Houseways In Southern Oman

Author : Marielle Risse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000821741

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Houseways in Southern Oman by Marielle Risse Pdf

This book explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology, urban studies and architectural history. The chapters consider physical and functional aspects, including regulations governing land use, factors in siting houses, architectural styles and norms for interior and exterior decorating. The volume also reflects on cultural expectations regarding how and when rooms are used and issues such as safety, privacy, social connectedness and ease of movement. Houses and residential areas are situated within the fabric of towns, comparison is made with housing in other countries in the Arabian peninsula, and consideration is given to notions of the ‘Islamic city’ and the ‘Islamic house’. The book is valuable reading for scholars interested in the Middle East and the built environment.

Author : Marielle Risse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000326536

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Foodways in Southern Oman by Marielle Risse Pdf

Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking, eating and disposing of food in the Dhofar region of southern Oman. The chapters consider food preparation, who makes what kind of food, and how and when meals are eaten. Marielle Risse connects what is consumed to themes such as land usage, gender, age, purity, privacy and generosity. She also discusses how foodways are related to issues of morality, safety, religion, and tourism. The volume is a result of fourteen years of collecting data and insights in Dhofar, covering topics such as catching fish, herding camels, growing fruits, designing kitchens, cooking meals and setting leftovers out for animals. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, food studies, Middle Eastern studies and Islamic studies.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373556

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The Island of Sheep by John Buchan Pdf

A classic Richard Hannay adventure novel by John Buchan. Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.

Author : Alexander W. Resar,Tai-Heng Cheng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004390591

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Investor State Arbitration in a Changing World Order by Alexander W. Resar,Tai-Heng Cheng Pdf

Investor State Arbitration In A Changing World Order addresses challenges and reform proposals that dominate contemporary discussion of investor state arbitration. The authors argue that, although important for the institution’s development, current reforms are insufficient to guarantee investor state arbitration’s survival. Instead, if international investment arbitration is to survive and flourish, national governments must distribute more equally the benefits of international investment and trade.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury,United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Publisher : Bureau
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PURD:32754063100998

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Report of the Department of the Treasury on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Investigation of Vernon Wayne Howell Also Known as David Koresh by United States. Department of the Treasury,United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Pdf

Investigative report of the events leading to the raid of the Branch Davidian Compound near Waco, Texas, on February 28, 1993.

Author : Jamila Michener
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108245326

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Fragmented Democracy by Jamila Michener Pdf

Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, others are tight-fisted and punitive. In Fragmented Democracy, Jamila Michener demonstrates the consequences of such disparities for democratic citizenship. Unpacking how federalism transforms Medicaid beneficiaries' interpretations of government and structures their participation in politics, the book examines American democracy from the vantage point(s) of those who are living in or near poverty, (disproportionately) Black or Latino, and reliant on a federated government for vital resources.

Author : Michael C. Dreiling,Derek Y. Darves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107133969

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Agents of Neoliberal Globalization by Michael C. Dreiling,Derek Y. Darves Pdf

Through historical narrative, this book explains how neoliberal globalization was actively constructed over decades by both state and class actors.

Author : Wafa Zoghbor ,Thomaï Alexiou
Publisher : Zayed University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789948383352

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Advancing English Language Education by Wafa Zoghbor ,Thomaï Alexiou Pdf

Advancing English Language Education Edited by Wafa Zoghbor & Thomaï Alexiou This volume contains a selection of nineteen articles that focus on skills and strategies for advancing English language teacher education in several contexts where English is taught to speakers of other language. The volume focuses on the teachers and learners as the prime participants in the learning process. The papers selected for inclusion represent the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and research interests of EFL educators and showcase contribution that document theory, research and pedagogy. The volume comprises six sections: Teacher Education and Professional Development; Young Learners; Testing and Assessment; Teaching of Writing Skills; Context-Specic Issues in EFL; Teaching, Learning, and Pedagogy Contributors: Alessandro Ursic, Alison Larkin Koushki, Athanasios Karasimos, Daria Grits, David Rear, Irshat Madyarov, Ivan Ivanov, James Milton, Laila Khalil, Larysa Nikolayeva, Mariam Al Nasser, Marianthi Serafeim, Marielle Risse, Marta Tryzna, Mher Davtyan, Michael M. Parrish, Nikita Berezin, Nour Al Okla, Peter Davidson, Richard D. Miller, Syuzanna Torosyan, Talin Grigorian, Thomaï Alexiou, Wafa Zoghbor, Zainab Rashed Aldhanhani

