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Author : Michael Rice
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013513992
Author : Li Zhang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801458194
A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown. She combines her analysis of larger political and social issues with fine-grained details about the profound spatial, cultural, and political effects of the shift in the way Chinese urban residents live their lives and think about themselves. In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood, and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners as they confront the encroaching power of the developers. This double movement of privatized living and public sphere activism, Zhang finds, is a distinctive feature of the cultural politics of the middle classes in contemporary China. Theoretically sophisticated and highly accessible, Zhang's account will appeal not only to those interested in China but also to anyone interested in spatial politics, middle-class culture, and postsocialist governing in a globalizing world.
Author : Guodong Sun
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811245343
This book analyzes the importance of culture and the impact of culture on China's development. It studies strategic and cutting-edge theoretical topics on civilization revival, cultural development and cultural (re)construction in the Chinese context. Topics covered in the book include the position of Chinese culture in the history of world civilizations, the cultural revival in contemporary China, the function of Confucian culture in modern society, the rightful rule of the construction of Chinese cultural identity in transitional China, the pluralistic symbiosis of contemporary Chinese cultures, reconstruction of national ideology, the development of the cultural soft power and the cultural industry in contemporary China, the establishment of China's international image, among others.
Author : Dr. Talam Har Neelam
Publisher : Blue Hill Publications
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789391539702
The author of this book is hail from Neelam Village of Deed Circle, Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh and believed to be from warrior family, he did Dip. In Ophthalmic Technology, BA (H) B. Sc, MA (Edu), M. Phil. & Awarded PhD (hc) from Commonwealth Vocational University, Kingdom of Tonga. He is presently working as a OA/ Optometrist in the Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh and news content contributor in Regional News Unit(RNU) all India radio, Itanagar as a freelancer. He is basically interested in social work for the upliftment of downtroden society.The paradise land and its forgotten warriors of Sino-Ind war 1962.Book will serve as documents for young generation,the author himself is kin of the warrior,was rigoriously search for documents regarding Sino-Ind war 1962 post to pillar, later decided to bring out book on it by documenting from the reliable source. The area of authors research is in health care management and interested in indigenous justice system too.
Author : Stephen Goodwin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813918774
Stephen Goodwin's second novel is an emblematic tale of the sixties, of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compels Anna and Steadman to move from the city to a small mountain farm in Virginia is brought into high relief by the cycles of the natural world, and by the arrival of Anna's demonic twin sister. Goodwin's prose, by turns stark and pastoral, outlines these struggles while leavening them with self-effacing humor and beauty. Peopled with hippies and mountain folk, artists and farmers both organic and traditional, not to mention an unforgettable child, The Blood of Paradise evokes an era through a sensitive and unstinting portrait of marriage.
Author : Michael Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136159886
First Published in 1994. False Inheritance discusses the policies and actions of the successive administrations which have governed Israel since the formation of the state in 1948. Largely historical in its approach, it has long been the author’s conviction that the confrontation between the Palestinians, the Arab states and Israel cannot be understood unless the historical parameters are firmly established. Equally, it is the purpose of this volume to demonstrate what seem to me to be the manifest consequences of the deceptions, manipulations and cruelties which have been practised on the Palestine people in the names of Zionism and the Israeli state over the past half-century and more.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer,John Maier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725282896
This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki, one of four gods and goddesses who comprised the highest level of the Sumerian pantheon. The very existence of these writings, which date from the Third Millennium B.C., was unknown until about 100 years ago, when their cuneiform script was deciphered. Since then, it has become apparent that Sumerian literature had a profound and enduring influence on both Biblical and classical Greek literature, and so on the literature of the western world as a whole. Kramer, one of the world's leading sumerologists, has prepared these translations from among the scores of works he has published over the last fifty years; John Maier provides a full interpretive framework that places the translations in their broader comparative cultural context. This rare collection will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines from Near Eastern and Biblical Studies to Mythology and Comparative Literature.
Author : Peter A. Walker,Patrick T. Hurley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816528837
“Sprawl” is one of the ugliest words in the American political lexicon. Virtually no one wants America’s rural landscapes, farmland, and natural areas to be lost to bland, placeless malls, freeways, and subdivisions. Yet few of America’s fast-growing rural areas have effective rules to limit or contain sprawl. Oregon is one of the nation’s most celebrated exceptions. In the early 1970s Oregon established the nation’s first and only comprehensive statewide system of land-use planning and largely succeeded in confining residential and commercial growth to urban areas while preserving the state’s rural farmland, forests, and natural areas. Despite repeated political attacks, the state’s planning system remained essentially politically unscathed for three decades. In the early- and mid-2000s, however, the Oregon public appeared disenchanted, voting repeatedly in favor of statewide ballot initiatives that undermined the ability of the state to regulate growth. One of America’s most celebrated “success stories” in the war against sprawl appeared to crumble, inspiring property rights activists in numerous other western states to launch copycat ballot initiatives against land-use regulation. This is the first book to tell the story of Oregon’s unique land-use planning system from its rise in the early 1970s to its near-death experience in the first decade of the 2000s. Using participant observation and extensive original interviews with key figures on both sides of the state’s land use wars past and present, this book examines the question of how and why a planning system that was once the nation’s most visible and successful example of a comprehensive regulatory approach to preventing runaway sprawl nearly collapsed. Planning Paradise is tough love for Oregon planning. While admiring much of what the state’s planning system has accomplished, Walker and Hurley believe that scholars, professionals, activists, and citizens engaged in the battle against sprawl would be well advised to think long and deeply about the lessons that the recent struggles of one of America’s most celebrated planning systems may hold for the future of land-use planning in Oregon and beyond.
