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Social Reformation and Anti-Colonial Struggle by Sayyid Ahmad Raibarelvi : Circumstances and Implications

By: Mohsin Khawaja

...Sayyid Ahmad was among the foremost visionaries who realized the scale of British conspiracies and diplomacies, and launched a systemic struggle to counter the effects. He communicated with political figureheads of that time to make them realize of British intrusion. He also worked for social re...

...We see from the life of Sayyid Ahmed that he disrupted the status quo of society at various levels. He was not a passive preacher or a Sufi living in isolation. He not only challenged the oppressors but also the oppressed. For this he faced oppos...

...List of illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 Early Life of Sayyid Ahmed and Political Chapter 2 Colonization of India during life of Sayyid Ahmed Chapter 3 Anti-Colonial Struggle of Sayyid Ahmed and Reformation Efforts ...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ...ld they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has... ...ocable fact that the story of the Honorable East India Company will vi forever be part of the history of both Great Britain and that vast and glo... ...gal firm in India, who refuses to divulge the names of Chandra Lal’s heirs. However, whatever the history of the statue, the family believes that It... ...ve it to Helen. ‘I am a Khan, a man of some importance in my country and anyone on the borders of Afghanistan will recognise that engraving. If you ... ... the Governor General. Please do not give in to their demands. Our negotiations in the Punjab and Afghanistan are at a Audrey Blankenhagen 198 ve... ...for the ruler, Dost Muhammad Khan, who as you know, is now our ally against Czarist influence in Afghanistan. Ram Das has a newspaper cutting of the...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth ... ... piece of raw life that they are watching. But moviegoers throughout Hollywood's history have willingly and insatiably participated in numerous "... ...mulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal criminals in history. The Director Weir asks: should God be allowed to be imm... ...ikson) and he constantly evolves in accordance with his innate nature (Jung), past history (Adler), drives (Freud), cultural milieu (Horney), upbri... ... frequently busy raping (Japan, the Philippines), murdering (Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan), and pillaging (Iraq) - be exempted from internatio...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ...e run freely together through puddles on the streets and yet despite their history (regardless of it not being a particularly close relationship) Suth... ...mbs, a slight coldness toward her, and ennui from memories of his peculiar history that would impair his future relationships with girls. They sat on... ...superior or inferior in his freakishness, this was who he was. There was a history: the history was of being maimed. There was the character of Jatup... ...ensed at opulence and starvation which stood back to back like America and Afghanistan or a domineering state like America to a stateless one like Pal...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...trategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wif... ... I have known Vincent Black for my entire life. I know him and his entire history. What makes him the most dangerous is that he knows mine, as well;... ...osh moaned. “Shut up you skinny litle computer nerd. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I know how to assess a military situation. Am I the only one ... ...” in its title, its service overseas had been limited through most of its history. When one would book a ticket it would be labeled as Hartford, whe... ...and others have bits and pieces so I’m just going to sum- marize. I have a history with this compound. It housed Project Scorpion, of which I was a g...

...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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Archie to SAM : A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense

By: Kenneth P. Werrell

.... . . . . . . . . . .46 The US Navy in the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Japanese Antiaircraft Artillery . . . . . . . . . . .53 The Lessons of World War II . . . . . . . . . . .57 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 2 FROM GUNS TO MISSILES, 1945–1965 . . .69 Antiaircraft Returns to Combat: The Korean War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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Empire and War

By: Dr. Sam Vaknin; Lidija Rangelovska, Editor

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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A Summary of the Wars of the 21st Century

By: Iakovos Alhadeff

...A summary of the major wars of the 21st Century. Wars included are the war of Iraq, the war of Afghanistan, the war of Syria, the war of Libya, the civil war of Ukraine, and the war of Kurdistan....

...A summary of the major wars of the 21st Century. Wars included are the war of Iraq, the war of Afghanistan, the war of Syria, the war of Libya, the civil war of Ukraine, and the war of Kurdistan....

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The Architects of Al-Qaeda and ISIS

By: Iakovos Alhadeff

...A brief summary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and how these historic events were related to terrorism, and more specifically to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State....

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War I... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...sian outfit - before he was dumped unceremoniously once the Soviets retreated from Afghanistan. Normally the outcomes of expedience, the Ugly Amer... ... frequently busy raping (Japan, the Philippines), murdering (Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan), and pillaging (Iraq) - be exempted from internatio...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Prolonged Wars : A Post-Nuclear Challenge

By: Dr. Karl P. Magyar

...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 M. A. Shahriar Shirkhani and Con...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... ...eign mercenaries and possibly "Afghanis" (the devout Moslem veterans of the wars in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Bosnia). The influx of volunteers put... ...e to being after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its ignominious retreat from Afghanistan. I believe that these events are interconnected. Sa... ...Hamas and Hizbullah. Michael: The collapse of the Soviet Union, its retreat from Afghanistan and American humiliation in the Tehran Embassy has l...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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When Power and Piety Collide : A Critical Analysis of Early Caliphate in Islam

By: Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini

...s most disturbing for many Muslims and non- Muslims alike to witness the escalating rise in sectarian violence between the Shia and Sunni followers of Islam, particularly in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Some people, including Muslims, ask why the Shia and Sunni are violently murdering each other; is there something in the history of the Muslims that...

