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The United Arab Emirates are renowned for their enormous production of oil and the rise of great cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which attract millions of tourists annually. It is as if the great aridity of the country did not exist. Yet the UAE is essentially a vast desert, thinly peopled for thousands of years by nomads, grazing sheep, camels and growing a few crops in great oases like Al Ain and Liwa. Early people used spears and falcons to hunt rich populations of oryx, gazelle, ibex, and the iconic migratory bird, the houbara. These animals were decimated by the introduction of European vehicles and guns in the 1920s, and later by the oil boom in the 1950s and 1960s. Today the desert is virtually devoid of these wild animals. This and many other fascinating little-known highlights of the complex history of the lands now known as the UAE are revealed in this book.
Kemu aspires to be a writer but life with its vicissitudes doesn't make her dream an easy one, in this intriguing tale of enduring encounters of living a moral and ethical life, placing its own challenges on friendships cemented from early childhood and school.
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Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience by Anonim Pdf
While in the days of the Cold War models of citizenship were relatively clear-cut around the contrasting projects of reform and revolution, in the last three decades Latin America has become a laboratory for comparative research. The region has witnessed both a renewal of electoral democracy and the diversification of experiments in citizen representation and participation. The implementation of neo-liberal policies has led to countervailing transformations in democratic citizenship and to the rise of populist leaderships, while the crisis of representation has been accompanied by new forms of participation, generating profound transformations. The authors analyze these recent trends, reflected in new forms of populism, inclusion and exclusion, participation and alternative models of democracy, social insecurity and violence, diasporas and transnationalism, the politics of justice and the politics of identity and multiculturalism.
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous? The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors as they turn to the internet to save nature. It documents how conservation efforts are transformed through the political economy of platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Developing a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, Bram Büscher shows how environmental actors attempt to mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingent histories and contexts of particular environmental issues. Bringing efforts at wildlife protection in Southern Africa into dialogue with a sweeping analysis of truth and power in the twenty-first century, Büscher makes the case for a new environmental politics that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power.
All four books in one volume with a linked Table of Contents. The Papacy, next to Christianity, is the great FACT of the modern world. Of the two, the former, unhappily, has proved in some respects the more powerful spring in human affairs, and has acted the more public part on the stage of the world. Fully to trace the rise and development of this stupendous system were to write a history of Western Europe. The decay of empires,--the extinction of religious systems,--the dissolution and renewal of society,--the rise of new States,--the change of manners, customs, and laws,--the policy of courts,--the wars of kings,--the decay and revival of letters, of philosophy and of arts,--all connect themselves with the history of the Papacy, to whose growth they ministered, and whose destiny they helped to unfold. On so wide a field of investigation, neither our time, nor our limits permit us to enter. Let it suffice that we indicate, in general terms, the main causes that contributed to the rise of this tremendous power, and the successive stages that marked the course of its portentous development. Table of Contents BOOK ONE - HISTORY OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER I -ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER II - RISE AND PROGRESS OF ECCLESIASTICAL SUPREMACY. CHAPTER III - RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE TEMPORAL SOVEREIGNTY. CHAPTER IV - RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE TEMPORAL SUPREMACY. CHAPTER V - FOUNDATION AND EXTENT OF THE SUPREMACY, THE CARDINAL'S OATH. CHAPTER VI - THE CANON LAW CHAPTER VII - THAT THE CHURCH OF ROME NEITHER HAS NOR CAN CHANGE HER PRINCIPLES ON THE HEAD OF THE SUPREMACY. BOOK TWO - DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER I - THE POPISH THEOLOGY CHAPTER II - SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION. DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER III - OF READING THE SCRIPTURES. CHAPTER IV - UNITY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME CHAPTER V - CATHOLICITY OF THE CHURCH OF ROME CHAPTER VI - APOSTOLICITY, OR PETER'S PRIMACY. CHAPTER VII - INFALLIBILITY CHAPTER VIII - NO SALVATION OUT OF THE CHURCH OF ROME CHAPTER IX - OF ORIGINAL SIN. CHAPTER X - OF JUSTIFICATION CHAPTER XI - THE SACRAMENTS CHAPTER XII - BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION CHAPTER XIII - THE EUCHARIST--TRANSUBSTANTIATION--THE MASS, DOGMAS OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER XIV - OF PENANCE AND CONFESSION. CHAPTER XV -OF INDULGENCES CHAPTER XVI - OF PURGATORY CHAPTER XVII - OF THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES CHAPTER XVIII - OF THE WORSHIPPING OF SAINTS CHAPTER XIX - THE WORSHIP OF THE VIRGIN MARY CHAPTER XX - FAITH NOT TO BE KEPT WITH HERETICS BOOK THREE - GENIUS AND INFLUENCE OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER I - GENIUS OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER II - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE INDIVIDUAL MAN CHAPTER III - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON GOVERNMENT CHAPTER IV - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE MORALS AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF NATIONS CHAPTER V - INFLUENCE OF POPERY ON THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION OF NATIONS. BOOK FOUR - PRESENT POLICY AND PROSPECTS OF THE PAPACY CHAPTER I - SHAM REFORM AND REAL RE-ACTION. CHAPTER II - NEW CATHOLIC LEAGUE, AND THREATENED CRUSADE AGAINST PROTESTANTISM CHAPTER III - GENERAL PROPAGANDISM CHAPTER IV - PROSPECTS OF THE PAPACY
