Sailing Directions - Enroute
Author: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Publisher: ProStar Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781577857600
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Business on the Edge
Author: Viva Ona Bartkus
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2024-07-16
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1541604210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA road map for how businesses can grow and make money while reducing poverty and conflict in some of the world’s most challenging environments Many companies worry that expanding into emerging markets is a risky—and even dangerous—move. Professors Viva Ona Bartkus and Emily S. Block see things differently. They argue that by entering markets in the world’s frontline regions—areas stuck in cycles of violence and extreme poverty—businesses can actually create stability and expand opportunity for communities and corporations alike. From helping Colombian farmers transition from growing coca to produce to disrupting human trafficking rings by creating more construction jobs in the Philippines, Business on the Edge proves that businesses can make money while advancing corporate social responsibility, environmental conservation, and social justice. Partnering with groups including multinational companies, NGOs, and the US military, Bartkus and Block outline their process for generating opportunities, detailing their successes and failures in launching over eighty growth-oriented business solutions in thirty countries. Bridging the gap between academic research and real-world experience, Business on the Edge shows how businesses can reduce risks, cut costs, and increase profits, all while creating economic opportunities that transform communities.
Yemen
Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2011-12-08
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1848546963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.
Writing Jewish Culture
Author: Andreas Kilcher
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0253019648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.
Dictionary
Author: Claus Peter Zoller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 3110197308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 1 of A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani contains around 8.000 lemmata, many of which are supplemented with parallels from adjacent dialects, from other Dardic, from Nuristani, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dravidian and Munda languages, and from Burushaski. The lemmata have been, wherever possible, provided with information about their origin, and they are connected by numerous cross-references. Since Indus Kohistani is a pitch accent language with complicated rules governing the behaviour of the two pitch accents in compounding, derivation, and inflexion, the lemmata are not only marked with their appropriate pitch accents, but the behaviour of the accents (change of value, shift) is illustrated with a large number of inflected forms and cross-references. And since Indus Kohistani has a rich (and frequently irregular) inner and outer conjugation, most verbs are provided with many finite and participle forms. In addition, the dictionary contains two indexes (English - Indus Kohistani and Old Indo-Aryan - Indus Kohistani), and lists with place and clan names, names of the months, etc.
Servant of the Dragon
Author: David Drake
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 1429911700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturn again to the world of Lord of the Isles in David Drake's Servant of the Dragon, the third book in the series, set in an epic fantasy world with hundreds of warring kingdoms without a single overlord for many centuries. Now the sources of magic are reaching a thousand-year peak, and the present generation of sorcerers is the most powerful in the millennium. Follow the small band of heroes and heroines as they journey across these landscapes, these seas, to find their loves, their destinies and --for one--a crown. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
New Approaches to Countering Terrorism
Author: H. El-Said
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1137449977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to design and effectively implement and assess such programmes in the future.
A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, And English
Author: John Richardson
Publisher:
Published: 1829
Total Pages: 1824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIslam: Questions And Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects
Author: Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman
Publisher: MSA Publication Limited
Published: 2003-12-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 5551290492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects, is the eighth volume of a series of authoritative Islamic books entitled Islam: Questions And Answers. The overall series discuss issues relevant to Islam, and present accurate and reliable information based on the true beliefs and practices of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon Him) and his companions. The objectives of the various books include: to teach and familiarize Muslims with various aspects of their religion to be a source for guiding people to Islam to assist in solving the social and personal problems of the Muslims in an Islamic context The books are directed towards Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, Islamic fiqh and jurisprudence, Islamic history, Islamic social laws (including marriage, divorce, contracts, and inheritance), Islamic finance, basic tenets and aqeedah of the Islamic faith and tawheed, and Arabic grammar as it relates to the Qur'an and Islamic texts. The books are compilations of questions and responses about Islam, from both Muslims and Non-Muslims. The responses are handled mainly by internationally re-nowned Islamic shaykhs and scholars, including Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, Ibn Katheer, al-Albaani, Shaykh Ibn Baaz, Ibn al -Jawzi, Ibn al-Qayyim, Al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salaam, al-Nawawi, Shaykh 'Abd al-Kareem, al Khudayr, Al-Dhahabi, al -Qurtubi, Al-Sindi, al- Shawkaani and al-Bastawi using only authentic, scholarly sources based on the Qur'an and sunnah. References are provided where appropriate in the responses. The book provides the reader with cross references of other pertinent responses not necessarily in the same volume, but also in othervolumes of the series. However, each volume is complete in itself. The book records accurately the answers the contributing Sheikhs and scholars gave to the questions put to them.
reVision
Author: Samhu L. Iyyam
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1491713569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSiglez Ipt, once and now again of Prul, awakens, disoriented, in the desert to the warming chill of disturbed sunshine and to the impatient voice of the Playwright, who instructs him his charge is to save several worlds--and possibly the universe. With only a blurred memory of his past, Siglez dutifully sets off across a barren land riddled with strange creatures to Afadral, where the moons have converged, signaling that a time, long foretold, has come. Before the venerated council of reflections, Siglez learns he must prove himself the true agent of prophecy. He rises to the challenge of three daunting proofs to claim legitimacy as the prodigal son of lore. Despite a deep reticence, Siglez prepares iPrulautu forces to confront the rival aBekod, who stand between the people of Prul and the fulfillment of an ancient destiny. But can he prepare himself to confront Sra Ja, an aBekod woman of both arresting beauty and a dizzying capacity to see what others cannot? In this epic adventure tale fueled by love, passion, devotion, and honor, the future of worlds hangs in the balance as an inadvertent hero embraces his fate and planets clash beneath the light of their shared and blighted sun.
