Plundered Empire: Acquiring Antiquities from Ottoman Lands, Michael Greenhalgh
Автор: St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, Elena Borowski Название: Harbor for Our Hope: On acquiring Peace Amidst Suffering ISBN: 0884654222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780884654223 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: St Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) struggled with chronic illness and disability through most of his adult life. Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering and how through it we might find "a harbor for our hope."
Автор: Kwan S. Kim; Fumio Maki; Ryoshin Minami; Joung-hae Название: Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies ISBN: 1349237779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349237777 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 24456.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Economic progress requires technological development, which in turn depends on a country`s social capacity to acquire, assimilate, and develop new technologies.
Автор: Gale Cengage Learning Название: A Study Guide for Anna Akhmatova`s Everything Is Plundered ISBN: 137537964X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781375379649 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2014.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Collier Paul Название: Plundered Nations? ISBN: 0230290221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230290228 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book consists of eight case studies investigating the political economy of the decision chain involved in natural resource extraction in resource-rich countries, where plunder rather than prosperity has become the norm. Some case studies reveal successes, while others show the decision chain to have failed disastrously.
Автор: Erie, Steven P., Название: Paradise plundered : ISBN: 0804756031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804756037 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3773.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political institutions have all contributed to the current governance malaise.
Until recently, San Diego, California—America's 8th largest city—seemed immune to such systematic governance disorders. This sunny beach town entered the 1990s proclaiming to be "America's Finest City," but in a few short years its reputation went from "Futureville" to "Enron-by-the-Sea." In this eye-opening and telling narrative, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott A. MacKenzie mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego.
Using untapped primary sources—interviews with key decision makers and public documents—and benchmarking San Diego with other leading California cities, Paradise Plundered examines critical dimensions of San Diego's governance failure: a multi-billion dollar pension deficit; a chronic budget deficit; inadequate city services and infrastructure; grandiose planning initiatives divorced from dire fiscal realities; an insulated downtown redevelopment program plagued by poorly-crafted public-private partnerships; and, for the metropolitan region, inadequate airport and port facilities, a severe underinvestment in firefighting capacity despite destructive wildfires, and heightened Mexican border security concerns.
Far from a sunny story of paradise and prosperity, this account takes stock of an important but understudied city, its failed civic leadership, and poorly performing institutions, policymaking, and planning. Though the extent of these failures may place San Diego in a league of its own, other cities are experiencing similar challenges and political changes. As such, this tale of civic woe offers valuable lessons for urban scholars, practitioners, and general readers concerned about the future of their own cities.
Автор: Coffman Ph. D. Dr Michael S. Название: Plundered ISBN: 0615630774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615630779 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, an unflinching insider account by a leading curator who has spent years learning how to balance these controversial considerations. Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin. Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to help them recover their looted heritage from museums across the country. As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Chip Colwell has navigated firsthand the questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists and whether the emptying of museum shelves elevates human rights or destroys a common heritage. This book offers his personal account of the process of repatriation, following the trail of four objects as they were created, collected, and ultimately returned to their sources: a sculpture that is a living god, the scalp of a massacre victim, a ceremonial blanket, and a skeleton from a tribe considered by some to be extinct. These specific stories reveal a dramatic process that involves not merely obeying the law, but negotiating the blurry lines between identity and morality, spirituality and politics. Things, like people, have biographies. Repatriation, Colwell argues, is a difficult but vitally important way for museums and tribes to acknowledge that fact--and heal the wounds of the past while creating a respectful approach to caring for these rich artifacts of history.
The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in April of 2003 provoked a world outcry at the loss of artifacts regarded as part of humanity's shared cultural patrimony. But though the losses were unprecedented in scale, the museum looting was hardly the first time that Iraqi heirlooms had been plundered or put to political uses. From the beginning of archaeology as a modern science in the nineteenth century, Europeans excavated and appropriated Iraqi antiquities as relics of the birth of Western civilization. Since Iraq was created in 1921, the modern state has used archaeology to forge a connection to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and/or Islamic empires and so build a sense of nationhood among Iraqis of differing religious traditions and ethnicities.
This book delves into the ways that archaeology and politics intertwined in Iraq during the British Mandate and the first years of nationhood before World War II. Magnus Bernhardsson begins with the work of British archaeologists who conducted extensive excavations in Iraq and sent their finds to the museums of Europe. He then traces how Iraqis' growing sense of nationhood led them to confront the British over antiquities law and the division of archaeological finds between Iraq and foreign excavators. He shows how Iraq's control over its archaeological patrimony was directly tied to the balance of political power and how it increased as power shifted to the Iraqi government. Finally he examines how Iraqi leaders, including Saddam Hussein, have used archaeology and history to legitimize the state and its political actions.
Описание: Tha Ghetto is a part of a city especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group, restricted to an isolated or segregated area. A Dojo is a room or hall in which martial arts is practiced. Martial Arts is skills that originated as forms of Self Defense or attack for surviving a hostile environment. Tha Ghetto is a Dojo, where in it's Womb it has given birth to masters of every field of endeavor from Moses, Joseph, David, Muhammad, Jesus, and even God himself. Now you may ask yourself, "How can God come from Tha Ghetto?" In the beginning, the earth was without form and void and Darkness was upon the face of the deep and God MOVED upon the face of the waters and God said, "Let there be Light": and there was Light. The Darkness of ignorance, lies, deceit, jealousy, gossip, slavery, discrimination, racism and every vice you can imagine is upon the face of Tha Ghetto. This book is God calling forth Light thru me, upon the darkness and void of Tha Ghetto which I have deemed a Dojo with Art as my Weapon. Come and follow me.
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