Safeguarding Traditional Cultures

Safeguarding Traditional Cultures
Author: Peter Seitel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2001
Genre: Biens culturels - Politique gouvernementale - Congrès
ISBN: 9780966552010

Proceedings from a conference "A global assessment of the 1989 recommendation on the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore" held at the Smithsonian Institution June 27-30 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assess the implementation of the Recommendation (an international normative instrument adopted by UNESCO in 1989), to bring together points of view and perspectives on the Recommendaion from around the world, and suggest ways in which the Recommendation might develop in the future so that its purpose, the safeguarding of traditional culture and folklore, might be achieved.

Jews in Early Christian Law

Jews in Early Christian Law
Author: John Victor Tolan
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN:

What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels of the lives of contemporary European Jews.

How to Hold a Crocodile

How to Hold a Crocodile
Author: Diagram Group
Publisher: Firefly Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003
Genre: Amusements
ISBN: 9781552978054

Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].

The Development Of Large Technical Systems

The Development Of Large Technical Systems
Author: Renate Mayntz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000315878

This book is an outcome of the conference on the development of large technical systems held in Berlin in 1986. It focuses on the comparative analysis of the development of large technical systems, particularly electrical power, railroad, air traffic, telephone, and other forms of telecommunication.