Author: Maud DiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Sunia
Author: Maud DiverSunia and Other Stories
Author: Maud DiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress, 1900-2017
Author: Albin KowalewskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780160943560
Category : Asian American legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Battles of Sunupsville
Author: Rufus Cris-KargboPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663204918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A disease of epidemic proportions broke out in Plusia, a planet of dancing warriors, and killed about half a million people. The disease had a crippling social and economic effect on the inhabitants of the planet and threatened their future existence. Resultingly, the king and his military elite planned to invade and take over another planet and move all her inhabitants to the captured territory. Thus, the enviable Ousia, a planet of sun-powered fighters, became the irresistible target. The takeover tactics were sinister, the ensuing battles deadly. The weapons of choice were novel and devastating. Faced with total defeat, a group of sun-powered fighters led by Sunia prevented Planet Ousia from a total takeover. Sunia taught his soldiers military discipline and timeless moral lessons critical to victory.
Paradoxes of Segregation
Author: Sonia ArbaciPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118867386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions. Focuses on eight Southern European cities, develops new metaphors and furthers the theorisation/conceptualisation of segregation in Europe Re-centres the segregation debate on the causes of marginalisation and inequality, and the role of the state in these processes A pioneering analysis of which and how systemic mechanisms, contextual conditions, processes and changes drive patterns of ethnic segregation and forms of socio-ethnic differentiation Develops an innovative inter-disciplinary approach which explores ethnic patterns in relation to European welfare regimes, housing systems, immigration waves, and labour systems
The Department of Transportation's and the Federal Aviation Administration's Policies on Exemptions from Aircraft Noise Emission Regulations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on AviationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo
Author: Judy RosenthalPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
As a new resident of Togo in 1985, Judy Rosenthal witnessed her first Gorovodu trance ritual. Over the next eleven years, she studied this voodoo in West Africa's Ewe populations of coastal Ghana, Togo, and Benin, an area once called the Slave Coast. The result is Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo, an ethnography of spirit possession that focuses on law and morality in "medecine Vodu" orders. Gorovodu is not a doctrinal set, but rather a lingusitic, moral, and spiritual community, with both real and imagined aspects. In medecine Vodu possession, the deities evoked are spirits of "bought people" from the savanna regions, slaves who worked for southern coastal lineages, often marrying into Ewe families. Drumming and dancing rituals, replete with voluptuous trances and gender reversals, bring these "foreign" spirits back into Ewe communities to protect worshippers, heal the sick and troubled, arbitrate disputes, and enjoy themselves as they did before they died. (Rosenthal employs Bakhtin's theory of carnival to interpret the openly festive element of Gorovodu.) The changeable nature of the religion echoes the lack of boundaries of the Gorovodu family and the residents' belief that communal and individual identity are fluid rather than fixed. Numerous name changes early in this century indicated a strategy for resisting colonial control. Writing from a background of anthropology, Rosenthal carefully monitors her own role as narrator in the book, aware of the cultural distance between her and the Africans she is writing about. She intends this ethnography to mirror the "texts" of voodoo itself, a body of signifiers and meanings with which the reader must interact in order to make sense of it.
Taxonomy of the birds of the world
Author: fotoluluPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3748165692
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
How do you come up with the idea to list all the birds in the world including the subspecies and to give all birds English names? There is a reason for it - my favorite saying, whose author is unknown: "Everyone said that ́s not possible - then there was one who did not know that and just did it!" I am an animal photographer and probably a little bit crazy. Ive built a complete animal database for mammals and birds over the last decade. This facilitates my work in determining and archiving images and assigning keywords, especially among the many subspecies. With this book, I would like to give all birding friends and ornithologists a complete overview in English. For this I have given unique English names to all subspecies. The naming should not meet any scientific requirements. The names are based on translations from the Latin name, geographical distribution areas and the names of the discoverers. The entries consist of the scientific name, the English name, the distribution areas and the author. I wish you a lot of fun with this book, but especially while watching the fascinating birdlife. fotolulu
Approving the Compact of Free Association Between the United States, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marshall Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Foreign assistance legislation for fiscal years 1988-89
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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