Do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward through a multifaceted exploration of the European case.
India Wins Freedom is an account of the partition from the Maulana Azad's perspective. It includes his personal experiences when India became independent, and his ideas on freedom and liberty.The book takes the form of an autobiographical narrative and goes over the happenings of the Indian Independence movement. The book traces the events that took place and ultimately led to the partition in a frank and profound manner.
Author Dev Prana considers himself a Muslim on Fridays, a Jew on Saturdays, a Christian on Sundays, and a Buddhist on Mondays. Regardless of the faith he explores on any given day, each and every day he tries to be a walking embodiment of love, peace, and kindness. He is a student of religion, but it was not always this way. Twenty years ago, as he sought peace through study, he ended up tumbling over life's purpose. "Spiritual Quest of a Baby Yogi" is one seeker's search for truth amidst the many religions of the modern world and his eventual realization that all religions lead to one Father of the Universe. No matter the book- Quran or Bible-and no matter the figure-Buddha or Jesus Christ- all spiritual striving focuses on the similar foundations of unconditional love, nonviolence, and inner peace. As human beings, it is important we make an honest attempt to seek God in order to achieve enlightenment. We are different races with different beliefs, but we share this earth as one. Together, we can fill it with peace and love, but we must first make a spiritual connection with the higher power. It is time to become devout students of spirituality in order to make this world a better place.
A urban hood novel about two young and reckless teenagers whom meets by the sheer grace of 'fate,' and become friends for life. Their environment sets their conscious temperatures below zero degrees, and they become numb to everything that gets in the way of them chasing their paper. Please leave a review after reading.
This Book explores the History behind Rap and Hip-Hop in the Christian and Non-Christian World. It describes how Hip-Hop has strongly influenced and shaped Global Youth Culture and how it plays out in Post-Modernism. It importantly shows how Christians are using it to communicate the Gospel in Missions and Evangelism.
NEW! Case Presentations from the United States and around the World address ethical dilemmas across the practice of nursing. NEW! Think About It boxes present provocative questions within every case presentation. NEW! Thoroughly up-to-date and well referenced content ensures material presented is accurate. NEW! Straightforward and conversational writing style makes content interesting and understandable. NEW! Review questions on Evolve allow students to practice what they have learned. NEW! Case studies on Evolve help students apply the theoretical concepts they have learned. NEW! Ask Yourself questions integrated into each chapter help students understand the relevance of the material. NEW! Discussion questions and Activities within every chapter encourage students to think beyond the theoretical. NEW! Summary and Highlights within every chapter make it easier for students to thoroughly understand key elements.
This volume highlights the latest developments and trends in advanced non-classical materials and structures. It presents the developments of advanced materials and respective tools to characterize and predict the material properties and behavior. It also includes original, theoretical, and important experimental results that use non-routine methodologies often unfamiliar to the usual readers. The chapters on novel applications of more familiar experimental techniques and analyses of composite problems underline the need for new experimental approaches.
I wrote this piece to enlighten the minds of people in the world, especially blacks/African-Americans, about the negative psychological effects of the Willie Lynch Letter. This malicious labyrinth has impacted many lives, causing ignorance, broken homes, disrespectfulness, and poor health throughout the nation. I'm concentrating more on aiding blacks/African-Americans because this ethnic group statistically leads America in negative aspects of life, such as heart disease, poverty, broken homes, incarcerations, lack of education, etc.-and the fact that this system was directed toward African-Americans. Although all cultures and nationalities suffer from such downfalls because of such a melting pot society we live in, any man, woman, or child is capable of falling victim to Lynch's negative behavioral application. Mankind, as a whole, needs an improvement." About the Author Le Brown a.k.a. "Phenomenal Le" was born and raised in Florence, South Carolina. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I thank God (Allah) for giving me well-being and the courage to complete this seven-chapter book. And it has also fulfilled my long-time desire, which is always to share my opinion with different people in different communities. However, human beings are not complete creatures, neither perfect, I am not an exception. You might disagree with some of my opinions, which is very much understandable, because no two people will always agree on the same thing all the time. However, I recommend you and every single reader of this and other books to carefully read every single subject, topic very well, before making any conclusion to agree or disagree. Majority of topics and subjects in this book are based on own personal experience and research. And no part of this book is a copy from any other text. However, I get some of my evidence and reference from the holy Quran and the tradition of Prophet Muhammad. You might read a book with an open mind, but the real-life events that took place and I highlighted some of them are always better to act on something you learn before it could happen to you or you might experience it before and you don't want it to happen to you again. I recommend for every reader to follow the best examples which I highlighted, majority of which will surely help you. Finally, if I said something that offended you, that is not my intention; my real and true intention is to help people in different level of society in regards to issues facing them. And sometimes it is almost impossible to make your point without using a reference and example that might sound offensive to someone; however, that is not the intention of most authors to offend the readers. I wish may God (Allah) make it easy for us to accept the truth and follow the right part to him. May Allah keep peace and his blessing hand on the soul of my mother and father who passed away, with the rest of Islamic community who passed away too. May Allah increase his peace and tranquillity on the legacy of Prophet Muhammad, his followers, and the rest of Islamic community and individuals. I end with the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful.
