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Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Roxanne L. Euben
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-21
  • ISBN : 069105844X
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Roxanne L. Euben and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text draws on different diciplines, including postmodernist and critical theory, comparative politics, and anthropology, to examine Islamic fundamentalisim.

Book The Inverted Mirror

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  • Author : Michael E. Nolan
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781845453015
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Inverted Mirror written by Michael E. Nolan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Oniel Wilks
  • Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
  • Release : 2007-11
  • ISBN : 9781424182374
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Oniel Wilks and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Eli Cantor
  • Publisher : Zebra Books
  • Release : 1981-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780890838426
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Eli Cantor and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1981-10-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Roxanne L. Euben
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-01
  • ISBN : 1400823234
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Roxanne L. Euben and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Roxanne L Euben
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781400815784
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Roxanne L Euben and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.

Book The Enemy in the Mirror

Download or read book The Enemy in the Mirror written by Sandra Miller and published by Onda Mountain Books. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Book Comparative Political Theory

Download or read book Comparative Political Theory written by F. Dallmayr and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in a global age. This text focuses on Islamic, Indian and Far Eastern civilizations, offering readings of classical teachings and contemporary theoretical developments.

Book The Mirror Thief

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  • Author : Martin Seay
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2016-05-10
  • ISBN : 1612195156
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Mirror Thief written by Martin Seay and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Mirror  Mirror

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  • Author : Jen Calonita
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2019-04-02
  • ISBN : 1368043984
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Mirror Mirror written by Jen Calonita and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirror, Mirror: A Twisted Tale poses the question, what if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince? Following her beloved mother's death, the kingdom falls into the hands of Snow White's stepmother, commonly referred to as "the Evil Queen" by those she rules. Snow keeps her head down at the castle, hoping to make the best of her situation. But when new information about her parents resurfaces and a plot to kill her goes haywire, everything changes for Snow. With the help of a group of wary dwarfs, a kind prince she thought she'd never see again, and a mysterious stranger from her past, Snow embarks on a quest to stop the Evil Queen and take back her kingdom. But can she stop an enemy who knows her every move and will stop at nothing to retain her power... including going after the ones Snow loves?

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Crown
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 1988-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780517533345
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Crown and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enemy in the Mirror

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  • Author : Lonny Bingle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-03
  • ISBN : 9781930027503
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Enemy in the Mirror written by Lonny Bingle and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Lightning in a Mirror

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  • Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-01-18
  • ISBN : 0593337751
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Lightning in a Mirror written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment in the chilling Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Olivia LeClair's experiment with speed dating is not going well. First there was the nasty encounter with the date from hell who tried to murder her and now the mysterious Harlan Rancourt—long believed dead—sits down at her table and tells her she's the only one who can help him locate the Bluestone Project’s legendary Vortex lab. This is not what Olivia had in mind when she signed up for the Four Event Success Guaranteed package offered by the dating agency. She doesn't have much choice, though, because her psychic investigation firm works for the mysterious Foundation and Victor Arganbright, the director, is adamant that she assist Harlan. There's just one problem—no one knows Harlan's real agenda. His father once ran the Foundation like a mob organization, and Harlan was destined to be his heir. There's a real possibility Harlan has returned to claim his inheritance. For now, however, it's a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend because others are after the secrets of the long-lost lab. Unfortunately for Olivia, the one thing friend and foe have in common is that everyone is convinced she is the key. Her unique psychic talent is required to defuse the ticking time bomb that is Vortex. Neither trusts the other but Olivia and Harlan soon realize they must work together to survive and unlock the Bluestone Project's most dangerous secrets before more innocent people die.

Book A Different Mirror

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  • Author : Ronald Takaki
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2012-06-05
  • ISBN : 1456611062
  • Pages : 787 pages

Download or read book A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

Book Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

Download or read book Populism and the Mirror of Democracy written by Francisco Panizza and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form of democracy nor its enemy. It is, rather, a mirror in which democracy may contemplate itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks. This definitive collection, edited by one of the worlds pre-eminent authorities on populism, Francisco Panizza, combines theoretical essays with a number of specially commissioned case studies on populist politics.

Book The Enemy in the Mirror  A Journey Worth Fighting for

Download or read book The Enemy in the Mirror A Journey Worth Fighting for written by Evangelist Minister Constance D. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obsidian Mirror

Download or read book Obsidian Mirror written by Catherine Fisher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed. The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back. With superb world-building that includes the real world, the faery world, and a dystopic future, this hauntingly astonishing adventure is the start of a new trilogy from the master of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Catherine Fisher. Fans of Orson Scott Card, Dr. Who, Shakespeare, and Blade Runner won't be disappointed.