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 Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston, "Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138119377, 0415608112 | PDF | pages: 290 | 2.3 mb Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts.  Paul Powers, "Religion and Violence: A Religious Studies Approach" English | ISBN: 0367432064 | 2020 | 282 pages | PDF | 29 MB Does religion cause much of the world's violence? Is religion inherently violent? Would violence disappear if religion did? Is true religion a force for peace? Is religion a mask for power and self-interest? What aspects of religion make violence more―or less―likely?  Ruth Ben-Artzi, "Regional Development Banks in Comparison: Banking Strategies versus Development Goals" English | ISBN: 1316615200 | 2018 | 293 pages | PDF | 3 MB In a study that contributes to international relations and international political economy theory, Ruth Ben-Artzi raises substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization. Regional development banks (RDBs), designed by politicians and economists to maneuver through labyrinths of economic, social, and political development, possess the potential to be central players in the long-term planning involved in healing and advancing poverty-plagued regions. However, RDBs in particular have received little attention. With a systematic analysis comparing four central regional development banks, this book explores why there is a variation in strategy despite similar institutional design. The formal arrangements and raison d'être of RDBs is to assist developing countries in the process of poverty alleviation - a task that is often a risky investment. Focusing on the dichotomy between their banking and development roles, Ben-Artzi demonstrates that RDBs are potentially critical catalysts in the fight against poverty, even with their institutional limitations.  Jan C. Jansen, "Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison " English | ISBN: 1108835139 | 2020 | 350 pages | PDF | 8 MB This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors, from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, encompassing the global North and South alike, Refugee Crises 1945-2000 explores a broad spectrum of types of migration and of international and domestic contexts. Whilst the driving forces and numbers of people involved, and the backgrounds (national, religious, social) of the migrants, vary considerably, this book highlights a common factor: that each receiving country was confronted with the crucial question of how to deal with the arrival of a large number of people seeking refuge. They could not simply be sent away, but they were also widely seen in the receiving countries as an unpredictable challenge to stability and social cohesion. Taking a long-term perspective, this is an eloquent contribution to the intense public debate about the impact of refugee migration on state stability, societal cohesion and as an impetus for social change.  Reframe Team Reflexivity ― Realize Do No Harm: Applied to the Cases of Burnout Prevention and Speak up Freely in Teams English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658404329 | 250 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB  Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867 By Chris R. Vanden Bossche 2014 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 142141208X | PDF | 2 MB Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, he demonstrates that the Victorian tension between reform and revolution framed conceptions of agency in ways that persist in our own time.Vanden Bossche argues that Victorian novels sought to imagine new forms of social agency evolving from Chartism, the dominant working-class movement of the time. Novelists envisioned alternative forms of social agency by employing contemporary discourses from Chartism's focus on suffrage as well as the means through which it sought to obtain it, such as moral versus physical force, land reform, and the cooperative movement.Each of the three parts of Reform Acts begins with a chapter that analyzes contemporary conversations and debates about social agency in the press and in political debate. Succeeding chapters examine how novels envision ways of effecting social change, for example, class alliance in Barnaby Rudge; landed estates as well as finely graded hierarchy and politicians in Coningsby and Sybil; and reforming trade unionism in Mary Barton and North and South. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy.  Johnston, Robert K, "Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue" English | 2006 | ISBN: 0801031877 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.4 mb Increasingly, thinking Christians are examining the influential role that movies play in our cultural dialogue. Reel Spirituality successfully heightens readers' sensitivity to the theological truths and statements about the human condition expressed through modern cinema. This second edition cites 200 new movies and encourages readers to ponder movie themes that permeate our culture as well as motion pictures that have demonstrated power to shape our perceptions of everything from relationships and careers to good and evil. Reel Spirituality is the perfect catalyst for dialogue and discipleship among moviegoers, churchbased study groups, and religious film and arts groups. The second edition cites an additional 200 movies and includes new film photos.  Jennifer E. Telesca, "Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna" English | ISBN: 1517908515 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 6 MB Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean's most majestic creatures  Reclaiming Pleasure: A Sex Positive Guide for Moving Past Sexual Trauma and Living a Passionate Life by Holly Richmond, Alexandra H. Solomon English | October 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1684038421 | 216 pages | PDF | 3.13 Mb Go beyond surviving to reclaim your sexual self.  Patricia White, "Rebecca " English | ISBN: 1911239430 | 2021 | 120 pages | EPUB | 8 MB The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point for an exploration of the film's enduring power. Drawing on archival research, she shows how the production and reception history of Rebecca, the first fruit of the collaboration between Hollywood movie producer David O. Selznick and British director Alfred Hitchcock, is marked by the traces of women's contributions. |
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