International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World recasts how we understand international relations through an examination of how the human evolutionary predisposition to be "ultrasocial" as a species impacts which political ideas succeed, transform, manipulate, and inspire on a global scale. At a time when pessimism about our current world order is at an all-time high, this book overturns widespread assumptions that international relations is mainly about conflict, power, and national self-interest. In the last 10-20 years, scientists have discovered that as a species, we are biologically hard-wired, soft-wired, and pre-wired to be other-regarding and cooperative. Humans are an ultrasocial species, and yet this predisposition is completely ignored in governments across the world. Political leaders, experts, and the media have cultivated a myopic vision of global conflict, feeding an obsession on crises of the moment, rather than recognizing frequent and significant breakthroughs in peaceful cooperation and overall trends in the decline of violence. This book shows how time and time again our ultrasocial predisposition has pushed us towards big ideas that inspire and bring us together around the power of possibility. Featuring original research on international cooperation in outer-space exploration, European Union integration, nuclear weapons, and climate change, among other examples, Mai'a K. Davis Cross shows ultrasociality at work in a range of contexts. Tracing the path from social neuroscience and evolutionary biology (among others) to the power of ideas to international agreements, International Cooperation Against All Odds opens up an entirely new understanding of world politics. If we recognize our nature as a species and the potential we have to work together, we can start to transform institutions, and devise policies that take advantage of this. The book ends with a roadmap to promote more international cooperation, and eventually, a more stable, peaceful world order.
Buku ini adalah kumpulan ayat-ayat Al-Qur’an yang dapat digunakan sebagai inspirasi dan motivasi sehari-hari di dalam dunia yang serba cepat ini. Di dalam Al-Qur’an ada banyak sekali pelajaran berharga yang dapat diambil sebagai penyembuh hati yang sedang galau, motivasi penguat iman, serta petunjuk bagi orang-orang yang sedang kehilangan arah. Semoga buku sederhana ini dapat membantu menguatkan imanmu dan lebih mendekatkanmu kepada Allah Swt.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,5, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, course: International Seminar, language: English, abstract: This term paper on hand analyses the competitiveness of five African nations. Depending on the data from the WEF, five African nations have been chosen. These are in detail South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt. The main goal of this paper was to analyze these countries in their competitiveness and benchmark them as an example for other African nations. Therefore this paper first gives an overview on the current political situation, the geographical conditions and the historic background to each country. Each country then is analyzed in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector and gives details on the main economical challenges of each country. The benchmarking deals with the performance in different categories which are Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency, Economic Performance and Infrastructure. The paper on hand comes to the conclusion that the selected five countries are indeed very competitive countries within the African continent. They all have dealt with problematic fields of their economy in the past in their individual way and thus improved their performance. The majority of these five countries still have to work harder on these problematic areas to reach a worldwide competitive level, some of them have already reached this level to some extent. The necessary background information and statistics have been taken from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and various reliable internet resources. The paper on hand analyses the data within the past 16 years or more, depending on the question analysed.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1,3, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, language: English, abstract: We're selling Iceland," quoted the Financial Times in November 2007 after an interview with Jon Olafsson, CEO of Icelandic Glacial. "The purity and coolness of the island - because Iceland is very cool and hip these days." Though this statement is refered to the water product, it demonstrated the high interest in the island itself. As many know, Iceland is the country where one can witness the phenomenons of Mother Nature: tremendous icecaps and several glaciers, raging rivers and magnificent waterfalls, spouting geysers and steaming solfatara, volcanoes, a multitude of birds and whales. The spectacular landscape is one reason why Iceland's tourism is successful. But in recent years Iceland also drew the attention of many industries to itself. For example, many technological and telecommuniational products have been outsourced in Europe towards Iceland as it provides many competitive advantages in these fields. Iceland is unique: it is the smallest economy in the world that has its own currency and a flexible exchange rate. It is also an advanced country with excellent institutions meaning low corruption index, the rule of law, a highly educated population and more (cf. Iceland Chamber of Commerce 2006). For most of the 1990s the island presented one of the highest consistent growth rates in the world and low inflation and unemployment. Particularly the resource management in the mainstay fisheries sector, price stability and diversification of the industry contributed to this economic record. The paper on hand gives an outline of the country. To begin with general information about the island is described. This includes demographic as well as historical and political aspects. The third chapter sketches the development and structure of the Icelandic economy. Current economic situation and main economic sectors are content of this section. Furthermore, the culture is described with the three pillars being religion, language and common history. Also the cultural dimensions of Hostede are analysed for Iceland. Moreover this paper provides an overview of the Icelandic education system. Finally upcoming topics and problems will be mentioned.
