On The Threshold Of Eurasia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781501726514

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Author : Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137535009

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Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba Pdf

In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adapted and transformed across time and place.

Author : Norman A. Graham,Şuhnaz Yılmaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003823643

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Energy, Environment and Geopolitics in Eurasia by Norman A. Graham,Şuhnaz Yılmaz Pdf

This book advances our understanding of security and its intricate interactions with geopolitics and the environment in Eurasia. Norman A. Graham and Şuhnaz Yılmaz focus on Eurasia, where the energy-water-food nexus has emerged as a vital aspect of political economy and increasinglyas a decisive factor for human security. As clearly revealed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this nexus rests on a precarious balance. Graham and Yilmaz argue that Central Eurasia is currently “Running on Empty” and highlight the key environmental challenges, including water quantity and quality and food security. The authors draw on their extensive fieldwork in countries including Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Turkey, and Uzbekistan to assess the interests and impact of pivotal actors and evaluate the competition and complementarities of these actors regarding water, energy, food security, and foreign policy imperatives. They also examine the broader interaction and implications of security at multiple levels by analyzing the local, national, and international factors in light of geopolitical and environmental challenges. Taking a novel and highly interdisciplinary approach, this book will be an important resource for students and scholars of energy and food security, political economy, international conflict and cooperation, and natural resource politics.

Author : Indermit S. Gill,Ivailo Izvorski,Willem van Eeghen,Donato De Rosa
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801204

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Diversified Development by Indermit S. Gill,Ivailo Izvorski,Willem van Eeghen,Donato De Rosa Pdf

Eurasian economies have to become efficient more productive, job-creating, and stable. But efficiency is not the same as diversification. Governments need to worry less about the composition of exports and production and more about asset portfolios natural resources, built capital, and economic institutions.

Author : Christopher Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013761422

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Eurasia by Christopher Evans Pdf

Author : I. A. Karimov
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312213689

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Uzbekistan on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century by I. A. Karimov Pdf

This new study by the President of Uzbekistan focuses on the country's special opportunities and challenges as it faces the 21st century. From the mid-19th century onwards, the people of Uzbekistan were under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, and later under the yoke of the Soviet Communist Empire, which made this land of unique natural and mineral resources a mere raw-material appendix. Fortunately, Uzbekistan has a huge potential for the establishment and successful development of foreign economic relations for an active participation in global economic relations. One of these potentials lies in the specific geostrategic situation of the country, which can be a bridge between the West and East. Other potentials are the valuable and needed mineral resources, the agricultural products and the advance economic, manufacturing and social infrastructure.

Author : M. Hassan Shafazand,A Min Tjoa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540360872

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EurAsia-ICT 2002: Information and Communication Technology by M. Hassan Shafazand,A Min Tjoa Pdf

We welcomed participants to the 1st EurAsian Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (EurAsia ICT 2002) held in Iran. The aim of the conference was to serve as a forum to bring together researchers from academia and commercial developers from industry to discuss the current state of the art in ICT, mainly in Europe and Asia. Inspirations and new ideas were expected to emerge from intensive discussions during formal sessions and social events. Keynote addresses, research presentation, and discussion during the conference helped to further develop the exchange of ideas among the researchers, developers, and practitioners who attended. The conference attracted more than 300 submissions and each paper was reviewed by at least three program committee members. The program committee selected 119 papers from authors of 30 different countries for presentation and publication, a task which was not easy due to the high quality of the submitted papers. Eleven workshops were organized in parallel with the EurAsia ICT conference. The proceedings of these workshops, with more than 100 papers, were published by the Austrian Computer Society. We would like to express our thanks to our colleagues who helped with putting together the technical program: the program committee members and external reviewers for their timely and rigorous reviews of the papers, and the organizing committee for their help in administrative work and support. We owe special thanks to Thomas Schierer for always being available when his helping hand was needed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004465774

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Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600) by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages.0Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Karoly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Katerina Hornickova, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kummeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

Author : Aria Fani
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781477328811

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Reading Across Borders by Aria Fani Pdf

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

Author : Stanislav Grigoriev
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912369

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Metallurgical Production in Northern Eurasia in the Bronze Age by Stanislav Grigoriev Pdf

Copper is the first metal to play a large part in human history. This work is devoted to the history of metallurgical production in Northern Eurasia during the Bronze Age, based on experiments carried out by the author and analyses of ancient slag, ore and metal.

Author : Oscar Jonsson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626167346

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The Russian Understanding of War by Oscar Jonsson Pdf

This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Oscar Jonsson provides the long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He closely examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements of Russian military theorists and political elites. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace. Jonsson also finds that Russian leaders have, particularly since 2011/12, considered themselves to be at war with the United States and its allies, albeit with non-violent means. This book provides much needed context and analysis to be able to understand recent Russian interventions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, how to deter Russia on the eastern borders of NATO, and how the West must also learn to avoid inadvertent escalation.

Author : Matt Pope,John McNabb,Clive Gamble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315439303

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Crossing the Human Threshold by Matt Pope,John McNabb,Clive Gamble Pdf

When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, 800,000 to 130,000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly, by a variety of human ancestors, and was not confined to one part of the Old World. Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place, landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places, and associated developments in tool use, hunting strategies and the control of fire, represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant, South Africa, Asia and Europe, presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England. Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors.

Author : Robert Bedeski,Niklas Swanström
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136306402

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Eurasia's Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics by Robert Bedeski,Niklas Swanström Pdf

The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian relations in the political, military, energy and trade sectors. In this comprehensive new volume, authors offer a detailed account on the both the historical context and current status of relations between Russia and China and the geo-political realignments in Eurasia. This analysis of the evolving relationship addresses global strategy, energy politics, national security, human security, and Central Asian links. Individual chapters examine key issues such as China’s economic ascendancy, military relations, the geostrategic position of Mongolia, Japan’s views and historical background. With authors representing a broad range of current active experts and researchers working in Europe, the US, Central Asia, China and Japan, this book offers a long-term and in-depth analysis of the relations and potential developments in both bilateral and international relations. This work will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, Asian security, and the Eurasian region.

Author : Derek A. Scott,Timothy Dodman,David A. Stroud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215525473

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An Atlas of Wader Populations in Africa and Western Eurasia by Derek A. Scott,Timothy Dodman,David A. Stroud Pdf

This publication is a compilation of current knowledge of the numbers, distribution and movements of one of the most remarkable groups of birds in the region covered by the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement (AEWA). Long-term waterbird count data have been combined with an extensive literature review, especially published results of bird ringing and national bird atlases, to produce maps showing the population boundaries that are used as a basis of the conservation of these species. The maps are supported by informative species accounts that highlight the movements, population status and conservation of waders in the AEWA region.

Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476777863

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks Pdf

Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions-- but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. It is rather symbolic of the way that the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war, and provides a rallying cry for action as we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos.