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The Final Farewell Preparing for and Mourning the Loss of Yo.......2003-10-07
This is a wonderful book and I recommend it for anyone who has an older pet or a terminally ill pet or has just lost a pet. I read it while preparing for the loss of my cat, and best friend, a 20 year old gray tabby boy. A year after I read it, he was diagnosed with lymphoma and this book helped me so much during that time. I now buy it for friends who are going through the same. It's so nice to be able to help a friend with a book like this.
Great book to read before your animal friend dies.......2001-08-25
This is a very good book with lots of information. These authors understand what it is like to lose an animal friend. It suggests preparing for your animal's loss before it happens so that one doesn't have to think about what to do when the loss occurs and thing's get emotional.
Great book..........2000-01-20
We found out about this book through a link on when we knew the death of our beloved Muffin was soon. It really and truly helped us to prepare ahead of time for what we wanted for him--so we wouldn't be making decisions after the fact. It also reaffirms that fact that the grief one feels for the loss of a much-loved pet is real and not something "silly". While it's not fun to think about, those who have a pet (re. of breed or type) they love dearly may want to have this. There's also a chapter about post-death grief and how to help young children deal with the death as well. Recommended highly!
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Deprived of Light
Hildegard Wegner
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The beauty, resources, and natural processes of the California landscape are brought to the home garden in Mark Francis and Andreas Reimann's fine testament to ecological gardening. The authors connect history, culture, region, and design to help us understand how California and its human population have evolved historically and how individuals today can make a difference in the state's future in their own backyards. The authors' goal is to bring the history of the California garden up to date with the ecological and cultural concerns of our time.
Francis and Reimann use California's natural beauty and habitat as a starting point for inspiring Californians to see their gardens as extensions of the surrounding landscape. They provide essential information on native plants and wildlife, ecology and bioregionalism, landscape history and design concepts, as well as numerous examples showing how to integrate environmental principles in one's garden.
Landscape meaning and regional thinking are an important part of an ecosystem approach to home gardening, say the authors. By observing nearby native or naturalized environments, including vacant lots and abandoned property, one learns a good deal about local plants, wildlife, and other elements that can be incorporated into an ecologically sensitive garden.
Yan Nascimbene's exquisite color illustrations perfectly capture the authors' sensual vision of an environment different from gardens commonly featured in gardening books and magazines. Photographs illustrate the designs of many of the best landscape architects working in the tradition of the California landscape garden, including Ron Lutsko, Topher Delaney, Owen Dell, Ann Christoph, and Rick Fisher. This is a book for anyone seeking a garden philosophy that is environmentally sensitive, and even experienced home gardeners, landscape professionals, and horticulturists will find new and useful material here.
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A Beautiful and Holistic Treatment of Native Landscaping.......2004-01-28
Francis and Reimann have covered all bases of native landscaping in this fine statement of integral composition. A sensitive awareness of local and regional native flora/fauna
should govern choices of construction materials to plant selection for a harmonic flow and consistency between the untouched native environs to the project site for a "....sense
of connection with the larger harmonies of the biosphere..." (Page 36, quoted from William Carney).
The book includes lists of regional native flora and fauna- birds, animals, insects, amphibians, etc. and many resources for further information- books, native landscape architects, plant nurseries, and many illustrations including demonstration gardens.
This book is a must for all those interested in incorporating native plants into their landscape, especially architects, builders and landscape designers who want to learn about beautiful and environmentally beneficial native plants.
