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Changing Landscapes of Singapore

Old Tensions, New Discoveries

By: Hamzah Muzaini,Choon-Piew Pow,Harvey Neo,Shirlena Huang,Noorashikin Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman,Junjia Ye,Karen P.Y. Lai,T.C. Chang,Harng Luh Sin,Pui Leng Woo,Brendan Cheong,Andy Chong,Alvin Kok,Matthew Lam,Tu Guang Tan

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Changing Landscapes of Singapore

Old Tensions, New Discoveries

Changing Landscapes of Singapore illuminates both the social and the physical terrains of modern Singapore. Geographers use the term landscape to refer to visible surfaces and to the spatial dimension of social relations. Landscapes arise from particular historical circumstances, and in turn help shape social arrangements and possible courses of future development. The authors describe how the settings inhabited by various social groups in Singapore affect life experiences, and explore the impact of broader regional and international forces on Singapore. Written for non-specialists, the volume reflects fresh perspectives from the scholarship of Singaporean academics. Their work is sensitive to historical and geographical trends in the region, and also engages with broader theoretical themes.

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316

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NUS Press

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9971697726

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9789971697723

International Collation Of Traditional And Folk Medicine, Vol 4

By: Ji-xian Guo,Takeatsu Kimura,Paul Pui-hay But,Ki Sung Chung

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International Collation Of Traditional And Folk Medicine, Vol 4

By: Ji-xian Guo,Takeatsu Kimura,Paul Pui-hay But,Ki Sung Chung

Traditional folk medicine practices in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea — all located in Northeast Asia — are comparable. Since different usage of a folk medicine may reflect cultural or regional differences, a detailed collation of the folk knowledge of traditional medicine can help to identify common applications derived from different empirical knowledge as well as variations in appreciation of the value of the same source in different cultural settings.The fourth volume of this book series continues with the objective of collating relevant information for showing the differences and similarities of traditional folk medicine practiced around the world. It features 147 of the most frequently used medicinal plants, 43 animals, and 10 minerals in Northeast Asia as selected by the international editorial board.The folk medical knowledge in each entry includes the scientific names of the source, local names of the drug, special processing methods, administration methods, and applications in each country. Contraindications and side effects, if any, are highlighted. Relevant scientific data on their chemistry and pharmacology, with references, are also included.All this scientific information should be a valuable asset to medical and research scientists working on the bioactive components of natural products.

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227

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World Scientific

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9814491861

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9789814491860

Postcolonial Politics and Theology

Unraveling Empire for a Global World

By: Kwok Pui-lan

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Postcolonial Politics and Theology

Unraveling Empire for a Global World

By: Kwok Pui-lan

Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology—uprooting it from the colonial soil—using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global South. Kwok Pui-lan traces the history of the political impacts of Western theological development, especially developments in the U.S. context, and the need to shift these interlocking fields toward non-Western traditions in theory and practice. A special focus of the book is on the changing sociopolitical realities of American Empire and Sino-American competition, illustrated in Donald Trump's slogan of "Make America Great Again" and Xi Jinping’s hope for a “China Dream.” The shifting of U.S. and Asian relationships highlights the need to move our theological and political categories away from a vision of strongman domination and toward a postmodern, postcolonial, and transnational world, especially exemplified in the Asia Pacific context. Throughout, Kwok overturns the idea of centering one cultural framework and marginalizing others in favor of living into a multiplicity of deeply contextual theologies. She explores how these theologies are being developed in global, postcolonial contexts, through struggles for democracy and civil disobedience in Hong Kong, by efforts to reclaim selfhood and sexual identity from exploitative colonial desire, through the work of interreligious solidarity and peacebuilding, and in the practice of earth care in the face of ecological crisis.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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1646982304

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9781646982301

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Changing Landscapes of Singapore

Changing Landscapes of Singapore

International Collation Of Traditional And Folk Medicine, Vol 4

International Collation Of Traditional And Folk Medicine, Vol 4

Postcolonial Politics and Theology

Postcolonial Politics and Theology

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