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- Books (13)
- Canonical Works (3)
- Readings (20)
- Audio/Video (36)
- Reference Shelf (1)
- Related Topics (8)
Books (13)
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A region-by-region summary of the Earth’s earliest civilizations, from the Akkadians to the Zoroastrians.
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480 pages[recommended but under copyright]
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Canonical Works (3)
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Monks, after consideration, that monk is to leave that wilderness grove; he is not to live there.
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Shrines in parks and woodland shrines,
Well-constructed lotus ponds:
These are not worth a sixteenth part
Of a delightful human being.Whether in a village or forest,
In a valley or on the plain–
Wherever the arahants dwell
Is truly a delightful place.
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Readings (20)
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… this paper aims for a philosophically more nuanced discussion of the case for and against eating locally. I assess, in turn, locavore arguments based on environmental preservation, human health, community support, agrarian values and political concerns
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Residents of oil-producing communities do more than merely consent to the operations of industry: they actively identify with the oil industry and perceive their interests and the industry’s interests as one and the same. This intense identification is manifest in community members’ vocal defence of the industry and in their adoption of industry-propagated frames of reference for understanding wider energy-related issues.
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Continuously enfolding the lives, activities, values and times of all its previous inhabitants, the landscape is simultaneously unfolding to its current inhabitant or observer as a corpus of heterogeneous narratives – myths, legends, historical accounts or individual life-histories attached to it. […] ‘Landscape is time materializing.’
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Policy-makers often mistakenly view host state security and refugee security as unrelated–or even opposing–factors. In reality, refugee protection and state stability are linked together; undermining one factor weakens the other. Policies to protect refugees, both physically and legally, reduce potential threats from the crisis and bolster state security. In general, risks of conflict are higher when refugees live in oppressive settings, lack legal income-generation options, and are denied education for their youth.
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East Asians and Westerners perceive the world and think about it in very different ways.
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Premodern rice farming could plausibly create strong social norms because paddy rice relied on irrigation networks. Rice farmers coordinated their water use and kept track of each person’s labor contributions. Rice villages also established strong norms of reciprocity to cope with labor demands that were twice as high as dryland crops like wheat. In line with this theory, China’s historically rice-farming areas had tighter social norms than wheat-farming areas, even beyond differences in development and urbanization.
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Stateless people do not elect officials, enjoy diplomatic representation, or possess the lucre of a corporate lobby. Without political rights they can exert only so much pressure; activist groups, charities, and NGOs are their main source of support. This makes people without a citizenship uniquely vulnerable to exploitation
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the link between Sinhala nationalism and Buddhist religion based on the conceptual framework of “Geopiety.”
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On mountaintops, in secluded forests and on islands and the like,
Places which are agreeable to the mind and well suited to the season -
A small step most people can take to make their homes a friendlier place for the locals.
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Audio/Video (36)
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A sober analysis of the militant history—and future—of extra-planetary geopolitics.
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they imagine that most of us sit around small huts, waiting for the West to deliver another aid package. Or they imagine that, you know, we all grew up with lions and tigers in our backyards. Unfortunately, that’s a myth that has endured now for generations and generations.
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On the wisdom of traditional agriculture and the ongoing tragedy of displacement in the Cambodian Highlands.
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Texas Longhorns wore the most unruly, belligerent cattle. And so the idea that this little piece of barbed wire could keep them out of anywhere was just laughable.
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abíní hoolzish
the low-moon horizon turquoise serenes pink-lit…18 min -
Everything is a union of one kind or another.
Foothills know this. Highways too.6 min -
… the tourist town
below us, in buildings made old
by the deliberate hand of business,
not the rain, the sun, the untold
billions of raindrops and tear drops…5 min -
I wept in my clothes on the street
where olive trees turned their foil palms.5 min -
Every leaf emerges as a green blade
and the cries of life take over the night…5 min -
Remember me, my father sings
to the forest…5 min -
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.5 min -
In spite of all reports
Accusations
Predictions
We aren’t gone5 min -
It’s a 6-inch circle of soil and a column of air above it. The column is marked by a 6-foot granite ring embedded flush into the concrete…
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