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The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

By: Al Silverman

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The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

By: Al Silverman

A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times). According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began after World War II and lasted into the early 1980s. In this entertaining and affectionate industry biography, Silverman captures the passionate spirit of legendary houses such as Knopf; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Grove Press; and Harper & Row, and profiles larger-than-life executives and editors, including Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Bennett Cerf, Roger Straus, Seymour Lawrence, and Cass Canfield. More than one hundred and twenty publishing insiders share their behind-the-scenes stories about how some of the most famous books in American literary history—from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich to The Silence of the Lambs—came into being and why they’re still being read today. A joyful tribute to the hard work and boundless energy of professionals who dedicate their careers to getting great books in front of enthusiastic readers, The Time of Their Lives will delight bibliophiles and anyone interested in this important and ever-evolving industry.

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Open Road Media

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1504028252

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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures

By: Muhsin J. al-Musawi

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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures

By: Muhsin J. al-Musawi

A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108474853

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The World According To Al Gore

An A-To-Z Compilation Of His Opinions, Positions, And Public Statements

By: Al Gore,Joseph Kaufmann

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The World According To Al Gore

An A-To-Z Compilation Of His Opinions, Positions, And Public Statements

By: Al Gore,Joseph Kaufmann

In this A-Z compilation of Al Gore's opinions, positions, and public statements, the vice president is quoted on such issues as the environment, the Internet, family values, and diversity.

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Macmillan

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1580631142

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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

By: Laith Al-Shawaf,Todd K. Shackelford

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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

By: Laith Al-Shawaf,Todd K. Shackelford

In this Handbook, Laith Al-Shawaf and Todd K. Shackelford have gathered a group of leading scholars in the field to present a centralized resource for researchers and students wishing to understand emotions from an evolutionary perspective. Experts from a number of different disciplines, including psychology, biology, anthropology, psychiatry, and others, tackle a variety of "how" (proximate) and "why" (ultimate) questions about the function of emotions in humans and nonhuman animals, how emotions work, and their place in human life. Comprehensive and integrative in nature, this Handbook is an essential resource for students and scholars from a diversity of fields wishing to build upon their theoretical and empirical understanding of the emotions.

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Oxford University Press

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0197544754

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Aliens

The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

By: Jim Al-Khalili

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Aliens

The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books Ltd, 2016.

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Picador USA

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1250109639

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A Leader's Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong

How to Foster Resilience in Teens (Updated Edition)

By: Sybil Wolin,Al Desetta,Keith Hefner

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A Leader's Guide to The Struggle to Be Strong

How to Foster Resilience in Teens (Updated Edition)

By: Sybil Wolin,Al Desetta,Keith Hefner

Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong. Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader’s guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens’ resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect on them, relate them to their lives, recognize their own potential for resilience, and start building resilience skills. Introductory materials offer guidelines for group leadership and provide leaders with more information about the seven resiliencies: insight independence relationships initiative creativity humor morality

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Free Spirit Publishing

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1631984659

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P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 16 to 21

By: J. B. Hall,A. L. Ritchie,Michael Edwards

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P. Ovidius Naso, Heroides 16 to 21

By: J. B. Hall,A. L. Ritchie,Michael Edwards

The Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of twenty-one fictional letters composed by the famous Augustan poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17/18). It is a widely read work of elegiac poetry which is of special interest to students of gender literature. The poems, which take the form of fifteen letters from heroines to their absent lovers and three pairs of letters to a lover with a reply, have frequently been edited and translated into English in both prose and verse. The present volume offers a databank for the final six poems in the collection, the three pairs of letters from and to a hero and a heroine. The material here presented is essential for understanding the way in which the text has been established. It is arranged in the form of an enlarged critical apparatus so that the reader will have no difficulty in finding information relevant to an enquiry.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152753006X

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Mapping Christopher Columbus

An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492

By: Al M. Rocca

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Mapping Christopher Columbus

An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492

By: Al M. Rocca

The impact of Christopher Columbus's first transatlantic voyage launched an unprecedented explosion of European exploration. Throughout the last 500 years, scholars have recognized this transforming event, and they have written extensively on the subject. To date, no American author has dedicated a book to Columbus's life before 1492. This biography does so, with a focus on geographical experiences that affected his formulation of a transatlantic concept. Incorporating extensive research from American and European scholars (historians, geographers, anthropologists, and cartographers), the author proposes that Columbus systematically built a transatlantic voyage proposal from knowledge gained on previous voyages in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean. The book's extensive use of maps place Columbus's actions on specific land and ocean locations. Persons interested in gleaning more information about Columbus's maritime background will find a plethora of maps to visualize the extent of his early travels.

