Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Ming K. Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.
Download or read book The Precarious Balance written by Donald Rothchild and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence, the political institutions of many African states have undergone a process of consolidation and subsequent deterioration. Constrained by external economic dependency and an acute scarcity of economic and technical resources, state officials have demonstrated a diminished capacity to regulate their societies. Public policies are agreed upon but ineffectively implemented by the weak institutions of the state. Although scholars have analyzed the various facets of state-building in detail, little systematic attention has been given to the issue of the decline of the state and mechanisms to cope with state ineffectiveness in Africa. This book focuses especially on the character of the postcolonial state in Africa, the nature of and reasons for state deterioration, and the mechanisms and policies for coping with state malfunction. Scholars from Africa, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East combine a broad understanding of African political processes with expertise on specific regions. Their analytic and comparative perspective provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of this vital and heretofore neglected theme in African politics.
Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Ming K. Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.
Download or read book Axial Stones written by George Quasha and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Quasha’s extraordinary sculptures unite natural stones in a state of breathtakingly improbable balance. The stones are not altered physically or bonded in any way; rather, Quasha discovers an unknown axis that brings them into radical alignment. The stones "learn" this state of levity in contrast to their ordinary state of gravity, resulting in a new art form that feels alive with its own individual energy and personality. Here, 37 axial stones are displayed in dazzling full-page color photos. The accompanying text explains not only how the stones were found and eventually came together, but explores the aesthetic, philosophical, spiritual, and practical implications of an art of danger and impermanence. "Action pages" document the process—the repeated setting up, balancing, losing balance, and falling—until the full axial stone is born: a whole being greater and more real than the sum of its parts.
Download or read book The Great Transition written by B. M. S. Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.
Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Bardwell L. Smith and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the third century BCE, when the king of Sri Lanka converted to Buddhism, the island nation off the southern coast of India has represented a central interest of Buddhist scholarship. The association between its politics and religious life has not always remained harmonious, however, and has contributed to the contemporary turmoil that threatens to tear it apart. In this valuable book, renowned religious scholar Bardwell Smith elucidates the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka from the time of one of its earliest rulers through to its present-day strife. The essays collected here for the first time explore various themes of Sri Lanka’s long history in novel and constructive ways. Topics include Sinhala Buddhists’ sense of manifest destiny arising from Sri Lanka’s oldest historical chronicles, the Mahavamsa and the Dipavamsa; the nationalist implications of the chronicles’ depiction of the third-century Mahavihara monastery as the site of "original Buddhism"; and concepts of order and legitimation of power in ancient Ceylon. With a new introduction and final chapter, Smith sheds fresh light on today’s Sri Lanka, connecting historical studies with contemporary issues.
Download or read book A Precarious Balance written by Joan Marie Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Rosemary Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel traces a year in the life of Clare MacMillan, who is happily married and lives in Cape Town. Largely through the consciousness of Clare, the story is told of the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows that occur over the period of a year in the life of her family. This eventful year encompasses momentous family events, during which Clare needs to hold her nerve and maintain her balance. Her Christian faith is at the centre of her life, and sustains her, alongside the love of her husband and two sons. It is the permutations in the lives of these four family members that give the novel its drama and intensity. The narrative weaves easily through the different seasons of the year, keeping and engaging our interest all the way through. While the ending of the novel may not be conventional, it is ultimately life-affirming, and we are left with a positive feeling. We are moved by the love felt and shown between the characters, and by their courage and generosity of spirit, especially that of Clare as she consistently holds her family together. The young men Jerome and Matthew have their own narratives which are interwoven with those of their parents. The reader is drawn to all the characters with their dramas and melodramas. Ultimately faith triumphs over the events that challenge it, and hope helps overcome loss. It is a positive story of love and courage, faith and hope.
Download or read book A Precarious Balance Democracy and economic reforms in Latin America written by Joan M. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Walter Jule and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precarious Balance reports on the best new work in printmaking by artists from Canada and abroad. This collection includes articles on printmaking by printmakers and art historians from Poland, Iceland, Austria, the United States, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain. Precarious Balance is the second in Walter Jule's PRINT VOICE series.
Download or read book A Precarious Balance Democracy and economic reforms in Eastern Europe written by Joan M. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atomic Weight of Love written by Elizabeth J. Church and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous and enthralling story of birds and science, ambition and sacrifice, revolutions - both big and small - and the late blooming of an unforgettable woman. I first loved him because he taught me the flight of a bird. I was too young to realise that what I really yearned to know was why birds take flight - and why, sometimes, they refuse. Meridian Wallace has lived through the Second World War, the atomic age, the Vietnam War and the dawn of the new millennium - yet she has always been torn between who she is and who circumstances demand her to be. In 1941, spirited, ambitious and determined to prove worthy of the sacrifices her mother made for her, Meridian won a place at the University of Chicago to study ornithology. The last thing she expected was to fall in love with a man two decades older: her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone - or for him to be recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project. When Meridian defers her plans to join him, she agrees to give Alden a year of her life. But this is a world, and a time, in which a wife cannot be a scientist and a woman cannot choose her own destiny. What begins as an electrifying intellectual partnership soon evolves into something quite different. As the decades pass, Meridian strives to resist the clipping of her wings. It is a choice that will make her enemies and bring her heartache, but it also opens up unexpected possibilities: of freedom, and friendship and transformation...
Download or read book The Precarious Balance written by Ludwig Dehio and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Precarious Balance English Government and Society 1450 1640 written by Arthur Joseph Slavin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japan written by Frank Baldwin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."
Download or read book The Precarious Balance English Government and Society 1450 1640 written by Arthur Joseph Slavin and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Precarious Balance written by Donald Rothchild and published by . This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
