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The Arab world unbound tapping into the power of 350 million consumers / by Mahajan, Vijay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Introduction Part I Discovering the Arab World Chapter 1 Drinking Red Bull in Dahiye The Arab market is vibrant and globally interconnected Arab consumers control more spending power than you think The shadow economy Shades of India and China Arab wealth beyond the crude oil Arab wealth beyond the abaya Household spending in the Arab World Consumer brands in both Israel and the Arab countries Chicken fights: Local competition in the Arab market The global emergence of Arab brands A worldwide hub: The Arab world is globally connected The Arab world is neither CNN's nor Al Jazeera's Chapter 2 The Diversity of the Arab World No harm in haram Not all the consumers in Arab countries are Arab The diversity of Arab consumers Segmenting the Arab consumer markets Embracing the diverse habits of Arab consumers The language differences The market dominance of Saudi Arabia and the GCC Think regional, act local Chapter 3 Islam Matters: How the Five Pillars of Islam impact consumers in the Arab World The difference between culture and religion Why shahada matters Why salah matters Why sawm matters Why zakat matters Why hajj and umrah matter Islam in the everyday Part II Tapping the well of Arab consumers Chapter 4 The shabab: tapping the Arab youth market The shabab demographic dividend The shabab crave the best brands, wherever they come from The shabab generation is molding the consumer market The shabab generation is changing the Arab workforce The shabab and education The shabab and marriage Chapter 5 Tapping the Arab Middle Class The rise of the middle class is changing the Arab consumer markets Identifying the Arab middle class Tapping into Arabia Two Tapping into Arab consumer power at all levels Urbanization, modern trade and Arabia Two Arabia Two and the balance between tradition and modernity Chapter 6 Tapping into the Arab women market Arab women have money to spend Educated women are reshaping the Arab market The Arab woman as a consumer Inside and outside: The dual identities of Arab women Tapping into the Arab beauty market The Arab woman as wife and mother The veil doesn't hide the Arab woman's mind Arab women as business leaders Arab women are reshaping the region on their own terms Chapter 7 Tapping into the Arab technology market The spread of Internet use opens up new paths to consumers The rise of social media Tapping into Arab e-commerce Using technology to recapture a Golden Age On the go: The market for mobile phones Building the high-tech industry in Jordan The technological Arab spring Chapter 8 Tapping into the Arab media and entertainment market Television advertising in the Arab world Arab cinema and film Dancing in the desert: Music in the Arab world Art in the Arab world Books and bookstores The birth of an Arab superhero Chapter 9 Tapping into the Arab diaspora Linking the diaspora to the Arab world Remittances constitute a critical piece of many Arab economies Tapping into the Arab diaspora The Arab diaspora has made a name for itself Tapping into opportunities around the world You can go home again The diaspora is bringing different worlds together Part III Conclusion Rebranding the Arab World Yalla Arabia! …”
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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- Dissociative States -- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis -- Altered States can Enrich our Lives -- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness -- Ecstasies of Hysteria -- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria -- Hysteria and Dissociation -- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures -- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies -- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain -- Attachment and the Brain -- The Brain's Plasticity -- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction -- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Brain and Ecstasy -- Out of Body Experiences -- Near-Death Experiences -- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy -- Orgasm and Ecstasy -- The Brain During Ecstasy -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction -- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here -- The Legacy of the Sixties -- Life Should be Ecstasy -- Generations X and Y -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Like a Motherless Child -- Neglected and Unprotected -- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy -- When Life Becomes Ecstasy -- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy -- A Separate Reality -- Pharmaceutical Paradise -- Marketing Religious Ecstasy -- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis -- Extreme Altered States -- You Create Your Own Reality -- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is -- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement -- Snapping and Ecstasy -- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know -- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion -- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness -- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities -- Soul Murder -- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru --…”
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Poems of Guido Gezelle : A Bilingual Anthology / by Gezelle, Guido, 1830-1899

