Roland: 1394 books
At War's End
Building Peace after Civil Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2004
All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is basically sound, but pushing this process too...
Biodiversity and Domestication of Yams in West Africa
Traditional Practices Leading to Dioscorea rotundata Poir.
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
A study of yam domestication practices among smallholders has provided an insight into how farmers exploit wild plant genetic resources so as to adapt them to agriculture. This book describes the domestication operations leading to Dioscorea rotundata yams in Africa. The biodiversity of these yams...
Scholars and Prophets
Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published on India and shows that Dumont has been influenced by both groups. The book draws on archives and empirical material.
The Tao of Life
Time cycles of light and darkness as a categorical pattern of order for the primordial life molecules
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The book describes a hypothesis on the origin of life on earth. It assumes that the microcosmic molecular basis of life arose by adaptation to the overlaying macrocosmic astronomical rhythms impacting on the earth. Viewed from the earth these rhythms appear as the ‘course’ of the sun, the moon...
The Becoming of God
Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
How should we believe in God today? If we look beyond our little lives to the vast cosmos, we may even ask: Why all that? And even if we spiritually feel the universe: Why believe any religion? After all, there are many; and haven't they contributed to the predicament of humanity? Process theology...
by J. Roland Pennock
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
One man alone cannot construct an entire profession, but David Shakow is one of the architects responsible for shaping clinical psychology into the profession it is today. Reflecting the ideas of a man whose name is synonymous with the field, this volume brings together for the first time his most...
Tous les matins du monde de Pascal Quignard - Chapitre 15
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Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2014
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Tous les matins du monde de Pascal Quignard
Questionnaire de lecture
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Testez vos connaissances sur Tous les matins du monde de Pascal Quignard !Ce questionnaire de lecture sur Tous les matins du monde de Pascal Quignard vous aidera à :• vérifier votre compréhension du roman• faire des liens entre la réalité et la fiction• approfondir votre analyse de l’œuvreCette...
by Roland Dumas
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1977
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1977
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Quel avenir pour la confirmation ?
Un enjeu pastoral
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Un mouvement est encours depuis le concile Vatican II qui, enrevenant aux sources de l'initiation chrétienne,a déjà permis de rétablir pour les catéchumènesadultes l'ordre des trois sacrements : baptême,confirmation, eucharistie.Il s'agit de passer dela doctrine, clairement exposée par...
L'assurance du particulier
Tome 1: Assurances de dommages
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2014
L’auteur expose les bases propres de produits d’assurances offerts aux particuliers. Le tome 1 traite des assurances de dommages en droit luxembourgeois. En partant des assurances de responsabilités, en passant par les assurances automobile et les multirisques habitation (incendie, tempête,...
Aufklärung
Epoche – Autoren – Werke
Language: German
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Die Aufklärung hat wesentliche Grundlagen modernen Denkens und moderner Mentalität geschaffen. Sie hat gegen unhinterfragte Traditionen und Vorurteile gekämpft und sich vehement für die Mündigkeit des Menschen eingesetzt. Die Literatur hat gerade in Deutschland den Prozess der Aufklärung unterstützt,...
Authority, State and National Character
The Civilizing Process in Austria and England, 1700–1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. Drawing on the concepts and theories of Norbert Elias on the Civilizing Process, it sets out to pin down...
by Anett Steiner, Claudia Gärtling, Nadine Schneider
Language: German
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Der dritte Band aus der Reihe 'ParaMagazin', rund um Themen der Grenzwissenschaften und Parapsychologie. Das Titelthema befasst sich mit der Thematik der Hexen und Zauberer, der Faszination für Magie und die Entwicklung des Hexentums von der Antike bis heute. Hinzu kommen versunkene oder untergegangene...