About this book This book tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, from a religious musician in Pakistan who sings the sufferings of the saints and hopes to bring reconciliation to his country, to the son of one of the greatest Shi'ite scholars of Iraq who was ...
About this book Wolfgang Glatzer Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitiit Franlifurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Challenges for the quality of life in the contemporary world were the focus of the Fifth International Quality of Life-Conference in Frankfurt am Main in the year 2003, hosted and organized ...
The book discusses issues such as identity, ethnicity and nationalism, primordialism, social constructionism, ethnic conflict, separatism and federalism. It also features case studies on the Basque country, South Africa and Canada. Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 ...
garde, as landscape frames, with color and illusion, in public spaces, and in sustainable design--are this book's centerpiece, supported by more than 40 different buildings. Many are breathtaking, such as Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin (he's the World Trade Center's new ...
” This door opening view yields “insight”—self-understanding toward aspiring engagement andfurther exploration. A Western perspective on mindfulness-based emotional intelligence frames the scaffolding of this book. The application of time-honored Eastern foundations with their insightful psychological ...
Book Review: Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert (eds), Testimonies of the City. Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World (Historical Urban Studies), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007; xvii + 276 pp; ￡52.25 hbk; ISBN 978 07546 5560 2...
—Roberto Calasso,Literature and the GodsThe modern world was not supposed to look the way it does in this book.Modern men and women were not – still at this late date (which meansthis many years from the European Enlightenment[s]) – supposed to befinding saints beneath the soil of a...
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About this book The stories in this collection portray Soviet women of different ages and educational backgrounds at home and at work, in cities and villages. Their themes reflect the social changes in Soviet life in the past 20 years, and are aimed to stimulate inquiry into social and feminis...
Contemporary Society 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social and cultural change are the pervasive realities of our era. One of the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an...