On Wings Of Diesel

Author : Jamal J. Elias
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781851688111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Wings of Diesel written by Jamal J. Elias and published by Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with beautiful colour photos throughout, On Wings of Diesel takes us on a journey through the fascinating world of Pakistani truck decoration. Ornately adorned and considered as moving artA", these trucks - veritable roving exhibitions - depict all aspects of life and support a highly developed artisanal industry. Examining designs and motifs, the cultural significance of the practice, and the motivations of truck owners, Jamal J. Elias provides a unique window on Pakistan's complex society that addresses questions of culture and religion in an accessible and exciting way.

Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022647139X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matatu written by Kenda Mutongi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.

Author : Shahzad Bashir
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674069781
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Drones written by Shahzad Bashir and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism’s ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West’s prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorship and Diesel Boating written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2868 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 2868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jamal J. Elias
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067398
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aisha's Cushion written by Jamal J. Elias and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics.

Author : Paul D. Jackson
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622951549
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If a Frog Had Wings written by Paul D. Jackson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "July 24, 2008, my wife and I sat in Dr. Doug Flora's office. The doctor entered the room, turned, and looked at us and said, 'I know folks, this really sucks! You have esophageal cancer. It is what is called a clinical T3N1 tumor. It's extremely serious.' He then went into a detailed explanation of Dr. Saeed's findings. He sketched a picture of my esophagus and stomach on a white sheet of paper that covered the examining table and pointed at the base of my stomach and esophagus and drew a circle where the tumor had been detected. He said that the tumor's size was 2.0 mm. I told him that I had been taking long walks to get a suntan and to lose weight and had been proud to lose seventeen pounds. He said, 'The cancer took your seventeen pounds-it wasn't the walking.' Join author Paul D. Jackson, Jr. in If A Frog Had Wings as he reflects on how his life experiences from childhood to adulthood had prepared him for the fight of his life. Share in the humor, heartbreak and steadfast stubbornness in Paul's love of life that have helped him to overcome great adversity and come out standing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1978 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heavy D
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501173154
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diesel Brothers written by Heavy D and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of monster trucks, no one builds bigger and more extreme rides--and has more fun in the process--than Heavy D, Diesel Dave, and their crew at DieselSellerz. Their larger-than-life creations and awesome truck giveaways are legendary, but for those less fortunate who havent had the opportunity to experience a Bros' souped-up truck, this thrill-ride of a book is the next best thing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Navy Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1940 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: