Marc: 4072 books
Go Nation
Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last...
by Marc AurËle
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: April 28, 2017
exemples que j'ai recus de mon grand-pére vérus: la bonté et le douceur, qui ne connait point la colére. du pére qui m'a donné la vis la modestie et la virilité du moin si je m'en rapporte a la réputation qu'il a laissée et au souvenir personnel qui m'en reste. de ma mére la piété et la...
Witness from the Pulpit
Topical Sermons, 1933-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish perspective based on personal encounters with great issues...
Droits de la personnalité
(Belgique)
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Méconnue, la loi du 8 décembre 1992 relative à la protection de la vie privée à l’égard des traitements de données à caractère personnel, dite loi « vie privée » est pourtant une loi transversale compte tenu, entre autres, du caractère extrêmement large des notions de « données à caractère...
Phantom Formations
Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman"
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe,...
The Who For Starters
Pop Gallery eBooks, #14
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
"The Who For Starters" (Includes Video and Audio links at the End of The Manuscript)First they were The Detours and then they were Mods and Rockers who took London and the rest of the free world by storm by the end of the 1960s. They are always mentioned in the same breath with The Beatles, Rolling Stones...
RASA
Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed...
by Marc Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person to person, the core underpinning still depends on the comedic geniuses that have paved the way. Great...
by Marc D'Agosta
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
A completely honest look at the healthcare system in America by a guy broke enough to actually have to use it.
Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality
The Inner Life of Jews of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Who were the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire?
What lasting lessons does their spiritual life provide for future generations?
“How did the Judeo-Spanish-speaking Jews of the Ottoman Empire manage to achieve spiritual triumph? To answer this question, we need to have a firm understanding...
Greatly Exaggerated
The Myth of the Death of Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers, Marc Edge dives deep into the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates, and comes up with a surprising conclusion: the newspaper business is far more healthy and profitable than believed. They've been roiled...
Making Samba
A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of...
New Brunswick and the Navy
Four Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has played an important role in Canada's naval history....
Demanding Democracy
American Radicals in Search of a New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society...