History of Resistance in Kenya 1884-2002, Kĩnyattĩ Maina Wa
Автор: Wa Thiong`o Ngũgĩ Название: Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir ISBN: 1620973332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620973332 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 15930.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "The Ngugi of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon's sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." --BookforumAn unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge
Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population.
In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ--the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow--decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross.
Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
Автор: Editors of Media Lab Books Название: Toxic Farts, Brain-Eating Amoebas, Mosquito Assassins & More: 297 Terrifying Ways Nature Is Trying to Murder You ISBN: 1948174383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948174381 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Why does nature try to kill us? In the same way that humans thin the herd when a particular group of animals grow too dense or too expansive for their habitat, nature tries make sure we live in balance with the world as well, which, lets face it, we suck at. Toxic Farts, Brain-Eating Amoebas Mosquito Assassins details hundreds of the scariest, messiest, smelliest, most terrifying ways that nature works to destroy, maim or sicken humans every single day. Each page of this book examines an oddity or two from the natural world that is harmful to humanity. And were not talking about car wrecks, warfare, drug overdoses or parachute accidents.
Автор: Ngaugai Wa Thiongo Название: The Perfect Nine: The Epic Story of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi ISBN: 1620975254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620975251 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time"
"Seldom have the raw truths of Africa been exposed so vividly, yet humorously. . . . With tales that tease, then bite, Ngũgĩ] tackles the absurdities, injustices and corruption of a continent." --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdad Sings on Minutes of Glory in the New York Times Book Review
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world.
In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders made to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters--called "The Perfect Nine"--and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice.
Ngũgĩ's epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, "The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture."
Автор: Weil Jirн Название: Lamentation for 77,297 Victims ISBN: 8024645335 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788024645339 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the lively, but desperate world of D.C.`s underbelly, filled with back-alley deals, gentrification clashes, and unexpected encounters between politicians and bottom-rung natives-all set against a soundscape of patois, street Spanish, and D.C. slang-a Black homeless man must hone his detective skills before he is punished for a brutal crime he didn`t commit.
Автор: Minh Tiến, Nguyễn Название: V i suy nghĩ về Đại tạng kinh tiếng việt ISBN: 1721535934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781721535934 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Đức Phật ra đời v một đại sự nh n duy n, một mục đ ch duy nhất l cứu khổ ban vui cho tất cả ch ng sinh, hay n i một c ch cụ thể hơn l chỉ b y cho nh n loại con đường tho t khổ. Con đường tho t khổ đ bao gồm nhiều phương tiện kh c nhau để c thể th ch hợp với mọi tầng lớp, mọi căn cơ kh c nhau. Nhờ đ m từ những bậc thượng căn đại tr cho đến kẻ si m ngu muội nhất cũng đều c thể nhận được lợi lạc từ Phật ph p, chỉ cần c thể ph t khởi niềm tin v ki n tr nỗ lực tu tập theo đ ng lời Phật dạy. Gi o ph p của đức Phật khởi truyền từ Ấn Độ, nhưng nh s ng Phật ph p qua thời gian đ dần dần soi chiếu khắp nơi, đến h m nay th trở th nh một gi o ph p được biết đến v vận dụng tr n to n cầu. Trong thực tế, Đức Phật đản sinh khi nh n loại đang ch m ngập trong khổ đau, v hơn 25 thế kỷ sau khi Phật nhập diệt, nh n loại vẫn ngập ch m trong đau khổ. Thế nhưng, trong d ng khổ đau trải d i qua hơn 25 thế kỷ đ , c biết bao người đ thực sự tho t khổ được vui, c biết bao người đ c thể vượt tr n số phận bi đ t mu n thuở của kiếp người, sống một cuộc đời an vui tự tại trong từng gi y ph t. V gần gũi nhất, mỗi người Phật tử h m nay khi tĩnh t m nh n lại, đều c thể dễ d ng nhận ra rằng Phật ph p đ mang đến cho ta biết bao niềm vui sống, đ biến cuộc đời ta từ v nghĩa trở th nh c nghĩa, đ th o gỡ cho ta biết bao phiền n o tr i buộc, giảm nhẹ cho ta biết bao khổ đau trong cuộc sống... Hạnh ph c ch n thật c được từ sự thực h nh Phật ph p l một trạng th i kh c biệt r r ng, kh ng thể nhầm lẫn với những niềm vui c được khi thỏa m n dục lạc, bởi n sẽ lan tỏa sang mọi người quanh ta để ai ai cũng c thể vui theo, thay v cướp lấy niềm vui của người kh c để biến th nh "của m nh."
Автор: Albert Reimer Название: Horizons in World Physics. Volume 297 ISBN: 1536147125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536147124 Издательство: Nova Science Рейтинг: Цена: 271380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Horizons in World Physics. Volume 297 describes the fabrication and characterization of magnetic field tunable capacitors based on La1xSrxMnO3/SrxLa1xTiO3 epitaxial multilayers. The multilayer structures were grown by magnetron sputtering and characterized comprehensively by high resolution transmission electron microscopy combined with electron energy loss spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, low-angle x-ray reflectivity, direct current charge transport measurements and magnetic field dependent alternating current impedance spectroscopy.Next, the authors deal with mass spectrometric characterization of atoms, radicals and ions in magnetron sputtering discharges generated in Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe gases. In these discharges, different kinds of species are generated according to the magnetron target and the kind of sputtering gas used.The procedures and techniques used to suppress Brillouin scattering in lasers are also reviewed. The three different categories of Brillouin suppression methods are discussed in detail, and the authors comment on the effectiveness, ease of implementation and cost of these techniques.This compilation goes on to discuss how computing the capacitance of a system of bodies represents a classical problem, the study of which began in the works of Maxwell and Rayleigh. In practice, bodies may be placed into a medium which can contain defects influencing the mutual capacitance of a pair of bodies and, as a result, the capacitance of the system of bodies.A new design of collimator is proposed that has variable sensitivity and spatial resolution, eliminating the need for exchanging collimators in a radiation camera. Using Monte Carlo simulations, the authors aim to evaluate the shielding of undesirable radiations in a newly proposed collimator.Using the gravitational mass spectroscopy, the influence of the gravitational noise of the universe on the long-range order in collagen was studied, as well as how the neutrino flows from the neutrino halos of the collagen domains run to the TXS 0506 + 056 blazar. A mechanism of the reversible destruction of the collagen domains was proposed, and an ensemble of black holes was concluded to be present inside the blazar.Afterwards, the influence of the gravitational noises of our galaxy on long-range order of molecular clusters and super micellar structures in potato and water was analyzed from 2003 to 2018 by the method of gravitational mass spectroscopy. It was found that the appearance of molecular clusters in biomatrix and liquid water is not stable, they reflecting the state of the GN in our sector of galaxy.Lastly, the authors propose an approximation for the Schrodinger equation, giving the expressions for spectrum and the corresponding wave functions in an explicit form. This approach is also connected with the extended confluent hypergeometric differential equation to help in obtaining further specifications for spectrum.
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