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Learning to Fly How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World

Learning to Fly How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World
Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World by Mike Rosenberg
English | September 13th, 2022 | ISBN: 1839985100 | 230 pages | True EPUB | 1.31 MB
Over the last 20 years, the world has gone through economic crisis, geopolitical tensions, a looming climate emergency and most recently, Covid-19, with all that it brought with it. The years 2020 and 2021, in particular, have seen tremendous advances in digitalization while at the same time have seen millions of people leave their jobs for one reason or another.

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Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World By Kenneth Robert Olwig
2002 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0299174204 | PDF | 4 MB
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims' pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig's extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies.Olwig tracks these ideas though Anglo-American history, starting with seventeenth-century conflicts between the Stuart kings and the English Parliament, and the Stuart dream of uniting Scotland with England and Wales into one nation on the island of Britain. He uses a royal production of a Ben Jonson masque, with stage sets by architect Inigo Jones, as a touchstone for exploring how the notion of "landscape" expands from artful stage scenery to a geopolitical ideal. Olwig pursues these contested concepts of the body politic from Europe to America and to global politics, illuminating a host of topics, from national parks and environmental planning to theories of polity and virulent nationalistic movements.

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Kwanzaa Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition

Kwanzaa Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition
Keith A. Mayes, "Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0415998549 | 2009 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Since 1966, Kwanzaa has been celebrated as a black holiday tradition - an annual recognition of cultural pride in the African American community. But how did this holiday originate, and what is its broader cultural significance?

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Kuwait and Al-Sabah Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State

Kuwait and Al-Sabah Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State
Rivka Azoulay, "Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State"
English | ISBN: 1838605053 | 2020 | 280 pages | EPUB | 899 KB
The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the tiny tribal sheikhdom of the Al-Sabah into a modern oil-producing state where, by the early 1980s, citizens were enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. While much has been written on the reasons why and how the Al-Sabah became a ruling dynasty, little is known about the nature of their authority and its relationship to Kuwait's social structure. Rivka Azoulay shows how despite the rapidity of change in the oil-rich, family-run emirate, it is the

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Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities

Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities
Günes Murat Tezcür, "Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders, and the Experience of Minority Communities "
English | ISBN: 075560119X | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The diversity of Kurdish communities across the Middle East is now recognized as central to understanding both the challenges and opportunities for their representation and politics. Yet little scholarship has focused on the complexities within these different groups and the range of their experiences. This book diversifies the literature on Kurdish Studies by offering close analyses of subjects which have not been adequately researched, and in particular, by highlighting the Kurds' relationship to the Yazidis. Case studies include: the political ideas of Ehmede Xani, "the father of Kurdish nationalism"; Kurdish refugees in camps in Iraq; the perception of the Kurds by Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turks in modern Western Turkey; and the important connections and shared heritage of the Kurds and the Yazidis, especially in the aftermath of the 2014 ISIS attacks.

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Knitted Wild Animal Friends Over 40 knitting patterns for wild animal dolls, their clothes and accessories

Knitted Wild Animal Friends Over 40 knitting patterns for wild animal dolls, their clothes and accessories
Knitted Wild Animal Friends: Over 40 knitting patterns for wild animal dolls, their clothes and accessories (Knitted Animal Friends) by Louise Crowther
English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1446309088 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 165 MB
Go wild with this brand new collection of adorable knitted wild animal toys and their clothes and accessories by best-selling author Louise Crowther.

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Kinship, Church and Culture Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman

Kinship, Church and Culture Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman
John W. M. Bannerman, "Kinship, Church and Culture: Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman"
English | ISBN: 1906566917 | 2016 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made thatperspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the 'kin-based society', with special emphasis upon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland. This collection opens with Bannerman's ground-breaking and hugely influential edition and discussion of Senchus fer nAlban ('The History of the Men of Scotland'), which featured in his Studies in the History of Dalriada (1974), now long out of print. To this have been added all of his published essays, plus an essay-length study of the Lordship of the Isles which first featured as an appendix in Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands (1977). The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the Gaelic dimension to Scotland's past and present.

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