Composing Useful Pasts Prof Sergey Macheret

Composing Useful Pasts Prof Sergey MacheretArgues that history is written from the present tense, meaning that its purpose is to construct convincing political arguments about who or what caused a current problem and how that problem should be addressed. Composing Useful Pasts discusses how history is not a settled record of the dead past, but a poetic or imaginative creation stimulated by and focused on contemporary interests. Historical investigation is always and necessarily a selective

and includes suggestions on further reading in related fields

Eliminating the latter and containing the former freed the caliph to address a series of other onslaughts and insurrections

The second part includes six interdisciplinary chapters that explore thematic links between East Asian Buddhism and religious studies

and discrimination

the ethical function of architecture

an estimated one to two million homeless

while losses from cassava bacterial blight caused hunger in some regions

Offers a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata based on an exploration of its ending

both subtle and obvious

and medical and advice manuals

and he also elucidates parallels between medieval Persian and various Western cultures by introducing newly translated relevant passages from such works as Carmina Burana

Abundant case studies demonstrate how others have implemented Caring Science and Mindfulness in everyday life and work