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Book Synopsis The Strange Compatriots for Over a Thousand Years by : Y Udaya Chandar
Download or read book The Strange Compatriots for Over a Thousand Years written by Y Udaya Chandar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism is an Indian Dharma or a way of life widely practiced in South Asia. It is the oldest religion in the world. Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion that teaches us that there is only one God (Allah) and that Muhammad is His messenger. The origin of Islam is in Allah's divine revelations to Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel. Islamic influence spread into India by Arab spice traders, missionaries and Muslim invaders. Hindus experienced very severe religious persecution at the hands of the brutal and barbarous Muslim invaders in the form of forceful conversions, massacres, demolition and desecration of temples, as well as the destruction of universities and schools. In the early 1940s, the British government decided to grant independence to India after a mammoth struggle by the Indians for decades. Most leaders favoured a united India but Jinnah, the Supremo of the Muslim League, alone preferred the division of the country and carved out Pakistan for the Muslims. The Muslims of India, Jinnah insisted, are 'a distinctive culture and civilization'. A few historians compared the Partition of the country to the holocaust and called it genocide. Hindus and Muslims have lived together in India for over a thousand years. But the give and take between the two communities is minimal. The Hindu-Muslim relations in India cannot be said to be close and cordial. Though there is no perceptible antagonism between the communities, something appears to be missing; the harmony desired among the compatriots is wanting. Each community keeps to itself and there is no love lost between them. The book describes the Hindu-Muslim relations over centuries.
Book Synopsis pendulums of time by : Fredrick James Terriere
Download or read book pendulums of time written by Fredrick James Terriere and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relevant driving forces during this last hundred years include: computers, like the PC, the web, and supercomputers; genetics, cloning, stem cells, DNA insertions into food crops; energy needs; environmental concerns; gender equality, religion. Technology is rapidly reaching a crescendo. It will either utterly transform us as it has in the past, or it will be the downfall of Homo sapiens. Most religions predict an end, disastrous in size and scope, followed by a mystic spiritual alteration. Many of these same faiths believe that this event is coming very soon. History follows patterns. Just as the Americas developed, so will space. Are we going to break the loop of rise and fall now or ever? Do we resolve our worldwide political differences? Are we entering into a new Utopia or find ourselves mired in an anti-Utopia. How did it all begin? Where are we now? What do we face tomorrow? All of these concerns and more point toward a paradigm shift in mental and physical human evolution, or an end to humankind. Is it a new beginning or the complete end of man? Red and Walter are on the forefront of the battle against time and the universe. They are the final hopes of humanity.
Download or read book Michigan Compatriot written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yi Qin written by Hu Liqun and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 1231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locking the foot of Tianshan Mountain, in a spacious house in the south of Tiejia Village, with a series of ringing noises, hundreds of sharp knives with long or short ropes hanging on the roof were swung out by an iron bar, and then under the action of gravity, Qin Yi, who waved the iron bar, fought back. In a blink of an eye, the tall boy was surrounded by layers of knife light
Book Synopsis Red Star Over Malaya by : Cheah Boon Kheng
Download or read book Red Star Over Malaya written by Cheah Boon Kheng and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards towards Malaya and stake political claims, leading inevitably to a political contest with the Malays. As the country advanced towards nationhood and self-government, there was tension between traditional loyalties to the Malay rulers and the states, or to ancestral homelands elsewhere, and the need to cultivate an enduring loyalty to Malaya on the part of those who would make their home there in future. As Japanese forces withdrew from the countryside, the Chinese guerrillas of the communist-led resistance movement, the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), emerged from the jungle and took control of some 70 per cent of the country's smaller towns and villages, seriously alarming the Malay population. When the British Military Administration sought to regain control of these liberated areas, the ensuing conflict set the tone for future political conflicts and marked a crucial stage in the history of Malaya. Based on extensive archival research, Red Star Over Malaya provides a riveting account of the way the Japanese occupation reshaped colonial Malaya, and of the tension-filled months that followed Japan's surrender. This book is fundamental to an understanding of social and political developments in Malaysia during the second half of the 20th century.
Download or read book The Stranger's Woes written by Max Frei and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international-bestselling Russian fantasy author continues the adventures of Sir Max, the lazy gumshoe of the enchanted city of Echo. The tales of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. In the second novel of the Labyrinths of Echoes series, Max is still a hardened smoker, glutton, and all-around loafer. But once again, he finds himself travelling to an alternate universe where he must root out illegal magic as an agent of the Secret Investigative Force. This time, Sir Max is called upon to handle a peculiar political dispute, investigate strange happenings in the cemetery, and when Echo’s police captain is poisoned, he must lead a team of magicians in pursuit of magical outlaws. “Echo is a world of all sorts of plots, a sort of Krypton with tobacco and the counter-universe’s equivalent of vodka.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis A Handy Book of Curious Information by : William S. Walsh
Download or read book A Handy Book of Curious Information written by William S. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Hundred Years of Sociology by : G.Duncan Mitchell
Download or read book A Hundred Years of Sociology written by G.Duncan Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the development of scientifi c sociology from Comte to the present, A Hundred Years of Sociology is a concise, narrative history of the major fi gures, ideas, and schools that lie behind the work of contemporary sociologists. Covering both theoretical and empirical contributions, the book describes the convergence of two major streams of sociological thought: a speculative and philosophical tradition and a reformist, fact-fi nding tradition. Throughout the volume, the author is as much concerned with the content of ideas as with their labels and chronology. The important developments in both American and European sociology are considered in full, and special attention is given to the emergence of social anthropology and social psychology and to the profound infl uence of World War II on current work in the field.
