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No Birds of Passage

A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975

By: Michael O’Sullivan

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No Birds of Passage

A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975

By: Michael O’Sullivan

No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.

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Harvard University Press

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0674271904

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Kazakhstan

Coming of Age

By: Michael Fergus,Janar Jandosova

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Kazakhstan

Coming of Age

By: Michael Fergus,Janar Jandosova

This comprehensive work, Kazakhstan, Coming of Age, places this remarkable country in that scene: its prospects, its history, geography, ways of life, ecology, economy and political structure, its astonishing cultural heritage." "Here is Kazakhstan in a work combining sound scholarship and research, written and assembled by experts, with over 400 photographs and many maps. It is the foundational work on the country, presented in the long-recognised Stacey International mould."--BOOK JACKET.

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1900988615

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Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran

By: Michael Hope

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Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran

By: Michael Hope

This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Īlkhānate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimate authority amongst his political successors. Yet Chinggis Khan's legacy was interpreted differently by the various factions within his army. In the years after his death, two distinct political traditions emerged within the Mongol Empire, the collegial and the patrimonialist. Each of these streams represented the economic and political interests of different groups within the Mongol Empire, respectively, the military aristocracy and the central government. The supporters of both streams claimed to adhere to the ideal of Chinggisid rule, but their different statuses within the Mongol community led them to hold divergent views of what constituted legitimate political authority. Michael Hope's study details the origin of, and the differences between, these two streams of tradition; analyzing the role that these streams played in the political development of the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate; and assessing the role that ideological tension between the two streams played in the events leading up to the division of the Īlkhānate. Hope demonstrates that the policy and identity of both the Early Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate were defined by the conflict between these competing streams of Chinggisid authority.

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Oxford University Press

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0191081078

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China Through The Ages

History Of A Civilization

By: Franz Michael

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China Through The Ages

History Of A Civilization

By: Franz Michael

Past studies of China have concentrated on specific events or have related a chronological history of the dynastic periods. These works have included aspects of cultural history but have underemphasized the country's great social, political, and intellectual movements and their ultimate expression in the art and literature of the time. By focusing on such themes, Professor Michael provides a new framework for understanding the Chinese cultural tradition. The author describes the evolving history of ideas in China, from ancient faith in powerful magic to more modern concepts of a logical moral order of the universe and mankind's place in it. He also explores the intellectual ferment following the dawn of the age of reason, the integration of Buddhism into the Confucian social order, and the social transformations accompanying the rise and fall of the centralized state. Throughout, he illustrates how the changing society's beliefs, values, and aesthetic sense were embodied in its art and literature. This portrayal of the Chinese cultural tradition not only puts Chinese history in a new perspective, it also illuminates the process through which China constructed a modern society from a non-Western foundation and serves as an essential tool for understanding modern-day China and its prospects for the future.

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Routledge

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0429725752

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Indian Film Stars

New Critical Perspectives

By: Michael Lawrence

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Indian Film Stars

New Critical Perspectives

By: Michael Lawrence

Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries. The contributors seek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom-the industrial construction and promotion of star personalities, the actual labouring and imagined lifestyles of professional stars, the stars' relationship to specific aesthetic cinematic conventions (such as frontality and song-dance) and production technologies (such as the play-back system and post-synchronization), and audiences' investment in and devotion to specific star bodies-across the country's multiple centres of film production and across the overlapping (and increasingly international) zones of the films' distribution and reception. The star images, star bodies and star careers discussed are examined in relation to a wide range of issues, including the negotiation and contestation of tradition and modernity, the embodiment and articulation of both Indian and non-Indian values and vogues; the representation of gender and sexuality, of race and ethnicity, and of cosmopolitan mobility and transnational migration; innovations and conventions in performance style; the construction and transformation of public persona; the star's association with film studios and the mainstream media; the star's relationship with historical, political and cultural change and memory; and the star's meaning and value for specific (including marginalised) sectors of the audience.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1844578577

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Russia's Steppe Frontier

The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800

By: Michael Khodarkovsky

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Russia's Steppe Frontier

The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800

By: Michael Khodarkovsky

Drawing on sources and archival materials in Russian and Turkic languages, Russia's Steppe Frontier presents a complex picture of the encounter between indigenous peoples and the Russians. It is an original and invaluable resource for understanding Russia's imperial experience. Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

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Indiana University Press

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0253217709

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Where Two Worlds Met

The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771

By: Michael Khodarkovsky

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Where Two Worlds Met

The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771

By: Michael Khodarkovsky

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources—including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoman archival materials—Michael Khodarkovsky offers a fresh interpretation of this long and destructive conflict, which ended with the unruly frontier becoming another province of the Russian empire.Khodarkovsky first sketches a cultural anthropology of the Kalmyk tribes, focusing on the assumptions they brought to the interactions with one another and with the sedentary cultures they encountered. In light of this portrait of Kalmyk culture and internal politics, Khodarkovsky rereads from the Kalmyk point of view the Russian history of disputes between the two peoples. Whenever possible, he compares Ottoman accounts of these events with the Russian sources on which earlier interpretations have been based. Khodarkovsky's analysis deepens our understanding of the history of Russian expansion and establishes a new paradigm for future study of the interaction between the Russians and the non-Russian peoples of Central Asia and Transcaucasia.