A little Philosophical but good info and inspiration.......2000-05-04
I was both delighted and disturbed while reading The California Landscape Garden, by Mark Francis and Andreas Reinmann. The idea that there should be a distinctive "California Garden" has always inspired the gardener to great heights of creativity. There are those who, I am sure, claim to have developed this garden. However, the authors are correct in their observation that "A huge and increasingly pluralistic middle class has put its own stamp on the vernacular landscape, opting for a plethora of individualized styles in hours and garden. Far from displaying the conformity of , say, a Cape Cod community with its distinctive architectural look, today California's developed environment is marked by an often runaway eclecticism. Such a lack of a style has in fact become the style in and of itself. " page 23 The California garden may always be driven by this diversity. I was a bit disturbed by the heavy politically correct tone of the book. I guess it is necessary to display where they are coming from. But it does turn this book from being a useful manual on creating this new type of California garden into a book that is more opposed to the garden dominator style that they feel is predominant. I am a gardener who is open to learn and don't have to oppose something to accept a better idea. My own prejudices aside, (i.e.I believe that God has created Nature rather than nature creating a myth, and I do not feel that we are running out of wild places in this land) I enjoyed the ideas of this book. I have been increasingly amazed at how much God's gardens can teach us. As I drive through the Santa Cruz Mountains on my way to defile the beach with the Human Footprint, I can't help but marvel at the beauty of the tall healthy trees, the rich green undergrowth , the use of ferns on steep, wet slopes etc... There are no sprinkler systems, pest control applications, statues nor other useful garden features, and yet even with the decaying tree trunks, the leaning trees, the unpruned dead branches...there is more beauty than I could ever hope to approach in my contrived gardens. This book give some good ideas as to how you can incorporate God's natural techniques in our gardens. There are many good examples of how some of the new breed of California architect have made environmentally sound gardens that are almost like paintings. I still feel, however, that no matter how much we succeed in our attempts to imitate natural gardens, we are still creating artificial landscapes. We are still the same as one who plants a lawn, some foundation shrubs and a rosebush for color, we are just doing it differently. So, if you get past the political correctness, the reverence for anything the indigenous peoples did, the scare tactics and the snootiness, there is much to be learned from the book. It has affected the way I garden, and I think that that is what they set out to do. Philosophical johnbas@garlic.com
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An accessible introduction to postmodernism, feminist theory and Islamic fundamentalism, this book is a highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism which looks at what happens when they are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam. The author describes the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. Postmodernism has exposed the vested interests implicit in racist stereotyped and colonial images of Islam, particularly radical Islam. However, the author argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement, postmodernism has put itself in service to power and the status quo. She brilliantly demonstrates how this has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism--or a new feminist orientalism, asking some hard questions of those who denounce the racism of Western feminism but uncritically embrace the Islamic identity of Muslim women.
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In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redifinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political srategies of feminists inb the Islam world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first Saudi Arabian woman to ean a docorate from Oxford, Mai Yamani is Research associate at the Center of Ixlamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
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Muslims currently struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws (including those derived from Islam, as well as contemporary ideas about gender equality and law) in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country. John Bowen explores their struggle through archival and ethnographic research and interviews with national religious and legal figures. His book relates to debates in any society where people struggle to live together with extreme differences in values and lifestyles and is welcomed by scholars and students in all branches of the social sciences.
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Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam (Collected Studies, Cs474)
Wael B. Hallaq
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Modern Tunisia: A Democratic Apprenticeship
Andrew Borowiec
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How did Tunisia succeed in eliminating the threat of militant Islamic fundamentalism? Borowiec examines the actions, which begin with the removal of the senile President Habib Bourguiba in 1987, known in Tunisia as "the change." Today, while its next door neighbor, Algeria, is in the midst of an upheaval threatening modernization and a secular government, Tunisia is the only Muslim country to ban polygamy and to introduce state-funded contraception. Borowiec begins by sketching Tunisia's history from the Phoenician era onward. He provides a detailed analysis of the country's Islamic movement, and then examines the efforts of Bourguiba's successor, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, to liberalize the economy, foster a Western orientation, and make education accessible to all. Interviews with leading government officials as well as educators, writers, and average Tunisians puts a human face on a process that may allow Tunisia to make the transition to become a "young developed nation" at the beginning of the next millennium. This book is important to scholars, researchers, and the general public concerned with events in North Africa and the Arab world.
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Studies in Islamic Legal Theory (Studies in Islamic Law and Society)
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Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling
Hamideh Sedghi
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Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
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Zina, Transnational Feminism And the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women
Shahnaz Khan
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The Zina Ordinance is part of the Hadood Ordinances that were promulgated in 1979 by the military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq a self-proclaimed president of Pakistan. Since then, tens of thousands of Pakistani women have been charged and incarcerated under the Zina Ordinance, which governs illicit sex - both adultery and fornication in general. Although most of these women are subsequently released for lack of evidence, they spend months or years in jail before trial. Despite international calls for its repeal, these laws still remain in effect.
From 1998 to 2002, Shahnaz Khan interviewed women who had been incarcerated under the zina laws in Pakistan. She argues that the zina laws help situate morality within the individual, thus de-emphasizing the prevalence of societal immorality such as injustice, corruption, and continued impoverishment of the greater segment of the Pakistani population.
Khan concludes that transnational feminist solidarity can help women identify the linkages between the local and global and challenge oppressive practices internationally. This analysis will appeal to scholars and students of gender, law, human rights, and Islamic/Middle Eastern studies.
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