Author : Fred H. Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429717857
First published in 1989. Bahrain is at the same time unique among the Arab oil-producing Gulf states and indicative of future developments in these emirates. Its uniqueness lies in the social, political, and economic structures of the country: The indigenous population is characterized by a peculiar set of overlapping cleavages; the country's industrial work force has a history of militant action and a degree of political consciousness unmatched in neighbouring states; and the islands' economy has achieved a level of diversification into non-petroleum-related activities that is the envy of planners in the surrounding area. This study provides an overview of current trends on the islands and of the social and historical context from which they have emerged. It is intended as an introduction to Bahraini affairs for the general reader and thus makes use of the existing literature wherever possible.
Author : G. E. Moloney
Publisher : The Oleander Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 090667221X
Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545415606
Join Geronimo for his biggest, most fabumouse adventure yet! Dragons, mermaids, and much, much more await readers in this very special edition!I knew from the start that it was no ordinary day, but I certainly didn't expect to find a golden staircase in my attic. Up at the top, there was a door. And beyond the door was a world I never could have imagined -- the Kingdom of Fantasy! Along with my guide, a frog named Scribblehopper, I set off on an incredible adventure to save the Queen of the Fairies. But along the way, I had to face giant scorpions, witches, sea serpents, pixies, and dozens of other creatures that I had only ever heard stories about. Holey cheese, what a journey! Could I save the Queen . . . and my own tail?
Author : Sally MacDonald,Michael Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431727
Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of contemporary people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt tourist sees, Egypt in film and Egypt as the inspiration for opera. It asks why so many books are published each year on Egyptological subjects at all levels, from the austerely academic to the riotous celebrations of Egypt as a land of mystery, enchantment and fantasy. It then considers the ways in which Ancient Egypt interacts with the living world, in architecture, museum going, the acquisition of souvenirs and reproductions, design, and the perpetual appeal of the mummy. The significance of Egypt as an adjunct to (and frequently the subject of) marketing in the consumer society is examined. It reveals much about Egypt's immemorial appeal and the psychology of those who succumb to its magic.
Author : R. A. Donkin
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0871692244
Man has been intrigued by the origin of pearls, sensitive to their beauty, and convinced of their medicinal value for at least 5 cent. A mixture of folklore and observation preceded the earliest scientific inquiries. Fishing and trade commenced in S. Asia, between India and Sri Lanka and around the Persian Gulf. In W. and Central Europe, Inner Asia and China, and N. Amer. Freshwater pearls were probably known and treasured before those of marine origin. A refined nomenclature points to a long familiarity with etymologically related words for 'pearl'. Pearls were prominent among the luxury products of world trade and were high among the objectives of expeditions to the eastern and western Tropics. Illustrations.
Author : Thomas K. Shor
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143415466
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED... If Lewis Carroll had proclaimed the reality of Alice's Wonderland? What if he had gathered a following & launched an expedition? THE TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY TO A FANTASTIC LAND IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers--a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to 'open' the Hidden Land. Then, one day, he came. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa. THIS BOOK TELLS THE TRUE STORY of this charismatic visionary lama and his remarkable expedition. Against the wishes of the kings of both Sikkim and Nepal, he and over three hundred followers ventured up the snowy slopes of the third highest mountain of the planet. Their aim: to open a crack in the very fabric of reality and go to a land we would all wish to inhabit if it were only there--a land of peace and concord. FORTY YEARS LATER, the author spends over five years tracking down the surviving members of this extraordinary expedition. He deftly weaves their stories together with humor, wisdom, and scholarly research into Tibetan traditions of Hidden Lands, all the while reflecting on what this means for the rest of us. "LIKE NO OTHER BOOK I have ever read...a riveting tale of adventure...honest to the real spirit of Tibet...both unique and intriguing...an engrossing read. Highly recommended." JETSUNMA TENZIN PALMO, from the Foreword From Tulshuk Lingpa's Guidebook to the Hidden Land: "DON'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY. Decide by yourself and practise madness. Develop courage for the benefit of all sentient beings. Then you will automatically be free from the knot of attachment. Then you will continually have the confidence of fearlessness and you can then try to open the Great Door of the Hidden Place." FIRST PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN 2011 CITY LION PRESS EDITION 2017 THIS EDITION IS NOT FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA, MALAYSIA, OR SINGAPORE
Author : Harriet E. W. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533384
This work reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia from 3800 to 2000 BC.