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McFarland

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1476648069

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Social Thought in England, 1480-1730

From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

By: A.L. Beier

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Social Thought in England, 1480-1730

From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

By: A.L. Beier

Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of society. The book analyzes social paradigms and how they changed in the period. A pervasive medieval model was the "body social," which imagined a society of three estates – the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty – conjoined by interdependent functions, arranged in static hierarchies based upon birth, and rejecting wealth and championing poverty. Another model the book describes as "social humanist," that fundamentally questioned the body social, advancing merit over birth, mobility over stasis, and wealth over poverty. The theory of the body social was vigorously articulated between the 1480s and the 1550s. Parts of the old metaphor actually survived beyond 1550, but alternative models of social humanist thought challenged the body concept in the period, advancing a novel paradigm of merit, mobility, and wealth. The book’s methodology focuses on the intellectual context of a variety of contemporary texts.

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1317352319

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Islam and the Orientalist World-system

By: Khaldoun Samman,Mazhar Al-Zo'by

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Islam and the Orientalist World-system

By: Khaldoun Samman,Mazhar Al-Zo'by

Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing Islam as a "cultural system" that stands outside of, and even predates, modernity. The authors see this trend as part of a racist discourse unaware of the realities of contemporary Islam. Islamic societies today are products of the world capitalist system and cannot be understood as being separate from its forces. The authors offer a more carefully constructed and richer portrait of Islamic societies today and forcefully challenge the belief that Islam is not part of, nor much affected by, the modern world-system.

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1317257308

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Game Research Methods: An Overview

By: Patri Lankoski,Staffan Björk,et al.

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Game Research Methods: An Overview

By: Patri Lankoski,Staffan Björk,et al.

Games are increasingly becoming the focus for research due to their cultural and economic impact on modern society. However, there are many different types of approaches and methods than can be applied to understanding games or those that play games. This book provides an introduction to various game research methods that are useful to students in all levels of higher education covering both quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. In addition, approaches using game development for research is described. Each method is described in its own chapter by a researcher with practical experience of applying the method to topic of games. Through this, the book provides an overview of research methods that enable us to better our understanding on games."--Provided by publisher.

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Lulu.com

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1312884738

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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West

Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

By: Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan

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The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West

Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

By: Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan

This book takes a fascinating look at the role of the Arab-Islamic world in the rise of the West. It examines the cultural transmission of ideas and institutions in a number of key areas, including science, philosophy, humanism, law, finance, commerce, as well as the Arab-Islamic world's overall impact on the Reformation and the Renaissance.

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Springer

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0230393217

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Pondlife

A Swimmer's Journal

By: Al Alvarez

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Pondlife

A Swimmer's Journal

By: Al Alvarez

From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best part of his life Al Alvarez – poet, critic, novelist, rock-climber and poker player – has swum in them almost daily. An athlete in his youth, Alvarez chronicles what it is to grow old with humour and fierce honesty – from his relentlessly nagging ankle which makes daily life a struggle, to infuriating bureaucratic battles with the council to keep his disabled person's Blue Badge, the devastating effects of a stroke, and the salvation he finds in the three Ss – Swimming, Sex and Sleep. As Alvarez swims in the ponds he considers how it feels when you begin to miss that person you used to be – to miss yourself. Swimming is his own private form of protest against the onslaught of time; proof to others, and himself, that he's not yet beaten. By turns funny, poetic and indignant, Pondlife is a meditation on love, the importance of life's small pleasures and, above all, a lesson in not going gently in to that good night. _____________________ 'A beautiful unfolding of a story, told in deceptively simple prose but with a great power to move' Sunday Times 'The adrenalin still flows in lively extracts' The Times 'A marvellous book... it has no business to be as invigorating and absorbing – its success is against the odds' Observer

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A&C Black

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1408841010

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Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries

By: Ali M. Al Kasimi,ʻAlī al- Qāsimī

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Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries

By: Ali M. Al Kasimi,ʻAlī al- Qāsimī

This book gives an account of the linguistic principles that should govern the production of better bilingual dictionaries and is intended for linguists, lexicographers, librarians, and foreign language teachers. -- from Preface ([p. 9] from cover).

