The Homeopathic system of medicine is one of the finest systems of cure available to mankind. It was developed in Germany by a German physician practicing Allopathic medicine, Dr. Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann in late 18th Century. Homeopathy was developed in Germany and spread to England and other parts of Europe during the lifetime of Dr. Hahnemann. It also spread to the US. Dr. J T Kent, one of the most well known authorities on Homeopathy, was an American and taught Materia Medica at Hahn...

What remains of the “national” when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died and ten to twelve million were displaced. Combining film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema over the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wou...

This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining, historicizing, and consolidating current scholarship, the volume seeks to shape an emerging field, signposting its generative insights while examining its implicit assumptions.When and under what conditions does risk emerge? How is risk mediated? Who are the targets of risk media? Who manages risk? Who lives with it? Who are most in danger? Such questions—the what, how, who, whe...

The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global media. Whether discussing video platforms in Japan and Indonesia, K-pop reception videos, amateur music videos circulated via microSD cards in India, or the censorship of Bollywood films in Nigeria, the essays trace the myriad ways Asian video reshapes media politics and aesthetic practices. Wh...

Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral...

The Islamic State (IS) proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi as its Caliph on 29 June 2014. It controls territory occupied by 8 to 10 million people in Iraq and Syria. It is a ruthless, barbaric group of Islamic fundamentalists which has no respect for human rights. IS is a well organized, well led army of fanatical fighters ready to die for the glory of Islam. It is the biggest threat to world peace. The US coalition, Russia, Iraq and Syria are unable to d...

The American people are finally showing some signs of disillusionment with the Neo-Liberal capitalism preached and followed in their country. The "Ninety Nine Percent" have seen their prosperity slide downwards since 1980 when Reganomics and Neo-liberalism took over. But even with 99 percent adult literacy, and 98 percent households owning television, the "Ninety Nine Percent" have, till now, chosen to suffer their dwindling prosperity in silence. They have agitated against wars but they h...

Social and economic exploitation of the 99 percent by the 1 percent is as old as the history of the world. There always was a disparity of wealth and privileges of different classes in the society. The disparity was there under feudalism, imperialism, capitalism, socialism and communism. The disparity is there in democracies and autocracies. In capitalism in post industrial revolution world, the chief exploiters were the mine and mill owners and money lenders. Rebellions against this explo...

The New York Times–bestselling memoir by the longest-serving political independent in Congressional history.When Bernie Sanders began his race for the presidency, it was considered a "fringe" campaign by the political establishment and the media—something not to be taken seriously. After all, he was just an Independent senator from a small state with little name recognition. His campaign had no money and no political organization, and it was taking on the e...

America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public good. The first step is to see the big picture. Beyond Outrage connects the dots, showin...

On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server. A huge, positive grassroots response tied up the phones in the senator's offices in Vermont and Washington. President Obama reportedly held an impromptu press conference with former Pr...

From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle of civilisation, now has more of the world’s fastest-growing economies than any other. After ...