The Ho Living in a World of Plenty

"This is an important piece of work. The ethnographic details in it are invaluable. The fieldwork is superb.

Author: Eva Reichel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110666199

Category: Religion

Page: 412

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The book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of more than a decade among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The book explores the structured tapestry of Ho people’s relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific sociocosmic universe ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and the awareness of living in a world of plenty. This world of abundance – with the Ho as its conceptual centre – includes the Ho’s dead, their complex spirit world and supreme deity, and their tribal and nontribal fellow humans, and it manifests itself in manifold facets of their lives: socially, ritually, economically, and linguistically. "This is an important piece of work. The ethnographic details in it are invaluable. The fieldwork is superb. What comes across so magnificently is that unique quality of the author's human and emotional contact and shared understanding with the people." MICHAEL YORKE: University College, London; Upside Films
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Living In The World As If It Were Home

In this remarkable collection of meditations, Lilburn describes a state of being that he calls the 'chthonic self' - a condition that moves towards resolving our separation from the natural world and its innately mysterious inhabitants.

Author: Tim Lilburn

Publisher: Xylem Books

ISBN: 1999971868

Category: Philosophy

Page: 126

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In this remarkable collection of meditations, Lilburn describes a state of being that he calls the 'chthonic self' - a condition that moves towards resolving our separation from the natural world and its innately mysterious inhabitants. 'Living In The World As If It Were Home' is a truly essential book from one of Canada's finest poets.
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Living in a Chemical World

The modern world holds many hazards. Even as some of the hazards of living are reduced by technological advances in medicine and other areas, many nevertheless remain and new hazards are continually introduced.

Author: Myron Mehlman

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISBN: UVA:X030158670

Category: Science

Page: 945

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The aims of this year's conference were to: --- update the state of knowledge on carcinogenic risks present in the workplace and general environment in order to define the scientific bases for more stringent regulations and more effective prevention ---present the results of studies on hazardous agents and situations brought about by recent technological innovations and new lifestyles in order to suggest the application of new strategies for prevention --- evaluate data on the diffusion of industrial hazards from developed to developing nations --- review the scientific tools currently available for prevention and, if necessary, re-direct the strategies.
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Living in a World Transformed

Originally published in 1982, Living in a World Transformed is now back in print. Dolezal's book features his experiences wearing up-down reversing prisms attached to a football helmet while living in a Greek coastal village.

Author: Hubert Dolezal

Publisher:

ISBN: 1932846026

Category: Medical

Page: 388

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Originally published in 1982, Living in a World Transformed is now back in print. Dolezal's book features his experiences wearing up-down reversing prisms attached to a football helmet while living in a Greek coastal village. Along with other daily activities, he hiked and water skied. His first study, the "Prism Study," was an explanation of adaptation phenomena. The author sought to describe the change in how the visual system interacts with the motor systems when the available optical information incorrectly specifies the location of places, objects, people, and events. The second study, the "Tube Study," seeks to show how resourceful people can be under another unique condition of survival: living in a confined visual world by severely restricting the normal field of view. The results and analysis argue that such studies produce perceptual confusions and errors in action that have frequently been confounded with, and attributed to, the optical transformation rather than to the restriction of the field of view. His descriptions provide useful data for a variety of investigators, such as psychology and philosophy graduate students and professionals interested in vision, learning, and epistemology. Dolezal's data have implications for sleep research and for astronauts who experience sickness from the effects of microgravity while in space. Hubert Dolezal earned his PhD at Cornell University, did 3 years of postdoctoral research and teaching at MIT, and worked with the USAF and NASA as a consultant. His primary work over the past 20 years has been teaching perceptive parenting and caregiving principles to parents, students, teachers, and staff for social service organizations and schools for special needs children. He is a professor of psychology at Northeastern Illinois University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.
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National Geographic Reader Living in the World Cultural Themes for Writers

The religious undercurrent in soccer runs especially deep in World Cup years.
Teams from across the globe converge on the host nation in something of an
unarmed, athletic crusade. As in the Crusades, the host nation tends to repel
them.

