics and exploration of the Polish national character. This semi-autobiographical work, hitherto unavailable in English, is written in the narrative style of the 17th- and 18th-century and in the voice of a country squire. In it, Gombrowicz pokes fun at the insular and parochial Polish community living in Argentina just before WW II. Like the author, the eponymous narrator is a young Polish writer who is stranded abroad when the Nazis invade his homeland. (Gombrowicz himself never returned to Poland and lived in exile for the rest of his life.) Penniless, he is adopted by the Polish embassy staff and emigre community. A fantastical series of twists and turns follow in which the young man finds himself, after a debauched night of drinking, involved as a second in a duel. The often farcical adventures prove a real dilemma for the narrator, who is torn between his Polish identity and a new emigre status. Regarded as the authors most personal piece of fiction, this novel benefits from a scholarly introduction by Stanislaw Baranczak. 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Gombrowicz (1904-69), considered by many to be the most important Polish author of the 20th century, here builds a satiric novel around a Polish writer who embarks on a small ocean cruise only to be caught in Argentina at the outbreak of World War II. Thus, the protagonist begins a series of exasperating attempts to reconcile himself as a forced expatriate to both native writers and writers of the Polish emigre community to the ideas of exile and patriotism and to the dialectic between Form and Chaos, that is between total subordination of the ego to the generally accepted patterns of behavior . . . and total liberation from all that is inherited or imitated. Some of the more bizarre scene from this novel remind the reader of Bruegel paintings. Because the novel is written in the idiom of the gaw eda, an oral genre once popular among Polands provincial nobility, the translators have chosen 17th- and 18th-century English as their linguistic medium. They consider the version that results experimental. A curious work, not easily understood recommended for large public libraries and academic collections. - Olivia Opello, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y. 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.