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Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer
John Diamond Manufacturer: Enhancement Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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ASIN: 1890995177 |
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This self-healing manual is more than just another self-help or "cure-of-the-month" book.To really heal yourself, you will need to look at yourself, at your life, at your suffering, from many different points of view -- and deeply from each of them. To build up a total holistic picture -- more, a three-dimensional sculpture of exactly who you have become at this moment in your life. To see yourself accurately and truly, from all perspectives.
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What Healing is All About.......2004-08-31
An inspiring collection.......2003-06-14
I think that this is one of the most remarkable traits of Dr. Diamond's writing: that, instead of claiming to have found the one true path to enlightenment, he presents his own ideas and thought in such a way as to be a springboard for the reader's.
Multifaceted indeed........2003-06-08
A treasure trove of inspiration.......2003-05-27
facets of a diamond.......2003-05-26
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Soldiers In Revolt: GI Resistance During The Vietnam War
David Cortright Manufacturer: Haymarket Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1931859272 |
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Vietnam Veterans For Peace: A History of Resistance.......2006-03-14
Vietnam's organized opposition from within the ranks.......2006-03-13
Wonderful Addition For Anyone Studying Vietnam.......2006-01-09
Behind the Walls.......2005-10-10
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Global Studies: India and South Asia (Global Studies India and South Asia)
James K Norton Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0073198730 |
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GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites. Visit our website for more information: www.dushkin.com/global studies/
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Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Radical Perspectives)
Mrinalini Sinha , and Mrinalini Sinha Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0822337959 |
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Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country’s child wives. According to Mayo, the roots of the social problems she chronicled lay in an irredeemable Hindu culture that rendered India unfit for political self-government. Mother India was reprinted many times in the United States, Great Britain, and India; it was translated into more than a dozen languages; and it was reviewed in virtually every major publication on five continents.
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Pakistan: A Global Studies Handbook (Global Studies)
Yasmeen Mohiuddin Manufacturer: ABC-CLIO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1851098011 Release Date: 2006-11-27 |
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An essential pick for any comprehensive reference library........2007-04-10
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India: A Global Studies Handbook (Global Studies)
Fritz Blackwell Manufacturer: ABC-CLIO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1576073483 Release Date: 2004-06-10 |
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Global Studies: India and South Asia, 6th Edition (Global Studies)
James K Norton , and James Norton Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072850248 |
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The Global Studies series is designed to provide comprehensive background informatin and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. This edition features an overview of South Asia and country reports for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. An annotated list of World Wide Web sites guides students to additional resources.
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Going to School in South Asia (The Global School Room)
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313335532 |
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Afghanistan is one of many South Asian countries appearing in daily headlines, as it attempts to rebuild its society, including its educational system, after decades of war. Sri Lanka, devastated by the tsunami of 2004, and parts of Pakistan and Northern India, coping with the aftereffects of a major earthquake, are also also struggling for teachers, classrooms, supplies, and a sense of normalcy for their students. This volume, part of the Schooling Around the World series, provides readers with a history and survey of education in eight of the region's countries. It examines the Primary, Secondary, and Postsecondary levels of education, identifying the types of education available (public, private, tutoring, etc), any race, gender or social class issues that impact education, and major reforms taking place. Readers will find discussions of curriculum and teaching methods most helpful, as well as a special "day in the life" feature, which gives a personal look at what it's like for students attending school in that country today. -Afghanistan -Bangladesh -Bhutan -India -Maldives -Nepal -Pakistan -Sri Lanka
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Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands: American Missionary Women in South Asia, 1860s-1940s (Gender, Culture, and Global Politics)
Maina Cha Singh Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0815328249 |
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Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South Asian women, now in their seventies, who attended such institutions in the 1940s, and whose voices texture our understanding of American women's missionary work in "Other" cultures.
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The Global World of Indian Merchants, 17501947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society)
Claude Markovits Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521622859 |
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Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book that will appeal to students of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and economic historians.Customer Reviews:
An excellent historical account of a fantastic people........2000-12-26
I'd highly recommend this book (and not only because it covers the history of my ancestors).
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Review by Lakshmi Subramanian.......2000-10-18
The Global World of the Indian Merchant 1750-1947: Traders of sind from bukhara to panama
By Claude Markovits, Cambridge, Price not mentioned
This is a book many of us have been waiting for. Periodic pronouncements have been made about the resilience and prescience of the Asian trader operating within and against the writ of the colonial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with these, the long debate on the world economy has sustained a level of interest and enquiry about the dynamics of non-European commercial activity in widely dispersed areas of the globe. Serious gaps and doubts have, however, remained and we are often left wondering, "Whose world economy was it anyway?" Was Asian enterprise a tedious aggregate of small, but countless, transactions indulged in by the colonial state with its own calculations and compulsions.