Author: National Geographic Learning

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781285605791

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 384

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Bring your learning to life with compelling images, media and text from National Geographic. LIVING IN THE WORLD: CULTURAL THEMES FOR WRITERS will help you develop a clearer understanding of the world around you through engaging content. The 24 articles gathered in this cross-cultural multi-themed reader offer an exceptionally direct approach to issues surrounding identity and culture around the world. As the National Geographic Society's writers and photographers investigate the physical and cultural characteristics of specific locations throughout the world, they put faces on forces of assimilation, diversification, and make the multifarious realities of globalization palpable and concrete. Introducing readers to people and customs that may seem foreign, they shed new light on familiar American themes as well. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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One World Many Voices Living in the USA

The essays are edited for length, sentence structure, and vocabulary according to language proficiency levels. This is the high-intermediate level in a series of five books.

Author: Marilyn Marquis

Publisher: WingSpan Press

ISBN: 9781595944146

Category: Education

Page: 160

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Book 4 Each year thousands of immigrants, students, and business people come to the United States. They come with hope, desire, and anticipation of new opportunities. They all strive to learn the language and the culture in an effort to reach their goals. The essays in this series, One World Many Voices, provide a unique view of the diverse aspects of life in the voices of language learners, from their experience, their knowledge, and their creativity. Discover their efforts, surprises, and frustrations and enjoy their unique perspectives. See into the hearts and minds of these student authors as you join a community of readers, discover yourself in the experiences of others, and expand your understanding of the This collection of essays, Living in the USA, about living in a new culture and in a new language, is the fourth book in One World Many Voices. This series of language learner literature stems from an effort to provide easy and interesting extensive reading material for students in the English as a Second Language program at Las Positas College. The essays are edited for length, sentence structure, and vocabulary according to language proficiency levels. This is the high-intermediate level in a series of five books.
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Safe Living in a Dangerous World

The former Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission tells American families how to protect themselves from everyday accidents and international terrorism. Illustrations.

Author: Nancy Harvey Steorts

Publisher: Capital Books

ISBN: 1931868441

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 224

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The former Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission tells American families how to protect themselves from everyday accidents and international terrorism. Illustrations.
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This World We Live in

When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on Earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else is still alive.

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 0547248040

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 239

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When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on Earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else is still alive.
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Living In A Fantasy World

Parker Daniels was just a normal girl, living a pretty ordinary life; until one day she literally got sucked into a good book. Follow her on her mission of discovery to learn who she really is

Author: Amber Laura-Mae Doxtator

Publisher: Independently Published

ISBN: 9798656226370

Category:

Page: 218

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Parker Daniels was just a normal girl, living a pretty ordinary life; until one day she literally got sucked into a good book. Follow her on her mission of discovery to learn who she really is
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Living in a Fragile World

Nurturing spiritual development through awe and wonder, this book addresses the issues of conservation in an open and non-threatening environment.

Author: Peter Privett

Publisher: Barnabas

ISBN: 1841013250

Category: Christian education

Page: 64

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Nurturing spiritual development through awe and wonder, this book addresses the issues of conservation in an open and non-threatening environment. Each week as the story unfolds, the group is invited to recapture the interconnectedness of all things and something of the vision of God.
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Stop Living in This Land Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness Live There Forever

This book unveils the mysteries of the human mind and teaches the ultimate solution to become liberated from the illusion of the false self and live forever as Truth. It gives all people hope to be free of pain and suffering.

Author: Woo Myung

Publisher: Cham books

ISBN: 9780984912445

Category: Philosophy

Page:

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At last, the way to become complete is revealed in Woo Myung’s best-selling book, Stop Living in This Land, Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness, Live There Forever. Now we can live in the everlasting world of happiness. By discarding one’s false mind, one can live as the infinite, never-changing universe, which is truth self. This book unveils the mysteries of the human mind and teaches the ultimate solution to become liberated from the illusion of the false self and live forever as Truth. It gives all people hope to be free of pain and suffering. This book provides the ultimate answers to the questions, ’What is the human mind?’ ‘What is the meaning and the purpose of life?’ ‘What is enlightenment?’ Countless people have asked these questions and many have tried to answer them. Reading this book will provide the ultimate answers. Author's official website: www.woomyung.com
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Living in the World

In the pages of this book, the reader will experience the religious adventure of Anabaptism and appreciate the core principles of nonconformity and nonresistance.

