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Principles for Progress
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ISBN: 9789400603202 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden

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Church and state : a postmodern political theology : book one
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ISBN: 9080746029 9789080746022 Year: 2005 Volume: 19 Publisher: Los Angeles: Kalimat press,

Introduction to relativity
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ISBN: 0801877733 9780801877735 9780801870477 080187047X 9780801870538 0801870534 Year: 2003 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

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"This book contains a tremendous amount of information for its size. The discussions are clear and to the point... Any teacher on this subject should seriously consider as a textbook." -- The Physicist.

The trivium : the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric : understanding the nature and function of language
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ISBN: 0967967503 Year: 2002 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Paul Dry Books,

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Principals for progress : essays on religion and modernity
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ISBN: 9400603207 9087283075 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Leiden University Press,

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This book presents three of the works of Abduʾl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʾi Faith, which deal with social and political issues. In The Secret of Divine Civilization (1875) Abduʾl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to awaken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʾl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals—indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. A Traveller’s Narrative (1889/90) is an authoritative statement of the overarching concepts of Bahā’i social and political thinking. The Art of Governance (1892/93) was written as Iran entered a prerevolutionary phase, and ideas that we recognize today as the precursors of political Islam were spreading. It sets out the principles underlying the ideal relationship between religion and politics and between the government and the people. In addition to presenting the first parallel text translations of these works, the Persian texts incorporate notes on variants in the early published sources. An introduction outlines the intellectual and political landscape from which Abduʾl-Bahā wrote, and in which his readers lived.

What was mechanical about mechanics : the concept of force between metaphysics and mechanics from Newton to Lagrange
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ISBN: 1402002335 9048159253 9401736723 9789048159253 9781402002335 Year: 2002 Volume: 224 Publisher: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic,

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The Age of Reason is left the Dark Ages of the history of mechanics. Clifford A. Truesdell) 1. 1 THE INVISIBLE TRUTH OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS There are some questions that physics since the days of Newton simply cannot an­ swer. Perhaps the most important of these can be categorized as 'questions of eth­ ics', and 'questions of ultimate meaning'. The question of humanity's place in the cosmos and in nature is pre-eminently a philosophical and religious one, and physics seems to have little to contribute to answering it. Although physics claims to have made very fundamental discoveries about the cosmos and nature, its concern is with the coherence and order of material phenomena rather than with questions of mean­ ing. Now and then thinkers such as Stephen Hawking or Fritjof Capra emerge, who appear to claim that a total world-view can be derived from physics. Generally, however, such authors do not actually make any great effort to make good on their claim to completeness: their answers to questions of meaning often pale in compari­ 2 son with their answers to conventional questions in physics. Moreover, to the extent that they do attempt to answer questions of meaning, it is easy to show that they 3 draw on assumptions from outside physics.


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The Wiley handbook of social studies research
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ISBN: 9781118787076 Year: 2017 Publisher: Malden (Mass.) : Wiley-Blackwell,

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Embodiments of Evil. Gog and Magog: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature & Internet Texts
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ISBN: 9087280904 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden University Press

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Safina revealed : a compendium of Persian literature in 14th-century Tabriz
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ISBN: 9789087280888 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden Leiden University Press

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Embodiments of evil : Gog and Magog : interdisciplinary studies of the 'other' in literature & internet texts
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press,

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Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian traditions, to contemporary internet texts: all use these imaginary monstrous creatures. The figures are constantly reinterpreted as the enemies of order change. This volume reveals in eight essays the images of the 'Other' in genres ranging from contemporary folk religion on the internet to the rich literary heritage of Alexander romances.

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