Tales of the Supernational

Tales of the Supernational PDF Author: Dana Ramos Herrera
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines PDF Author: Artemio R. Guillermo
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810872463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 653

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The Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Seven in the Eye of History

Seven in the Eye of History PDF Author: Asuncion David Maramba
Publisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Tales in the City Volume III

Tales in the City Volume III PDF Author: Alokparna Das, Purnima Dixit, Piyush Pratik Mohanty, Valerie Blue Claveria, Leslie Riola, Charles Tomeldan, Satabdi Saha, Dante Villaneuva Aguilar, Kuntala Bhattacharya, Taniya Briana
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9356977550
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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“Rural landscapes can give the double illusion of being eternal and newly born. Cities, on the other hand, are marked with specific architecture from specific dates, and this architecture, built by long-vanished others for their own uses, is the shell that we, like hermit crabs, climb into.” ― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

Ghostly Horror Tales Filipino Comics

Ghostly Horror Tales Filipino Comics PDF Author: Biyernes Trese
Publisher: Pinoy Horror
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Ghostly Horror Tales is a premium quality Comics from the Philippines. The comics illustrates and documents real Ghost and supernatural tales from the Philippines. This comics & Magazine also presents real Ghost caught on CAM from readers... As cameras and mobile phone cameras became available to the general public, ghost caught on camera anomalies have been present in amateur photography. The abnormalities represented proof of ghost and spirits. With the advancement of digital camera technology, especially with smart phones, there have been clearer and sharper images of ghosts. Ghost caught on cam is considered paranormal because this phenomenon is unexplained. We have collected real Ghost caught on CAM sent by our readers. We will present them to you for your approval.

Tales from Facebook

Tales from Facebook PDF Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637876
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation. After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology - that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.

Coffee and Dreams on a Late Afternoon

Coffee and Dreams on a Late Afternoon PDF Author: Nikki Rivera Gomez
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Category : Mindanao Island (Philippines)
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)

Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) PDF Author: Elena Suet-Ying Chiu
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)—a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their circulation and reception into the early twentieth century. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization. To go beyond readily available texts, author Elena Chiu engaged in intensive fieldwork and archival research, examining approximately four hundred hand-copied and printed zidishu texts housed in libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan. Guided by theories of minority literature, cultural studies, and intertextuality, Chiu explores both the Han and Manchu cultures in the Qing dynasty through bannermen tales, and argues that they exemplified elements of Manchu cultural hybridization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries while simultaneously attempting to validate and perpetuate the superiority of Manchu identity. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization.

Great Men and Women of Asia

Great Men and Women of Asia PDF Author: Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Some People Need Killing

Some People Need Killing PDF Author: Patricia Evangelista
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593133153
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Patricia Evangelista’s searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of despotism—its nightmarish consequences and its terrible human cost.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain “Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.”—Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated “A journalistic masterpiece”—David Remnick, The New Yorker For six years, journalist Patricia Evangelista documented killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of then president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs—a crusade that led to the slaughter of thousands—immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others. The book takes its title from the words of a vigilante, which demonstrated the psychological accommodation many across the country had made: “I’m really not a bad guy,” he said. “I’m not all bad. Some people need killing.” A profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism, Some People Need Killing is a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist. WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE AND THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, CrimeReads, The Mary Sue