Rafael: 815 books
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among...
by Rafael Ramirez Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This book completes the documentation of Hebbronville. On the subject of the Catholics, the book talks about the Scotus College, the first church, and Catholic education. On Jim Hogg County, the buildings stories and the oldest retail businesses and hotels in Hebbronville are featured. Besides, many...
The Master Key
Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who eventually reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years, secretly teaches...
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography...
by Rafael Sabatini
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
MISTRUSTING the object of this gathering to which so secretly he had been bidden, Messer Graziani ambushed a half-score of his men about the street below, with orders to force their way into the house should he smash one of the windows as a signal. Therefore it was with a mind comparatively at ease...
by Ayşe Nihal Akbulut, Bouchra Benlemlih, Liviu Cotrău
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate...
Ornament and Order
Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the art establishment (or perhaps the art market), their academic and popular examination still remains within old debates which argue over...
by Rafael Estefani
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem". But when you feel like life is unbearable, you lose awareness that your feelings will change. One of the most horrible things about being depressed, and many suicidal people are, is that there is a pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that...
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
Gay Indians in Brazil
Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the family model considered as "normal"...
by Shu-Hong Yu, Vitaliy Budarin, Rafael Luque
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The environmentally-friendly production of these materials is crucial for a sustainable future.
This book focuses on the transformation...
by Rafael Toro
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An advanced civilization (Sapiens)6 in peril of extinction, after losing their Blue Planet discover and judge the behavior of a basic civilization (Sapiens)2. The facts are mirrored for your imagination.
Dancing Jacobins
A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic...
Los hados de febrero
Visiones artísticas de la decena trágica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Además de su enorme importancia para la historia mexicana del siglo XX, la serie de aciagos sucesos de febrero de 1913 conocida como la Decena Trágica tuvo vastas repercusiones en distintas modalidades del arte; en primer lugar, en la literatura, tanto en su vertiente narrativa como en el ámbito...