Tag: West
Wild West – August 2019
Sam Bungey, Jennifer Forde – West Cork
How the West Came to Rule by Alexander Anievas+
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas , Kerem Nisancioglu
Requirements: .PDF reader, 17.3 MB
Overview: How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the colonies, and bourgeois revolutions, Alex Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu offer an account of capitalism’s origins that convincingly argues against the prevailing Eurocentric narratives.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Magical Realism in West African Fiction by Brenda Cooper
Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing With a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.3MB
Overview: This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers:
•Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone,
•Ben Okri of Nigeria
•and Kojo Laing of Ghana.
Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in a West African context, and in relation to:
•a range of global expressions of magical realism, from the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to that of Salman Rushdie
•wider contemporary trends in African writing, with particular attention to how the realism of authors such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka has been connected with nationalist agendas.
This is a fascinating and important work for all those working on African literature, magical realism, or postcoloniality.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Literary Criticism
The American West at Risk by way of Howard G. Wilshire
The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery by way of Howard G. Wilshire
Requirements: .PDF reader, 17.4 Mb
Overview: The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental demanding situations within the 11 contiguous arid western United States – America’s mythical, even legendary, frontier. When came upon by way of European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted wealthy soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, glowing streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of those assets, and doubtlessly critical threats to its few "renewable" assets. The significance of this tale is that conserving lands has a central function for shielding air and water high quality, and water supplies–and all toughen a wholesome residing atmosphere. The concept that every one existence on earth is attached in a super chain of being, and that every one existence is attached to the bodily earth in lots of glaring and delicate tactics, isn’t some new-age fad, it’s scientifically demonstrable. An working out of earth processes, and the importance in their organic connections, is significant in shaping societal values in order that nationwide land use insurance policies will preserve the earth and steer clear of the worst affects of herbal processes.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
The American West and the World by way of Janne Lahti
The American West and the World by way of Janne Lahti
Requirements: .PDF reader, 4.9MB
Overview: The American West and the World supplies a man-made advent to the transnational historical past of the American West. Drawing from the insights of new scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the historical past of the U.S. West within the international contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, enlargement, migration, violence, intimacies, and concepts. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, comparable to borderlands research and transnational histories of empire, in addition to quite unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent areas. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historic West in its right kind international context.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
The American West and the World by means of Janne Lahti
The American West and the World by means of Janne Lahti
Requirements: .PDF reader, 4.9MB
Overview: The American West and the World supplies an artificial creation to the transnational historical past of the American West. Drawing from the insights of new scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the historical past of the U.S. West within the international contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, growth, migration, violence, intimacies, and concepts. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, corresponding to borderlands research and transnational histories of empire, in addition to rather unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent areas. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the ancient West in its right kind international context.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
East and West of Zagros by way of C.J. Edmonds
East and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921 by way of C.J. Edmonds
Requirements: .PDF reader, 10.3 Mb
Overview: A Consular Officer in Bushire, serving in Mesopotamia and Luristan all through First World War, Edmonds was once despatched to Qazvin after the struggle. He witnessed the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d’Etat. The come upon with Persia of a well-trained and sensible British agent.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
East and West of Zagros by means of C.J. Edmonds
East and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921 by means of C.J. Edmonds
Requirements: .PDF reader, 10.3 Mb
Overview: A Consular Officer in Bushire, serving in Mesopotamia and Luristan all through First World War, Edmonds was once despatched to Qazvin after the conflict. He witnessed the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d’Etat. The stumble upon with Persia of a well-trained and sensible British agent.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
Explorer’s Guide West Texas by means of Judy Wiley
Explorer’s Guide West Texas: A Great Destination by means of Judy Wiley
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 17.1 MB
Overview: Nowhere else has slightly the attract that west Texas towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this guide is your information to all of it.West Texas is the place deep blue mesas on the Big Bend and the plunging, layered partitions of Palo Duro Canyon encourage awe; the place off-the-beaten-path cities serve tremendous delicacies; the place you’ll be able to discover a Picasso unique placing in a jailhouse museum; the place perspectives cross on perpetually and thousands and thousands of stars pop out at night time. Nowhere else has slightly the attract that those towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this guide is your information to all of it.
