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Feature-length animated adventure following Scooby-Doo (voice of
Frank Welker) and the Mystery, Inc. gang. Shaggy (Matthew Lillard),
Fred (also Welker), Daphne (Grey DeLisle), Velma (Mindy Cohn) and
Scooby-Doo win places on board a spaceship and head out on their
journey along with various characters including billionaire Sly
Baron (Malcolm McDowell) and astronaut Shannon Lucas (Jennifer
Hale). While they are in space they encounter an alien who wreaks
havoc with their vessel and they are forced to land on the moon.
Can the gang catch the alien and get everyone safely back to Earth?
While the Arab revolutions have obviously triggered extensive
social and political changes, the far-reaching consequences of the
cultural and discursive changes have yet to be adequately
considered. For activists, researchers and journalists, the
revolution was primarily a revolution in language; a break with the
linguistic oppression and the rigidity of the old regimes. This
break was accompanied by the emergence of new languages, which made
it possible to inform, tell and translate the ongoing events and
transformations. This language of the revolution was carried out
into the world by competing voices from Syria (by local and foreign
researchers, activists, and journalists). The core of this project
is to find the various translations of the language of the Syrian
revolution (2011 -2012) from Arabic to English to study and
analyze. In addition, the discursive and non-discursive dimensions
of the revolution are to be seen as another act of translation,
including the language of the banners, slogans, graffiti, songs and
their representation in English. This research aims, in addition to
contextualizing the language of the revolution, to demonstrate how
this language was translated into English through three levels of
translation. The first explores the context of translations from
Arabic into English and examines three English books written about
Syria. The second level sees translation as an act of importation
into the dominant discourse and is exemplified with three books
representing the revolutionary language. The third, and last, level
looks at translation from the margin to the center, represented by
activist translations from Arabic into English. The research tries
to study how translations of the language of the Syrian revolution
are reshaped after leaving their originating discourse and entering
the English one
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Waterman (Hardcover)
Oskar Freysinger; Translated by Rudolph Bader; Illustrated by Alexander Trifu
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R668
Discovery Miles 6 680
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A significant number of Americans spend their weekends at UFO
conventions hearing whispers of government cover-ups, at New Age
gatherings learning the keys to enlightenment, or ambling around
historical downtowns learning about resident ghosts in
tourist-targeted "ghost walks". They have been fed a steady diet of
fictional shows with paranormal themes such as The X-Files,
Supernatural, and Medium, shows that may seek to simply entertain,
but also serve to disseminate paranormal beliefs. The public hunger
for the paranormal seems insatiable. Paranormal America provides
the definitive portrait of Americans who believe in or have
experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic
phenomena, astrology, and the power of mediums. However, unlike
many books on the paranormal, this volume does not focus on proving
or disproving the paranormal, but rather on understanding the
people who believe and how those beliefs shape their lives. Drawing
on the Baylor Religion Survey-a multi-year national random sample
of American religious values, practices, and behaviors-as well as
extensive fieldwork including joining hunts for Bigfoot and
spending the night in a haunted house, authors Christopher Bader,
F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker shed light on what the various
types of paranormal experiences, beliefs, and activities claimed by
Americans are; whether holding an unconventional belief, such as
believing in Bigfoot, means that one is unconventional in other
attitudes and behaviors; who has such experiences and beliefs and
how they differ from other Americans; and if we can expect major
religions to emerge from the paranormal. Brimming with engaging
personal stories and provocative findings, Paranormal America is an
entertaining yet authoritative look at a growing segment of
American religious culture.
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Deception (Hardcover)
Jerry Bader; Illustrated by Paola Ceccantoni
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R873
Discovery Miles 8 730
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Paul's statement that 'letter kills but the spirit gives life' [2
Corinthians 3.6] has had an extraordinary impact on Christian
thought through the ages. It has been read both as affirming the
saving power of the new covenant in comparison to the old, and as a
key to hidden, spiritual meanings in the text of scripture. It is,
however, an ambiguous phrase, followed by a tangled story. This
book explores the Pauline distinction both in its original context
and in its aftermath in the early church, the Reformation and
modern Biblical Studies. It then considers a postmodern reversal,
where ideas of 'Spirit' are often seen as 'deadly' and the openness
of the 'letter' or text as life-affirming, and draws conclusions
for Spirit in the world.
