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Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam J. Silverstein

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Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam J. Silverstein

How did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of the 21st century? This introduction answers that question; exploring the cultural & religious diversity of Islamic history. Adam Silverstein explains its significance & considers its impact on Islamic society today.

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Oxford University Press

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0199545723

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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam Sharr

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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam Sharr

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterised by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanised production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past. This Very Short Introduction explores the technical innovations that opened-up the cultural and intellectual opportunities for modern architecture to happen. Adam Sharr shows how the invention of steel and reinforced concrete radically altered possibilities for shaping buildings, transforming what architects were able to imagine, as did new systems for air conditioning and lighting. While architects weren't responsible for these innovations, they were among the first to appreciate how they could make the world look and feel different, in connection with imagery from other spheres like modern art and industrial design. Focusing on a selection of modern buildings that also symbolize bigger cultural ideas, Sharr discusses what modern architecture was like, why it was like that, and how it was imagined. Considering the work of some of the historians and critics who helped to shape modern architecture, he demonstrates how the field owes as much to its storytellers as to its buildings. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0191086185

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Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

By: Adam J. Powell

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Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

By: Adam J. Powell

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of “heresy” as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted religious movements. To these ends, the book argues for a sociologically-informed redefinition of heresy as religiously-motivated opposition and applies the resulting concept to the historical cases of second-century Christians and nineteenth-century Mormons. Ultimately, Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy is a careful application of the comparative method to two new religious movements, highlighting the social processes at work in their early doctrinal developments.

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277

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611478723

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9781611478723

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Encounters with Touch Technology

By: Rhonda McEwen,Adam Dubé

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Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Encounters with Touch Technology

By: Rhonda McEwen,Adam Dubé

7. User-Tablet Communication - A Complete Model -- Cognitive Ability and Design -- It Takes Time - Persistence, Prolonged Use and their Relationship to Understanding -- The Perils and Promise of Touchscreens -- Recommendations -- Notes -- Index

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Taylor & Francis

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1315389479

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The Forever Crisis

Adaptive Global Governance for an Era of Accelerating Complexity

By: Adam Day

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The Forever Crisis

Adaptive Global Governance for an Era of Accelerating Complexity

By: Adam Day

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how systems change that can be applied to the most wicked problems facing the world today. More than an abstract argument for complexity theory, the book offers a targeted critique of today’s highest-profile proposals for improving the governance of our environment, security, finance, health, and digital space. It suggests that we should spend less effort and resources on upgrading existing institutions, and more on understanding how they (and we) relate to each other. The volume will be essential reading for public policymakers, NGOs and think tanks, foreign policy experts, government officials, and global decision-makers.

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195

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Taylor & Francis

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1040106331

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9781040106334

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

By: Adam Piette

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Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

By: Adam Piette

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748653937

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9780748653935

Modern Architecture

A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam Sharr

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Modern Architecture

A Very Short Introduction

By: Adam Sharr

Adam Sharr tells the story of how modern architecture developed and produced its powerful cultural images. Considering the new building materials and techniques which shaped the movement, such as innovations in steel and concrete and the advent of air conditioning, he concludes by asking whether contemporary architecture remains modern at heart.

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0198783442

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Intelligence Engineering

Operating Beyond the Conventional

By: Adam D. M. Svendsen

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Intelligence Engineering

Operating Beyond the Conventional

By: Adam D. M. Svendsen

Intelligence continues to undergo significant changes at a remarkable pace, notably developments related to “Big Data,” surveillance, and cyber. Intelligence today involves multiagency, multinational, multidisciplinary, multidomain information sharing and sense-making, conducted by commerce, academic, government, civil society, media, law enforcement, military, and nongovernmental/nonprofit organizations. Increasingly complex systems, including interrelated technical dimensions, are central to modern defense systems. Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional provides a new framework for generating analysis, exploring how systems to system-of-systems can be harnessed both for and into the future. Intelligence engineering (IE) involves the use of scientific and technical knowledge to artfully create, operate, maintain, and dismantle complex devices, machines, structures, systems, and processes that support and/or disrupt human endeavor occurring in the intelligence context. Spanning both human and technical intelligence realms, IE includes the collection and analysis of information that is of military and/or political value, and that relates to international relations, defense, and national security. Strategic Futures, risk management across to resilience concerns, are similarly engaged.

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159

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442276665

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9781442276666

The Judicial Tug of War

How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

By: Adam Bonica,Maya Sen

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The Judicial Tug of War

How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary

By: Adam Bonica,Maya Sen

Presents a novel theory explaining how and why politicians and lawyers politicise courts.

