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Paradise Beneath Her Feet

How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

By: Isobel Coleman

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Paradise Beneath Her Feet

How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

By: Isobel Coleman

Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author “Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times In this timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism. Journeying through Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Coleman introduces the reader to influential Islamic feminist thinkers and successful grassroots activists working to create economic, political, and educational opportunities for women. Their advocacy for women’s rights based on more progressive interpretations of Islam are critical to bridging the conflict between those championing reform and those seeking to oppress women in the name of religious tradition. Socially, culturally, economically, and politically, the future of the region depends on finding ways to accommodate human rights, and in particular women’s rights, with Islamic law. These reformers—and thousands of others—are the people leading the way forward. Featuring new material that addresses how the Arab uprisings and other recent events have affected the social and political landscape of the region, Paradise Beneath Her Feet offers a message of hope: Change is coming to the Middle East—and more often than not, it is being led by women. Praise for Paradise Beneath Her Feet “Clearly written, deeply moving, and wonderfully enlightening.”—Reza Aslan, author of No god but God “[An] engrossing portrait of real Muslim women that reveals how Islamic feminists . . . are working with and within the culture, rather than against it . . . to forge ‘a legitimate Islamic alternative to the current repressive system.’ Coleman doesn’t diminish the enormity of the struggle, but she argues convincingly that it might yet rewrite Islam’s future.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A nuanced view of Islam’s role in public life that is cautiously hopeful.”—The Economist “Eye-opening . . . Deeply religious, profoundly determined and modern in every way, these are twenty-first-century women bent on change. Hear them roar and see a future being born before our eyes.”—Booklist

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812978552

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9780812978551

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

By: John Wilks,Isobel Knight

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Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

By: John Wilks,Isobel Knight

The Bowen technique resets and repairs the body, restoring balance to relieve pain and improve energy. This book shows how it can be particularly effective at alleviating conditions that are renowned for being difficult to treat, as well as at enhancing performance in dance and other sports. Covering lower back pain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, hayfever, asthma, diabetes (type 2), migraines, stress and tension disorders, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, palliative care, performance enhancement, and in pre and post-natal care, clinical case studies reveal Bowen technique in action along with detailed explanations of how and why Bowen is so effective for each of these different situations. This is the perfect book for Bowen practitioners, and other complementary and alternative health practitioners and medical professionals wanting to know how and why the Bowen technique can help their patients, as well as patients interested in learning about what Bowen can do for them.

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386

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Singing Dragon

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0857011294

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9780857011299

Paradise Beneath Her Feet

How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

By: Isobel Coleman

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How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

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Nutrition Education

Linking Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Isobel R. Contento

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Nutrition Education

Linking Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Isobel R. Contento

Nutrition education : linking research, theory, and practice, third edition provides a simple, straightforward model for designing effective nutrition education programs that address the personal and environmental influences affecting individual's food choices and assists them in adopting healthy behaviors. Using a six-step process, the third edition integrates research, theory, and practice and provides advice and direction on designing, implementing, and evaluating theory-based nutrition education."--Page 4 de la couverture.

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664

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1284078000

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9781284078008

The Zoo

By: Isobel Charman

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The Zoo

By: Isobel Charman

The founding of a zoo in Georgian London is a story of jaw-dropping audacity in the Age of Empire. It is the story of diplomats, traders, scientists and aristocratic amateur naturalists charged by Sir Stamford Raffles with collecting amazing creatures from all four corners of the globe.It is the story of the first zoo in history, a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of the filthy, swirling city of Dickensian London, and of the incredible characters, both human and animal, that populated it—from Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria to Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that anyone in Britain had ever seen. This is a story of Victorian grandeur, of science and empire, and of adventurers and charlatans.And it is the story of a dizzying age of Empire and industrialization, a time of change unmatched before or since.This is the extraordinary story of London Zoo.

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257

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Simon and Schuster

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1681774011

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9781681774015

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

By: Isobel Grundy

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

By: Isobel Grundy

This book is the first to look at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's achievement as a vital figure in the women's literary tradition. Robert Halsband's book on her life, the sixth this century and published in 1956, was the first to apply scholarly techniques to establishing the facts. The inaccurateaccounts given before Halsband testify to Lady Mary's compelling interest as a woman who wrote, travelled, campaigned publicly for medical advance, gossiped, and was involved in high-profile literary quarrels. Knowledge of her life has made considerable gains since Halsband, as understanding of theissues involved in trying to move between the roles of proper lady and woman writer has increased enormously. This life fruitfully exploits the tension between literary history and feminist reading. Isobel Grundy highlights Montagu's adolescent longing for literary fame, her growing understandingof the implications of this for gender and class imperatives, the frustrations and concessions involved in her collaborations with male writers, the punitive responses of society, the gaps at every stage of her life between her ascertainable circumstances and her construction of herself in lettersand other writings. The book situates those writings in relation to her own theorizing and her very wide reading in women's texts as well as men's. Finally, it looks at a range of contemporary and near-contemporary responses.

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718

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198112890

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9780198112891

Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse

By: Sophia Bowlby,Linda McKie,Susan Gregory,Isobel Macpherson

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Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse

By: Sophia Bowlby,Linda McKie,Susan Gregory,Isobel Macpherson

This book focuses on the ‘informal care’ provided by family members, neighbours and friends, exploring the ways in which it is woven into the organization of people’s everyday lives.

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Routledge

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1135281076

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Pathways to Freedom

Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions

By: Isobel Coleman,Terra Lawson-Remer

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Pathways to Freedom

Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions

By: Isobel Coleman,Terra Lawson-Remer

Many developing countries have launched transitions from authoritarianism to democracy over the past twenty-five years. While some have succeeded in building relatively strong democracies with shared prosperity, others have stumbled. As a wave of change continues to unfold across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, the policy-relevant insights that can be gleaned from recent transitions are more salient than ever. Through case studies on Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and Ukraine, Pathways to freedom explores the structural factors and policy choices that shaped eight important transitions--some successful, others less so. The case studies focus on six themes: socioeconomic inclusion and exclusion, economic structure and policies, civil society and media, legal system and rule of law, government structure, and education and demography. Additional chapters examine these themes in light of the quantitative evidence on democratization and highlight concrete policy recommendations from across the case studies. With concise historical analysis and forward-looking prescriptions, Pathways to freedom offers an authoritative and accessible look at what countries must do to build durable and prosperous democracies--and what the United States and others can do to help"--Back cover.

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Council on Foreign Relations Press

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087609566X

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Paradise Beneath Her Feet

Paradise Beneath Her Feet

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

Paradise Beneath Her Feet

Paradise Beneath Her Feet

Nutrition Education

Nutrition Education

The Zoo

The Zoo

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse

Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse

Pathways to Freedom

Pathways to Freedom

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