Dari-english/english-dari dictionary & phrasebook

<p><strong>The essential Dari language resource!</strong></p><p>Dari, spoken by over 20 million people worldwide, is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Closely related to the Persian (Farsi) of Iran, and the Tajik of Tajikistan, the languages have been spl...

Party in power

Party in Power: The Japanese Liberal-Democrats and Policy-Making offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate decision-making processes within Japan's dominant postwar political entity, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Bridging the gap between political science and history, the book provide...

Fuzzy hybrid computing in construction engineering and management

This book is a guide for students, researchers, and practitioners to the latest developments in fuzzy hybrid computing in construction engineering and management. It discusses basic theory related to fuzzy logic and fuzzy hybrid computing, their application in a range of practical construction pr...

Farsi-english/english-farsi (persian) concise dictionary

Coffee life in japan

This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Jap...

Glasgow girls

At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less atte...

Thinking fragments

Thinking Fragments stages a provocative conversation among three of the most influential currents of late–twentieth-century thought: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodern philosophy. Jane Flax traces how each illuminates but also distorts questions of selfhood, gender, power, and knowledge in ...

If you cross the river

“An allegorical coming-of-age story told in a trusting and curious voice . . . Damas keeps us enthralled as [François] unravels the family mystery.” —BBC

Robert duncan

A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan’s books and magazine publications up to and including Letters: Poems 1953–1956. Deftly edited, it thorou...

Carmina archilochi

Carmina Archilochi, translated by Guy Davenport, is a bold and innovative collection that brings the fragments of the ancient Greek poet Archilochos into a modern idiom. Known for his biting invective and vivid imagery, Archilochos' surviving works exist only in fragments, often preserved in gram...

Russia's women

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women—and women's reactions to these efforts—have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional ass...

Stategraphy

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing ...

Pills, profits, and politics

Pills, Profits, and Politics is a compelling exposé on the modern pharmaceutical industry, its intersection with medical practices, and the profound consequences for public health. Authored by Milton Silverman and Philip Lee, this book critically examines the misuse and misrepresentation of presc...

Toward permeable boundaries of organizations?

The classical concept of organizations as solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged.  This volume examines why, examines the impact of these changes on organizations and offers conceptual and empirical insights.

Baba yaga laid an egg

Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga - one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology

Late godard and the possibilities of cinema

With Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema, Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the most notoriously difficult works in contemporary cinema. Through detailed analyses of extended sequ...

A democratic south africa?

Violence

Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.

Practical inferences

Practical Inferences is an essential collection of papers by R. M. Hare, the leading advocate of prescriptivism, an influential ethical theory that examines the logical nature of moral language. Expanding upon the ideas presented in The Language of Morals (1952) and Freedom and Reason (1963), thi...

Realignment, region, and race

Goethals explores the place of racial dynamics in American politics from President Lincoln to Donald Trump to explain the way the politics of racial justice and needs for positive social identity have led to different regions in the United States changing party affiliation.

Fairy tales in latin: fabulae mirabiles

Rural credit in western india 1875–1930

Rural Credit in Western India, 1875–1930: Rural Credit and the Co-operative Movement in the Bombay Presidency by I. J. Catanach examines how colonial officials and Indian peasants alike grappled with the problem of indebtedness in one of British India’s most diverse provinces. Sparked by the Decc...

Allan kaprow, robert smithson, and the limits to art

This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art--both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, placing the two ...

Egyptian arabic-english/english- egyptian arabic dictionary & phrasebook

Lotte in weimar

Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portrait—a compl...

Peaceful selves

With its focus on personhood and self-making, it investigates gaps in understanding left behind by dominant frameworks for analyzing life in post-conflict societies, such as reconciliation, justice, and commemoration politics The argument is built around fundamental tensions in Rwandan c...

Civil war in south russia, 1919-1920

The Russian Civil War, a multifaceted struggle between the Bolsheviks and their opponents, offers a profound lens into the dynamics of power, ideology, and societal upheaval. At its core, the war was more than a military contest—it was a political battle for the hearts and minds of a fragmented n...

Exploring the culture of open innovation

Acclaimed entrepreneurship and innovation scholar Piero Formica, along with a strong and diverse cast of international contributors, explore the world of Open Innovation in this volume.

Is it safe?

We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information? ...

Polybius

As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during whic...

The working-class tories

The Working-Class Tories: Authority, Deference and Stable Democracy by Eric A. Nordlinger explores the paradox of a majority working-class society that consistently produces a stable and effective democracy, and in which a substantial segment of the working class votes Conservative. At the heart ...

Hard to get

Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history—twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience ...

On comics and grief

Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief surrounding his mother’s death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of...

Southern california metropolis

The concept of the metropolitan area, as best exemplified by Los Angeles, has highlighted two contradictory characteristics of the current urban scene: the dispersion of political power among a number of centers, and the presence of issues and problems whose impact transcends the jurisdiction of ...

The sixth element

A cosmic perspective on carbon—its importance in the universe and our livesWhen we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic number 6. Alternatively, we might think of something more tangible—a sooty piece of coal or a sparkling...

Ideology and organization in communist china

In 1949 a powerful political-military movement, led by the Chinese Communist party, gained control of war-ravaged China, inheriting a disorganized administration and a society eroded by decades of revolution. Within a short time China was so radically transformed politically, economically, and so...

Dolia

The story of the Roman Empire’s enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possibleThe average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day, and the total annual volume of wine consum...

An empire nowhere

What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, than...

Stellar english

An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usageStellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasizes how formal written English—though only a subdialect of the lang...

City steeple, city streets

Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discu...

The eighth moon

“Beautifully written, The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, and identity.”—Chris KrausA rebellion, guns, and murder. When Jennifer Kabat moves to the Catskills, she has no idea it was the site of the Anti...

Creating the intellectual

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of t...

A chinese bestiary

A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mo...

Contemporary art and the digitization of everyday life

Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political in...