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Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity
This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”. Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thou…
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XIX, 187
A History of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twis…
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- 9780511997419
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A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy
Shrouded in poetry, the earliest accounts of Hindu astronomy can strike modern readers as obscure. They involve the marriage of the moon to twenty-seven princesses, a war between gods and giants, and shadows that give birth to planets. In this fascinating study, first published in Calcutta in 1823 and reissued here in the 1825 edition, John Bentley (c.1750–1824) strives to strip back the myth…
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- 9781139506533
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- Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
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A Grammar of the Sungskrit Language to Which Are Added Examples for the Exer…
The Indo-Aryan language of Sanskrit is the primary language of Hinduism and also a scholarly language of Buddhism. Dating back to the second millennium BCE, it is considered to be the parent of most modern languages of India, and remains central to work in Indo-European studies, philology and linguistics today. First published in 1806, this is a comprehensive grammar of Sanskrit, compiled by th…
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- 9781139507271
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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China, Russia and Central Asian Infrastructure
This book evaluates Central Asian regionalism by analyzing the impact of Russia and China on physical infrastructure in the region. The narrative builds a picture of the nature of the two powers’ influence on the development of regional connectivity in Central Asia. The study covers the 30-year period since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with a focus on the last decade preceding the glo…
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- 978-981-19-4254-9
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- Sejarah Sosial
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- 301.7
The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on…
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- 9780295750378, 9780295750354
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- 959 MEL t
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
Indonesia
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789004286900
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- 526
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 60
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- 950 SCH p
The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)
The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurved…
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- 9780520383555, 9780520383555
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- 294.5 CER p
The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
Indonesia
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- 9789004286924
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- 272
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 62
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- 950 NIE k
From Isolation towards Integration
From Isolation towards Integration was originally published in Dutch as Volume 41 (1963) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
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- 9789004287112
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- 126
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- 950 DEG f
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