Author: James Philemon Holcombe
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Category : American letters
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226885681
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.

Author: Simone Zelitch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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This award-winning novel takes readers to postwar Israel, introducing them to a mother and daughter-in-law with an unusual relationship and offering a unique perspective on Jewish identity and experience.

Author: Antonio Vieyra
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1452

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Author: Jeff Ingber
Publisher: Jeffrey Ingber
ISBN: 9780985410070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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A historical fiction novel spanning eight decades, it revolves around the remarkable life of Béla Ingber, and the struggles of Béla and his extended family to comprehend and prepare for the Holocaust, the implausible circumstances the survivors endure before reuniting in the New World, and the crushing impact on them of their wartime experiences.

Author: Richard Griffith
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: James P. Holcombe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752553855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author: William Lanouette
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628734779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 691

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Well-known names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller are usually those that surround the creation of the atom bomb. One name that is rarely mentioned is Leo Szilard, known in scientific circles as “father of the atom bomb.” The man who first developed the idea of harnessing energy from nuclear chain reactions, he is curiously buried with barely a trace in the history of this well-known and controversial topic. Born in Hungary and educated in Berlin, he escaped Hitler’s Germany in 1933 and that first year developed his concept of nuclear chain reactions. In order to prevent Nazi scientists from stealing his ideas, he kept his theories secret, until he and Albert Einstein pressed the US government to research atomic reactions and designed the first nuclear reactor. Though he started his career out lobbying for civilian control of atomic energy, he concluded it with founding, in 1962, the first political action committee for arms control, the Council for a Livable World. Besides his career in atomic energy, he also studied biology and sparked ideas that won others the Nobel Prize. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, where Szilard spent his final days, was developed from his concepts to blend science and social issues.

Author: Freek Colombijn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004263934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Freek Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh insight into how people experienced decolonization. The author challenges the idea that a shift from ethnic to class differences was the overriding social change during decolonization. He argues instead that class differences had already formed the predominant dividing lines in colonial urban society. Colombijn also focuses on the shifting balance of power between the main agents in the urban arena. Through the use of hitherto unused historical sources, the book presents a wealth of new data about the Indonesian city and the decolonization process. Published in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation (NIOD). Originally published with imprint KITLV (ISBN 9789067182911).

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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