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Conflicted American Landscapes
Conflicted American Landscapes
How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists
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Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Landed wealth was crucial for the economies of all Greek city-states and, despite its peculiarities, Athens was no exception in that respect. This monograph is the first exhaustive treatment of sacred and public - in other words the non-private - real property in Athens. Following a survey of modern scholarship on the topic, Papazarkadas...

Encyclopedia of Religion, 15 Volume Set
Encyclopedia of Religion, 15 Volume Set

A sacred space is any place recognized for its ability to direct the mind and body to holy matters. The basis for this power varies considerably. Sometimes spaces act like reliquaries—enclosures that mark the deposit of a saint’s remains, or the site of an unusual event such as a vision or manifestation of divine power, or the...

Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (MacMillan Reference USA)
Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (MacMillan Reference USA)
The publication of the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion is a significant milestone marking the maturation of the contemporary dialogue between the sciences and religions. Not only does this Encyclopedia offer a massive amount of interdisciplinary and interreligious information, but it mirrors one of the most fascinating...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he...

Hagiographer and the Avatar, The: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi (SUNY series in Religious Studies)
Hagiographer and the Avatar, The: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi (SUNY series in Religious Studies)
This book explores the seminal roles played by a hagiographer in the making of a charismatic religious movement: the post-sectarian, cosmo- politan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011), the center of which is the ashram of Prasanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi, in the Anantapur district of the southern state...
Dinner at Dan:  Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance
Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance
As I reflect on the support and encouragement that I have received in moving me toward the completion of this project, first in its dissertation form (Greer 2011) and now revised as a book, it brings me great joy to acknowledge those institutions, mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who have made this work a reality. ...
The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity)
The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity)
In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific...
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
Internationally renowned success philosopher, business speaker, and humorist, Larry Winget offers advice that flies in the face of conventional self-help. He believes that the motivational speakers and self-help gurus seem to have forgotten that the operative word in self-help is "self." That is what makes this book so different. Shut Up,...
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of...
The Thermodynamic Universe: Exploring the Limits of Physics
The Thermodynamic Universe: Exploring the Limits of Physics
Particle Physics and High Energy Physics have stagnated since the early 1970s. Now, the underlying principle of reductionism -- so sacred to twentieth-century physics -- is itself being questioned. This book examines these tumultuous developments that are leading to a paradigm shift and a new horizon for Physics.

Presenting the new paradigm...

Intercultural Management: MBA Masterclass (MBA Masterclass Series)
Intercultural Management: MBA Masterclass (MBA Masterclass Series)

Intercultural management is an emerging but increasingly crucial area of study. Essentially, intercultural management concerns itself with work forces that function in different cultural contexts. These differences can be either ‘external’, where an organization operates across national and ethnic cultures, or ‘internal’,...

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