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Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.

With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Palestine, the contributors consider how and why such silences occur, as well as the timing and motivation for breaking them. Introducing unexpected, sometimes counter-intuitive, issues in history, chapters examine:

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- A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida
- A cutting-edge software package that transformed the medical practice management industry
- A billion-dollar public company whose achievements are archived in the Smithsonian Institution
- A book that became a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah favorite
- A massive raid by the FBI that would...

• Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago
  
• Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassess the question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effective advocacy
  
• Lays out...

Each year, as many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent or repeated rape. Those who are outside the incarceration experience are largely unaware of this ongoing physical and mental damage--abuses that not only affect the victims and perpetrators, but also impose vast costs on society as a whole. This book supplies a uniquely full account of this widespread sexual abuse problem.

Author Michael Singer has drawn on official reports to...

Originally published in 1990, this comprehensive volume addresses the central issues of sentence and discourse processes, with particular emphasis placed on reading and listening comprehension. The text material is accessible to both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and informative for professionals and educators. In this regard, this uncommon volume identifies the logic of both the specific experimental manipulations that are described, and the more general on-line and memory measures frequently invoked. The principles presented in the text are supported by hundreds of...

Posing Sex: Towards a Perceptual Ethics for Literary and Visual Art views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging assumptions about personhood.

It is uncontroversial that what Singer dubs the "sex-image," the artist's posing of human figures in the act of coitus, is an enduring compositional armature for artists from antiquity to the present. Singer, however, makes the quite controversial claim that this aesthetic practice, in literature and painting especially, serves as a powerful metier for exploring...

Dieses Buch erschien bereits unter dem Titel "Das Experiment Hingabe" im Allegria Verlag.

Vom Autor des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers "Die Seele will frei sein"

Michael A. Singer will zu sich selbst finden. Also gibt er eine vielversprechende Wirtschaftskarriere auf, reist durch die Wildnis Mexikos, lebt als Einsiedler im Wald und übt sich in Askese wie ein Yogi - doch die ersehnte spirituelle Erleuchtung bleibt aus. Erst als er sich wieder den Menschen öffnet und lernt, sich dem Leben hinzugeben, empfindet er es als vollkommen. Singer beginnt, an einem College zu...