Search Results - F/LOSS~

Heimat, loss and identity : flight and expulsion in German literature from the 1950s to the present / by Berger, Karina, 1977-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rogue flows trans-Asian cultural traffic /

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The turn to transcendence the role of religion in the twenty-first century / by Olsen, Glenn W. (Glenn Warren), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Three premises -- Modernism -- The music of the spheres -- The loss of transcendence -- Alternatives.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

An Ethico-Phenomenology of Digital Art Practices / by Torre, Giuseppe

Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement

A more imperfect union how inequity, debt, and economics undermine the American dream / by Jennings, James L., 1941-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

America's Disenfranchised : Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy / by Meade, Desmond, 1967-

Full text available:

Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot -- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski -- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust -- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. Mut(e)ilations: the loss of voice and the voice of loss: memory, reconstruction and reconciliation in South African literature / Deborah Donig -- Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner -- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield -- Trauma, confession and autobiographies. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

America's Disenfranchised : Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy / by Meade, Desmond, 1967-

Full text available:

Antidote by Van Landingham, Corey, 1986-

Full text available:

Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / by Munro, Michael

Full text available:

Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / by Munro, Michael

Full text available:

The lure of anti-Semitism hatred of Jews in present-day France / by Wieviorka, Michel

Table of Contents: “…-- In schools -- Changes in the public sphere -- The Shoah: deficit, plethora and loss of meaning -- Global anti-Semitism -- The Jews in France: developments and concerns -- Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews -- The power of the imagination -- A sociological intervention -- Muslim anti-Semitism: the view from prison -- The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the others -- Anti-Semitism at local level -- An unusual variant of "global" anti-Semitism -- "Why there were no clashes in Sarcelles" -- The Marseilles counterpoint: the Pieds-Noirs and the Jews -- The fears of the Jews in Alsace -- Malaise in the Alsatian countryside -- Two extreme right political forces, two anti-Semitic rationales -- Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des Musulmans de France -- Desecrations -- Boycotting Israel -- Two extreme cases of anti-Zionism -- Leftism in decline and extreme anti-Zionism -- The clamour of the media and the silence of the teachers -- Dealing with the Shoah in schools -- Ethnic diversity in schools -- Abuse and attacks -- Anti-Semitism in schools and globalisation.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Hydraulic City : Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai / by Anand, Nikhil, 1975-

Full text available:

A new thoughtfulness in contemporary China : critical voices in art and aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Ink painting in the age of new wave / Chang Tsong-zung -- The sound of one hand / Lu Dadong -- The essential meaning of Chinese calligraphy and its loss / Kong Guoqiao -- Literati painting / Chen anying -- Realism is a kind of ideology in China / Wang Chunchen -- The emperors have rotted long ago / Qiu Zhijie -- People's 'Writing'. bitan ('pen talk' or interview) / Chen Chieh-jen, Zhao Chuan -- The dismantling and re-construction of Bentu (This Land' or "Native Land') / Gao Shiming -- Gu Dexin / Chan David Ho Yeung -- Art in its regional political context / Wang Nanming -- Two histories of art / Zhu Qi -- Pingyao and Lianzhou / Jiang Wei -- Evolution of conceptual hotography and its position in the history of new art / Dao Zi -- How much space of exchange is there on the internet in relation to contemporary art? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan : building and undermining the state / by Bizhan, Nematullah

Table of Contents: “…-- Tax states -- Aid-dependent states -- The effects of oil revenue -- Distinction between aid and oil-revenue rentier effects -- Conclusion -- Reliance on external revenue : Afghanistan from 1747 to 2000 -- The society : an inheritance of history -- Relying on tribute for state building : the importance of external revenue to the Durrani empire (1747-1824) -- The Durrani empire ineffective tax system -- Subsidies and state building : the loss of tribute and search for alternative revenue (1824-1879) -- Institution building -- Consolidation of a modern buffer state (1880-1919) : the significance of subsidies and external military support -- And military administration -- State-society relations -- Amanullah Khan's reforms : the loss of subsidies, budget surplus and fiscal decline (1919-1929) -- Foreign aid and state building : reshaping the state building process (1929-1978) -- The rise of a weak aid-based rentier state -- Decline in foreign aid -- The state and the Mujahidin Tanzims (organizations) and sources of revenue : conflict in state-society relations (1978-2000) -- The Mujahidin government financial crises and Pakistani aid to the Taliban -- Conclusion -- Rebuilding an aid-based rentier state -- Establishing a new political order -- Building the state institutions -- Responding to the flow of aid -- Chaotic aid coordination : a challenge for state building -- Access to foreign aid : a prime focus -- Improving fiscal management -- Aid modality : undermining institution building -- Government preoccupation with foreign donors -- Relations at the administration level -- Relations in regard to senior appointments -- Conclusion -- Reforms and setbacks : rebuilding the revenue system -- State revenue sources -- Aiding the revenue reforms -- Reforming revenue policy and laws -- Reforming revenue administration -- Improving revenue infrastructure -- Confrontation and consultation -- Failing to enforce tax compliance -- Failing to prevent illegal taxation and extortion -- Ambiguity to end aid-dependency -- Fragmenting the tax system -- Conclusion -- Budget spending : fiscal fragmentation and patronage -- Some improvements in government budget transparency -- The citizen's role -- Underreported on-budget items -- Poor off-budget transparency -- Secret cash payments -- Conclusion -- Interactions between the state and society -- Reinforcing the state-society inherited gap -- Commanders -- Traditional actors -- Urban intelligentsia -- Reshaping the state-society relations -- Building and undermining the state -- Conclusion -- Conclusion : findings and implications -- Path dependency : Afghan state reliance on external revenue -- Building and undermining the state : Afghanistan after 9/11 -- Upward accountability to donors -- Creating a parallel public sector -- Paradoxical tax outcomes -- Divergence in state-society fiscal relations -- The future -- Implications fo externally aided state building.…”
Click here to view.

Hydraulic City : Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai / by Anand, Nikhil, 1975-

Full text available:

Everywhere Taksim : Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi /

Full text available:

The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan / by Wimpelmann, Torunn

Full text available:

Everywhere Taksim : Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi /

Full text available:

We are Iraqis aesthetics and politics in a time of war /

Table of Contents: “…Ghazoul -- Larsa / Dunya Mikhail -- Ur's echo: cosmopolitans and radical loss / Rashad Salim -- Identity of the numbers / Irada Al-Jabbouri.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view