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English | ISBN: 1032458208 | 2023 | 124 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can, and should, be understood beyond the dichotomy of personal and political, between people and nature, in the field of environmental anthropology.
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Free Download Andrew Blick, "Documents on the Nineteenth Century United Kingdom Constitution "
English | ISBN: 0367417626 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume explores constitutional reform, and in particular expansions in the franchise. It presents evidence covering the origins of these transitions and the subsequent development of demands for reform. It also deals with other changes such as the secret ballot. The volume examines accounts of the debates that took place about the merits of reform and the form it should take if enacted. It includes evidence of the party-political considerations and tactical motivations leading to reforms; and the way in which various individuals and groups received them once enacted. The volume also presents evidence of the limits of change and the persistence of certain traditional aspects of the constitution.
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Free Download Stuart Lasine, "Divine Envy, Jealousy, and Vengefulness in Ancient Israel and Greece"
English | ISBN: 103226179X | 2022 | 214 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek texts and the functions served by attributing negative emotions and traits to one's gods.
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Free Download Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson, "Designing Public Policy for Co-production: Theory, Practice and Change"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 144731669X, 1447316959 | ASIN: B0184CG6X0 | EPUB | pages: 249 | 1.2 mb
This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic alternative. Drawing on 12 compelling international contributions from practitioners, policy makers, activists and actively engaged academics, ideas of power are used to explore how genuine democratic involvement in the policy process from those outside the elites of politics can shape society for the better. The authors present insights on why and how to generate change in policy processes, arguing for increased experimentation in policy design. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students in public policy, public administration, sociology and politics.
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Free Download Kathleen Flake, "Democracy, Religion, and Commerce "
English | ISBN: 1032313439 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market. In so doing, it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile, with religious freedom functioning like market freedom, "free market religion" has achieved the status of general knowledge about the nature of religion as either good or bad. It legislates good religion as that which operates according to free market principles: it is private, with no formal relationship to government; and personal: a matter of belief and conscience. As naturalized elements of historically contingent and discursively maintained beliefs about religion, these criteria have ethical and regulatory force. Thus, in culture and law, the effect of the metaphor has become instrumental, not merely descriptive. This volume seeks to productively complicate and invite further analysis of this easy conflation of democracy, religion, and the market. It invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated and illuminate the place of religion in public life. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of law and religion, ethics, and economics.
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Free Download Boris Porfiriev, Greg Simons, "Crises in Russia: Contemporary Management Policy and Practice From A Historical Perspective"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1409442276, 1138279102 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 1.2 mb
This unique book explores the problems of the national crisis management system in Russia, a country undergoing political, social and economic transition and one which is also prone to natural and man-made disasters. In detailing policy, institutional and legal issues and illustrating a number of case studies, the authors offer new ways of resolving the effects of disasters as well as increasing resilience by improving our understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities. In the book six chapters offer case studies of various types of disaster written in a unique collaboration between Russian scientists, Russian policy makers and Swedish scholars. Other chapters relate the role of mass media in Russian society and policy development. Taken together the book details changes in a crisis management system, policy and approach in a country that has undergone rapid fundamental political economic and social change.
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Free Download Judy Shuttleworth, "Creating a Shared Moral Community "
English | ISBN: 0367529823 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK.
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Free Download Dragoljub Marjanovic, "Creating Memories in Late 8th-century Byzantium: The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 946298039X | 2017 | 250 pages | PDF | 1438 KB
The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century. This book offers a close look at that volume and its manner of representing the historical role of Byzantine emperors and ecclesiology, with particular attention to the use of images, an issue of central importance amid the period's first outburst of iconoclasm. When seen through this lens, the Short History
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1492098647 | 330 Pages | EPUB (True) | 5 MB
The low cost of getting started with cloud services can easily evolve into a significant expense down the road. That's challenging for teams developing data pipelines, particularly when rapid changes in technology and workload require a constant cycle of redesign. How do you deliver scalable, highly available products while keeping costs in check?
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Free Download Constanze Schulte, "Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0199276722 | PDF | pages: 363 | 3.5 mb
This book examines the compliance record of states parties to proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial body of the United Nations. It undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the follow-up of the ICJ's judgments and interim measures from the Court's creation in 1945 until the present day. ICJ judgments and provisional measures from the Corfu Channel case in the late 1940s to the Arrest Warrant Case decided in 2002 are examined, with particular focus on state practice.
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