Social Science - General

Document from the year 2022 in the subject Social Studies (General), language: English, abstract: The mindfulness training "Poise, Awareness, Breathing" is a means to counteract the habit of avoiding the conscious experience of the present moment. Moreover, it can help us to recognize what...

The art of questioning is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

This is the manual that puts into one volume the vision, strategy, and practical steps to starting and running a D.A.D.S. ministry-a helping community of caring friends working together to reunite families. Here you'll find information and advice for getting started, building your team,...

This book summarizes a research methodology for generating maps of social dynamics for a given geographic area. Spatial and social data are analyzed to explore potential correlations applicable to new forms of social mapping at scale across cities.Human society is constantly changing at individual...

An "absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (temporarily, at least) have had the upper hand--from the creator of the Power...

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public...

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, published in 1928 when he was 27 years old....

"Notes on the State of Virginia" is the only full-length book by Thomas Jefferson published during his lifetime. Jefferson first published the book anonymously in a private and limited-edition printing in Paris in 1785 while he was serving as a trade representative for the...

Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Self, Social Creativity and Reconstitution of Identities.- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations.- Earth and World: Roots and Routes.- First and Second Nature.- Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations.- Understanding "Roots and Routes"...

Through grace to glory - Memory sketches from the life of Harriet Steer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations."-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) Civil...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book aims to discuss new research and trends on all dimensions of Higher Education, as there is a growing interest in the field of Higher Education, regarding new methodologies, contexts, and technologies. It includes investigations of diverse issues that affect the learning processes...

Colonialism has had serious socio-political and cultural impacts on Africa and other colonized nations around the world. The term "Other" is used in postcolonial studies to refer to the cultural representation of the colonized countries and their people by the former colonial masters. In...

Author: Karl HessISBN-10: 1573926876ISBN-13: 9781573926874Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 409Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.35w x 1.38d

Being hailed as "the holy grail for Second Amendment supporters, " Gun Rights 101 offers Second Amendment supporters of all levels an easy to read guide to expand their gun rights knowledge and train themselves to confidently fireback against any gun grabber. "Tyler Yzaguirre's...

The book, "" Cloud Studies "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole...

The human brain has a truly remarkable capacity. It reorganizes itself, flexibly adjusting to fluctuating environmental conditions - a process called neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity provides the basis for wide-ranging learning and memory processes that are particularly profuse during childhood and adolescence. At the same time,...

The aim of this book is to create a space for contributions on religious freedom in the Global South. The contributions speak to diverse themes underscoring religious freedom in the Global South including the impact of religious freedom on majority and minority religious communities,...

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical coral reef degradation and loss, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These...

This book ties together the current revolutionary American motion, which is sweeping the country, with the events of Russia, immediately before the Russian Revolution of November 7, 1917. The Russian insurrection is covered, in which the working people were first made aware of themselves...

Seventy years ago, as India and Pakistan gained their independence, the region of Jammu & Kashmir also found itself divided, with parts of the territory administered by Pakistan ever since. Located by the volatile Line of Control and caught in the middle of artillery...

'The World of Fatwas provides a new prism to non-Muslims for observing Islam, and holds up a mirror to Muslims, challenging them to necessary introspection for adjusting to a changing world'- J.N. Dixit, diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary, of Outlook Why are women...

Outposts of Change is an environmental and social justice masterpiece. It is unique, in that it provides guidance on how to accomplish fundamental, systemic level social change. Within it you will be asked to envision Earth as a living organism composed of sophisticated, interdependent...

'India is an unbroken chain of broken promises.'In 2009, Lalgarh in West Bengal exploded on to the national consciousness. A tribal upsurge against police atrocities escalated into fierce, full-fledged guerrilla warfare against the Indian state. Kishanji, the Maoist leader, who had successfully led the...

Critical Thinking is a discipline that provides the means to distinguish good from bad arguments. In doing so, it draws on the contributions of other disciplines such as logic, psychology, argumentation, and probability theory. By exploiting and developing our ability to reason, it makes...

