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Münchner Stadtadreßbuch
  • Language: de

Münchner Stadtadreßbuch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

VERSUS: Heritage for Tomorrow

Vernacular architecture represents a great resource that has considerable potential to define principles for sustainable design and contemporary architecture. This publication is the result of an overall aim to produce a valuable tool for analysis regarding vernacular heritage through different assessments, in order to define principles to consider for sustainable development. This was possible through a comprehensive reflection on the principles established and the strategies to recognise in different world contexts. The present publication was the result of an in-depth approach by 46 authors from 12 countries, concerned with the analysis and critical assessment of vernacular heritage and i...

Studies on Turkish Politics and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 757

Studies on Turkish Politics and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-12-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book comprises a collection of articles and essays published in a variety of journals during the past decades, which seek to identify and analyze the main factors in Turkish politics. Political parties, military interventions, international relations and cultural developments are given wide coverage alongside studies on literature.

Destroying Ethnic Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Destroying Ethnic Identity

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Islam Outside the Arab World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 491

Islam Outside the Arab World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Today about 85 per cent of the world population of Muslims live in areas outside the Arab world, and due to population growth, missionary endeavours and migration, the number of Muslims in these areas is rising rapidly. This volume presents the spread and character of Islam in many non-Arab countries, focusing particularly on the contemporary situation. The book deals with the great variety and complexity that characterize Islam outside the Arab world, with Sufism (the predominant form of Islam in most non-Arab Muslim countries), and with the growing significance of Islamism which challenges secularism and Sufi forms of Islam.

Old and New Islam in Greece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 628

Old and New Islam in Greece

  • Categories: Law

Providing an interdisciplinary look at Greece’s Muslim minority and migrant communities, this book provides an exhaustive legal analysis of regulations and broadens our understanding of the political management of ethnic and religious otherness, while placing these phenomena in historical context.

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and with their establishment in Europe, describing the basic Muslim and Turkish features of the Ottoman state. The author goes on in subsequent sections to show how these features influenced every aspect of life in the European lands administered directly by the Ottomans (the "core" provinces) and left a permanent mark on states that were vassals of or paid tribute to the empire. Whether dealing with the "core" provinces of Rumelia or with the vassal and tribute-paying states (M...

Survival and Sustainability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1468

Survival and Sustainability

The International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability, held at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus 19-24 February 2007, dealt with environmental threats and proposed solutions at all scales. The 21 themes addressed by the conference fell into four broad categories; Threats to Survival and Sustainability; Technological Advances towards Survival and Sustainability; Activities and Tools for Social Change; Defining Goals for Sustainable Societies. Activities and tools that move the society towards greater sustainability were emphasized at the conference. These included environmental law and ethics, environmental knowledge, technology and information systems, media, environmental awareness, education and lifelong learning, the use of literature for environmental awareness, the green factor in politics, international relations and environmental organizations. The breadth of the issues addressed at the conference made clear the need for greatly increased interdisciplinary and international collaboration the survival and sustainability concept. The exchanges at the conference represent a step in this direction.

Theories, Techniques, Strategies for Spatial Planners and Designers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1104

Theories, Techniques, Strategies for Spatial Planners and Designers

Global warming and the resulting climate change affecting our cities the most.For this reason, planners and designers have started to introduce different approaches to make cities more sustainable and livable. This book contains new theories, approaches and practices that scientists dealing with physical planning and design.