Author: Ronald C. Jantz

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781725273573

Category: Religion

Page: 212

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In the pages of this book, the reader will experience the religious adventure of Anabaptism and appreciate the core principles of nonconformity and nonresistance. This narrative history will impart an understanding of how a little-known group of Mennonites migrated through the countries of Western Europe, ultimately to bring a unique way of life to the Great Plains of America. Today, these people hope to live apart from the world as the Holdeman people or, more formally, the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite.
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Living Together in a World Falling Apart

LIVING TOGETHER IN A WORLD FALLING APART The classic "handbook on Christian community," with updated reflections By Dave and Neta Jackson When LIVING TOGETHER IN A WORLD FALLING APART was first published in 1974, tensions in society-an ...

Author: Dave Jackson

Publisher:

ISBN: 0982054416

Category: Religion

Page: 292

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LIVING TOGETHER IN A WORLD FALLING APART The classic "handbook on Christian community," with updated reflections By Dave and Neta Jackson When LIVING TOGETHER IN A WORLD FALLING APART was first published in 1974, tensions in society-an unpopular war, racial divisions, fearful economics, the seeming futility of "success," and widespread alienation-were not addressed in most churches. Racism still thrived, worship meant three hymns and you're out, and relationships had deteriorated to weekly handshakes. But many believed-based on New Testament descriptions of the early church-that this couldn't be all God planned for his people. These restless souls eagerly read about Dave and Neta Jackson's personal search as they experimented with household living and took a road trip visiting the crop of emerging Christian communities around the country. Written in a breezy, candid manner, LIVING TOGETHER became not only a bestseller and classic "handbook on Christian community," but provided perhaps the only sociological snapshot of the many Christian communities from that era. Now, because many conditions in church and society are repeating themselves, interest in Christian community is reviving-whether through small groups, house churches, the emerging church movement, the new monasticism, or among Christians experimenting with communal living as a way to be more faithful, effective, and connected. This updated edition contains the original text of LIVING TOGETHER as well as many of the Jacksons' personal reflections and evaluations after living in Christian community for over 25 years, thereby providing nearly 30 percent new material.
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Living in a Globalized World

This book is the result of an innovative cross-border comparative project jointly conducted by an international team of scholars.

Author: Don N. McCaskill

Publisher: Silkworm Books

ISBN: UOM:39015076108763

Category: History

Page: 374

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Indigenous peoples in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan (in China) live in a region of massive change. Policies aimed at minorities or developing upland areas, as well as transformations wrought by migration, highways, hydropower, the Internet and other media, and tourism are all impacting the cultures of the Akha, Lisu, Karen, Dai, Mien, Khmu, and numerous other groups in the Mekong region. This book is the result of an innovative cross-border comparative project jointly conducted by an international team of scholars.
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Living in a Microbial World

A little-known event in World War II illustrates how ingenious people can be when
it comes to survival under difficult circumstances. The incident also offers yet
another example of how a microorganism can impact human affairs in
unexpected ...

Author: Bruce Hofkin

Publisher: Garland Science

ISBN: 9781000338034

Category: Science

Page: 450

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As with the first edition, this second edition of Living in a Microbial World is written for students taking a general microbiology course, or a microbiology-based course for non-science majors. The conversational style and use of practical, everyday examples make the essential concepts of microbiology accessible to a wide audience. While using this approach, the text maintains scientific rigor with clear explanations spanning the breadth of microbiology, including health, evolution, ecology, food production, biotechnology, and industrial processes. Each chapter contains a series of case studies based on microbiology in the news, in history, and in literature. There are questions at the end of each case study and the end of each chapter, as well as an online quiz with help on answering the questions. The text, questions, and cases have been updated to reflect the changing influence of microbiology in the world today, from the microbiome, to new disease outbreaks (Ebola and Zika) and antibiotic resistance, to new biotechnology tools (CRISPR-Cas).
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