The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…<p>The Eoan Group, founded in 1933 in Cape Town, was South Africa’s first and only all-coloured opera, dance and theatre company. …”

Diplomatic training and spaces of anticolonial worldmaking by Craggs, R, Harris, J, McConnell, F

“…Drawing on archival evidence from Africa, Europe and North America, and oral history interviews, we argue that worldmaking projects were grounded, learned, and transformed in places such as the classrooms and study tours we explore. Whilst many accounts of anticolonial and subaltern geopolitical projects focus on grassroots activism beyond and against the state, we argue we also need to attend to the contributions of those – like African diplomats in training - who critiqued Eurocentric and colonial international relations from subaltern positions whilst remaining privileged within the context of the postcolonial state.…”

Encore Valentine / by Adriani Trigiani, author 656192

“…More so, she longs to create one of her own, but is torn between a past love that nurtured her, and a new one that promises to sustain her.…”

The imagination of eco-disaster : post-disaster rebuilding in Asian cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…Juxtaposing examples from China, Thailand and the Phillippines, particularly with three films: Wonderful Town (Thailand, 2007), Aftershock (China, 2010) and Taklub (Phillippines, 2015), this article demonstrates how Asian eco-disaster films in the Anthropocene epoch reflect specific cultural imaginations of nation and identity rebuilding, which in turn provide a ground to reposition, redefine and reinvent the changing cultural identities in contemporary Asia. …”
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Routing drone by Zheng, Min

“…In Drone routing, both the capability of the drone and the algorithm used for pathfinding are crucial in order to achieve a feasible and optimal complete tour. This project aims to build an approximation algorithm and a model, with the algorithm created as realistically as possible, being based on the state-of-the-art drone capability to suite the study on defining and controlling the flight path. …”
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Indo-Afghan strategic treaty : implications for Pakistan by Bibhu Prasad Routray

“…The Indo-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement signed on 4 October, unveils the congruence of US, Afghan and Indian end goals in the war torn country. It also has implications for Pakistani-Afghan relations.…”
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New US strategy : Afghans losing bargaining power by Bibhu Prasad Routray

“…However this approach runs counter to an Afghan vision of an end state for the war torn country.…”
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Duterte: Delivering the Promised Peace to Mindanao by Singh, Bilveer

“…After years of starts-stops and derailment of peace agreements, the Philippines is today poised to make a peace breakthrough in strife-torn Muslim-dominated Mindanao in southern Philippines. …”
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Build your own Android App by Kyaw, Thu Zin

“…The purpose of this project is to develop a GPS enabled android mobile application that will assist users to find an available parking space within a HDB residential town. The mobile application also has multiple functions such as displaying the current location of the user with nearby HDB car park information in Map View, search function by residential town, and search function by carpark name to look for real-time total carpark lots and available empty lot. …”
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Topological phases with parafermions: theory and blueprints by Alicea, J, Fendley, P

“…In particular, we highlight how parafermion chains host a topological phase featuring protected edge zero modes. We then tour several blueprints for the laboratory realization of parafermion zero modes—focusing on quantum Hall/superconductor hybrids, quantum Hall bilayers, and two-dimensional topological insulators—and describe striking experimental fingerprints that they provide. …”

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow / by Katouh, Zoulfa, 1994-, author 656134, Hachette Books Group (Online service) 647103

“…But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. …”
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Temporal variability in host availability alters the outcome of competition between two parasitoid species by Wang, H, Liu, T, Sun, S, Lewis, OT, Xi, X

SCHOOL OF THIEVES / by Sabrina Ismail, author 655830, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…One day, a new family moves into town. It’s her father, who had long abandoned Amra and her family. …”

The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…In The Whole Picture , art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. …”
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Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. …”
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The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. …”
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Sentinels of Afghan democracy : the Afghan national army by Chan, Samuel

“…Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community has contributed much in terms of manpower, monetary aid, essential equipment and expertise in rehabilitaring this war-torn Central Asia country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) has arguably been one of the leading success stories. …”
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Effects of a participatory-art based intervention on holistic health outcomes of Singapore older community dwellers: the Singapore a-health study by Ho, Reen Wan Li

“…The intervention group attended 12 weekly workshops at the National Gallery Singapore, comprising museum tours and art-making, while the control group attended none. …”
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Off-farm employment and spatial distribution of paddy farmers in integrated agricultural development area in north-west Selangor determined using GIS by Lokman, Eleanor Daniella

“…The objective of this study is to investigate the involvement and location distribution of 250 paddy farmers and farm households in off-farm employment in IADA NWS using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to capture a farm location effect on mobility with regional condition, such as to work or to the nearest town. The descriptive analysis was used to describe the respondent’s socio-economic profile. …”
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TechX challenge by Yuan, Shenghai.

“…The concept of this competition is making future unman combat robot to replace human soldier in the future war-torn urban landscape. Robot has to function effectively in hazards situation. …”
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