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 Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer's Story by David McDonald, Mick Clifford English | July 14, 2022 | ISBN: 024199666X, 1844886190 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 1.7 MB For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland's biggest prisons. This is his story.  Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran" English | ISBN: 1478019530 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is ma'rifat, or "unknowing"-the idea that, as it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must operate from an engaged awareness that it knows nothing. Golestaneh shows that rather than considering ma'rifat an obstacle to intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be that which they do not know. From this position, they affirm both the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of the profane world. Through ethnographic case studies, Golestaneh traces the affective and sensory dimensions of ma'rifat in contexts such as the creation of collective Sufi spaces, the interpretation of Persian poetry, formulations of selfhood and non-selfhood, and the navigation of the socio-material realm. By outlining the relationship between ma'rifat and religious, aesthetic, and social life in Iran, Golestaneh demonstrates that for Sufis the outer bounds of human thought are the beginning rather than the limit.
 Universal Principles of UX by Pereyra, Irene; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0760378045 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 6.4 MB  Philip L Martin, "Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining In California Agriculture" English | 2019 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 0367212781, 0367215594 | PDF | 21,2 mb The "plight of the California farmworker" has been the main theme of over 100 years of government reports, scholarly writings, and popular literature. Farmworkers were excluded from most of the 1930s legislation which regulated wages and working conditions and recognized that workplace disputes could best be settled by collective bargaining.  Michele Cushatt, "Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life" English | ISBN: 0310339782 | 2015 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Become empowered to face your own messy, complicated life with fresh courage and bravery.  P A Wojtkowski, "Undoing the Damage: Silviculture for Ecologists and Environmental Scientists" English | 2006 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 1578084261, 1138468622 | PDF | 89,2 mb As a natural science, silviculture has a large say in how humans interact with the terrestrial world. Although the perspective taken here that the production of wood is narrow, the amount of land area consumed is extensive; the indirect consequences of wood production on natural processes are larger still. Through the amount of land engaged, the flora and fauna affected and the environmental consequences, good or bad; silviculture is a frequent constituent in applied ecology, environmental science, conservation ecology and other broad land-use disciplines. Silvicultural expertize is essential when trees and wood are an economic output; often best promoted when silviculture is allied with hydrology, ecology, soil science, wildlife management, etc. This book touches upon the following important areas of the subject in detail.  John Hoffmann, "Understanding Religious Ritual: Theoretical approaches and innovations" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415781671, 1138019887 | PDF | pages: 241 | 2.0 mb Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.  Understanding Peace Cultures By Rebecca L. Oxford (editor) 2014 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 1623965055 | PDF | 3 MB Understanding Peace Cultures is exceptionally practical as well as theoretically grounded. As Elise Boulding tells us, culture consists of the shared values, ideas, practices, and artifacts of a group united by a common history. Rebecca Oxford explains that peace cultures are cultures, large or small, which foster any of the dimensions of peace inner, interpersonal, intergroup, international, intercultural, or ecological and thus help transform the world. As in her earlier book, The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony, Oxford contends here that peace is a serious and desirable option. Excellent educators help build peace cultures. In this book, Shelley Wong and Rachel Grant reveal how highly diverse public school classrooms serve as peace cultures, using activities and themes founded on womanist and critical race theories. Yingji Wang portrays a peace culture in a university classroom. Rui Ma's model reaches out interculturally to Abraham's children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim youth, who share an ancient heritage. Children's literature (Rebecca Oxford et al.) and students' own writing (Tina Wei) spread cultures of peace. Deep traditions, such as African performance art, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam, give rise to peace cultures, as shown here by John Grayzel, Sister Jewel (a colleague of Thich Nhat Hanh), Yingji Wang et al., and Dian Marissa et al. Peace cultures also emerge in completely unexpected venues, such as gangsta rap, unveiled by Charles Blake et al., and a prison where inmates learn Lois Liggett's "spiritual semantics."Finally, the book includes perspectives from Jerusalem (by Lawrence Berlin) and North Korea and South Korea (by Carol Griffiths) to help us envision and hope for new, transformative peace cultures where now there is strife.  Ram Swarup, "Understanding Islam through Hadis: Religious Faith or Fanaticism?" English | 1983 | ISBN: 068249948X | EPUB | pages: 263 | 0.3 mb Ram Swarup (1919-1998) graduted from the University of Delhi in 1941 and had been an original writer and thinker ever since. He participated in his countrys struggle for independence, courting imprisonment. For some years, he was a close associate of British- born Mira Behn (Miss Slade), Mahatma Gandhis adopted daughter. In the fifties he led a movement warning against the growing danger which international communism presented to the newly won freedom of the country. Around 1957, he took to a life of meditation and spiritual refection, and since then he had made a deep study of the scriptures of different religious traditons.  Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice By Peter Somerville 2016 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1447316088 | PDF | 5 MB This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes a more critical look at the literature on community, community development and the politics of community, and applies this critical approach to themes introduced in the first edition on economic development, learning, health and social care, housing, and policing, taking into account the changes in policy that have taken place, particularly in the UK, since the first edition was written. It will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of social policy, sociology and politics as well as areas of housing and urban studies. |
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