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The Dhimal are an ethnic minority group of some 20 000 people in the southeastern part of Nepal and adjacent parts of India. Their language is linguistically related to the family of Sino-Tibetan languages. They are one of the 59 recognized indigenous groups who lived on what is today Nepali soil long before the Indo-Aryans arrived with their Hindu culture and caste system constituting the ethnic majority group in Nepal today. In Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, very little is known about the ethnic group of the Dhimals. The author descends from the Dhimal community himself and has presented a dissertation with a wealth of valuable linguistic and ethnographic data. This massive work is likely to become a standard work on the Dhimal community not only in linguistic terms but also with respect to Cultural Anthropology.
This book lists all the words and variant word forms of the original Hebrew-Aramaic Old Testament text or Tanakh (Jewish Bible) with their respective instances of occurrences in the entire text body of the Hebrew Old Testament. It also includes references to biblical book names, chapters and verses. The relevant text corpus of this word concordance is based upon scholarly respected text editions like the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Since text concordances of original texts in original biblical languages are hard to find this book tries to fill a part of that gap.
Our Godly Sexual Beings explores scripture and other ancient texts to unveil one of humanity's great mysteries--God's purpose for designing our Godly sexual beings. After thirty years of committed research and study, Donna Mack perceived an essential missing link from the age-old battle of God vs. Satan. While other books have attempted to discuss human sexuality, none have done so with as many biblical and scholarly-backed references as Our Godly Sexual Beings. One fascinating revelation in scripture is just how sacred human sexuality exists for God. The Bible sings with this truth, and Donna dives into this mystery to reveal the greatest love story ever told! With the help of over 1,300 references, Donna uncovers God's design for sex and Satan's influence that morphed this gift into a lie of lust. This book is full of many revelations and truths that will allow the reader to experience freedom from sexual sin, shame, and bondage.
This book is the first part of a series of three textbooks to help Western students of Chinese prepare for the official Chinese Language Proficiency Test (HSK) in the People's Republic of China. It covers all the language material (Chinese characters, vocabulary, grammar points) required for the first two HSK exam levels 1 and 2 at the elementary stage of Chinese language studies, following the most recent official curricula and guidelines of the competent examination body (Hanban). These three essential "material" main areas of Chinese language studies are covered in depth and will help the student pass the respective language proficiency tests successfully.
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter today in different forms of religious and ideological fundamentalism. Habermas argues that in order to engage in this dialogue, two conditions must be met: religion must accept the authority of secular reason as the fallible results of the sciences and the universalistic egalitarianism in law and morality; and conversely, secular reason must not set itself up as the judge concerning truths ...
The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of NATO, its relationship with the United States, and its implications for global security.
Sind Verhaltenstherapie und Zwang - wie immer wieder behauptet - unvereinbar? Schliessen sich Freiheitsentzug und Beziehungsarbeit gegenseitig aus? Endet die Unterbringung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in geschlossenen Heimen sogar in der Deformation ihrer Personlichkeit? In der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe werden diese Fragen seit Jahrzehnten mit immer wieder wechselnden Vorzeichen heftig diskutiert. Nur auf wissenschaftlich belastbare Daten kann sich eigentlich niemand berufen. Bernhard Stadlers empirisch fundierte Studie zu dieser Thematik schliesst damit eine Forschungslucke und widerlegt so manches Vorurteil. Am Beispiel des Madchenheims Gauting und seiner Arbeit mit dissozialen Madchen zeigt er, in welchen Fallen freiheitsentziehende Massnahmen in der Jugendhilfe helfen konnen und wo nicht. Er bezieht dazu subjektive Einschatzungen der Jugendlichen und ihrer Betreuer ebenso ein wie Testergebnisse, Interviews und die Diagnosen eines externen Instituts.
Chinese Language Proficiency Tests with five language proficiency difficulty levels (TOCFL) in the Republic of China differ significantly from their counterparts in Mainland China (HSK). For a number of reasons, textbooks to prepare for the five different language proficiency difficulty levels of this test are difficult to obtain in Western countries. This book tries to fill the gap and helps the user prepare for all the five test levels by studying and training the essential vocabulary and traditional Chinese character items. A list of simplified character versions corresponding to their original traditional variants has been added to the end of the book.
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