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Cornell University Press

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1501731521

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A People Without a State

The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism

By: Michael Eppel

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A People Without a State

The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism

By: Michael Eppel

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A People Without a State offers an in-depth survey of an identity that has often been ignored in mainstream historiographies of the Middle East and brings to life the historical, social, and political developments in Kurdistani society over the past millennium. Michael Eppel begins with the myths and realities of the origins of the Kurds, describes the effect upon them of medieval Muslim states under Arab, Persian, and Turkish dominance, and recounts the emergence of tribal-feudal dynasties. He explores in detail the subsequent rise of Kurdish emirates, as well as this people’s literary and linguistic developments, particularly the flourishing of poetry. The turning tides of the nineteenth century, including Ottoman reforms and fluctuating Russian influence after the Crimean War, set in motion an early Kurdish nationalism that further expressed a distinct cultural identity. Stateless, but rooted in the region, the Kurds never achieved independence because of geopolitical conditions, tribal rivalries, and obstacles on the way to modernization. A People Without a State captures the developments that nonetheless forged a vast sociopolitical system.

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University of Texas Press

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1477309136

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Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan

By: Michael Berman

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Shamanic Journeys Through Daghestan

By: Michael Berman

Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult, Daghestan is still largely tribal. Despite over a century of Tsarist control followed by seventy years of repressive Soviet rule, there are still 32 distinct ethnic groups in Daghestan, each with its own language, making it unquestionably the most complex of the Caucasian republics. Shamanic practices are still prevalent in this country, where one of the ten lost tribes of Israel can be found. In Daghestan, as in the neighbouring countries of Georgia, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan, these roots lie in shamanism. This book, one of only a handful available in English on the country, contains the texts of some of these stories as well as commentaries on them.

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John Hunt Publishing

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184694225X

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A Short History of the Mughal Empire

By: Michael Fisher

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A Short History of the Mughal Empire

By: Michael Fisher

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085772777X

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The Language of the Taj Mahal

Islam, Prayer, and the Religion of Shah Jahan

By: Michael D. Calabria

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The Language of the Taj Mahal

Islam, Prayer, and the Religion of Shah Jahan

By: Michael D. Calabria

The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book provides a deeper understanding of the Taj Mahal and its builder by examining its inscriptions within their architectural, historical and biographical contexts. The texts adorning the Taj Mahal comprise verses from twenty-two different chapters of the Qur'an but their meaning and significance escapes most non-Muslim visitors or those unable to read them. This book will be the first dedicated solely to the inscriptions in the monument, providing translations, commentary and interpretation of the texts. As well as offering a unique approach to the study of the building, the book uses the inscriptions to expound the foundational elements of Islam, the faith of Shah Jahan and also what the Taj Mahal still means today.

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0755637879

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Bankruptcy Litigation Manual, 2012-2013 Edition

By: Cook,Michael L. Cook

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Bankruptcy Litigation Manual, 2012-2013 Edition

