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UNINA9910786528503321 |
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Gitte Bechsgaard |
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The gift of consciousness : Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras. (Book one, Samādhi Pāda) / / by Gitte Bechsgaard |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Meticulously researched and compellingly written, The Gift of Consciousness is an engaging and approachable overview of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras through the prism of both Eastern and Western psychology. Grounded in a thorough knowledge of the Sanskrit original and training in psychology, Gitte Bechsgaard opens out these complex texts to the general reading public. Bechsgaard's clear-eyed approach makes this ancient text relevant to anyone interested in Yoga philosophy and practice. This book, ... |
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UNINA9910957324203321 |
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Rape in Wartime / / edited by R. Branche, F. Virgili |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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[1st ed. 2012.] |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487 |
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362.88309 |
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364.1532 |
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World history |
Social history |
Military history |
Politics and war |
History, Modern |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
Social History |
Military History |
Military and Defence Studies |
Modern History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Writing the History of Rape in Wartime; 1 Categorising Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia; 2 The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941-45; 3 The Victimisation of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1946-49; 4 Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971 |
5 Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia6 After ""Teutonic Fury"", ""Belgian |
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Fury""? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland in 1923; 7 The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War; 8 Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India); 9 The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya |
10 Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in Some African Conflicts, 1994-200811 The Body That Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 12 The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State; 13 ""Special Decisions"" Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914-18); 14 The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories; Select Bibliography; Index |
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This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human. |
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