[PDF] Enemy In The Mirror eBook

Author : Roxanne L. Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1999-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 069105844X

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This text draws on different diciplines, including postmodernist and critical theory, comparative politics, and anthropology, to examine Islamic fundamentalisim.

Author : Michael E. Nolan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845453015

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It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility between the two countries in the years before the First World War. Most remarkably, as the author discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.

Author : Oniel Wilks
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781424182374

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This story depicts the journey of a native Jamaican to the United States of America. He might have migrated to America for its plethora of job and/or educational opportunities that would be offered to him, yet somewhere along the line he managed to take a turn on the fast track to the real American dream. Through his tumultuous journey, he realizes that everything he will ever achieve will come at a price, and a costly one at that. His life will turn upside down with lies, deceit, sex, murder and ultimate mayhem. It will be the roller-coaster ride of his life.

Author : Roxanne L. Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400823234

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A firm grasp of Islamic fundamentalism has often eluded Western political observers, many of whom view it in relation to social and economic upheaval or explain it away as an irrational reaction to modernity. Here Roxanne Euben makes new sense of this belief system by revealing it as a critique of and rebuttal to rationalist discourse and post-Enlightenment political theories. Euben draws on political, postmodernist, and critical theory, as well as Middle Eastern studies, Islamic thought, comparative politics, and anthropology, to situate Islamic fundamentalist thought within a transcultural theoretical context. In so doing, she illuminates an unexplored dimension of the Islamist movement and holds a mirror up to anxieties within contemporary Western political thought about the nature and limits of modern rationalism--anxieties common to Christian fundamentalists, postmodernists, conservatives, and communitarians. A comparison between Islamic fundamentalism and various Western critiques of rationalism yields formerly uncharted connections between Western and Islamic political thought, allowing the author to reclaim an understanding of political theory as inherently comparative. Her arguments bear on broad questions about the methods Westerners employ to understand movements and ideas that presuppose nonrational, transcendent truths. Euben finds that first, political theory can play a crucial role in understanding concrete political phenomena often considered beyond its jurisdiction; second, the study of such phenomena tests the scope of Western rationalist categories; and finally, that Western political theory can be enriched by exploring non-Western perspectives on fundamental debates about coexistence.

Author : Sandra Miller
Publisher : Onda Mountain Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Ellane Williams bitterly hates the aliens who are invading the Earth, but when she takes a stand against them she gets more than she bargained for. Now she's slowly changing into one of them...and there's nothing she can do about it. Join Ellane as she struggles with an unwelcome metamorphosis, an unwanted new identity, and the end of life as she knows it. To survive, we must all fight not to become the evil we oppose...

Author : Roxanne L Euben
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781400815784

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Author : Martin Seay
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612195156

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A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

Author : Lonny Bingle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781930027503

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Enemy in the Mirror dynamically presents the truth of the Bible concerning spiritual warfare. Dr. Bingle brings to light the book of Ephesians with clear understanding and sound insight into the mind of God for this often misunderstood subject. It teaches how people can win the battle in their mind between good and evil.Enemy in the Mirror details a powerful blueprint for successfully winning the warfare of the mind and defines the difference between truth and fact while revealing the ultimate enemy.