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Brill Archive

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9004071040

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9789004071049

Accounting Research Database (RLE Accounting)

By: Bimal Prodhan,Fouad Al Najjar

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Accounting Research Database (RLE Accounting)

By: Bimal Prodhan,Fouad Al Najjar

An invaluable tool for the researcher in accounting history, this comprehensive database, structured in an accessible way, analyses over 1,200 articles from four mainstream accounting journals from the UK and USA. Each article (originally published between 1976 and 1985) was analysed in two ways: first, into empirical or conceptual categories and second, into one of twenty topic areas. The journals covered are Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

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Routledge

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1317962958

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The Theater of Experiment

Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Al Coppola

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The Theater of Experiment

Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Al Coppola

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists were made a public spectacle in comedies, farces, and pantomimes for purposes that could range from the satiric to the pedagogic to the hagiographic. But this book also considers the way in which these plays laid bare science as performance: that is, the way that eighteenth-century science was itself a kind of performing art, subject to regimes of stagecraft that traversed the laboratory, the lecture hall, the anatomy theater, and the public stage. Not only did the representation of natural philosophy in eighteenth-century plays like Thomas Shadwell's Virtuoso, Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, Susanna Centlivre's The Basset Table, and John Rich's Necromancer, or Harelequin Doctor Faustus, influence contemporary debates over the role that experimental science was to play public life, the theater shaped the very form that science itself was to take. By disciplining, and ultimately helping to legitimate, experimental philosophy, the eighteenth-century stage helped to naturalize an epistemology based on self-evident, decontextualized facts that might speak for themselves. In this, the stage and the lab jointly fostered an Enlightenment culture of spectacle that transformed the conditions necessary for the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Precisely because Enlightenment public science initiatives, taking their cue from the public stages, came to embrace the stagecraft and spectacle that Restoration natural philosophy sought to repress from the scene of experimental knowledge production, eighteenth-century science organized itself around not the sober, masculine "modest witness" of experiment but the sentimental, feminized, eager observer of scientific performance.

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Oxford University Press

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0190269723

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9780190269722

The Resiliency Advantage

Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back From Setbacks

By: Al Siebert

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The Resiliency Advantage

Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back From Setbacks

By: Al Siebert

Based in the "science" of resiliency, this book shows people in various occupations and circumstances how to become skilled at bouncing back quickly from setbacks, making difficult challenges turn out well, and converting misfortune into good fortune.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1576753298

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9781576753293

Administrative Development

By: Muhammad A. Al-Buraey

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Administrative Development

By: Muhammad A. Al-Buraey

First published in 1986. The main purpose of this work is to present a developmental perspective different from the prevailing Western one. The author hopes that this point of view will contribute towards the goal of developing a general theory of world development of human societies that presently does not exist. Though the focus of this study is on Islamic views of administrative development, other aspects of development - such as the political and socio-economic - are also discussed.

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Routledge

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1317848837

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9781317848837

Books About the Middle East

Selecting and Using them with Children and Adolescents

By: Tami Al-Hazza,Katherine Toth Bucher

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Books About the Middle East

Selecting and Using them with Children and Adolescents

By: Tami Al-Hazza,Katherine Toth Bucher

Learn all about Middle Eastern culture and how to use that literature in K-12 schools to promote understanding. • Use this one-stop resource for information on Middle Eastern culture and literature • Share this resource with classroom teachers to make your school more inclusive and culturally responsive • Chapters provide background information about the countries and peoples of the place, literature related to the region and to the major ethnic groups of the region, guidelines for selecting children's and young adult literature about the region, and strategies for incorporation This new resource includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books with evaluations, reading/interest level, review sources, awards/prizes, and Accelerated Reader/Reading Counts availability.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1586833634