By: Cook,Michael L. Cook

Every step in the business bankruptcy litigation process is covered inAspen Publishers' Bankruptcy Litigation Manual, from thedrafting of the first pleadings through the appellate process. In fact, bymaking the Bankruptcy Litigation Manual a part of your workinglibrary, you not only get detailed coverage of virtually all the topics andissues you must consider in any bankruptcy case, you also getfield-tested answers to questions you confront every day, such as:How to stay continuing litigation against a corporate debtor's non-debtorofficers?What are the limits on suing a bankruptcy trustee?Is the Deprizio Doctrine still alive?Does an individual debtor have an absolute right to convert a case fromChapter 7 to Chapter 13?What prohibitions exist on cross-collateralization in financing disputes?Are option contracts "executory" for bankruptcy purposes?When, and under what circumstances, may a bankruptcy court enjoin anadministrative proceeding against a Chapter 11 debtor?What are the current standards for administrative priority claims?When must a creditor assert its setoff rights?When can a remand order issued by a district court be reviewed by a court ofappeals?What are the limits on challenging pre- bankruptcy real propertymortgage foreclosures as fraudulent transfers?Can an unsecured lender recover contract-based legal fees incurred in post-bankruptcy litigation on issues of bankruptcy law ?Is there a uniform federal limitation on perfecting security interests thatprimes a longer applicable state law period, thus subjecting lenders to apreference attack?Do prior bankruptcy court orders bar a plaintiff's later state courtsuit and warrant removal of the action in federal court?Michael L. Cook, a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York andformer long-time Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, hasgathered together some of the country's top bankruptcy litigators tocontribute to Bankruptcy Litigation Manual.Contributing Authors:Jay Alix, Southfield, MINeal Batson, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAKenneth K. Bezozo, Haynes and Boone, New York, NYSusan Block-Lieb, Fordham University School of Law, Newark, NJPeter W. Clapp, Valle Makoff, LLP, San Francisco, CADennis J. Connolly, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GADavid N. Crapo, Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJKaren A. Giannelli, Gibbons P.C., Newark, NJDavid M. Hillman, Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP, New York, NYAlfred S. Lurey, Kilpatrick & Stockton, Atlanta, GAGerald Munitz, Butler Rubin, Salterelli & Boyd, LLP, Chicago, ILRobert L. Ordin, Retired Bankruptcy Court JudgeStephen M. Pezanosky, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Partner and Chair of BankruptcySection, Fort Worth, TXRobin E. Phelan, Haynes and Boone, LLP Dallas, TXDaniel H. Squire, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, Washington, DCMichael L. Temin, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Philadelphia, PASheldon S. Toll, Law Office ofSheldon S. Toll, Southfield, MIJason H. Watson, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAKit Weitnauer, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GAWritten by Mr. Cook and nineteen other experts, Bankruptcy LitigationManual provides authoritative, up-to-date information on virtuallyevery aspect of the bankruptcy litigation process, from discovery throughappeal.

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454808519

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Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

By: Michael Scott Alexander

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Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

By: Michael Scott Alexander

The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often include poignant testimonies of spiritual turmoil and healing. Following episodes of harrowing personal crisis, including addictions, periods of anxiety and panic, and reminders of mortality, these accounts then also describe pathways to consolation and resolution. In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. In the company of William James, Socrates, Muslim legal scholar turned mystic Hamid al-Ghazali, Chinggis Khan as described by the Daoist monk Qui Chuji, and jazz musician and Catholic convert Mary Lou Williams, Alexander traces the steps from existential crisis to psychological health. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology. They record the therapeutic affect of spiritual experience, testifying to the achievement of psychological well-being through the cultivation of an edifying spiritual mood. Mixing scholarly learning with episodes from his own skeptical quest, Alexander demonstrates how these accounts of private terror and personal triumph offer a model of therapy through spiritual adventure. An interdisciplinary consideration of the shared terrain of religion and psychology, Making Peace with the Universe offers an innovative view of what spiritual traditions can teach us about finding meaning in the modern world.

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Columbia University Press

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023155270X

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The Mongol Empire

Its Rise and Legacy

By: Michael Prawdin

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The Mongol Empire

Its Rise and Legacy

By: Michael Prawdin

In his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later, the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West. A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence, The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world's largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people, which, through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia. Maurice Collis in Time and Tide said of The Mongol Empire: "It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting...The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part. " while The Observer commented, "it is a fine book, full of dramatic occasion well used, clear in proportions.

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Routledge

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1351479296

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Iran: Empire of the Mind

A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day

By: Michael Axworthy

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Iran: Empire of the Mind

A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day

By: Michael Axworthy

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural importance. A nation whose impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbours in the Middle East but on the world as a whole – and through ideas and creativity rather than by the sword. From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis and current president Mahmud Ahmadinejad – a controversial figure within as well as outside the country – Michael Axworthy traces a vivid, integrated account of Iran’s past. He explains clearly and carefully both the complex succession of dynasties that ruled ancient Iran and the surprising ethnic diversity of the modern country, held together by a common culture. With Iran again the focus of the world’s attention, and questions about the country’s disposition and intentions pressing, Iran: Empire of the Mind is an essential guide to understanding a complicated land.

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Penguin UK

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0141903414

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

This work provides an informative guide to the roots of modern China. It also looks at the key challenges and opportunities that face China in the 21st century.

