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Free Download Deconstruction, feminist theology, and the problem of difference: subverting the race/gender divide By Ellen T. Armour
1999 | 275 Pages | ISBN: 0226026892 | PDF | 11 MB
The term "feminism" conjures up the promise of resistance to the various forms of oppression women face. But feminism’s ability to fulfill this promise has been undermined by its failure to deal adequately with the difference that race makes for gender. In this book, Ellen T. Armour forges an alliance between deconstruction and feminist theology and theory by demonstrating deconstruction’s usefulness in addressing feminism’s trouble with race. Armour shows how the writings of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray can be used to uncover feminism’s white presumptions so that race and gender can be thought of differently. In clear, concise terms she explores the possibilities and limitations for feminist theology of Derrida’s conception of "woman" and Irigaray’s "multiple woman," as well as Derrida’s thinking on race and Irigaray’s work on religion. Armour then points a way beyond the race/gender divide with the help of African-American theorists such as bell hooks, Hortense Spillers, and Patricia Hill Collins.

Free Download David Williams, "Dreaming Difference "
English | ISBN: 1838382291 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In the second volume in the Scottish Photographic Artists series, David Williams provides a vivid biographical account of his creative development, identifying pivotal influences including an abiding, evolving interest in nonduality. He outlines key moments in a calling that saw him propelled from a career as a musician, to a vocation as an acclaimed photographic artist. Williams’ essay is complemented by an appreciation of his work by Tom Normand, the photo-historian and author of ‘Scottish Photography – a history’. Academic and critical comments on his work expand the appreciation of Williams’ oeuvre.

Free Download David Williams, "Dreaming Difference "
English | ISBN: 1838382291 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 15 MB
In the second volume in the Scottish Photographic Artists series, David Williams provides a vivid biographical account of his creative development, identifying pivotal influences including an abiding, evolving interest in nonduality. He outlines key moments in a calling that saw him propelled from a career as a musician, to a vocation as an acclaimed photographic artist. Williams’ essay is complemented by an appreciation of his work by Tom Normand, the photo-historian and author of ‘Scottish Photography – a history’. Academic and critical comments on his work expand the appreciation of Williams’ oeuvre.

Free Download Shakespeare and the cultivation of difference : race and conduct in the early modern world By Akhimie, Patricia; Shakespeare, William
2018 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 0815356439 | PDF | 4 MB
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature – how-to books on self-improvement – this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread belief that certain markers (including but not limited to "blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly, laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays reveals a recurring critique of the conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened, and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern world.–

Free Download Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes: Methodology and Applications by Ronald E Mickens
English | November 20, 2020 | ISBN: 9811222533 | 332 pages | MOBI | 9.01 Mb
This second edition of Nonstandard Finite Difference Models of Differential Equations provides an update on the progress made in both the theory and application of the NSFD methodology during the past two and a half decades. In addition to discussing details related to the determination of the denominator functions and the nonlocal discrete representations of functions of dependent variables, we include many examples illustrating just how this should be done.Of real value to the reader is the inclusion of a chapter listing many exact difference schemes, and a chapter giving NSFD schemes from the research literature. The book emphasizes the critical roles played by the ‘principle of dynamic consistency’ and the use of sub-equations for the construction of valid NSFD discretizations of differential equations.

Free Download Fractional Difference, Differential Equations, and Inclusions
by Abbas, Saïd;Ahmad, Bashir;Benchohra, Mouffak;Salim, Abdelkrim;, Bashir Ahmad, Mouffak Benchohra, Abdelkrim Salim
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0443236011 | 400 pages | True PDF EPUB | 17.42 MB

Free Download Greg Ryan Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Sarah Murray, "History Making a Difference"
English | ISBN: 144385199X | 2017 | 290 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Why care about the past? Why teach, research and write history? In this volume, leading and emerging scholars, activists and those working in the public sector, archives and museums bring their expertise to provide timely direction and informed debate about the importance of history. Primarily concerned with Aotearoa (the Mori name for New Zealand), the essays within traverse local, national and global knowledge to offer new approaches that consider the ability and potential for history to make a difference in the early twenty-first century. Authors adopt a wide range of methodological approaches, including social, cultural, Mori, oral, race relations, religious, public, political, economic, visual and material history. The chapters engage with work in postcolonial and cultural studies. The volume is divided into three sections that address the themes of challenging power and privilege, the co-production of historical knowledge and public and material histories. Collectively, the potential for dialogue across previous sub-disciplinary and public, private and professional divides is pursued.

Free Download Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the Developing World by Robert I. Rotberg
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0226728986 | 216 Pages | EPUB | 687.7 KB
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality.

Free Download Dr. Kevin Leman, "What a Difference a Mom Makes: The Indelible Imprint a Mom Leaves on Her Son’s Life"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0800734327 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 5.7 mb
Every mom wants the best for her son. She wants him to succeed in life, to be a man of character, to find a good woman, to be a great dad. But sometimes boys are hard for moms to understand. Sometimes they’re strange, annoying, and downright disgusting! Yet always they need a mother who is engaged and interested in them, because a mom is the most important person in a boy’s life.

Free Download Daniela Berghahn, "Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film"
English | ISBN: 1474474217 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 21 MB