VIKTOR. THE CYCLE OF REBIRTH
Author | : Francesco Leo |
Publisher | : Edizioni Paguro |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8899509573 |
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Author | : Francesco Leo |
Publisher | : Edizioni Paguro |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8899509573 |
Author | : Anders Aslund |
Publisher | : Peterson Institute for International Economics |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0881326976 |
The fall of communism 25 years ago transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the “great rebirth” of capitalism, highlighting the policies that were the most successful in helping countries make the transition to stable and prosperous market economies, as well as those cases of countries reverting to political and economic authoritarianism. The authors of these essays conclude that visionary leadership, and a willingness to take bold and comprehensive steps, achieved the best outcomes, and that privatization of state-owned enterprises and deregulation were essential to success. Recent backsliding, such as the reversal of economic and democratic reforms in Russia and Hungary, has cast a shadow over the legacy of the transition a quarter century ago, however.
Author | : Victor Turner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351474901 |
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."
Author | : Michael Burleigh |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521351201 |
A study of how relations between the Nazi regime & contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe eventually set an entire academic discipline on a path to biological racism through Nazi manipulation.
Author | : Marc Foley |
Publisher | : New City Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1565482565 |
The reflections contained here invite us to ponder our lives and to open our listening hearts to the voice of God, so that our Lent can truly be a Lent in its deepest sense a spring that buds forth new life. Drawing upon classic and current literature, Marc Foley accompanies us in this Scriptural-personal Lenten journey. He does it in a way that invites us to both explore the human condition and embrace the grace the Lord again offers us in order to transform who we are and how we are living. What more than this can you ask of a Lenten guide?" Robert J. Wicks Author of Everyday Simplicity This little gem [of Lenten reflections] could apply just as well to any time during the liturgical year... Foley turns the reading of this book into an enjoyable and beneficial experience." Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. Carmelite scholar and translator of the Collected Works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila
Author | : M. Owen Lee |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791400166 |
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.
Author | : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho |
Publisher | : Wisdom Publications (MA) |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
The Dalai Lama explains the spiritual path based on the famous Buddhist image of the Wheel of Life.
Author | : Durthy A. Washington |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0807768286 |
"This book presents the LIST Paradigm to help educators "unlock" literature with four keys to culture: Language, Identity, Space, and Time. The text includes teaching strategies, classroom examples, and texts by writers of color"--
Author | : Dusana Dorjee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2013-09-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 113451767X |
Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness presents a contemporary account of traditional Buddhist mind training and the pursuit of wellbeing and happiness in the context of the latest research in psychology and the neuroscience of meditation. Following the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen, the book guides the reader through the gradual steps in transformation of the practitioner’s mind and brain on the path to advanced states of balance, genuine happiness and wellbeing. Dusana Dorjee explains how the mind training is grounded in philosophical and experiential exploration of the notions of happiness and human potential, and how it refines attention skills and cultivates emotional balance in training of mindfulness, meta-awareness and development of healthy emotions. The book outlines how the practitioner can explore subtle aspects of conscious experience in order to recognize the nature of the mind and reality. At each of the steps on the path the book provides novel insights into similarities and differences between Buddhist accounts and current psychological and neuroscientific theories and evidence. Throughout the book the author skilfully combines Buddhist psychology and Western scientific research with examples of meditation practices, highlighting the ultimately practical nature of Buddhist mind training. Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness is an important book for health professionals and educators who teach or apply mindfulness and meditation-based techniques in their work, as well as for researchers and students investigating these techniques both in a clinical context and in the emerging field of contemplative science.
Author | : Timothy Snyder |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-04-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0525574476 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.