Author : Daniel W. Drezner
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123393188

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U.S. Trade Strategy by Daniel W. Drezner Pdf

This book, in the form of a memorandum to the president, suggests two alternative approaches the United States could take to trade policy.

Author : Stuart D. Brandes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813189680

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Warhogs by Stuart D. Brandes Pdf

The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a "Provoking Evil," George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of "war millionaires." Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the field and on the sea, other Americans cheerfully enhanced their personal wealth by exploiting every opportunity that wartime circumstances presented. In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while others sacrifice their lives to protect the nation? Drawing upon a wealth of manuscript sources, newspapers, contemporary periodicals, government reports, and other relevant literature, Brandes traces how each generation in financing its wars has endeavored to assemble resources equitably, to define the ethical questions of economic mobilization, and to manage economic sacrifice responsibly. He defines profiteering to include such topics as price gouging, quality degradation, trading with the enemy, plunder, and fraud, in order to examine the different guises of war profits and the degree to which they have existed from one era to the next. This far-reaching discussion moves beyond a linear narrative of the financial schemes that have shaped this nation's capacity to make war to an in-depth analysis of American thought and culture. Those scholars, students, and general readers interested in the interaction of legislative, economic, social, and technological events with the military establishment will find no other study that so thoroughly surveys the story of war profits in America.

Author : Kathleen H. Hicks,Louis Lauter,Colin McElhinny
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442280885

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Beyond the Water's Edge by Kathleen H. Hicks,Louis Lauter,Colin McElhinny Pdf

This report assesses domestic political support for internationalist foreign policy by analyzing the motivations of members of Congress on key foreign policy issues. It includes case studies on major foreign policy debates in recent years, including the use of force, foreign aid, trade policy and U.S.-Russia relations. It also develops a new series of archetypes for describing the foreign policy worldviews of members of the 115th Congress to replace the current stale and unsophisticated labels of internationalist, isolationist, hawk and dove. Report findings emphasize areas of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy issues given member ideologies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821353446

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A Guide to the World Bank by Anonim Pdf

The World Bank Group works in more than 100 developing economies and is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. In 2002, the institution provided US $19.5 billion in loans to its client countries. This guide reviews the organisation's history, objectives and operations, and looks at the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Author : Örn B. Bodvarsson,Hendrik Van den Berg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461421160

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The Economics of Immigration by Örn B. Bodvarsson,Hendrik Van den Berg Pdf

The Economics of Immigration is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how economists approach the study of human migration flows; and (2) graduate students taking a course on migration or a labor economics course where immigration is one of the subfields studied. The book covers the economic theory of immigration, which explains why people move across borders and details the consequences of such movements for the source and destination economies. The book also describes immigration policy, providing both a history of immigration policy in a variety of countries and using the economic theory of immigration to explain the determinants and consequences of the policies. The timing of this book coincides with the emergence of immigration as a major political and economic issue in the USA, Japan Europe and many developing countries.

Author : Kenneth P. Thomas,International Institute for Sustainable Development. Global Subsidies Initiative
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : 189478409X

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Investment Incentives by Kenneth P. Thomas,International Institute for Sustainable Development. Global Subsidies Initiative Pdf

Author : C. Dent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230627918

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New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific by C. Dent Pdf

This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global economy. It explores the FTA policies of the region's trade powers and offers conceptual and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between economic bilateralism and regionalism.