When The Past Meets The Present

Author : John H. Jameson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387482164
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past Meets Present written by John H. Jameson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has witnessed increased interest in establishing partnerships between professional practitioners in public interpretation and educational institutions to excavate and preserve the past. These developments have occurred amidst a realization that community-based partnerships are the most effective mechanism for long-term success. With international contributions, this volume addresses these latest trends and provides case studies of successful partnerships.

Author : Noga Efrati
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231530242
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Iraq written by Noga Efrati and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noga Efrati outlines the first social and political history of women in Iraq during the periods of British occupation and the British-backed Hashimite monarchy (1917–1958). She traces the harsh and long-lasting implications of British state building on Iraqi women, particularly their legal and political enshrinement as second-class citizens, and the struggle by women's rights activists to counter this precedent. Efrati concludes with a discussion of post-Saddam Iraq and the women's associations now claiming their place in government. Finding common threads between these two generations of women, Efrati underscores the organic roots of the current fight for gender equality shaped by a memory of oppression under the monarchy. Efrati revisits the British strategy of efficient rule, largely adopted by the Iraqi government they erected and the consequent gender policy that emerged. The attempt to control Iraq through "authentic leaders"—giving them legal and political powers—marginalized the interests of women and virtually sacrificed their well-being altogether. Iraqi women refused to resign themselves to this fate. From the state's early days, they drew attention to the biases of the Tribal Criminal and Civil Disputes Regulation (TCCDR) and the absence of state intervention in matters of personal status and resisted women's disenfranchisement. Following the coup of 1958, their criticism helped precipitate the dissolution of the TCCDR and the ratification of the Personal Status Law. A new government gender discourse shaped by these past battles arose, yet the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, rather than helping cement women's rights into law, reinstated the British approach. Pressured to secure order and reestablish a pro-Western Iraq, the Americans increasingly turned to the country's "authentic leaders" to maintain control while continuing to marginalize women. Efrati considers Iraqi women's efforts to preserve the progress they have made, utterly defeating the notion that they have been passive witnesses to history.

Author : Antoinette J. Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471144120
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past Meets Future written by Antoinette J. Lee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-07-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanating from a special National Preservation Conference, leading experts present 33 essays on future trends in the historic preservation field. Topics range from cultural diversity to the future of American communities. This book will guide preservations and anyone concerned about our built environment into the next quarter century.

Author : Amy Shannon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435724437
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written Life: Past Meets Present written by Amy Shannon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Series: Volume 4, Sequel #2It's over five years later where "Rewritten Life" ended. Alex has had her share of problems in the past, but she finally broke when the loss was too much too bare. She is trying to overcome her breakdown. As she tries to move forward, secrets from the past and people from the past show up unexpectedly. Is she strong enough to keep her family? Is she strong enough to hold on to her sanity? Especially, when she finds a long lost relative who she thought was dead, living here in Sars Springs.

Author : Jose Afonso
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981447746X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2005: Past Meets Present In Astronomy And Astrophysics - Proceedings Of The 15th Portuguese National Meeting written by Jose Afonso and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar system bodies, extrasolar planets, star formation, galaxy evolution and cosmology. A special section is dedicated to the history of astronomy including papers on the history of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, time service and legal time, the 1870 solar eclipse expedition, and a comparison between Monteiro da Rocha and Wilhelm Olbers´ methods for the determination of the orbits of comets.

Author : Tina Moffat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459814
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective written by Tina Moffat and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and direction of human societies. Using a biocultural approach, the contributors to this volume investigate the ways in which food is both an essential resource fundamental to human health and an expression of human culture and society. The chapters deal with aspects of diet and human nutrition through space and time and span prehistoric, historic, and contemporary societies spread over various geographical regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia to highlight how biology and culture are inextricably linked.

Author : B. J. Neblett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936587735
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elysian Dreams written by B. J. Neblett and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elysian Dreams" transports the reader from the grimy, violent streets of the Prohibition-era Philadelphia to a peaceful Amish communityNand from the visions of a young girl to the beckoning midnight skies and beyond. It is an exhilarating search for answers to be found only in another world.

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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216118
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Order of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.