Book Synopsis The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Volume One by : Stephen Herczeg
Download or read book The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Volume One written by Stephen Herczeg and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic mix of eight stories drawn from the annals of the MX Series of New Sherlock Holmes stories and the many Holmes anthologies of Belanger Books, all from the pen of emerging pastiche author Stephen Herczeg. Holmes is presented with a dishevelled and confused man that appears to be from another century. Time travel, or something more mysterious? Several years after the mystery of the Engineer's thumb, Victor Hatherley is again at odds. Will Holmes discover his whereabouts and save him? And what is the connection to Holmes's greatest foe of all? Death from the venomous bite of a rare Gila Monster. An accident or is the innocent looking herpetologist not what he seems? A bomb appears beneath the floor of Parliament, along with a threat from Sudanese terrorists. Will Holmes make sense of the warning and identify the culprit? Holmes must solve the mystery of a dead body found in an alleyway in a retrofuture of steam power. Bodies appear to leave the morgue of their own accord. A mysterious fire draws Holmes to one conclusion. Zombies. On the night of her arranged engagement to a German industrialist, a young woman disappears. A derailed train, and a dead professor sees Holmes befriend an adventurous young woman to solve the mystery and foil the robbery of a priceless relic.
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Book Synopsis The Indianized States of Southeast Asia by : George Coedès
Download or read book The Indianized States of Southeast Asia written by George Coedès and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1975-06-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
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Book Synopsis Laudonniere & Fort Caroline by : Charles E. Bennett
Download or read book Laudonniere & Fort Caroline written by Charles E. Bennett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-05-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America. America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States in the 1560s. Indians, French, and Spaniards vied to profit from European attempts to colonize the land Juan Ponce de Leon had named La Florida. Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River near present-day Jacksonville and christened it Fort Caroline in 1564, but only a year later the hapless colonists were expelled by a Spanish fleet led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The Spanish in turn established a permanent settlement at St. Augustine, now the oldest city in the United States, and blocked any future French claims in Florida. Using documents from both French and Spanish archives, Charles E. Bennett provides the first comprehensive account of the events surrounding the international conflicts of this 16th-century colonization effort, which was the actual "threshold" of a new nation. The translated Laudonniere documents also provide a wealth of information about the natural wonders of the land and the native Timucua Indians encountered by the French. As a tribe, the Timucua would be completely gone by the mid-1700s, so these accounts are invaluable to ethnologists and anthropologists. With this republication of Laudonniere & Fort Caroline, a new generation of archaeologists, anthropologists, and American colonial historians can experience the New World through the adventures of the French explorers. Visitors to Fort Caroline National Memorial will also find the volume fascinating reading as they explore the tentative early beginnings of a new nation.
Book Synopsis Neither a Borrower by : Richard A. Serrano
Download or read book Neither a Borrower written by Richard A. Serrano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his studies of borrowing from distant poetic traditions, Serrano aims to uncover the heterogenity of influences and intentions in the most canonical of texts: ""Mallarme"" (1842-98), ""Segalen"" (1878-1919), ""Wang Wei"" (701-61), the ""Classic of Poetry"" (8th century BCE), ""Buhturi"" (821-97), and the ""Qur'an"" (7th century CE). Arguing, among other things that Mallarme was really a Chinese poet, that ancient Chinese poets discovered the workings of film imagery, and that the Qur'an's apparently disjointed narrative is profoundly lyrical, Serrano intends to overturn accepted notions of how to read individual works. He brings methodologies from the study of one literature to bear on the reading of another."
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by : Milo Rossi
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful written by Milo Rossi and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful features explanations of some of the most intriguing and entertaining facts from prehistory, ancient Egypt, the Industrial Revolution, and beyond. Discover a plethora of intriguing and entertaining facts from archaeology and history—brought to life with the author’s signature wit and levity. In The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful, TikTok educator and Youtuber Milo Rossi presents an assortment of funny and detailed anecdotes of some of the more quotidian mysteries of life, such as: Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a mother in the Mesolithic period as the climate shifted, the seas rose, and wild game migrated? Or what types of dogs paced the wide and narrow forest patches of North America as their masters constructed some of the largest earthen works in the world? Or what meals were eaten under the trees of the old- growth forests of ancient Europe, how China accidentally invented standardized testing by refining their government, or what fashion trends shook the mining camps during the California gold rush? Coupled with engaging illustrations, The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful takes the saying “you learn something new every day” to a new extreme!
Download or read book Radio Dog written by Anne Iglehart and published by New York : Gingerbread House. This book was released on 1979 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A toy dog stuffed with an AM-FM radio brings welcome changes to the community of stuffed animals belonging to the girl who won him at the fair.
Book Synopsis One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic by : Martha Banta
Download or read book One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic written by Martha Banta and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions of those who rose to this urgent challenge?artists, architects, writers, politicians, and the technocrats of scientific inquiry?brought about an engrossing tangle of achievements and failures. The first section of the book traces efforts to advance the status of the arts in the face of the aspersion that America lacked an Art Soul as deep as Europe's. Following that is a hard look at heated political debates over how to embellish the architecture of Washington, D.C., with the icons of cherished republican ideals. The concluding section probes novels in which artists' lives are portrayed and aesthetic principles tested.
