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Intro -- Free To Be -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Realizing What's Possible, After Facing the Seemingly Impossible -- How to Get the Most Out of This Book -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Note on the Exercises -- Part One -- Week 1 -- Brain Detox -- The Problems Are All in Our Head: We Are on Autopilot -- The Content We Consume -- Understanding Content Overload -- Recovering from Info-xication -- Don't Believe Everything You Think -- We Are Meaning-Making Machines -- Emptying Your Mind to Make Room for Your Voice -- Thoughts Can Control You, or You Can Control Your Thoughts -- How Can You Spend Your Time Unplugged? -- Carving Out Space to Be Creative -- The Daily Purge -- Exercise: Clearing the Mind Clutter -- Week 2 -- Heart Detox -- Set Apart Your Heart from Your Head -- Your Heart Is Calling Out for You -- Your Heart Needs Healing -- Feel All the Feels -- Let the Feelings Pass Through You, Don't Let Them Control You -- Don't Let Your Heart Lead You -- Your Heart Needs a Tribe-Not Everyone Is Your People -- Taser, Shield, Filter, or Hug -- Gift Your Heart-Get Squishy with It -- Gift Your Heart to the World -- The Daily Purge -- Exercise: Giving the Lovable Puppy Affection -- Week 3 -- Detoxing the Body -- What Is Your Body? -- How Do We Relate to Our Body? -- Minding Our Bodies -- Shifting Our Relationship with Our Bodies -- The Body as Spiritual Path -- Self-Care Isn't Selfishness -- Curate Your Self-Love -- The Importance of Sleep -- Choosing Soul Food, Not Junk Food -- Exercise Your Body, Energize Your Soul -- Dis-ease -- The Daily Purge -- Exercise: Honoring Your Soul Vessel -- Part Two -- Week 4 -- Play -- Play Like Your Life Depends on It (Because It Does) -- What Is Play? -- Adults Can Play Too -- The Role of Play in Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity -- Find Your Playmates -- The Daily Purge.

First published in 1991 Mongolia Today presents a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field and gives important insights into the economic, political, legal and military systems of Mongolia. The Mongolian People's Republic, formerly known as Outer Mongolia', is three times the size of France but has population of just two million. Sandwiched between Russia and China, this remote heartland of Asia has long been one of the most inaccessible places in the world, its isolation preserved by political as well as geographical barriers. The modern history of Mongolia has been dominated by its two great neighbours: strong economic and political ties with the erstwhile Soviet Union and problematic relations with China. Relations with the West have been slow to develop. Post-cold war, Mongolia is willing to explore new relationships with other parts of the world and transform this once isolated land into a trading partner of international potential. This is an essential read for scholars and researchers of Central Asian studies, Asian politics, and Chinese studies.

Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of state-making in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women's participation in the process of citizenship formation.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Nationalism and Nation-Building -- 2. Women and the Postcolonial State -- 3. Theorising Gender and Democratisation -- 4. Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? -- 5. Quotas in Context -- 6. Feminizing Global Governance -- 7. Knowledge and/as Power -- 8. Networking across Borders -- Conclusion -- What Hopes, Why Despair? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction: mapping disjunctures and dissonance: transnationalism as transgeography in ummah -- Ummah and friendships: transgeographic inscriptions of transnational Islamic feminisms -- Windowed encounters: gazes, times, and ummah -- Intimate bonds: marriage, race, and ummah -- The sterile womb: nation space, domestic violence, polygamous relationships, and ummah.

"This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of the social trajectories and experiences of children of post-colonial immigrants in France who are embarking on paths of extreme upward intergenerational mobility. The author draws on life history interviews with young adults of North African immigrant background, enrolled at or having recently graduated from the country's elite higher education institutions, the grandes écoles, to delve into largely under-researched pathways and give a voice to high-achieving members of a population that continues to be collectively associated with difficulties to 'integrate'. The volume constitutes the first sociological study to document, from the individual actor's perspective, the everyday experience of racism within France's elite educational institutions and to reveal the (upward) mobility experience to be informed by the interlocking effects of racial processes, immigrant ancestry, class background and gender. Challenging the pervasive representation of descendants of North African immigrants as 'unsuccessful' and 'unable to integrate', this book sheds light on the experiences of the largely silent upwardly mobile members of a stigmatized minority group, revealing the strategies used to respond to the constraints to their mobility and the importance of familial histories of post-colonial migration, characterized by the former generation's efforts, sacrifices and resilience, in informing these 'success stories'"--

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Published in association with the United Nations, this book builds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization by looking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. It considers the appropriate mechanisms through which the mainstreaming of gender can take place, and the levels of governance involved; defines what the interests of women are, and how and by what processes these interests are represented to the state policy making structures. Global strategies for the advancement of women are considered, and how far these have penetrated at national level, illuminated by a series of case studies - gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries, the Ugandan ministry of Gender, Culture and Social services, gender awareness in Central and Eastern Europe, and further examples from South Korea, the Lebanon, Beijing and Australia

Cover -- Table of content -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- 1. Framing the issues -- 2. Ideas about Iranian kinship -- 3. Shia approaches to assisted reproductive technologies -- 4. Embryo donation law and surrogacy regulation: the intersection of religion, law and ethics -- 5. Surrogacy as doing a good deed -- 6. A priceless gift: a short story of surrogacy -- 7. "M as in Mother": medical perspectives, clinical environments and social dynamics -- 8. Cousin marriage, siblingship and reproductive technologies -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Glossary -- Bibliography.

Main description: Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe.