Istanbul
This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyo...
Feminist Strategies in International Governance
The struggle for women's rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporar...
Feminist Strategies in International Governance
The struggle for women's rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporar...
Fit for Growth
A practical approach to business transformation Fit for Growth* is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy cons...
Migrants and City-Making
In Migrants and City-Making Ay?e Ça?lar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethno...
International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain
International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. It is estimated that some one hundred and eighty million people (thr...
Locating Migration
In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration resea...
Defence Industries in the 21st Century
Defence Industries in the 21st Century explores the transformation in the global defence industrial production through examining the interaction between international and domestic factors. With the global defence industry and arms market likely co...
Defence Industries in the 21st Century
Defence Industries in the 21st Century explores the transformation in the global defence industrial production through examining the interaction between international and domestic factors. With the global defence industry and arms market likely co...
Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduce...
Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new...
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth
Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies an ancient secret. There, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical, age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Re...
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth Book 2
Picking up where Peter Kelder's remarkable book left off, Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, Book 2 completes the Fountain of Youth health programme, with detailed information on a variety of topics discussed only fleetingly in the original ...
Zanshin
Zanshin
Northanger Abbey
'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of o...
Inclusive Commons and the Sustainability of Peasant Communities in the Medieval Low Countries
Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox? Late medieval and Early Modern rural societies encountered challenges because of growing population pressure, urbanisation and commercialisation. While some regions went along this path...
Vathek
'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him bou...
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid chang...
Robinson Crusoe
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He ...
'Pamela' in the Marketplace
'Pamela' in the Marketplace
The Five Tibetans Breathing Book
The Five Tibetans Breathing Book
De fem Tibetanere bog1
Ny udgave af Peter Kelders berømte bog om de fem tibetanske øvelser, der bygger på den gamle hemmelighed om ungdommens kilde. Denne udgave er udstyret med helt nye illustrationer og en masse supplerende materiale, der ikke tidligere har været tilgængeligt på dansk. Bogen rummer beretningen om, hvordan de fem legendariske øvelser ad omveje kom til Vestens kundskab takket være to uforfærdede vesterlændinge. Vi lærer fem enkle, men uhyre kraftfulde øvelser, som giver fornyet livskraft og velvære. De er lette at udføre og kan med lethed indpasse i travle menneskers dagligdag. Følg med til det skjulte kloster dybt inde i Tibet, og få del i hemmeligheden om evig ungdom og sundhed - nemlig de fem overleverede tibetanske øvelser - lette at udføre, men stærke nok til at forandre dit liv for altid. Ifølge legenden stammer disse øvelser fra shangri-La – den evige ungdoms glemte dal et sted i Himalaya
Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth
Offering practical instruction on how to perform the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, which will take only minutes a day, many practitioners have experienced benefits, including increased energy, weight loss, better memory, new hair growth, pain relief, better digestion, and feeling overall more youthful.
The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
Poetics of the Pillory
Poetics of the Pillory
The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Mental Life of Modernism
The Mental Life of Modernism
Young Violinist's Repertoire Book 3
Following on from the first two books in the¿The Young Violinist's Repertoire series, this book¿presents pieces of moderate difficulty (grades 2-4) that give plenty of scope for development of the bow arm, introduce spiccato and require some fines...
Violin Playtime Book 1
With Violin Playtime, the beginner violinist can make music from the very first lessons. In the three books that make up the series, there are over a hundred little pieces, a treasure-trove of attractive tunes - some traditional, some by composers...
