Dr. M. Tauqir Alam has produced an exceptional work on the Afghan struggle against their communist oppressors, in which he has analysed the conflict in Afghanistan from the Saur Revolution to the Soviet invasion, to the final withdrawal of the invaders and the final collapse of their indigenous communist government. He has been fair to all the participants, no one emerges as the "herj" or the "villain", he has measured and weighed the roles and performances of all the actors

Topic of this book may strike some as odd. In today world, leadership in itself has come to be seen as a human trait, not a masculine or feminine one. But it wasnt always as such. Not very long ago, it was unthinkable for a woman to be the leader of a nation or even a limited institution. In fact, they were not even given the right to vote until 1920 in America and 1918 in United Kingdom. In UK, the age for women eligible to vote was not lowered to 21 until 1928. Women emancipation was achieved after a long and hard battle and even today they continue to struggle to attain equal rights as men

This book has been in the making for half a century. It synthesizes five decades of painstaking reseach on the land, the rise and fall of kingdoms, the city centers, and finally the ideologies that led to the creation of Pakistan. Much of the evidence for this historical explanation of the rise of Pakistan has been derived from the numerous inscriptions carved painstakingly in stone or left in the form of archaeological finds and architectural testimony of our forefathers, which have been carefully investigated and documented in the twentieth century by Professor Dani and his fellow archaeologists

Pakistan Culture constitutes an elective subject in the course of studies for foreign students at the Intermediate level. However no single book covers the prescribed syllabus. Teachers and students feel handicapped on this account and have often voiced the need for duch a comprehensive publication. This book embodies the response to this need. It atttempts in a single concise volume, to portray Pakistan rich cultural heritage which is as variegated as its geographic environments - with mountains, plains, deserts, river valleys full of natural beauty and grandeur, the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges in the north and the delta of the mighty Indus in south which also was the citadel of one of the earliest civilization

The High Assembly of Sages is Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali impressive debut in English poetry. It is in two parts. The first is about profound issues of God, universe, and man. Many poems are in the Sufi tradition, which is the most glorious facet of Islam. The second part of the book addresses mainly current political issues. There are poems on Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quaid e Awam Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Nelson Mandela, Ghandi and Abraham Lincoln. Each poem captures the essential greatness of these illustrious men of history

In early 2002 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was approached by Mayor Jason Hu of the City of Taichung with the idea of establishing a Guggenheim Museum in Taichung. Taichung is seeking to reform itself as a business and cultural world-class city through a plan that includes leveraging its existing assets of an excellent location and climate, solid educational institutions, a robust base of small and mis-sized businesses and regional tourist attractions

На форуме рассматриваются вопросы об "Алтайской культуре". Подчеркивание общности, родственности алтайских культур не преследует одну единственную цель - показать величие процесса обмена между цивилизациями, прошедшего в этом регионе. Участники форума хотели на основе исторической памяти изыскать новый тип регионального сотрудничества, построить новое культурно-экономическое региональное содружество

Although the term - Intangible cultural heritage - is relatively new, the concept is old as humanity. Intangible cultural heritage embraces a wide range of expressions from traditional to contemporary and rural to urban. Article 21 of the Convention defines Intangible cultural heritage as the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills - including the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated with them - that communities, groups and individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage

Of all the relationships extant in human affairs the most important and intimate is that between a husband and wife. Obviously casual and informal sexual relations between any man and woman are possible. But all humanity regards such a relationship as the height of aberration like any other sexual aberration. Whatever experience has been gone through by humanity through the ages in this respect no better form in such relationship has been evolved than a formal more or less permanent arrangement i.e. marriage

Im Jahre 1928 traten die Stadt Bochum und die Westfische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) in konkrete Verhandlungen zur Grdung eines Bergbaumuseuns. Unter den vorgeschlagenen sttischen Grundstken fiel die Wahl auf das Gelde zwischen der Voedestrasse (heute Am Bergbaummuseum), der Gartenstrasse (heute Schillerstrasse), der Thomasstrasse (heute Wielandstrasse) und dem in den 1920er Jahren in reprentativen Formen entstanderen Polizeipridium: Auf diesem Gelände befand sich der städtische Schlachthof, für den ein Neubau an der heutigen Freudenbergstrasse bereits 1926 begonnen and 1929 bezogen wurde