Report

Report
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Dryland Opportunities

Dryland Opportunities
Author: Michael Mortimore
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Drylands cover 41 percent of the earth' s terrestrial surface. The urgency of and international response to climate change have given a new place to drylands in terms both of their vulnerability to predicted climate change impacts and their potential contribution to climate change mitigation. This book aims to apply the new scientific insights on complex dryland systems to practical options for development. A new dryland paradigm is built on the resources and capacities of dryland peoples, on new and emergent economic opportunities, on inward investment, and on the best support that dryland science can offer.

Medicine - Religion - Spirituality

Medicine - Religion - Spirituality
Author: Dorothea Lüddeckens
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3839445825

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglement between medicine, religion, and spirituality in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. How do political and legal conditions affect these healing systems? How do they relate to religious and scientific discourses? How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients?

Representations

Representations
Author: LuMing Mao
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2008-11-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Asian American rhetorics, produced through cultural contact between Asian traditions and US English, also comprise a dynamic influence on the cultural conditions and practices within which they move. Though always interesting to linguists and "contact language" scholars, in an increasingly globalized era, these subjects are of interest to scholars in a widening range of disciplines—especially those in rhetoric and writing studies. Mao, Young, and their contributors propose that Asian American discourse should be seen as a spacious form, one that deliberately and selectively incorporates Asian “foreign-ness” into the English of Asian Americans. These authors offer the concept of a dynamic “togetherness-in-difference” as a way to theorize the contact and mutual influence. Chapters here explore a rich diversity of histories, theories, literary texts, and rhetorical practices. Collectively, they move the scholarly discussion toward a more nuanced, better balanced, critically informed representation of the forms of Asian American rhetorics and the cultural work that they do.

Beyond the Forestline

Beyond the Forestline
Author: Marja-Liisa Swantz
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780852445600

New Germans, New Dutch

New Germans, New Dutch
Author: Liesbeth Minnaard
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9089640282

In today’s globalized world, traditions of a national Self and a national Other no longer hold. This timely volume considers the stakes in our changing definitions of national boundaries in light of the unmistakable transformation of German and Dutch societies. Examining how the literature of migration intervenes in public discourses on multiculturality and including detailed analysis of works by the Turkish-German writers Emine Sevgi Özdamer and Feridun Zaimoglu and the Moroccan-Dutch writers Abdelkader Benali and Hafid Bouazza, New Germans, New Dutch offers crucial insights into the ways in which literature negotiates both difference and the national context of its writing.