Author: François Xavier BlanchetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reports from the Special Committee on Roads and Other Internal Communications
Author: François Xavier BlanchetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Register of Debates in Congress
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Famished Road
Author: Vanessa GuigneryPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386773X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre-conceived patterns and categories in order to embrace the otherness of the text and accept to be challenged by it. Disentangling themselves from the rationality of Western discourses, they have opened their minds to unfamiliar ground and new modes of being and seeing the world, which entailed bringing together various structures of feeling, modes of knowledge and protocols of representation, both African and Western. The purpose of this volume is therefore to offer new ways of reading The Famished Road that testify to the richness of Okri’s poetic prose and his reliance on indigenous mythical and oral traditions. The volume also includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri who provides an insight into his writing processes and discusses the main themes, narrative techniques and literary strategies at work in The Famished Road.
The Intelligent Safety of Automobile
Author: Jianqiang WangPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819963990
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The book expounds the current research and development trend of intelligent safety technology of automobile, and analyzes and excavates the new safety technology to the automobile. It introduces the basic theory, core method, key technology, main system, test evaluation and innovation practice of intelligent safety of automobile for readers, providing a certain theoretical and practical basis for the safety development of the automobile.This book is elaborated from the perspective of the driver-vehicle-road system. The traffic accidents are divided into three stages for discussion: before, during and after the collision. This book constructs a new systematic structure for Safety theory and technical system of several key links, including system safety, operation safety, intelligent protection and safety evaluation. It will be a useful reference for researchers and practitioners in the field of automobile engineering and auto pilot.
The King’s Road
Author: Xin WenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243190
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for trade The King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen presents a rich social history of long-distance travel that played out in deserts, post stations, palaces, and polo fields. The book tells the story of the everyday lives of diplomatic travelers on the Silk Road—what they ate and drank, the gifts they carried, and the animals that accompanied them—and how they navigated a complex web of geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. It also describes the risks and dangers envoys faced along the way—from financial catastrophe to robbery and murder. Using documents unearthed from the famous Dunhuang “library cave” in Western China, The King’s Road paints a detailed picture of the intricate network of trans-Eurasian transportation and communication routes that was established between 850 and 1000 CE. By exploring the motivations of the kings who dispatched envoys along the Silk Road and describing the transformative social and economic effects of their journeys, the book reveals the inner workings of an interstate network distinct from the Sino-centric “tributary” system. In shifting the narrative of the Silk Road from the transport of commodities to the exchange of diplomatic gifts and personnel, The King’s Road puts the history of Eastern Eurasia in a new light.
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Engineers Club of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Author: Clayton Holt Ernst
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