294 Ergebnisse für: suny
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Film Voices: Interviews from Post Script - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=AMJ1gPGGRzIC&pg=PA131&dq=%22RD:+I+was+born+June+24,+1936,+in+New+York+City%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OnE
This collection of interviews brings together major Hollywood directors and actors, independent filmmakers, screenwriters, and others to discuss the art, craft, and business of making movies. Whether it be Clint Eastwood or Francis Ford Coppola, Vittorio…
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A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen - Jane Hathaway - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=_03VpUdBydIC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=%22Hazine+1597%22&source=bl&ots=rsy8nQaARZ&sig=s74VaMG1_FmsY9
This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In…
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Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China, The - Jinhua Jia - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=2gvurBf_sqAC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=%22Dunwu+dasheng+zhengli+jue+%22&source=bl&ots=L8VifbrvI8&sig
This book provides a wide-ranging examination of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism the precursor to Zen Buddhism under Mazu Daoyi (709 788) and his successors in eighth- through tenth-century China, which was credited with creating a Golden Age or…
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The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin - ?abs-dkar Tshogs-drug-ra?-grol, Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, Matthieu Ricard - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=IA1VhyLNIccC&pg=PA597&lpg=PA597&dq=%22smad+mdo+khams+sgang+gsum+%22&source=bl&ots=L345cZORyE&sig
The Life of Shabkar has long been recognized by Tibetans as one of the master works of their religious heritage. Following his inspired youth and early training in his native province of Amdo under the guidance of several extraordinary Buddhist masters,…
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For God and Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina - Michael A. Burdick - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ose1h7NYQcQC&pg=PA151
This study of Argentine Catholicism offers an important perspective to the country s turbulent political history. Church-state relations show a number of crisis points whereby the constitutionally-established Catholic Church underwent progressive…
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Patterns of Political Leadership: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon - R. Hrair Dekmejian - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MCVgiW9KDh8C&pg=PA33
Patterns of Political Leadership is a study of political leaders in one of the world's most volatile areas--the Middle East. It focuses on the highest levels of political leadership in three countries--Egypt, Israel and Lebanon. Within a cross-national…
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Islam in Iran - Il?i?a Pavlovich Petrushevski?, Il?i?a? Pavlovich Petrushevski? - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=92XWltgRzfEC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=Ilya+Pavlovich+Petrushevsky&source=bl&ots=-vMoTT2TF1&sig=uwILWQvc
A scholarly and authoritative history of the emergence and growth of Islam in Iran during the early and later medieval periods. This book, by I. P. Petrushevsky, the foremost Soviet Iranologist, was originally published in Russia in 1966. After discussing…
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Muhammad and the Origins of Islam - Francis E. Peters - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=0OrCo4VyvGkC&pg=PA197&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
An inquiry into the religious environment of the person Muslims hail as the "Envoy of God" and an attempt to trace his progress along the path from paganism to that distinctive form of monotheism called Islam.
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Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy - Nancy S. Love - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=CMJDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence. Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth, to fight for political causes. Yet the presence of music in politics…
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The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty - Shih-shan Henry Tsai - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Ka6jNJcX_ygC&pg=PA145#v=onepage
This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Extracted from a wide range of primary and secondary source material, the author provides significant and…