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9781586833633

Infectious Agents in Ophthalmology: Clinical Perspectives

By: Javed Iqbal,Dr. Hesham Abu Serhan,Dr. Omar Mohamed Al-Qahtani,Dr. Adeya Alharami,Ms. Saadiya Alhebail

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Infectious Agents in Ophthalmology: Clinical Perspectives

By: Javed Iqbal,Dr. Hesham Abu Serhan,Dr. Omar Mohamed Al-Qahtani,Dr. Adeya Alharami,Ms. Saadiya Alhebail

This book, "Infectious Agents in Ophthalmology: Clinical Perspectives," will serves as a timely and essential resource for both clinicians and medical student, It compiles the latest insights and findings on various infectious agents, ranging from bacteria and viruses to fungi and parasites, each of which poses unique challenges in diagnosis and management. The contributions from esteemed experts in the field offer a comprehensive overview. The integration of clinical perspectives throughout thee chapters not only enhances our understanding of these infections but also emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in managing patients. The book highlights the need for vigilance, timely intervention, and the application of emerging technologies in diagnosis and treatment, ensuring that we are well-equipped to tackle the evolving landscape of Ophthalmology infections.

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Mahi Publication

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9366789897

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9789366789897

The First Modern Society

Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

By: Lawrence Stone,A. L. Beier

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The First Modern Society

Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

By: Lawrence Stone,A. L. Beier

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521364841

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We Have Never Been Woke

The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

By: Musa al-Gharbi

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We Have Never Been Woke

The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

By: Musa al-Gharbi

A book that explores the disconnect between the ideals of the Great Awokening and the realities of fixing structural inequality. This book aims to explain how a new elite has risen to prominence and established a social order that is fundamentally premised on exclusion, exploitation and condescension even as its members define themselves in terms of their commitments to uplifting the marginalized and disadvantaged. The book will illustrate how this core tension within the new elite explains a number of trends we've seen, from the Great Awokening to growing political polarization and beyond. We Have Never Been Woke will draw from and build upon al-Gharbi's work over the last six years that has examined the rise of Trump, the crisis of expertise, tensions over 'identity politics' and growing social inequality. It will demonstrate each of these domains as a 'front' of a broader social and cultural conflict - a conflict between those who have come to dominate the 'knowledge economy' and institutions of cultural production and those who feel excluded therefrom. It will highlight the ways symbolic analysts - those elites who have not attained their social position by owning material assets but by trafficing in symbols and rhetoric, images and narratives, data and analysis - deploy wokeness as a weapon in this conflict, often at the expense of those who are actually marginalized and disadvantaged in the prevailing order. As We Have Never Been Woke will demonstrate, the Americans who are the primary producers and consumers of content on antiracism, socialism, feminism, etc. also happen to be the primary beneficiaries of gendered, racialized and other forms of inequality - and not passive beneficiaries. We are active participants in exploiting and reproducing inequalities. However, it is difficult for us to 'see' how we contribute to the problem -- precisely because of our deeply felt commitments to social justice. This book aims to deflate these self-serving narratives while dismantling popular (and self-serving) narratives about the 'losers' in the system - leaving readers with a totally different understanding of how social inequality is produced (and by whom), and unnerving questions about what it would take to meaningfully address it"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691232601

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9780691232607

National Security In The Third World

By: Abdul-Monem M. Al-Mashat

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National Security In The Third World

By: Abdul-Monem M. Al-Mashat

For nations of the Third World, national security poses serious dilemmas. Unlike Western nations, less developed countries must balance the complex and often contradictory requirements of socioeconomic and political development with problems of internal stability and the requirements of national defense. For these countries, a concept of national s

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Routledge

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0429716516

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9780429716515

The Hump

The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War

By: Al Conetto

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The Hump

The 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, in the First Major Battle of the Vietnam War

By: Al Conetto

Operation Hump, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, took place November 5-9, 1965, in South Vietnam's War Zone D. Known as "The Hump," it would change the nature of the war, escalating it from a hit-and-run guerrilla conflict to a bloody contest between Communist main force units and American commands of battalion size or larger. This memoir of an Operation Hump survivor begins with the sequence of events leading up to the battle, from the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Drawing on official Army documents and the recollections of fellow combatants, the author not only describes the battle in detail but explains the war's basis in fabrications at the highest levels of the U.S. government. His experiences with PTSD after the war and his eventual return to Vietnam in the 1990s are included.

