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Buddhism in the Public Sphere
The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence. In eight chapters, t…
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- 9780203970126
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- 294.3 HER b
Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to…
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- 9780203007556
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The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims
Cirebon; Rituals; Islam; Muslims; Indonesia
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- 9781920942311
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- 297 MUH i
Islamising Indonesian: The Rise of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice…
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is the most interesting phenomenon in contemporary Indonesian politics. Not only is it growing rapidly in membership and electoral support, it is also bringing a new and markedly different approach to Islamic politics, one which has no precedent in Indonesian history. Understanding PKS and analysing its political behaviour presents challenges to scholars and o…
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- 9781921536250
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- 297 MAC i
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey : Islamism, Violence and the State
This book was first published in 2015 in Turkish by İletişim Publishing. It is the first ethnographic study written about the Kurdish Hizbullah. This study constitutes a sociological and historical analysis of the 35 year-long period from Hizbullah’s emergence as an illegal underground organisation in 1979 until the time of writing, when Hizbullah had been legally acti…
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- 978 1 7868 0037 4
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- 297.8 KUR k
Living on the Land Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types o…
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- 9781771990417.01
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- 228 pages
Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans might not like the result. Monosson reveals that the very code of life is more fluid than once imagined.…
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- 978-1-61091-500-7
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- VIII, 189
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- 24 b/w illustrations
Plant Programmed Cell Death
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically encoded, active process which results in the death of individual cells, tissues, or whole organs. PCD plays an essential role in plant development and defense, and occurs throughout a plant’s lifecycle from the death of the embryonic suspensor to leaf and floral organ senescence. In plant biology, PCD is a relatively new research area, however, as …
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- 978-3-319-21033-9
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- XI, 306
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- 616.078 GUN p
Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement
This book presents basic concepts, methodologies and applications of biotechnology for the conservation and propagation of aromatic, medicinal and other economic plants. It caters to the needs and challenges of researchers in plant biology, biotechnology, the medical sciences, pharmaceutical biotechnology and pharmacology areas by providing an accessible and cost-effective practical approach to…
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- 978-981-10-1917-3
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- XVII, 621
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- 639.99 ANI p
Plant Viruses: Evolution and Management
This book focuses on the evolution of plant viruses, their molecular classification, epidemics and management, covering topics relating to evolutionary mechanisms, viral ecology and emergence, appropriate analysis methods, and the role of evolution in taxonomy. The currently emerging virus species are increasingly becoming a threat to our way of life, both economically and physically. Plant vir…
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- 978-981-10-1406-2
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- XI, 312
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- 632.8 GAU p
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