Distinctive for his or her accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the various go back and forth guides in our Explorer’s Great Destinations sequence meet the conflicting calls for of the fashionable traveler. They’re packed filled with up-to-date knowledge to lend a hand plan the very best getaway. And they are compact and light-weight sufficient to return alongside for the journey. A device you’ll be able to flip to prior to, all through, and after your commute, those guides come with chapters on accommodation, eating, transportation, historical past, buying groceries, game, and extra; a piece filled with sensible knowledge, equivalent to lists of banks, hospitals, publish places of work, laundromats, numbers for police, fireplace, and rescue, and different related knowledge; maps of areas and locales, and extra.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Explorer’s Guide West Texas by way of Judy Wiley
Explorer’s Guide West Texas: A Great Destination by way of Judy Wiley
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 17.1 MB
Overview: Nowhere else has relatively the attract that west Texas towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this e book is your information to all of it.West Texas is the place deep blue mesas on the Big Bend and the plunging, layered partitions of Palo Duro Canyon encourage awe; the place off-the-beaten-path cities serve high-quality delicacies; the place you’ll be able to discover a Picasso unique placing in a jailhouse museum; the place perspectives cross on perpetually and thousands and thousands of stars pop out at evening. Nowhere else has relatively the attract that those towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this e book is your information to all of it.
Distinctive for his or her accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the various go back and forth guides in our Explorer’s Great Destinations collection meet the conflicting calls for of the fashionable traveler. They’re packed filled with up-to-date knowledge to lend a hand plan the easiest getaway. And they are compact and lightweight sufficient to come back alongside for the trip. A device you’ll be able to flip to earlier than, throughout, and after your commute, those guides come with chapters on accommodation, eating, transportation, historical past, buying groceries, sport, and extra; a bit full of sensible knowledge, akin to lists of banks, hospitals, publish workplaces, laundromats, numbers for police, hearth, and rescue, and different related knowledge; maps of areas and locales, and extra.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Explorer’s Guide West Texas via Judy Wiley
Explorer’s Guide West Texas: A Great Destination via Judy Wiley
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 17.1 MB
Overview: Nowhere else has slightly the attract that west Texas towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this guide is your information to all of it.West Texas is the place deep blue mesas on the Big Bend and the plunging, layered partitions of Palo Duro Canyon encourage awe; the place off-the-beaten-path cities serve superb delicacies; the place you’ll be able to discover a Picasso authentic placing in a jailhouse museum; the place perspectives move on perpetually and hundreds of thousands of stars pop out at evening. Nowhere else has slightly the attract that those towns, plains, and ranchlands have; this guide is your information to all of it.
Distinctive for his or her accuracy, simplicity, and conversational tone, the various shuttle guides in our Explorer’s Great Destinations sequence meet the conflicting calls for of the trendy traveler. They’re packed stuffed with up-to-date knowledge to assist plan the easiest getaway. And they are compact and light-weight sufficient to return alongside for the experience. A device you can flip to prior to, all the way through, and after your shuttle, those guides come with chapters on accommodation, eating, transportation, historical past, buying groceries, sport, and extra; a piece full of sensible knowledge, akin to lists of banks, hospitals, put up places of work, laundromats, numbers for police, hearth, and rescue, and different related knowledge; maps of areas and locales, and extra.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
The West Australian – March 13, 2019
The West Australian – March 13, 2019
Requirements: .PDF reader, 26.five MB
Overview: The West Australian is a number one information supply in Perth and WA. Breaking native and international information from recreation and industry to way of life and present affairs.
Genre: Magazines & Newspapers
