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23 produkter
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Women in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2009
253 kr
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This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahābhārata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere …
Jaya
Performance in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2011
135 kr
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Jaya is a study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahābhārata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work of art. The book examines in detail the different mnemonic forms engaged by this verbal activity focusing primarily on the distinction between what is …
Heroic Kṛṣṇa
Friendship in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2013
444 kr
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Heroic Kṛṣṇa is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna, an incarnation of Visnu. This is a picture, drawn from the epic Mahābhārata, of an archaic warrior who excelled as a charioteer; in fact this is the best depiction that we …
In the Kacch
A Memoir of Love and Place
Häftad, 2015
275 kr
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This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small, distant land of kingship and pastoral life is rapidly being eroded by the new India of commerce …
Protein-Based Materials
Av David Kaplan, Kevin McGrath m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1098 kr
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This review of protein-based materials from a materials science perspective is divided into three sections: the chemical and biological approaches to this class of materials; introductions to the key classes of protein materials - silks, protein composites and elastomeric and adhesive proteins; and …
Protein-Based Materials
Av Kevin McGrath, David Kaplan
E-bok, 2012
1470 kr
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Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties. Spider webs, egg whites, hair follicles, and skeletal muscles are all largely protein. This book provides a glimpse into both nature''s strategies for the design and …
Protein-Based Materials
Av David Kaplan, Kevin McGrath
Häftad, 2011
1130 kr
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Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties. Spider webs, egg whites, hair follicles, and skeletal muscles are all largely protein. This book provides a glimpse into both nature's strategies for the design and …
F L Y E R
E-bok, 2005
118 kr
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FLYER is a lyrical work about the vicissitudes of affection and desire. Set against a background of sea and islands, it portrays the complexity of human love. Classically formulated, the poems represent levels of metaphor which are only available to a passionate condition: metaphors that reach far …
Comedia
E-bok, 2007
134 kr
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COMEDIA is a book about time, the emotions of time and the metaphors of time. It describes the cycle of the year in terms of the human heart: the year being the ideal paradigm or pattern of all human experience.
Raja Yudhisthira
Kingship in Epic Mahabharata
Inbunden, 2017
825 kr
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In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and …
Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Inbunden, 2019
1516 kr
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Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. The book also studies elements in the poem which have been …
Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2020
486 kr
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Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. The book also studies elements in the poem which have been …
On Friendship
E-bok, 2024
170 kr
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ON FRIENDSHIP is a book about the origins of consciousness and the place that friendship possesses in that process. As early human beings advanced out of Africa and slowly populated our earth they did so in terms of walking. Friendship, more than any other emotional experience-rather than …
Confronting Al-Qaeda
U.S. Military and Political Strategies for the War on Terror
Inbunden, 2011
417 kr
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Al Qaeda killed over 3,000 US citizens on September 11, 2001, and terrorism leapt to the fore of US strategic and political priorities. Yet, after nearly six years of concentrated effort by the United States, the dominant power in the international system, Al Qaeda survives and is still …
