In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their husbands, fathers, and even their sons. Daughters of Arabia featured Sultana’s teenage daughters, determined to rebel but in very different ways.
And now, in Desert Royal, Sultana’s fight for women’s rights in a repressive, fundamentalist Islamic society, has an extra sense of urgency. The threat of world terrorism, the gathering strength of religious leaders and the discontent of impoverished Saudis are threatening to topple the comfortable world Sultana has known. But an extended family ‘camping’ trip in the desert brings Sultana and her relatives face to face with their nomadic roots, and nourishes her will to carry on the fight for women’s rights in all Muslim countries.
This updated edition contains an all-new chapter as well as a letter from Sultana herself, encouraging all women to take up the struggle for freedom for their abused sisters throughout the world.
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Author: Jean Sasson Publisher: Transworld ISBN: 9781446497920 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2011 240 pages
Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the rich legacy of Norse and German mythology by noted folklorist George Webbe Dasent. They include stories of princes and princesses who have been transformed into animals, trolls, and maneating giants who possess magical powers, and good-hearted, clever young men and women, often poor and ridiculed, who eventually come away with wealth and love beyond measure.
In addition to such well-known favorites as “Dapplegrim,” “Katie Woodencloak,” “Tatterhood,” and “Legend of Tannhäuser,” this collection also brings to light many gems difficult to find elsewhere. In “The Werewolf,” a cruel stepmother thwarts a beautiful princess’s marriage plans by transforming her fiancé into a hunted denizen of the forest. The hilarious “Such Women Are” proves the world is never without a sufficiency of fools, while “The Three Dogs” tells of a youth whose four-legged friends defeat a serpent with the nasty habit of devouring a town’s young women. Among many other hard-to-find stories are “King Gram,” “The Magician’s Pupil,” “The Outlaw,” “Temptations,” “The Widow’s Son,” “The Three Sisters Trapped in a Mountain,” and “The Goatherd” (the inspiration for Washington Irving’s story of Rip van Winkle).
These stories preserve the ancient myths of Western Europe that have been passed down from generation to generation, but aside from their importance as seminal folktales, they are simply good reading — full of passion and excitement, magic, mystery, and sheer storytelling power. Popular Tales from Norse Mythology will delight any student or admirer of myths and mythology.
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Author: George Webbe Dasent Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486119748 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2012 352 pages
There is a large literature dealing with the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to emerging and developing economies at the aggregate level. Beyond the aggregate impacts, a growing number of studies also examine the impact of FDI spillovers on firms of different sizes, especially small and medium enterprises (SME). This book is dedicated to exploring issues relating to the various interactions between FDI flows, productivity spillovers and SMEs in Asia and beyond. It studies globalization, FDI, and regional innovation in China, and trade and investment liberalization in India. It analyses how to promote SMEs and enhance labor productivity in Singapore. It investigates the impact of intellectual property rights processes on productivity growth. It documents the use of finance and financing patterns of informal firms. It uses empirical analysis to point out the limitations of traditional banks lending to SMEs and suggests possible policy approaches facilitating them to access growth capital. It also provides an empirical investigation of the main determinants of entrepreneurial activities.
Contents:
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Productivity Spillovers and the Role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Financing (Khee Giap Tan and Kong Yam Tan)
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Regional Innovation in China (Yi Zhang and Hein Roelfsema)
Trade and Investment Liberalization in India: Implications for Productivity Gains (Ram Upendra Das)
Foreign Direct Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, and Productivity Growth (Sasatra Sudsawasd and Santi Chaisrisawatsuk)
A New Regime of SME Finance in Emerging Asia: Enhancing Access to Growth Capital and Policy Implications (Shigehiro Shinozaki)
Informal Firms and Financial Inclusion: Status and Determinants (Subika Farazi)
Promoting SMEs and Enhancing Labor Productivity in Singapore: A Policy Analysis (Khee Giap Tan and Yan Yi Tan)
Determinants of Entrepreneurs' Activities: New Evidence from Cross-Country Data (Doaa M Salman)
Readership: Academics, policy-makers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in foreign direct investment, globalization, financing of small and medium enterprises, and labor productivity.
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Author: Khee Giap Tan; Kong Yam Tan Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company ISBN: 9789814678827 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2015 168 pages
This book presents the state of the art in advanced customization within the sector of architectural design and construction, explaining important new technologies that are boosting design, product and process innovation and identifying the challenges to be confronted as we move toward a mass customization construction industry. Advanced machinery and software integration are discussed, as well as an overview of the manufacturing techniques offered through digital methods that are acquiring particular significance within the field of digital architecture. CNC machining, Robotic Fabrication, and Additive Manufacturing processes are all clearly explained, highlighting their ability to produce personalized architectural forms and unique construction components. Cutting-edge case studies in digitally fabricated architectural realizations are described and, looking towards the future, a new model of 100% customized architecture for design and construction is presented. The book is an excellent guide to the profound revolution taking place within the fields of architectural design and construction, characterized by computational tools, advanced fabrication means and custom-made high-performance architecture.
