You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.
Kunal, a successful actor, a loving husband and a caring father, he has everything someone wishes for but from inside, he is traumatized by his past From last ten years, every day and every night, only one question haunts him, why his younger brother Samar, whom he loved so much, made him to leave his own home One day his life turns upside down, when he comes to know that his brother, with whom he hadn't met or talked in past ten years, has become a criminal, a brutal and ruthless killer, who works for big terrorist organization Kunal goes on a journey to get his brother back, his journey takes him to dangerous paths, from catching a myth in another country to fighting with tribal people and...
British Columbia -- the last temperate part of the New World to be mapped -- has long conjured up images of Utopia, a word that comes from the Greek no place. Indeed, utopian experiments started springing up soon after the first European explorers passed through.In All Possible Worlds, Justine Brown explores the attraction BC holds for utopian thinkers. She tells the stories of some of their idealistic communities: Metlakatla; Sointula; the Doukhobor towns in the Kootenays; the strange empires of Brother Twelve and other Gulf Island messiahs; the artist and hippie communes of the Sixties and Seventies; and much more.
None
The Okinawan-English Wordbook, written by the late Mitsugu Sakihara, historian and native speaker of the Naha dialect of Okinawa, is an all-new concise dictionary of the modern Okinawan language with definitions and explanations in English. The first substantive Okinawan-English lexicon in more than a century, it represents a much-needed addition to the library of reference materials on the language. The Wordbook opens to lay user and linguist alike an area heretofore accessible almost exclusively in Japanese works and adds to the general body of scholarship on various Ryukyuan languages and dialects by providing a succinct but comprehensive picture of modern colloquial Okinawan. The current...
The Religions of Canadians is a book about religions and the making of Canada. Drawing on the expert knowledge and personal insights of scholars in history, the social sciences, and the phenomenology of religion, separate chapters introduce the beliefs and practices of nine religious traditions, some mainstream, some less familiar. The opening chapter explores how Aboriginal Canadian traditions continue to thrive after centuries of oppression. Subsequent chapters follow in the footsteps of Catholic and Protestant Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Baha'is as they have made their way to Canada, and reveal how different immigrant communities have adapted their rich religi...
The fifteen "communards" from all corners of the globe whose stories appear in this collection have lived in communal groups thirty years on average. Some of the communities they call home are based on spiritual or religious principles, others have secular or economic reasons for being. What separates them are the details of everyday life; what unites them is the dream of a better life and a better future for our planet.
Paul came out of nowhere. Inspired by helpful people and is wife, he earned BA,MA,PhD in Psychology, while feeding a family. Becoming a life long learner, he has lived a happy and successful life and is proud of his grown-up children in Australia.
AND THE ISLANDS CRIED. Continuing the story of David Jovane,(Farpa Tarla) ,the Goaharan and Manlu peoples. David and the Goaharan people are caught up in a disaster of natures making, but a warning has them preparing for it, but not escaping tragedy. Then comes a black ship bringing greedy men, a type the islanders had never meet before, but they find their own way to deal with them . A small English boy also arrives with these men a prisoner of the Captain. Both David and Jelsi have to sort out a worrying problem and the outcome sends them both on a journey not knowing what the future would hold. Book 3 of the trilogy- Then the Rainbow Smiled is being written now.