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The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against
racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the
city of New York. The second time, he was incarcerated when his
promotion to full professor was finalized. During his ninety-day
pretrial confinement at the Hartford Correctional Center--a level
4, high-security urban jail in Connecticut--he met men who shared
harrowing and heart-felt stories. The experience taught him about
the persistence of structural racism, the limitations of mass
media, and the pervasive traumas of twenty-first-century daily
life. Shankar's bold and complex self-portrait--and portrait of
America--challenges us to rethink our complicity in the criminal
justice system and mental health policies that perpetuate inequity
and harm. Correctional dives into the inner workings of his mind
and heart, framing his unexpected encounters with law and order
through the lenses of race, class, privilege, and his bicultural
upbringing as the first and only son of South Indian immigrants.
Vignettes from his early life set the scene for his spectacular
fall and subsequent struggle to come to terms with his own demons.
Many of them, it turns out, are also our own.
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Alice in Wonderland (DVD)
Wilfrid Brambell, Peter Cook, Michael Redgrave, Peter Sellers, Anne-Marie Mallik, …
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Made-for-TV BBC adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's
book from film-maker Jonathan Miller. Young girl Alice (Anne-Marie
Mallik) falls down the White Rabbit (Wilfrid Brambell)'s hole into
a bizarre world full of eccentric characters such as the
Caterpillar (Michael Redgrave), the Mock Turtle (John Gielgud) and
the Mad Hatter (Peter Cook). Peter Sellers also stars as the King
of Hearts. The film features music by Ravi Shankar.
This book comprises select proceedings of the International
Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering
(FLAME 2018). The book discusses different topics of industrial and
production engineering such as sustainable manufacturing systems,
computer-aided engineering, rapid prototyping, manufacturing
management and automation, metrology, manufacturing process
optimization, casting, welding, machining, and machine tools. The
contents of this book will be useful for researchers as well as
professionals.
This transformative collection of the teachings of renowned
spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will help readers
find balance, peace, and joy amid the ups and downs of everyday
life. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has changed the lives of
millions of people around the world for the better. Yet many in the
West have not been introduced to his profound and practical
approach to living a spiritual life. This book is meant to bridge
that gap. In June of 1995, Gurudev began a weekly tradition of
creating a short talk, often on a subject that was relevant to
current events or in response to questions posed by audiences at
his international gatherings. What resulted were powerful words of
wisdom, accompanied by much celebration, laughter, and
lightheartedness. This book is a collection of those transcribed
talks, spanning almost a decade. Gurudev's teachings can make a
huge difference in how a person lives their life, how they interact
with their family, friends, and co-workers, how they understand the
spiritual path, and how they walk it. This extraordinary
compilation of insights can help readers on their journeys within,
to that all-encompassing love, joy, and peace at their cores
The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet
and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic
form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award-winner
Terrance Hayes. An array of writers-including winners of the
Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award,
as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate-have written poems
for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez
Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty,
Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of
the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel
poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international
student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn
Brooks's daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school
students add to Ms. Brooks's legacy and contribute to the depth and
breadth of this anthology.
This book comprises select proceedings of the International
Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering
(FLAME 2018). The book discusses different topics of industrial and
production engineering such as sustainable manufacturing systems,
computer-aided engineering, rapid prototyping, manufacturing
management and automation, metrology, manufacturing process
optimization, casting, welding, machining, and machine tools. The
contents of this book will be useful for researchers as well as
professionals.
With stunning new photographs and a new final chapter detailing
Ravi Shankar's hope for the preservation of Indian classical music,
this updated edition of "My Music, My Life" profiles an
extraordinary man. In his own words, Shankar describes his
transformation from a young traveling dancer to a Grammy
Award-winning, internationally known musician. An autobiography, a
history of Indian classical music, and a manual on how to play the
sitar, this book is about music as a both a lifestyle and an art.
It embodies Ravi Shankar's unique approach to his craft.
Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games. This
essential book teaches you to master advanced game programming in
HTML5. You'll learn techniques that you can transfer to any area of
HTML5 game development to make your own professional HTML5 games.
Led by an expert game programmer, you'll build two complete games
in HTML5: a strategy puzzle game based on the Box2d physics engine
and in the style of Angry Birds and a real-time strategy (RTS) game
complete with units, buildings, path-finding, artificial
intelligence, and multiplayer support. This new and fully updated
second edition now includes chapters on mobile game development and
an essential game developer's toolkit. Understand how to develop
complex, bolder games and become an HTML5 games pro using Pro HTML5
Games today. What You'll Learn Create realistic physics in your
game by incorporating the Box2d physics engine Design large worlds
with lots of characters and let users interact with them Use sprite
sheets, panning, parallax scrolling, and sound effects to build a
more polished game Incorporate pathfinding and steering to help
characters navigate through your world Create challenging levels
with intelligent enemies by using decision trees, state machines,
and scripted events Add multiplayer in your games using Node.js and
the WebSocket API
Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the
extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from
his beginnings as a young Indian lawyer to his triumph as a
revolutionary - whose philosophy of non-violent protest helped gain
India its independence. The film won eight Academy Awards,
including Best Picture.
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural
forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an
unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle
Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the
Diaspora. Some poets, such as Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish, are
acclaimed worldwide, but many more will be new to the reader. The
collection includes 400 unique voices political and apolitical,
monastic and erotic that represent a wider artistic movement that
challenges thousand-year-old traditions, broadening our notion of
contemporary literature. Each section of the anthology organized by
theme rather than by national affiliation is preceded by a personal
essay from the editors that introduces the poetry and exhorts
readers to examine their own identities in light of these powerful
poems. In an age of violence and terrorism, often predicated by
cultural ignorance, this anthology is a bold declaration of shared
humanity and devotion to the transformative power of art."
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