The questions have been with us since the dim, dark dusk of early
humanity. Who are we? How did we get here? Who is in charge? In
"The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing, " author Jim
Robert Bader communicates his personal philosophy on these age-old
enigmas as they apply to modern society.Intended as a primer for
the mind of the layman, "The Discovery of Everything, the Creation
of Nothing" presents a manifesto of the soul that insists the truth
is not only out there, but easily accessible to anyone. Based on
years of research and observation, Bader distills the complexities
and addresses relevant topics from an "everyman" perspective by
pondering the nature of the universe. He reflects on the thoughts
and discoveries of others to bring knowledge to the common man.In
"The Discovery of Everything, the Creation of Nothing, " Bader
offers a new way of understanding the world. He confronts old
assumptions, and he challenges the traditional way of thinking to
better cope with and comprehend the nature of the world around us.
Lying-For Better or Worse
Everybody lies. Friends lie to friends. Children lie to their parents. Politicians lie to constituents. And, inevitably, husbands and wives lie to each other. Lies between lovers have tremendous potential to both nurture and destroy a relationship. It is easy to underestimate the power that lies-even seemingly harmless lies-can wield in your marriage. Tell Me No Lies explores the complexity of honesty versus deception in marriage and reveals the many reasons behind the lies we tell our partners (and ourselves).
Learn the four marital stages: * The Honeymoon * Emerging Differences * Freedom * Together as Two
Discover how to recognize how lying can lead to serious trouble at each stage. The signs include: * The Dark Side of the Honeymoon, when couples refuse to acknowledge any problems * The Stalemate, when couples fight and brutalize each other with exaggerated truths * Freedom Unhinged, when independence outweighs togetherness and marital anarchy ensues.
Offering a new way of thinking about truth and deception, this book will help you understand the dynamics of your marriage in the context of the marital stages. If you can identify your marital stage, you can overcome the barriers to honesty and move on to a happier and more fulfilling marriage!
The future of music archiving and search engines lies in deep
learning and big data. Music information retrieval algorithms
automatically analyze musical features like timbre, melody, rhythm
or musical form, and artificial intelligence then sorts and relates
these features. At the first International Symposium on
Computational Ethnomusicological Archiving held on November 9 to
11, 2017 at the Institute of Systematic Musicology in Hamburg,
Germany, a new Computational Phonogram Archiving standard was
discussed as an interdisciplinary approach. Ethnomusicologists,
music and computer scientists, systematic musicologists as well as
music archivists, composers and musicians presented tools, methods
and platforms and shared fieldwork and archiving experiences in the
fields of musical acoustics, informatics, music theory as well as
on music storage, reproduction and metadata. The Computational
Phonogram Archiving standard is also in high demand in the music
market as a search engine for music consumers. This book offers a
comprehensive overview of the field written by leading researchers
around the globe.
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as
a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A
Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new
life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth
century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive
assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In
engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse Nozick's
ideas from a variety of perspectives and explore neglected areas of
the work such as his discussion of anarchism and his theory of
utopia. Their detailed and illuminating picture of Anarchy, State,
and Utopia, its impact and its enduring influence will be
invaluable to students and scholars in both political philosophy
and political theory.
How do we understand culture and shape its future? How do we cross
the bridge between culture as ideas and feelings and physical,
cultural objects, all this within the endless variety and
complexity of modern and traditional societies? This book proposes
a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing
impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to
consciousness, the Physical Culture Theory proposes that
consciousness content, what we think, hear, feel, or see is also
just this: spatio-temporal electric fields. Music is a perfect
candidate to elaborate on such a Physical Culture Theory. Music is
all three, musical instrument acoustics, music psychology, and
music ethnology. They emerge into living musical systems like all
life is self-organization. Therefore the Physical Culture Theory
knows no split between nature and nurture, hard and soft sciences,
brains and musical instruments. It formulates mathematically
complex systems as Physical Models rather than Artificial
Intelligence. It includes ethical rules for maintaining life and
finds culture and arts to be Human Rights. Enlarging these ideas
and mathematical methods into all fields of culture, ecology,
economy, or the like will be the task for the next decades to come.
There is an invisible army of people deep inside the world's
biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more
responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana
Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the
next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they don't always succeed.
Christine Bader is one of those people. She worked for and loved BP
and then-CEO John Browne's lofty rhetoric on climate change and
human rights--until a string of fatal BP accidents, Browne's abrupt
resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony
Hayward's tenure as chief executive, which would end with the
Deepwater Horizon disaster. Bader's story of working deep inside
the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its
themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company
(accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a
corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management;
of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing
for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When
Girl Meets Oil is based on Bader's experience with BP and then with
a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses
linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves
in the stories of other "Corporate Idealists" working inside some
of the world's biggest and best-known companies.
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