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Offers a detailed exposition of Wittgenstein's philosophy as a continuous engagement with a single set of problems. The author argues that the key to understanding the transition in Wittgenstein's thought is his 1929 essay ""Some Remarks on Logical Form"" which is reprinted in this book.

By analyzing a varied body of writing- hagiographies, histories, treatises, and correspondence- in the context of religious colonial culture and European mercantilism, Mario Cesareo shows how Portuguese and Spanish missionaries created a Christian understanding of the colonial process.

In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that ¿with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.¿ The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer¿s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally. The book takes the ¿root-seeking¿ movement with which Mo Yan¿s works are associated as a metaphor for its organizational structure. The four articles of ¿Part I: Leaves¿ focus on Mo Yan¿s works as world literature, exploring the long shadow his works have cast globally. Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan¿s English translator, explores the difficulties and rewards of interpreting his work, while subsequent articles cover issues such as censorship and the ¿performativity¿ associated with being a global author. ¿Part II: Trunk¿ explores the nativist core of Mo Yan¿s works. Through careful comparative treatment of related historical events, the five articles in this section show how specific literary works intermingle with Chinäs national and international politics, its mid-twentieth-century visual culture, and its rich religious and literary conventions, including humor. The three articles in ¿Part III: Roots¿ delve into the theoretical and practical extensions of Mo Yan¿s works, uncovering the vibrant critical and cultural systems that ground Eastern and Western literatures and cultures. Mo Yan in Context concludes with an epilogue by sociologist Fenggang Yang, offering a personal and globally aware reflection on the recognition Mo Yan¿s works have received at this historical juncture.

This nonfiction picture book is a children's version of NASA astronaut Jerry L. Ross's autobiography, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer, designed for ages 7-12. Told in friendly first-person narration, it represents how Ross followed his dream from rural 1950s northern Indiana to Purdue University and then outer space.The thirty-two-page book is illustrated with personal photos and memorabilia. It is formatted into twenty-three narratives organized in chronological order illustrating events and experiences in Ross's life. Pages attractively interweave photos and text while prompts encourage readers to engage in in the story.Ross possessed specific character traits that helped him make choices and overcome obstacles as he struggled against the odds to realize his dream: curiosity, persistence, and believing in oneself. As the story unfolds and readers begin to make personal connections with Ross, his approach to problem solving and working through setbacks provides a powerful example for children.Content area concepts are integrated throughout the story, including but not limited to science, technology, engineering, math, visual literacy, financial literacy, geography, flight, and the race to space. Gravity, for example, is a major theme illustrated within the content of the story. Online guides for teachers using the book in a classroom setting (third to fourth grade recommended) are linked to throughout.A map of the United States on the inside front cover invites children to follow the path of Ross's journey from Crown Point, Indiana, to Kennedy Space Center. A timeline on the inside back cover compares and contrasts benchmark events in Ross's life and career with important events in flight and space travel history. Further electronic materials are available at www.jerrylross.com.

This collection of essays drawn from a range of disciplines explores American paranoia and the continuum of fear that has centred on enemies real and imagined in American culture. Contributors examine areas such as theoretical constructions of fear, racial discrimination and religious intolerance.

Examines the connections between artistic production and political action. This book focuses on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje.

Demonstrates that ""only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human"". The second edition of this text features a revised and expanded appendix and an additional chapter on the myths of self-narrative and ethical concerns.

Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory.

This text is designed to take the reader through the entire manufacturing process of hardwood plywood. Beginning with an explanation of lay terminology, it then addresses the many processes by which hardwood and decorative veneers can be cut and manufactured.

Includes coverage of the topics: Coordinating Effective Government Responses to Bio-terrorism; Interagency Relations in Animal Biosecurity Disasters; Nuclear Power Plant Security; and, Modeling and Analysis of Public Policies. This volume is for those who are involved with issues of homeland security from planners to administrators to researchers.

Deals with the issues of internal legality surrounding the events of Guantanamo Bay.

Rothenberg's work in the first analytical, full, length study of the army of Francis Joseph throughout its history from 1815-1918.

Hegel's ""Science of Logic"", still remains for most philosophers (both figuratively and literally) a firmly closed book. The purpose of this title is to dispel the myths that surround the ""Logic"" and to show that Hegel's unjustly neglected text is a work of extraordinary subtlety and insight.

The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's works including translations, and a bibliography of studies in several languages about his work.

This volume of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent scholarship about Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. The papers are followed by a bibliography of scholarship about Ondaatje's oeuvre, a list of his works, and the bio-profiles of the contributors to the volume.

This volume aims to show the right questions to ask in a survey questionnaire. It presents a framework of seven simple questions, and the advantage and disadvantage of the different question types and when to use each.