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Hungry for ecstasy trauma, the brain, and the influence of the sixties / by Farber, Sharon Klayman

Table of Contents: “…-- Dissociative States -- The History of Altered States in Psychoanalysis -- Altered States can Enrich our Lives -- Chapter 3: The Brain and Altered States of Consciousness -- Ecstasies of Hysteria -- Freud's Victorian Ladies Suffering from Hysteria -- Hysteria and Dissociation -- Fainting, Swooning, and Seizures -- Atiques de Nervois and Other Ecstasies -- The Remarkable, Impressionable Human Brain -- Attachment and the Brain -- The Brain's Plasticity -- Sensitization, Kindling, and Addiction -- Trauma and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Third Eye and Altered States of Consciousness -- The Brain and Ecstasy -- Out of Body Experiences -- Near-Death Experiences -- Religion, Spirituality, and Ecstasy -- Orgasm and Ecstasy -- The Brain During Ecstasy -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction -- Chapter 4: The Sixties: Something is Happening Here -- The Legacy of the Sixties -- Life Should be Ecstasy -- Generations X and Y -- The Culture of Narcissism -- Like a Motherless Child -- Neglected and Unprotected -- Group Initiation Rites and Ecstasy -- When Life Becomes Ecstasy -- Chapter 5: Marketing and Producing Ecstasy -- A Separate Reality -- Pharmaceutical Paradise -- Marketing Religious Ecstasy -- Chapter 6: Cult-Induced Ecstasy and Psychosis -- Extreme Altered States -- You Create Your Own Reality -- Est, Also Known as The Forum and Landmark Forum: It Is What It Is -- Cults, Motivational Seminars, and the Human Potential Movement -- Snapping and Ecstasy -- What Psychotherapists Treating Cult-Involved Patients Need to Know -- Cults and the Consciousness Explosion -- Ecstasies of Cosmic Consciousness -- The Transcendental Meditation Vision of Possibilities -- Soul Murder -- She Saw Me Glowing, Just Like Freedom, Her Guru --…”
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Poems of Guido Gezelle : A Bilingual Anthology / by Gezelle, Guido, 1830-1899

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Los intelectuales y el poder en México : memorias de la VI Conferencia de Historiadores Mexicanos y Estadounidenses = Intellectuals and power in Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Hale -- Un termino de comparación: liberalismo y nacionalismo en el Río de la Plata / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- Los científicos: actitudes de un grupo de intelectuales porfirianos frente al positivismo y la religión / Alfonso de María y Campos -- Intellectuals in the Mexican Revolution / Alan Knight -- Power and sensibility: toward a typology of Mexican intellectuals and intellectual life: 1910-1920 / Henry C. …”
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Los intelectuales y el poder en México : memorias de la VI Conferencia de Historiadores Mexicanos y Estadounidenses = Intellectuals and power in Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…Hale -- Un termino de comparación: liberalismo y nacionalismo en el Río de la Plata / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- Los científicos: actitudes de un grupo de intelectuales porfirianos frente al positivismo y la religión / Alfonso de María y Campos -- Intellectuals in the Mexican Revolution / Alan Knight -- Power and sensibility: toward a typology of Mexican intellectuals and intellectual life: 1910-1920 / Henry C. …”
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Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity

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Violence, scripture, and textual practice in early Judaism and Christianity

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The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore : 1916-1954

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The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore : 1916-1954

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Re-creating primordial time foundation rituals and mythology in the postclassic Maya codices / by Vail, Gabrielle

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Re-creating primordial time foundation rituals and mythology in the postclassic Maya codices / by Vail, Gabrielle

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Portraits of Global Christianity : research and reflections in honor of Todd M. Johnson /

Portraits of Global Christianity : research and reflections in honor of Todd M. Johnson /

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / by Bates, A.W.H

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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / by Bates, A.W.H

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Words in Space and Time : A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe / by Kamusella, Tomasz

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Words in Space and Time : A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe / by Kamusella, Tomasz

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