Beyond the Hostel
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780907095330
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Beyond the Genre
Author: Stefano Calzati
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 152752230X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre affected by instant communication and digital technologies? This volume provides answers to these questions through adopting a transmedial perspective by comparing printed travel books and travel blogs. Notably, it explores how different editorial and medial choices impact on the cultural practices of travelling and writing. Methodologically, an ethnography is proposed via the discussion of a number of original interviews (collected over three years) with contemporary travel authors and bloggers, who journeyed around (and wrote about) China. These writers are from both the West (the UK, the USA, Italy, France, New Zealand) and China (Hong Kong and the Mainland). As such, the volume not only deconstructs the English-centredness and ethnocentrism that often affect travel writing as a genre, as well as many studies on it, but it also renews the academic debate on the politics behind the genre, connecting the texts with their spheres of production and reception. The study shows the interdependence between medial and literary features, on the one hand, and the ways of journeying and writing about the experience, which largely depend upon the biography of each writer, on the other.
Beyond Inclusion
Author: Satish Deshpande
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317810198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on caste, tribe, gender, and rural location continues to exist. Focusing on the concrete experiences of these programmes, this book explores the difficulties and dilemmas that follow formal inclusion, and seeks to redress the disproportionate emphasis on principles rather than practice in the quest for equal access to higher education in India. Offering new perspectives on the debates on social mobility and merit, this volume examines a broad spectrum of educational courses, ranging from engineering, medicine and sciences to social work, humanities and the social sciences that cover all levels of higher education from undergraduate degrees to post-doctoral research. It points to various sources of social exclusion by studying a cross-section of national, elite, subaltern, and sub-regional institutions across the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Closely involved with the implementation and evaluation of affirmative action programmes, the contributors to the volume highlight the paradoxical ‘sectionalisation’ of reserved candidates, the daunting challenge of combating discrimination. Understanding the need to look beyond formal inclusion to enable substantive change, this important volume will be essential reading for scholars and teachers of sociology, education, social work, economics, public administration, and political science, besides being of great interest to policymakers and organisations concerned with education and discrimination.
Beyond Backpacker Tourism
Author: Kevin Hannam
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1845411307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.
BEYOND YOU
Author: Swagatika Sahoo
Publisher: BookSquirrel Publication
Published: 2020-12-25
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond you is a beautiful amalgam of prose and poetries which takes you to a journey beyond your imagination, beyond your thoughts and beyond your emotions.. our wonderful authors here have the power to sway your feet from the grounds with the magic in their pens. Behold your breaths as we here present to you the anthology beyond you which will definitely pluck some strings in your heart.
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Author: Peter Stastny (ed.)
Publisher: Peter Lehmann Publishing
Published: 2022-10-10
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 3987567708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry, current possibilities for self-help for individuals experiencing madness or depression, and strategies toward implementing humane treatment. Sixty-one authors (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives from all five continents report about their alternative work, their objectives and successes, and their individual and collective experiences. +++ These are the main questions addressed by the 61 authors from all five continents: What helps me if I go mad or depressive? / How can I find trustworthy help for a relative or a friend in need? / How can I protect myself from coercive treatment? / As a family member or friend, how can I help? / What should I do if I can no longer bear to work in the mental health field? / What are the alternatives to psychiatry? / How can I get involved in creating alternatives? / Assuming psychiatry would be abolished: what do you propose. instead of psychiatry?
Beyond Diamonds
Author: Thomas McCavour
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2015-12-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 146027525X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill the lives of a Canadian Inuit woman and a South African man come together again? Can their love be reignited, or will they go their separate way in Canada and Africa? Beyond Diamonds continues the adult life story of Sarah Akana and Sam Kambo. It traces Sarah’s continuing involvement with the development of the Canadian North and her role in the construction of Arctic Highways and in Federal Politics. Sam Kambo becomes the head of a large mining company with properties around the world. McCavour examines the current and future development of natural resources in Canada and Africa including the effects of global warming and issues of global food, energy and water supply. He offers a glimpse into the future and provides his opinion about the state of the world in 2028.
Beyond the Pampas
Author: Imogen Herrad
Publisher: Seren
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1854116096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Pampas is an exploration of the lives of the descendents of nineteenth century Welsh settlers in Argentina. Herrad discovers a fascinating melding of Welsh and Spanish language cultures through which she explores the nature of heritage and identity. Her expectations are further challenged by the plight of Patagonia's indigenous peoples - the Tehuelche and Mapuche - with the land-related cultures and oppression by European settlers. This is an additional prism through which to view history, as is the difference Herrad discovers between metropolitan Buenos Aires and the rural hinterland. And the whole is underpinned by Herrad's personal journey of self-discovery, from an abusive childhood in Germany to acceptance in the communities of Wales and Patagonia. Herrad's openness to new experience and her wonder at the natural world result in a rich and evocative depiction of the exotic places in which she finds herself, from camping under the stars in the Andes to whale-watching on the Atlantic coast, and from the Welsh-speaking tea rooms of Chubut to the museums of lost Indian peoples.
Beyond Jihad
Author: Lamin Sanneh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0199351627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.
Beyond The Little Blue Box
Author: John T Draper
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1525505696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to the world of John T. Draper, better known as Captain Crunch, an eccentric genius who went from being a penniless hacker to a millionaire and back again. Along the way, he developed some of the most significant tools of the computer revolution, but for every success, there have been setbacks and hurdles of literary proportion. Featuring a foreword by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and cameos by the who’s who of early computing, this Kerouacian journey gives us an inside look at the birth of modern computing through the eyes of one of its most influential pioneers.
