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  • Twenty-first century Islam as an idea does not fit readily into any of China's received wisdoms either into a Marxist or post-communist per spective, or into China's older, Confucian governing creed.

    Beijing's Islamic Complex Charles Horner And Eric Brown 2010

  • If the 1940s marked the original formulation of the diffusion paradigm, the 1950s were a time of proliferation of diffusion studies in the United States, the 1960s involved the expansion of such research into developing nations see Chapter 2, and the 1970s were the beginnings of intro spective criticism of diffusion research.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • If the 1940s marked the original formulation of the diffusion paradigm, the 1950s were a time of proliferation of diffusion studies in the United States, the 1960s involved the expansion of such research into developing nations see Chapter 2, and the 1970s were the beginnings of intro spective criticism of diffusion research.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • All day she had been packing and acking and re-packing, confessing icfacedly that she was a fool and then ig to worry about the possibility of the ise being broken into while they were away, was useless for Wexford to point out that lether they were known to be in San Francisco Southend would make little difference to a spective burglar.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • Not normally intro - spective, he wondered if Yisbana had perhaps af - fected the albino more strongly than he would have wished.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • Not normally intro - spective, he wondered if Yisbana had perhaps af - fected the albino more strongly than he would have wished.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • But once you introduce this angle into your spective, many other works fall into place.

    An Exchange on Machiavelli Burke, Kenneth 1972

  • I would like in my address to you today to attempt the difficult task of putting the much advertised problems of my country into reasonable per spective.

    Britain's Problems In Perspective 1968

  • In place of a static conception of a divine, immutable order a new sociological per - spective takes over; society and culture are regarded as products of history, i.e., of man's free and creative will, and as subject to change.

    ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968

  • Enlightenment will turn out, in a broad historical per - spective, to have been surprisingly short.

    PROTEST MOVEMENTS PETER N. STEARNS 1968

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