Jeffry R. Halverson, "Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1612344690 | PDF | pages: 189 | 0.8 mb
At a time when violent images of the Muslim world dominate our headlines, Western audiences are growing increasingly interested in a different picture of Islam, specifically the idea of Muslim nonviolence, and what it could mean for the world. But is nonviolence compatible with the teachings of Islam? Is it practical to suggest that Muslim societies must adopt nonviolence to thrive in today's world? Where is the Muslim equivalent of a Mohandas K. Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.? Searching for a King offers a comprehensive look into Islamic conceptions of nonviolence, their modern champions, and their readings of Islam's sacred texts, including the Qur'an and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad.Jeffry R. Halverson asserts that the foundation for nonviolence in Islam already exists. He points to the exemplary lives and teachings of modern Muslim champions of nonviolence, including Abdul Ghaffar Khan, an ethnic Pashtun from the tribal regions of Pakistan whose 100,000 Muslim followers peacefully resisted British colonial rule in India. Using rich historical narratives and data from leading NGOs and international governmental organizations, Halverson also makes the case that by eliminating the high costs of warfare, nonviolence opens the door to such important complementary initiatives as microfinancing and women's education programs. Ultimately, he endorses Muslim conceptions of nonviolence and argues for the formulation of a nonviolent version of jihad as an active mode of social transformation.
Seamless Crochet: Techniques and Designs for Join-As-You-Go Motifs by Kristin Omdahl
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPSV818D | 153 pages | EPUB | 15 Mb
Traditional motif seaming techniques require crocheters to painstakingly sew together hundreds of seams and weave in countless ends. Not with Seamless Crochet!
Peter London - Saunders and Saro Aircraft Since 1917
Putnam | 1988 | ISBN: 0851778143 | English | 359 pages | PDF | 148.31 MB
Saunders/Saro designed and built mostly flying-boats and amphibious aircraft, a natural evolution from an earlier involvement with boatbuilding. The aircraft varied greatly in terms of success. A number have gone largely unrecorded, especially some of the early prototypes. A small number of landplane designs were also conceived. The term 'Saunders/Saro' is used to describe a Limited Company which existed between 1908 and 1959. For twenty years, S.E. Saunders Ltd was engaged in boat-building, sub-contracted aircraft construction, and the development of a few aircraft to the company's own designs. In late 1928 the firm was reorganised and a new name was adopted-Saunders-Roe Ltd, usually abbreviated to Saro. The latter concern laid greater emphasis on aircraft design, and other interests were over a period made virtually autonomous.
SYNTAX - THEORY & ANALYSIS HSK 42.3 By Tibor Kiss, Artemis Alexiadou
2015 | 698 Pages | ISBN: 3110362988 | EPUB + PDF | 4 MB
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other.It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of theinterfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, andrepresent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.
SMASHING UX DESIGN: FOUNDATION FOR DESIGNING ONLINE USER EXPERIENCE by Jesmond Allen, James Chudly
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQFG3VVJ | 620 pages | EPUB | 6.07 Mb
Product design is focused on how the product users feel when they make use of the product. It is not just about the aesthetics but the user experience. Smashing UX design is a book that can put every UI/UX designer on the right path to designing products that are usable and responsive.
Russian History: An Enthralling Overview of the History of Russia and the Romanovs by Billy Wellman
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQ3LZ8W6 | 320 pages | EPUB | 5.12 Mb
Two manuscripts in one book:History of Russia: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events in Russian HistoryThe Romanovs: An Enthralling Overview of the House of Romanov
Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned By Elena Dubinets
2021 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0253057779 | PDF | 9 MB
As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elucidating sociological perspectives of the post-Soviet world that have caused changes in composers' outlooks, strategies, and rankings. Russian Composers Abroad is an illuminating study of creative ideas that are often shaped by the exigencies of financing and advancement rather than just by the vision of the creators and the demands of the public.
Kurt Engelmann, "Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0295980478, 0295996455 | PDF | pages: 320 | 20.6 mb
Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints
Routledge Handbook of Rewilding
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367564483 | 421 Pages | PDF (True) | 73 MB
Rewilding offers a transformational paradigm shift in conservation thinking, and as such is increasingly of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners. However, as a rapidly emerging area of conservation, the term has often been defined and used in a variety of different ways (both temporally and spatially). There is, therefore, the need for a comprehensive assessment of this field, and the Routledge Handbook of Rewilding fills this lacuna. The handbook is organised into four sections to reflect key areas of rewilding theory, practice, and debate: the evolution of rewilding, theoretical and practical underpinnings, applications and impacts, and the ethics and philosophy of rewilding. Drawing on a range of international case studies the handbook addresses many of the key issues, including land acquisition and longer-term planning, transitioning from restoration (human-led, nature enabled) to rewilding (nature-led, human enabled), and the role of political and social transformational change.
Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering by Lynn Peterson, Elizabeth Doerr
English | December 6th, 2022 | ISBN: 1642832235 | 266 pages | True PDF | 3.08 MB
"Seventy years of a car-only approach-not car-centric, it's car-only-is actually not just non-driver hostile, it's driver hostile. No one benefits." -Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America