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1476622051

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9781476622057

Islam and Sustainable Development

New Worldviews

By: Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi

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Islam and Sustainable Development

New Worldviews

By: Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi

In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective. Islam is sometimes viewed as a challenge, threat and risk to the West, but here we are reminded that the celebration of cultural diversity is a key component in Islamic values. Promoting common understanding between East and West, this American-educated, Middle Eastern-based author offers something broader and deeper than conventional Western ways of thinking about sustainability and presents new insights inspired by Islamic worldviews. Drawing on his roles as both academic researcher and senior development practitioner, Professor Al-Jayyousi applies his deep understanding of Islamic values to contemporary environmental, financial and social conflicts and crises and defines a framework for sustainability embracing local, regional and global perspectives. He also addresses how education might produce innovation, knowledge creation and development to support a new paradigm for sustainability that re-defines what constitutes good life, beyond consumerism and the production of waste. This book will interest policy makers, development and donor communities, funding agencies and banks in the Islamic World and beyond, as well as those with a professional interest in planning and in environmental and conservation issues. Scholars of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and more broadly, those with an academic interest in cultural and religious studies, will find that this book in Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series is perhaps the most substantial work yet on sustainable development from an Islamic perspective.

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Routledge

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1317112512

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9781317112518

Isma’il Al-Faruqi : Selected Essays

By: Isma’il Al-Faruqi

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Isma’il Al-Faruqi : Selected Essays

By: Isma’il Al-Faruqi

In this set of three powerful essays, the late world renowned scholar and philosopher, Ismail al Faruqi, displays his formidable insight, vast knowledge, and unique trademark logic, brought to bear on subjects still considered to be at the forefront of discourse on comparative religion. Al Faruqi delves deep into the heart of the debate on the metaphysical nature of values in the Western and Muslim traditions, of the history of religions, and other issues, ultimately to guide readers to a clarity of understanding and Islam's position in relation to them. This will interest and stimulate many readers, enlightened thinkers, modern secularists, philosophers and theologians, Muslim or otherwise - as al Faruqi strives to arrive at an accurate assessment of the fundamentals of these important subjects, and their significance for the human condition.

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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

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1642052078

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9781642052077

Modeling and Simulation of Reactive Flows

By: A.L. De Bortoli,Greice Andreis,Felipe Pereira

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Modeling and Simulation of Reactive Flows

By: A.L. De Bortoli,Greice Andreis,Felipe Pereira

Modelling and Simulation of Reactive Flows presents information on modeling and how to numerically solve reactive flows. The book offers a distinctive approach that combines diffusion flames and geochemical flow problems, providing users with a comprehensive resource that bridges the gap for scientists, engineers, and the industry. Specifically, the book looks at the basic concepts related to reaction rates, chemical kinetics, and the development of reduced kinetic mechanisms. It considers the most common methods used in practical situations, along with equations for reactive flows, and various techniques—including flamelet, ILDM, and Redim—for jet flames and plumes, with solutions for both. In addition, the book includes techniques to accelerate the convergence of numerical simulation, and a discussion on the analysis of uncertainties with numerical results, making this a useful reference for anyone who is interested in both combustion in free flow and in porous media. - Helps readers learn how to apply applications of numerical methods to simulate geochemical kinetics - Presents methods on how to transform the transport equations in several coordinate systems - Includes discussions of the basic concepts related to reaction rates, chemical kinetics, and the development of reduced kinetic mechanisms, including the most common methods used in practical situations - Offers a distinctive approach that combines diffusion flames and geochemical flow problems