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335

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Cambridge University Press

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1108841368

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9781108841368

Utah Politics and Government

American Democracy Among a Unique Electorate

By: Adam R. Brown

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Utah Politics and Government

American Democracy Among a Unique Electorate

By: Adam R. Brown

Utah Politics and Government covers Utah's religious heritage and territorial history, its central political institutions, and its political culture, while situating Utah within the broader American political setting"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496201809

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9781496201805

Conditional Press Influence in Politics

By: Adam Joseph Schiffer

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Conditional Press Influence in Politics

By: Adam Joseph Schiffer

This book theorizes and tests the conditions under which the press is a powerful political institution, and when it cedes its power to other institutions and actors. It gives a theoretical framework and substantive case studies to aid scholars across a wide area of American politics in understanding the news media's role in American politics.

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Lexington Books

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0739122096

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9780739122099

Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

By: Thomas Dixon,Adam Shapiro

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Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

By: Thomas Dixon,Adam Shapiro

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how to address our changing global environment, emotions often run high and answers seem intractable. Yet there is much more to science and religion than the clash of extremes. As Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro show in this balanced and thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, a whole range of views, subtle arguments, and fascinating perspectives can be found on this complex and centuries-old subject. They explore the key philosophical questions that underlie the debate, but also highlight the social, political, and ethical contexts that have made the tensions between science and religion such a fraught and interesting topic in the modern world. In this new edition, Dixon and Shapiro connect historical concepts such as evolution, the heliocentric solar system, and the problem of evil to present-day issues including the politicization of science; debates over mind, body, and identity; and the moral necessity of addressing environmental change. Ranging from medical missionaries to congregations adopting new technologies during a pandemic, from Galileo's astronomy to building the Thirty Meter Telescope, they explore how some of the most complex social issues of our day are rooted in discussions of science and religion. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0192566776

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Gynecology

Integrating Conventional, Complementary, and Natural Alternative Therapy

By: Adam Ostrzenski

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Gynecology

Integrating Conventional, Complementary, and Natural Alternative Therapy

By: Adam Ostrzenski

This first-of-its-kind book describes the roles of conventional medicine, complementary therapies, and natural alternative therapies in the treatment of gynecological disorders. The book gives practitioners much-needed information on how complementary and alternative therapies work and how they interact with conventional medicines. The chapters are organized by disease and each includes information on etiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, the conventional therapy (drug, procedure, etc.), complementary therapy (acupuncture, chiropractic and manipulative therapy, biofeedback, etc.), and alternative therapy (nutrition, herbal, homeopathy). The sections on complementary and alternative therapies explain what the therapies are and describe the postulated mechanisms of action.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781727618

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9780781727617

The Dead Hand's Grip

How Long Constitutions Bind States

By: Adam R. Brown

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The Dead Hand's Grip

How Long Constitutions Bind States

By: Adam R. Brown

In The Dead Hand's Grip, Adam R. Brown examines constitutional specificity--or length--as a new way to evaluate how different polities govern citizens and regulate themselves. As Brown shows, many states and nations bloat their constitutions with procedural and policy details that other polities leave to statutory or regulatory discretion. American state constitutions vary in length from under 9,000 to almost 400,000 words. Constitutional endurance has often provoked fears that the dead hand of the past may reach into the present; lengthy constitutions strengthen the dead hand's grip, binding states to a former generation's solutions to modern problems. Brown argues that excessive constitutional specificity restricts state discretion, with three major results. First, it compels states to rely more frequently on burdensome amendment procedures, increasing constitutional amendment rates. Second, it increases judicial invalidation rates as state supreme courts enforce narrower limits on state action. Third and most importantly, it results in severely reduced economic performance, with lower incomes, higher unemployment, greater inequality, and reduced policy innovativeness generally. In short, long constitutions hurt states. While Brown's analysis focuses on just one set of sub-national constitutions, their broad functions make his thesis relevant to those wanting to understand institutional variation between nations.

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Oxford University Press

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0197655289

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Book's by Adam A. Segal

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

Understanding Tablets from Early Childhood to Adulthood

The Forever Crisis

The Forever Crisis

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture

Intelligence Engineering

Intelligence Engineering

The Judicial Tug of War

The Judicial Tug of War

Utah Politics and Government

Utah Politics and Government

Conditional Press Influence in Politics

Conditional Press Influence in Politics

Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Gynecology

Gynecology

The Dead Hand's Grip

The Dead Hand's Grip

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