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Author: Roberto Naboni; Ingrid Paoletti Publisher: Springer International Publishing ISBN: 9783319044231 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2014 174 pages
Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary.Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control — God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is especially important in leadership and in teaching, although it figures in virtually every human relationship. It transcends religious boundaries and can be found outside religion altogether.Woodruff draws on thinking about this lost virtue in ancient Greek and Chinese traditions and applies lessons from these highly reverent cultures to today’s world. The book covers reverence in a variety of contexts — the arts, leadership, teaching, warfare, and the home — and shows how essential a quality it is to a well-functioning society.First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a foreword by Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, a new preface, two new chapters — one on the sacred and one on compassion — and an epilogue focused on renewing reverence in our own lives.
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Author: Paul Woodruff Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199350827 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2014 336 pages
This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political imperative in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes, and it describes how these reforms were justified in the name of the national interest during severe crises – rapid inflation, military defeat, mass strikes, rural unrest, and/or political turmoil. It looks at the consequences of adversity in the economic environment for rural behavior after reform and at long-run trends. It has chapters on property rights, rural organization, and technological change. It provides a new database for measuring agricultural productivity from 1861 to 1913 and updates these estimates to the present. This book is a study of the policies aimed at reorganizing rural production and their effectiveness in transforming institutions.
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Author: Carol S. Leonard Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139012201 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2010 416 pages
Christian Religious Experience in the United States
For many people, knowing about God is not enough; they also want to feel God’s presence. Whether like St. Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus or like Wesley’s “strangely warmed heart,” people believe that nothing can substitute for religious experience. Even today, people go to church in order to encounter the Divine, by which they mean experience God in their midst. This desire to meet or be met by God is as old as humanity, but America especially has been the seed bed for what William James famously called “varieties of religious experience.” These experiences cover a wide spectrum from classic mysticism to revivalist conversion to a contemporary pursuit of spirituality. A Sense of the Heart traces the nature of religious experience from the colonial era to the present, attempting to define and describe the nature of religious experience and noting common and distinct approaches in the work of various scholars and practitioners. Following that, A Sense of the Heart offers a historical review of representative types of religious experience, the nature of such experiences and their impact on the American religious and cultural context as evident in awakenings, controversies, denominations, and new religious communities.
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Author: Bill J. Leonard Publisher: Abingdon Press ISBN: 9781426756757 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
L'environnement est aujourd'hui une préoccupation incontournable pour les urbanistes. Mais même si l'aménagement du territoire a accompagné l'idéologie du développement durable depuis ses débuts, le milieu urbain ne retient l'attention des environnementalistes que depuis peu.Le but de cet ouvrage est de contribuer à combler cette lacune, à la fois sur le plan analytique et sur le plan stratégique. Trois thèmes y sont privilégiés : d'abord, l'estimation des risques environnementaux en milieu urbain, ensuite les études d'impact environnemental ainsi que la place accordée à la participation des populations visées dans l'évaluation des projets et, enfin, l'élaboration des stratégies d'aménagement et le développement du paysage urbain.
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Author: Michel A. Boisvert Publisher: Presses de l”niversite du Quebec ISBN: 9782760518100 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2004 244 pages
90 Devotions for Activating Your Faith, Achieving Your Dreams, and Increasing in God’s Favor
It’s your time to declare your faith, to look for God’s favor, and to give control of your life to Him so that you can find fulfillment in His plans for you! In Daily Readings from It’s Your Time, pastor and bestselling author Joel Osteen helps you turn every day into an opportunity for a better life as you incorporate messages of hope and faith more deeply into everything you do. No matter where you stand, this 90-day devotional provides new approaches for transforming your life. Joel guides you with thought-provoking anecdotes, words of encouragement, and inspiring scripture. Based on It’s Your Time, this devotional centers around five encouraging themes:
• It’s Time to Believe
• It’s Time for Favor
• It’s Time for Restoration
• It’s Time to Trust
• It’s Time to Stretch
Each section consists of readings that elaborate on one of the five ideas. As you travel through each day, you will find new and exciting ways to bring the teachings of It’s Your Time into your life. Highlighting key stories from It’s Your Time, this devotional also supplies passages and daily thoughts that offer messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you rise above any circumstance so that you can fulfill God’s best plan for your life. Joel offers assurance that God does not want you to merely survive challenging times, He wants you to thrive. When you give your life over to Him, God will send opportunities your way so you can soar to new heights of fulfillment. He also reminds you that the bigger your burden, the greater your blessings to come.
It’s Your Time
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Author: Joel Osteen Publisher: Howard Books ISBN: 9781451610390 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2010 288 pages
Die beiden Bezugsgrößen der politischen Soziologie, die gesellschaftlichen Strukturen auf der einen Seite und das politische System mit den staatlichen Institutionen als Kern auf der anderen Seite, sind einem ständigen Wandel unterworfen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes versuchen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven eine Antwort auf die Frage zu geben, wie sich diese Wandlungsprozesse auf die Politik im Wirkungskreislauf der Gesellschaft auswirken und insbesondere vor welche Herausforderungen sie die Demokratie stellen. Dabei geht es sowohl um die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen für die politischen Akteure und Institutionen als auch darum, wie die politischen Strukturen und Prozesse auf die Gesellschaft zurückwirken.
Author: Thomas von Winter; Volker Mittendorf Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften ISBN: 9783531909080 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2008 262 pages