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0128029919

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Santa's Book of Knowledge

By: Santa Al Horton

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Santa's Book of Knowledge

By: Santa Al Horton

Have you ever thought what the world would be like if I didn't carry that sack and make that sleigh ride each year? I know one thing; there wouldn't be a need for a Naughty and Nice list anymore. Can you imagine all those children and their sad little faces? I could never give up this cause because the children are so angelic with those bright and cheery smiles when they look at you or the presents you leave on Christmas morning. -- Santa Claus

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146342406X

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Quantitative Modelling in Marketing and Management (second Edition)

By: Luiz E. T. Al MOUTINHO

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Quantitative Modelling in Marketing and Management (second Edition)

By: Luiz E. T. Al MOUTINHO

The field of marketing and management has undergone immense changes over the past decade. These dynamic changes are driving an increasing need for data analysis using quantitative modelling. Problem solving using the quantitative approach and other models has always been a hot topic in the fields of marketing and management. Quantitative modelling seems admirably suited to help managers in their strategic decision making on operations management issues. In social sciences, quantitative research refers to the systematic empirical investigation of social phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. The first edition of "Quantitative Modelling in Marketing and Management" focused on the description and applications of many quantitative modelling approaches applied to marketing and management. The topics ranged from fuzzy logic and logical discriminant models to growth models and k-clique models. The second edition follows the thread of the first one by covering a myriad of techniques and applications in the areas of statistical, computer, mathematical as well as other novel nomothetic methods. It greatly reinforces the areas of computer, mathematical and other modeling tools that are designed to bring a level of awareness and knowledge among academics and researchers in marketing and management, so that there is an increase in the application of these new approaches that will be embedded in future scholarly output."--

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World Scientific

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9814696358

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Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel

By: Hunt, et al

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Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel

By: Hunt, et al

Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.

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0802873928

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Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens

Ibn Sayy?r Al-Warr?q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook

By: al-Muẓaffar Ibn Naṣr Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq

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Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens

Ibn Sayy?r Al-Warr?q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook

By: al-Muẓaffar Ibn Naṣr Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq

This English translation of al-Warraq’s tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix, and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers.

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BRILL

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9004158677

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The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

Arabic Knowledge Construction

By: Muhsin J. al-Musawi

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The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters

Arabic Knowledge Construction

By: Muhsin J. al-Musawi

In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an "Age of Decay" followed by an "Awakening" (al-nahdah). His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully documenting a "republic of letters" in the Islamic Near East and South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the massive cultural production of the period was not a random enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons, and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars, too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by side with those by distinguished scholars and poets. Through careful exploration of these networks, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters makes use of relevant theoretical frameworks to situate this culture in the ongoing discussion of non-Islamic and European efforts. Thorough, theoretically rigorous, and nuanced, al-Musawi's book is an original contribution to a range of fields in Arabic and Islamic cultural history of the twelfth to eighteenth centuries.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268158010

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Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space

An Analysis of Space Power, Security and Governance

By: N. Al-Rodhan

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Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space

An Analysis of Space Power, Security and Governance

By: N. Al-Rodhan

Al-Rodhan sheds new light on the debate about the geopolitics of outer space, going beyond applying traditional International Relations approaches to space power and security by introducing a multidimensional spatial framework. The meta-geopolitics framework includes space and expands classical power considerations to cover seven state capacities.

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Springer

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1137016655

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Last Call from Earth -Stage I, Biological Survival

By: Al Herr

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Last Call from Earth -Stage I, Biological Survival

By: Al Herr

In December of the year 2012, a collision of branes creates a rupture in our universe. As a consequence, millions of galaxies separate themselves out and disappear into the night. The solar system accelerates its freezing process. On Earth, a major earthquake opens up a deep hole in the Yucatan peninsula. Expeditions into this hole, miles deep, find the remnants of an ancient civilization several millions of years old. This civilization comes to be known as the Rupturians. With the technological advances of the Rupturians, we learn to build Inter Galactic Teleportation Chambers, which we use to colonize seven planets in the galaxy Ptolomeo Dual Spiral. Over a period of 54 years, we teleport 800 million people to these colonies. But, unexpectedly, without knowing the cause, people in the colonies get their DNA archetypes out of control and become deformed physically, emotionally and mentally. The only salvation is to transplant their souls into bodies created in lab environments.

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1430304731

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