Democracy is under constant stress and is a threat all over the world and particularly in India, a land of vast disparities due to religions, castes, creeds, regions and languages. Intolerance is further strengthening the forces of disruption. What is the solution?Democracy is “Government by the people,” and now only “people” are responsible to save it by electing leaders who may serve the people and look after the welfare of the nation or else change them by the force of their fran...

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, popularly known as ‘Kala Pani’ comprise of 572 islands, only 36 being inhabited.The early history of these islands of exquisite beauty is shrouded in mystery. Occupied by East India Company towards the close of the 18th century, they were used by the British for a penal settlement after 1857. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment were kept in a cellular jail. The real inhabitants of these islands are, however, some aboriginal tribes like the Great Andamanese...

Russell Enterprises has been publishing chess books for over 35 years. Although an individual excerpt is available for each of our current titles (see https://www.russell-enterprises.com/russell-enterprises), we thought combining many of them into one eBook would be helpful and welcomed by chessplayers. The result is an eBook which is the equivalent of almost 250 printed pages containing excerpts from 20 REI titles. Each excerpt has the book’s table of contents, introduction, foreword and ...

War is raging again. Corruption is rife. We are more divided now than in living memory. To top it off we are lonely and struggling to make ends meet while the rich gloat over their ever-increasing riches.Is this how we want the world to be?Is this the life we want?The Friendship Key to Lasting Peace, United Communities, Stronger Relationships, Equality, and a Better Job! author, family physician and counsellor, Dr Winfried Sedhoff reveals how friendship emp...

In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status affects their educational success and social interactions.Montgomery contextualizes...

A companion volume to Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could without regard for long-term consequences. Wildlife species, ecosystems, and Native cultures suffered, sometime...

The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state building and colonizing projects these powers pursued in the nineteenth century....

İki Cihan Güneşi Efendimizin en yakınında bulunmuş yol arkadaşları, can yoldaşları... Birbirinden değerli bu üç kitapta, reşîd halifelerin şemailini, kısaca hayatlarını ve özenle seçilmiş hatıralarını bir arada bulacaksınız... Kalplerimizde taht kurmuş güzel insanların hatıraları bu kadar yalın anlatılmamıştı. Mesajları bu netlikte ümmete aktarılmamıştı. Murat Kaya'nın akıcı üslubuyla, gül kokulu hatıraları bir çırpıda okuyabilirsiniz. (Tanıtım Bülteninden)

From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of departure to conceptualize historical affinities and differences between the ancient R...

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often the Moche. While Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru does ...

Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from other types of stone, surveys various types of Chahk thunderbolt deities and thei...

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international dimension. The 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution presented authoritarian powers in Russia with both a democratic and a geopolitical challenge. In reality, political conflict in Ukraine is reflec...