Найти книгу: "Lovescapes, Mapping the Geography of Love"

Lovescapes introduces the reader to the various meanings and manifestations of love and its many cognates such as compassion, caring, altruism, empathy, and forgiveness. It addresses how love and compassion have been understood in history and the religions of the world. It goes on to explore the ways that our environments and heredity influence our capacity to love and suggests ways to cultivate love and compassion in one's life. The book shows how the values of love and compassion are integral to finding humane solutions to the daunting problems we face as individuals, as a human family, and as an earth community–a world in crisis. Lovescapes has the following features: –Describing how love is the essence of the divine, and therefore the ground of reality –Understanding the meaning of love and its place in our lives –Learning how love and compassion have been understood across history, culture, and tradition –Gaining insight about how to increase our capacity to love and show compassion –Discerning how love and compassion can be applied in all aspects of our lives, in the regions where we live, and in our global setting.

Полный вариант заголовка: «The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century / translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley».

Учебное пособие содержит страноведческий материал об истории, географии, политической жизни, культуре Великобритании, а также контрольные вопросы, тесты и задания для практических занятий по дисциплине «География и культура страны основного иностранного языка».

Представляет собой учебное пособие по дисциплинам «Страноведение», «Лингвострановедение» и «Культура страны изучаемого языка». Содержит тексты о географии, истории США, культуре американцев, национальной политике, экономике, языке, вкладе иммигрантов в формирование и развитие американского государства. Тексты сопровождаются словарем, кратким содержанием, ключевыми вопросами по теме и тестами для контроля понимания пройденного материала. Электронное приложение включает иллюстрированное изложение учебного материала, его музыкальное сопровождение, тесты и справочный материал. Предназначено для студентов вузов и лицеев, изучающих английский язык и межкультурную коммуникацию, старшеклассников, преподавателей, переводчиков, персонала туристических фирм, деловых людей, а также для широкого круга лиц, изучающих английский язык. (Компакт-диск прилагается только к печатному изданию.)

Impact Mapping – практическое пособие по картам влияния, простому, но очень эффективному методу разработки программного обеспечения. Он помогает еще на стадии стратегического планирования организовать сотрудничество различных специалистов и в результате создавать эффективные программные продукты.

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