Author: Alain GuyennePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 384
Book Description
L'enfant des combats
Author: Alain GuyenneBattle
Author: John A LynnPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786727918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In battle, ideas can be more far more important than bullets or bombs. Clausewitz proclaimed that war is politics, but even more basically, war is culture. The hard reality of armed conflict is formed by -- and, in turn, forms -- a culture's values, assumptions, and expectations about fighting. The author examines the relationship between the real and the ideal, arguing that feedback between the two follows certain discernable paths. Battle rejects the currently fashionable notion of a "Western way of warfare" and replaces it with more nuanced concepts of varied and evolving cultural patterns of combat. After considering history, Lynn finally asks how the knowledge gained might illuminate our understanding of the war on terrorism.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738192866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Kongo
Author: Dibombari MBOCKPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130423083X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
L'ouvrage que voici marque assurément un tournant décisif dans l'effort entrepris par les Africains de bonne foi de réhabiliter l'Histoire du Continent noir. Nous y découvrons que la notion de Dieu est une notion traditionnelle et intellectuelle africaine, les origines africaines des dieux de l'Olympe, les noms africains des dieux d'Égypte, les origines africaines du Judaïsme, du Christianisme et de l'Islam, les sources africaines de la démocratie parlementaire et du Droit, les sources vivifiantes de cette extraordinaire épopée qui conduira à l'émergence de la civilisation appelée égyptienne, le sens de l'iconographie des principales divinités de la vallée du Nil, les sources africaines de la franc-maçonnerie, les sources de la légende du Saint-Graal, l'objet de la circoncision, l'origine et la fonction des cathédrales, la fonction du sarcophage, les origines de la chimie et de la biologie, et les fondations africaines de Rome sont autant de sujets spécifiquement abordés.
In Mortal Combat
Author: Kristof Haakon HaavikPublisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9781883479275
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Camel Tracks
Author: Debra Boyd-BuggsPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437579
Category : West African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In this new volume of critical essays on the Francophone literature of countries in the African Sahel, some of the field's most distinguished scholars investigate both the written and oral genres produced in this dynamic region - work characterised by its association with the desert. Revealing the richness and complexity of little-known texts, now becoming increasingly important as Africa forms its literary canon, this is the first volume of its kind available to researchers, teachers and students in the Anglophone world.
Qui a Obstrué la Cascade?
Author: Wauthier De MahieuPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780521109352
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book, which is in French, derives from a detailed empirical study of the Komo, a population of some 60,000 hunter-gatherers in Zaire. Dr de Mahieu builds a new theory of ritual practice on to his description and analysis of circumcision rituals among the Komo, and draws important comparisons between the significance of these rituals to the actual participants and to wider Komo society and beliefs.
L’enfant au Coeur de Bambou
Author: Amporn WathanavongsPublisher: Maverick House
ISBN: 190851860X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A New and Complete French and English and English and French Dictionary, on the Basis of the Royal Dictionary ... by Professor Fleming [and] Professor Tibbins
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Author: Charles FlemingYour Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Author: Karima BennounePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393240657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
"Compelling, meticulously researched…[S]hould be required reading." —Washington Post In Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada staged a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Algeria, radio comedian Mohamed Ali Allalou lampooned fundamentalists on the airwaves. Karima Bennoune illuminates these and other inspiring stories of the Muslim writers, artists, doctors, lawyers, activists, and educators who often risk death to combat the rising tide of religious extremism within their own countries. From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, these heroic trailblazers represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.