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In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining colonial and military construction projects, and delving into present-day tourist practices, spaces, and narratives. For instance, in both Hawai`i and the Philippines, U.S. military modes of mobility, control, and surveillance enable scenic tourist byways. Past and present U.S. military posts, such as the Clark and Subic Bases and the Pearl Harbor complex, have been reincarnated as destinations for tourists interested in World War II. The history of the U.S. military is foundational to tourist itineraries and imaginations in such sites. At the same time, U.S. military dominance is reinforced by the logics and practices of mobility and consumption underlying modern tourism. Working in tandem, militarism and tourism produce gendered structures of feeling and formations of knowledge. These become routinized into everyday life in Hawai`i and the Philippines, inculcating U.S. imperialism in the Pacific.
When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.
The Andean shaman is emerging from his silence to share with Westerners his tenderness for an appreciation of the Earth. In the heart of the Andes a sacred place has been dedicated to this exchange, fulfilling an ancient prophecy. Chamalu is an Ouccha Indian born in Bolivia and trained in shamanism. He founded the Jananpacha (meaning paradise) community in Bolivia in 1990 and here shares the shaman's way of cherishing the Earth and honoring her sacred places.
The Island of Bali--a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue. From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world? Bali: A Paradise Created bridges the gap between scholarly works and more popular travel accounts. It offers an accessible history of this fascinating island and an anthropological study not only of the Balinese, but of the paradise-seekers from all parts of the world who have traveled to Bali in ever-increasing numbers over the decades. This Bali travelogue shows how Balinese culture has pervaded western film, art, literature and music so that even those who've never been there have enjoyed a glimpse of paradise. This authoritative, much-cited work is now updated with new photos and illustrations, a new introduction, and new text covering the past twenty years.
Experience the dazzling brilliance of a world like ours—yet infinitely bolder and brighter: a place of kings and warriors, bards and battles, feats of glory and honour. It is a place you will forever wish to be. It is Albion. "When I opened my eyes, I was no longer in the world I knew." Lewis Gillies is an American graduate student in Oxford who should be getting on with his life. Yet for some reason, he finds himself speeding north with his roommate Simon on a lark—half-heartedly searching for a long-extinct creature allegedly spotted in a misty glen in Scotland. Expecting little more than a weekend diversion, Lewis accidently crosses through a mystical gateway where two worlds meet: into the time-between-times, as the ancient Celts called it. And into the heart of a collision between good and evil that's been raging since long before Lewis was born. First published more than twenty years ago, The Song of Albion Trilogy has become a modern classic that continues to attract passionate new readers. Part of The Song of Albion trilogy: Book One: The Paradise War Book Two: The Silver Hand Book Three: The Endless Knot Epic historical fantasy Book length: 138,000 words Includes additional insights from the author in “Albion Forever!” and an interview
The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes while talking on their cell phones in a sort of panic because they know that when the door closes they have to turn their precious phone off and it will be like somebody stepped on their trachea. Looking at all this, you might come to the conclusion that we Americans are not the most profound people on earth. Indeed, there are millions around the world who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe: hardworking and fun, but also materialistic and spiritually shallow. They've got a point. As you drive through the sprawling suburbs or eat in the suburban chain restaurants (which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina), questions do occur. Are we really as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American? Well, mentality matters, and sometimes mentality is all that matters. As diverse as we are, as complacent as we sometimes seem, Americans are united by a common mentality, which we have inherited from our ancestors and pass on, sometimes unreflectingly, to our kids. We are united by future-mindedness. We see the present from the vantage point of the future. We are tantalized, at every second of every day, by the awareness of grand possibilities ahead of us, by the bounty we can realize just over the next ridge. This mentality leads us to work feverishly hard, move more than any other people on earth, switch jobs, switch religions. It makes us anxious and optimistic, manic and discombobulating. Even in the superficiality of modern suburban life, there is some deeper impulse still throbbing in the heart of average Americans. That impulse is the subject of this book.