Are diplomats agents of international co-operation or transmission belts for states? Traditional theories of international relations seriously underestimate the ability of diplomats as a collective to impact outcomes in the international environment beyond initial state preferences. The European Diplomatic Corps argues that diplomats comprise a transnational network of experts or 'epistemic community' which has been critical in determining co-operation or non-co-operation among European states. The cases considered are the congresses of Westphalia (1648), Berlin (1878), Paris (1919) and Maastricht (1992).
C. David Lamb was eight years old when his holier-than-thou grana daddy, Moses Lamb, sat him on his knee. aBoy, you gotta keep your nose clean, stay outta hot water, and donat screw up.a C. David Lambas innocent-like mind tossed a few thoughts around in his skull. How can I keep my nose clean without picking it? How can I take a bath without hot water? I know diddly squat about sex and donat understand how I can screw up. His grana daddyas pioneering and adventurous spirit lives deep inside him as he travels West. There, he discovers the Valley of Chips, Queen of the Hydros, Tarrytown, FBI, Madam Wu, diamonds and a Mexican connection. And then he embarks upon a final search for his rainbow.
Ordained minister Joe Brusherd, also known as Yosef, likes to refer to himself as a Torah Respecting Gentile Believer. With the goal of encouraging the Christian community to understand the richness of the Old Testament, the Torah, and the culture and customs of the people of God, Brusherd shares ninety-five inspirational and thought-provoking insights useful for preaching, leading Bible studies, and understanding God in a refreshing way.For those who have heard someone say the Old Testament is no longer relevant or who have missed a deeper meaning while reading Scripture, Brusherd offers answers to those issues and more in his compilation of insights based on the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith. Brusherd relies on his multi-denominational background as he uniquely explores a variety of topics that include laws, commandments, and "mitzvot;" Hebraic customs; God's view of marriage; and the themes of obedience and sacrifice."Joe Brusherd's Hebrew insights truly are an amazing compilation of Torah, Christian teachings, and careful thought. Joe has a gift for making Messianic teaching real, applicable and in bite-sized pieces that everyone can enjoy! 'Taste and see that the Lord is good' and that Hebrew insights are good for your spiritual health and well-being!"-Rabbi Rod MeyersWhat is the purpose of these Hebraic Insights?The author wants all of us to grow in understanding what God intended for His children, "Jew and Gentile, One in Messiah" and to encourage the Church community to understand the richness of the Old Testament, the Torah, and the culture and customs of the people. The Holy Spirit provided weekly 'insights' into God's Word and the Customs developed by a "Chosen People" who strive to be guided by a loving God. These Insights, thoughts and answers based on the Hebraic Roots of our Christian faith address these topics. 'Scripture' as Heard by the Chosen PeopleAnd Some Treasures Lost in Translation Laws, Commandments, Mitzvot From a Loving God, and For Our Benefit Hebraic Customs of Biblical Times That Encourage Us To Honor God Continuously Holidays and Everlasting Feast Days So God Can Draw Closer To Us Marriage, God's Plan from the BeginningFor Us, and For His Son Deceptions And Trojan Horses And How To Avoid Being DeceivedYou will find these Insights inspirational, enlightening and lovingly provocative.
Through a powerful autobiography, the author shares her personal testimony and the journey of her life that led her to the Lord. From difficult hardships while growing up to searching for her identity as an adult, The Quiet Voice That Rescued Me tells the story of how God saved one woman from a past of despondency and heartache, leading her into a future of glorious victory as a child of the King. Florensa Babino-Pickett is an ordained minister at Christian Family Worship Center in Mansura Louisiana Lead by Senior Pastors Mark & Stacy Crawford One of the largest diverse Church in Mansura. She was born in New Orleans Louisiana and has been a Christian for over 25 years. She leads a Prison Ministry and host a Women Day event once a year for over 6 years. She is a graduate of LSU of Alexandria, La and currently seeking a degree in Theology at Liberty University, VA. She is married to Mayor Kenneth Pickett and have two sons Elliot and Kenneth Pickett Jr.
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