On the other hand, the visibility and movement of Indian merchant groups in the emerging global economy since the 19th century have invested the Asian experience with a certain significance, which, in turn, warrants a closer examination of the process, its antecedents and its projections. Claude Markovits's study attempts precisely to do all this and more, with the result that we have a narrative that is rich in detail, sensitive to the play of historical configurations and supported by a theoretical framework that is balanced and not overly ambitious. He focuses on two communities - the Shikarpuris and the Sindworkis, and through them proceeds to weave a story of dispersal and circulation, rather than that of a unitary diaspora with overarching Indian connotations.
Markovits argues that south Asian merchant movements were essentially temporary migrations and that the settlements, when these did occur, were largely involuntary. Nor did these correspond to any unitary category of caste, territory or religion and were in every sense the outgrowths of regional compulsions and local realities. The experience of the two communities chosen by Markovits, the Shikarpuris and Sindworkis, illustrates the juxtaposition of local processes with that of the global economy, where the activities of merchant groups took on a fuller meaning.
Obviously, such an approach is admissible when dealing with the operation of a colonial economy and not that of a national one, and it is no coincidence that the study should stop at 1947. Within this framework of local and global history, Markovits teases out a fascinating story of the merchant networks of Sind region, that has suffered an overdose of orientalizing descriptions. He also traces their emergence in the context of 18th century transition politics and their expansion in the high noon of British imperialism and Russian centralization. There is also the story of their spatial advance from Bukhara to Panama. The relocation of the south Asian merchant networks in the world economy in the 18th century is a well-established fact, even if its implications are not so well drawn out. The 18th century, in particular, is seen to have constituted a turning point in the positioning of the Asian merchants who suffered major reverses and in the process facilitated the marginalization of Asia in the newly emerging world economy centred firmly in Europe. The process of relocation was not coeval with that of decline and dislocation, and according to Markovits, it was marked by sharp regional and sub-regional variations.
Additionally, the establishment and workings of the colonial economy reared a sub-stratum of commercial functions and operations that were deftly handled and taken over by enterprising indigenous groups. It is within this context that Markovits positions his communities. He argues that far from operating in a residual space left open by the colonial dispensation, these merchant networks adapted successfully to a trading world dominated by European capital through a complex process of collaboration and conflict. The Shikarpuri and Sindworki networks developed under very different circumstances. The surge in Indo-Central Asian trade from the 1840s enabled the Shikarpuris to rework an existing network of caravan commerce and credit transactions under the dispensation of the Uzbeg khanates of central Asia. Meanwhile, the Sindworkis regrouped under the British dispensation and took advantage of the extension of the colonial economy from Bombay into Sind to operate a trade of truly global proportions. The Shikarpuri network was forced out of its base in Sind by changes that followed in the wake of colonial subjugation and changing configurations of commercial exchange. They exploited their old connections with central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan to emerge as principal moneylenders and traders, especially in the khanate of Bukhara. The details of the network have been deduced from a mass of legal material that the Russian authorities felt compelled to share with the British government in the eventuality of any death-related succession dispute involving a British Indian subject. One of the most striking features of the network to emerge from this legal discourse is the working of Shikarpuri panchayats in most localities of central Asia. The Sindworkis, on the other hand, were very much part of the colonial economy and began as modest peddlers of native crafts to a European clientele. This venture expanded substantially to include, in subsequent years, a wide range of curios that found their way into the European markets. Their initiative and intrepidity were quite remarkable. Consider the trader who protested against Australian immigration restrictions and flashed his credentials as a trader of repute who bought and sold exotic goods besides carving the occasional tortoise shell or setting a piece in jade. Curios became doubly important as the tourist traffic caught the fancy of European visitors, enabling a massive expansion of Sindhi enterprise on both sides of the Suez that soon turned to trade in textiles and financial speculation.
In all, this is a fascinating story of commercial dynamism. What makes the story even more fascinating is the exploration of the proclivity to spatial and social mobility among the networks. Caste did not play a central role in forging solidarities. The affinity seemed very much to lie with the region and with the ability to travel extensively and, in the process, ensure a circulation of skills and entrepreneurial labour.
Circulation however, remained confined to males, very rarely did wives accompany their partners. The absence of female company did not, however, deflect the passion for riches as merchants alternated between celibacy and permissiveness to balance the sexual economy of circulation.
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The Grolier Global Studies Library, Set (Global Studies)
James Norten Manufacturer: Grolier Educational Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0717273229 |
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India and South Asia: India and South Asia (Global Studies)
James K., Dr. Norton Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 156134379X |
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Primetime: Strategies for Life-Long Learning in Mathematics and Science in the Middle and High School Grades
Wendy Lim , Hal Hemmerich , and Kanwal Neel Manufacturer: Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0435083635 |
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Primetime's innovative strategies help students become autonomous, life-long learners as they discover the significance of mathematics and science in the "real" world.
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Primetime: Strategies for Life Long Learning in Mathematics and Science in the Middle and High School Grades
Hemmerick Manufacturer: Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9990069204 |
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