Editors Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger, PhD Arch Andra Panait, PhD Arch Marina Mihăilă, PhD Arch Daniel Comşa, PhD Arch Design Andra Panait, PhD Arch We acknowledge the help in preparing this volume to the following assistants PhD candidates: arch.Dorin Dascalu, arch.Ionuţ Mândrişcanu, arch.Irina Paţa, arch. Livia Rus, arch.Matei Stoian, arch.Ovidiu Teleche. © “ I o n M i n c u ” P u b l i s h i n g H o u s e B u c h a r e s t ICAR 2012 General Chair: prof.dr.arch. Emil Barbu Popescu Local arrange chair: lect.dr.arch. Daniel Comşa Visual identity and publications coordinator: assoc.prof. Andra Panait Sections Committees 1. Town in history versus possible / future town (Urban and Territorial Planning and landscape design) Keynote speaker : prof.dr.arch Antonino Saggio — Sapienza University, Rome Comittee: prof.dr.arch. Constantin Spiridonidis — Aristotle University, Thessaloniki prof.dr.arch. Stefano Musso — Genova University prof.dr.arch. Florin Machedon — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Tiberiu Florescu — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Monica Rădulescu — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Cerasela Crăciun — UAUIM, Bucharest Chair: lect.dr.arch. Gabriel Pascariu — UAUIM, Bucharest 2. Intelligent building and adaptive architecture Keynote speaker: assoc.prof.dr.arch. Kostas Terzidis — Harvard University, Boston Comittee: assoc.prof.dr.arch. Maria Voyatzaki — Aristotle University of Thessaloniki conf.dr.eng. Mihaela Stela Georgescu — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Cristina Ochinciuc — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Radu Pană — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Mihai Opreanu — UAUIM, Bucharest Chair: lect.dr.arch. Elena Codina Duşoiu — UAUIM, Bucharest 3. Architectural Conservation and Restoration Keynote speaker: Mag.arch. Matias del Campo — University of Applied Arts, Vienna Comittee: prof.dr.arch. Antonino Saggio — Sapienza University, Rome prof.dr.arch. Ana Maria Zahariade — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Hanna Derer — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Ioan Augustin — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Anca Brătuleanu — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Sergiu Nistor — UAUIM, Bucharest Chair: lect.dr.arch. Radu Ponta — UAUIM, Bucharest 4. Rethinking architecture by redefinition - Communicating architecture Keynote speaker: assoc.prof.dr.arch. Maria Voyatzaki — Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Comittee: prof.dr.arch. René Davids — University of California, Berkeley prof.dr.arch. Ştefan Scafa-Udrişte — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Zeno Bogdănescu — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Georgică Mitrache — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Dan Mihai Cocheci — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Cristina Olga Gociman — UAUIM, Bucarest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Marian Moiceanu — UAUIM, Bucarest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger — UAUIM, Bucarest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Anca Mitrache — UAUIM, Bucarest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Gheorghe Roşu — UAUIM, Bucarest lect.dr.arch. Françoise Pamfil — UAUIM, Bucarest lect.dr.arch. Marina Mihăilă — UAUIM, Bucarest Chair: lect.dr.arch. Marina Mihăilă — UAUIM, Bucharest 5. Interior Architecture and Design Keynote speaker: prof.dr.arch. René Davids — University of California, Berkeley Comittee: prof.dr.arch. Livio Dumitriu — Pratt Intitute, New York prof.dr.arch. David Covo — Mcgill University, Montreal prof.dr.arch. Tomniţa Florescu — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Marius Marcu Lapadat — UAUIM, Bucharest assoc.prof.dr.arch. Iulius Ionescu — UAUIM, Bucharest lect.drd.arch. Romeo-Gigi Simiraş — UAUIM, Bucharest Chair: assoc.prof.dr.arch. Beatrice-Gabriela Jöger — UAUIM, Bucharest 6. Beyond discipline(s): architectural education and research Keynote speaker: arch. Sandra Manninger — University of Applied Arts, Vienna Comittee: prof.dr.arch. Byeong-Joon Kang — INJE University-Ghimhae prof.dr.arch. Nicolae Grama — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Mircea Ochinciuc — UAUIM, Bucharest prof.dr.arch. Sorin Vasilescu — UAUIM, Bucharest lect.dr.arch. Claudiu Runceanu — UAUIM, Bucharest researcher.dr.arch. Maria Boştenaru Dan — UAUIM, Bucharest Chair: Lecturer PhD Ecology, Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor — UAUIM, Bucharest
The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis, Paul M. Love, Jr takes readers on a journey across the Maghrib and beyond as he traces the paths of a group of manuscripts and the Ibadi scholars who used them. Ibadi scholars of the Middle Period (eleventh–sixteenth century) wrote a series of collective biographies (prosopographies), which together constructed a cumulative tradition that connected Ibadi Muslims from across time and space, bringing them together into a 'written network'. From the Mzab valley in Algeria to the island of Jerba in Tunisia, from the Jebel Nafusa in Libya to the bustling metropolis of early-modern Cairo, this book shows how people and books worked in tandem to construct and maintain an Ibadi Muslim tradition in the Maghrib.