...ss, never is it meant to be as a means to jostle sectarian division - this is far from my intention. I have maintained judicious care in the manner of presenting this work, but it is my belief that in order for Islam and Muslims to go forward in harmony and solidarity, we have to have the courage to recognize the truth of our past and rationally discuss the matter in ...

....................................................................................................................... XI CHAPTER 1 SMASHING THE IDOLS OF TRIBALISM ............................................ 1 CHAPTER 2 QURAYSH GROUP ................................................................................... 5 Development of the Quraysh Group........................

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Apec's Ease of Doing Business-Interim Assessment

By: Carlos Kuriyama and Azul Ogazón

...ommons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Singapore License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-s... ....org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/sg/. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Memb... ...ance in preparing this report and the Economic Committee, particularly its Friends of the Chair on Ease of Doing Business, for valuable comments and ... ...’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS ..................................................... 1 HISTORY .............................................................. ... Chapter 1: APEC’s Ease of Doing Business 1 1. APEC’S EASE OF DOING BUSINESS HISTORY APEC’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiative dates back... ...adult population listed in a public credit registry with information on repayment history, unpaid debts, or credit outstanding from the past five ye... ...States. 38 Appendix 2: List of Economies by Group South Asia (8 economies) Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Maldives; Nepal; Pakistan; ...

...APEC Leaders in 2009 endorsed an APEC-wide improvement of 25 percent by 2015 in five key areas of doing business: 1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with Permits, with an interim 5 percent improvement by 20...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... ...t work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ............................................... ...e look at a few aspects of our similarities and differences. India‘s long history, particularly with its caste system, has resulted in a number of hi... ...es, but China now seems to be winning the diploma derby. But India‘s long history with English as a primary language has made its graduates in medic... ...ater. ―The lord knows that we in this part of the world have a long history of recognizing the problems, we just have not followed our rhetori... ...in Palestine for a century, the Muslim versus Muslim violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, then look at the civil strife in France with so many poor Mus... ...a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave food and books to the villagers. The Talib...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...ie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ......................................... ...2-1-Touch down! . . . and Gulliver returns. The greatest adventure in human history! Commander Lemuel Gulliver the 16 th has completed the first jo... ...ere we have just witnessed the final leg of the greatest human adventure in history, even greater than that of his illustrious ancestor, Lemuel Gull... ... 180 who was born then killed? Children have been abused so much throughout history and throughout the present day world. I don’t think it’s right. ... ...so extends life spans and enlarges reproductive windows. Poor countries like Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Niger, East Timor and Uganda are p... ...“When I hear of Islamic radicals, like the Taliban, burning down schools in Afghanistan where 70% of the people are illiterate and where millions ar...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ... factor in the minds of the Oriental leaders whose multi- 9 millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as... ...ians, particularly to Chinese and Indians. It has been obvious throughout history that we all want our families and our societies to be as similarly... ...rn the languages. They are also tested on their knowledge of our customs, history and philosophy. Then they have to be ready to immerse themselves i... ...Koran it can liberate women or keep them submissive to the will of men. In Afghanistan 60% of women are forced to marry against their will, and 60% o... ...ple. In the Muslim world women are persecuted for seeking equal rights. In Afghanistan three women were stoned to death by warlords for working for a...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-2-5 3 able of Contents GLOBAL POLICIES ................................................ ...................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ............................................................ ...e in the ways of business and statesmanship. All this in a brief moment of history. It‟s like a cosmic Siegfried and Roy changing a paper tiger into... ...university at Timbuktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socr... ...ay even if I didn‘t order the $200 toilet seats for Air Force One, a war in Afghanistan, or the $50,000 in-depth study of the mating call of the Jama...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...cious Pg 1393 Social Form and Function Pg 1395 The Power of Myth Pg 1397 History and Myth Pg 1398 Midas and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Ret... ...America sought to spread democracy in the 3rd world? By invading and bombing Afghanistan and Iraq into rubble? By, destroying their infrastructure... ...used on the poorest countries in the world: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new... ...nce, and superior dehumanization. America’s bombing campaign in destroying Afghanistan: one of the poorest Nation’s in the world. Destroying its...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ... not depend on an air of confidence or a posture of certainty. Throughout history progress has been stymied because ignorant people have been in lead... ... on top. Is it Muslim God-based? Then Saudi Arabia, or the former Taliban Afghanistan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Va... ... giving part of it to the Jews, and the American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan created more hostility. ―George W. Bush thought that by... ...g up Islam, many thought his predicament was undemocratic in a democracy. Afghanistan had become a democracy, elected its representatives and decided...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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