Outposts of Change is an environmental and social justice masterpiece. It is unique, in that it provides guidance on how to accomplish fundamental, systemic level social change. Within it you will be asked to envision Earth as a living organism composed of sophisticated, interdependent...

Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on...

America is one of the best countries in which to live. There is no doubting that notion. We have the world's most robust economy and the strongest military. However, with those successes, our country has a great deal of excess baggage. We struggle with...

From the middle of the nineteenth century, as Euro-Americans moved westward, they carried with them long-held prejudices against people of color. By the time they reached the West Coast, their new settlements included African Americans and recent Asian immigrants, as well as the indigenous...

Do you enjoy being alone? Are you often lonely? Regardless of how you answer these questions, I would like to offer you some new ways of seeing them. A conscious and mindful life and experience of solitude is the best way to prevent loneliness....

As one of the few of the 17 SDGs applicable in industrial settings, SDG9 seeks to find new steps towards achieving sustainable industrialization. This book explores the fascinating and cross-cutting aspects that jeopardize achieving SDG9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.Author: Luis VelazquezISBN-10: 1801171343ISBN-13: 9781801171342Publisher:...

The discipline that focuses on the study and understanding of society as well as the relationships among individuals within a society is referred to as social science. It is an umbrella term that includes various fields such as anthropology, economics, human geography, linguistics, political...

On the Chilean Social Explosion uses the methods of literary, cultural, and subaltern studies to examine what cultural foundations and practices gave rise to this political uprising. On 18 October 2019, Chile exploded into a series of nationwide protests that placed the socio-political order...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The impetus behind this Special Issue emerged from a quest to move beyondbinary thinking in the contemporary period about people who sell sexual services, including recent disputes about "sex trafficking vs. prostitution" and"criminalization vs. decriminalization", to encourage theoretical and empiricalscholarship by exploring how sex...

Cameroon is a linguistic mosaic: 240 to 300 language units are identified. French and English, inherited from colonization, are added as official languages. French, which is the subject of our study, has been imposed as the official language in Cameroon, and as a result,...

This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and...

The summer of 2016 saw one of the most significant citizen protests in the history of democratic South Korea, eventually culminating in the impeachment and conviction of then President Park Geun-hye for corruption. Concerns about the president's behavior were raised in a polarized media...

Public debates in our societies are marked by appeals to tradition, religion and even manipulative uses of 'post-truth'. This book argues that the antidote to such tendencies can only be public reasoning. We can find the resources to build what I call the public...

States are often held responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, as did Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait. States pay reparations for their historical wrongdoings, as did Chile to the victims of the Pinochet Regime, or...

This book analyses the root and proximate causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economic and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. It is estimated about 70,000 persons...

This book analyses the root and proximate causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economic and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. It is estimated about 70,000 persons...

While the presence of monsters in popular culture is ever-increasing, their use as an explicit or implicit category to frame, stigmatise, and demonise the other is seemingly on the rise. At the same time, academic interest for monsters is ever-growing. Usually, monstrosity is understood...

Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author's experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate, bounded...

"A life changing story of faith, hope, and love"In Broken at A Crossroad, author Roza Perry holds nothing back in sharing her story of an encounter with the lord that changed the whole trajectory of her life as she once knew it. In this...

An overview of ancient Egyptian civilization around the Nile. Includes illustrations of symbols and hieroglyphs as well as black and white photographs and illustrations of sights.Author: E a Wallis BudgeISBN-10: 1639230548ISBN-13: 9781639230549Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2021Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Dance If Ye Can is an introduction to the huge variety of battles fought in Scotland, or fought by the Scots in the nearly nine hundred years when they were an independent nation.The first part of the book serves as an introduction to Scottish...

Is it time to refocus your life, career and business? This practical, easy-to-read guide will help you simplify your life and remove the friction from your business. If you're at a transitional point in your career, this book will prepare and sustain you to...

"This book provides a detailed and practical understanding of the field of evidence-based practices for the training and assessment of police officers, introducing the perspective of police officers themselves, whose views can sometimes be neglected allowing researchers to be better positioned to identify areas...