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Zigzag: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin

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In The Meaning of Asymmetry in Jewish Art, Avigdor Poseq notes a historical tendency in Jewish art to depict Temple-related ritual objects asymmetrically, symbolizing their dislocation after the Temple’s destruction and the continued wait for the ...
Artur Kamczycki
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Farmland Allocation along the Rural-Urban Gradient: The Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Sprawl [PDF]

In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural-urban gradient, but they concurrently enjoy the advantages associated with proximity to a larger and wealthier consumer base.
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The specifics of suburban architecture [PDF]

, 2015
The fundamental differences between the suburbs and the city centre that I would like to point out concern the pace of life and the intensity of urban development. Certainly, these differences are not absolute but are rather relative, as they are defined
Winskowski, Piotr
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Current Trends in Mindfulness and Mental Health [PDF]

, 2014
Griffiths, MD, Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W
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Wild Emptiness: A Zen Approach to Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2019
When Buddhism took root in China and integrated with the nation’s Taoist intellectual climate, the tradition retained the orthodox central objective of overcoming suffering.
Porter, Arden D
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Emptiness Is to Womanism as Purple Is to Lavender: Buddhist Womanism Revisited in Alice Walker’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Religions
This paper argues that the philosophy of Buddhist emptiness not only finds expression in Alice Walker’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart with its two most salient manifestationsdependent origination and impermanence, but is applied to alleviate ...
Zhi Huang, Zier Zhuang
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Seeing the potentialities at the intersection: A reflection on performativity and processuality mindsets [PDF]

, 2018
© 2019 M@n@gement. In this paper, we propose to approach performativity and processuality as mindsets. We suggest that researchers interested by or pursuing performative studies should recognize more explicitly the inherent processuality of ...
Cabantous, L., Sergi, V.
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The Sacred Impermanence: Religious Anxiety and “Capital Relocation” (遷都) in Early China

Religions
Religion played a pivotal role in shaping the political and cultural landscape of early China, particularly through the practice of relocating capitals (遷都).
Di Wang
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Waking up to the Present: Vipassana Meditation and the Body [PDF]

, 2011
Using ethnographic methods I examine the process of learning vipassana meditation, a form of meditation in which the practitioner focuses on their bodily sensations, and the ways in which learning this form of meditation affects the practitioner\u27s ...
Geffre, Craig
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Impermanence of the Visual Identity of Polish Local and Regional Governments

Economics and Culture
The literature on place branding lacks long-term and quantitative studies on the rebranding of territorial brands. Place branding consultants recommend that they should be reviewed and refreshed approximately every decade.
Adamus-Matuszynska Anna, Dzik Piotr
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