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0028643860

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Austerity Blues

Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

By: Michael Fabricant,Stephen Brier

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Austerity Blues

Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

By: Michael Fabricant,Stephen Brier

A generation of budget cutting has eviscerated the very idea of public higher education in America. Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating inequality among poor and working-class students of color, as well as part-time faculty. In Austerity Blues, Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier examine these devastating fiscal retrenchments nationally, focusing closely on New York and California, both of which were leaders in the historic expansion of public higher education in the postwar years and now are at the forefront of austerity measures. Fabricant and Brier describe the extraordinary growth of public higher education after 1945, thanks largely to state investment, the alternative intellectual and political traditions that defined the 1960s, and the social and economic forces that produced austerity policies and inequality beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s. A provocative indictment of the negative impact neoliberal policies have visited on the public university, especially the growth of class, racial, and gender inequalities, Austerity Blues also analyzes the many changes currently sweeping public higher education, including the growing use of educational technology, online learning, and privatization, while exploring how these developments hurt students and teachers. In its final section, the book offers examples of oppositional and emancipatory struggles and practices that can help reimagine public higher education in the future. The ways in which factors as diverse as online learning, privatization, and disinvestment cohere into a single powerful force driving deepening inequality is the central theme of the book. Incorporating the differing perspectives of students, faculty members, and administrators, the book reveals how public education has been redefined as a private benefit, often outsourced to for-profit vendors who “sell” education back to indebted undergraduates. Over the past twenty years, tuition and related student debt have climbed precipitously and degree completion rates have dropped. Not only has this new austerity threatened public universities’ ability to educate students, Fabricant and Brier argue, but it also threatens to undermine the very meaning and purpose of public higher education in offering poor and working-class students access to a quality education in a democracy. Synthesizing historical sources, social science research, and contemporary reportage, Austerity Blues will be of interest to readers concerned about rising inequality and the decline of public higher education.

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JHU Press

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1421420686

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Pakistan

Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?

By: C. Christine Fair,Keith Crane,Christopher S. Chivvis,Samir Puri,Michael Spirtas

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Pakistan

Can the United States Secure an Insecure State?

By: C. Christine Fair,Keith Crane,Christopher S. Chivvis,Samir Puri,Michael Spirtas

The authors exposit likely developments in Pakistan's internal and external security environment over the coming decade; assess Pakistan's national will and capacity to solve its problems, especially those relating to security; describe U.S. interests in Pakistan; and suggest policies for the U.S. government to pursue in order to secure those interests.

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Rand Corporation

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0833048708

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Famous Assassinations in World History [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Michael Newton

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Famous Assassinations in World History [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Michael Newton

Representing a unique reference tool for readers interested in history, criminology, or terrorism, this book provides the most complete and up-to-date coverage of assassinations of key figures throughout history and around the world. Effecting the death of a political figure, a leader of a nation, or a public figure usually captures people's attention. But how often is assassination effective to achieve the larger objective beyond the death of the targeted individual? Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia offers more than 200 entries on assassinations of all kinds that will allow readers to grasp the often-complex motivating factors behind each event and better understand historical and contemporary social unrest. Each entry identifies the assassination target and summarizes that person's significance; discusses the person's assassination, including the factors that led up to it and its political and cultural contexts; and explains the powerful effects of the assassination in world history. The encyclopedia also includes various sidebars that spotlight relevant individuals, groups, and movements and present intriguing factoids such as the final disposition of notorious assassins' weapons and various films and novels that were inspired by famous assassinations. In addition, 23 primary source documents provide accounts of assassinations throughout world history.

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Tamerlane and the Jews

By: Michael Shterenshis

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Tamerlane and the Jews

By: Michael Shterenshis

This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the historical consequences of this relationship with Tamerlane. Left alone to live within a stable empire, the Jews prospered under Tamerlane. In founding an empire, Tamerlane had delivered Central Asia from the last Mongols, and brought the nations of Transoxonia within the orbit of Persian civilisation. The Central Asian Jews accepted this spirit and preserved it until modern times in their language and culture.

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Psychology Press

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0700716963

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Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies

The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel

By: Michael C. Howard

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Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies

The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel

By: Michael C. Howard

While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states, paying particular attention to the role of long-distance trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. It examines the obstacles voyagers faced, including limited travel and communication capabilities, relatively poor geographical knowledge, and the dangers of a fragmented and shifting political landscape, and offers profiles of better-known transnational elites such as the Hellenic scholar Herodotus and the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, as well lesser known servants, merchants, and sailors. By revealing the important political, economic, and cultural role cross-border trade and travel played in ancient society, this work demonstrates that transnationalism is not unique to modern times. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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0786490330

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The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

By: Igor S. Zonn,Aleksey N Kosarev,Michael Glantz,Andrey G. Kostianoy

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The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

By: Igor S. Zonn,Aleksey N Kosarev,Michael Glantz,Andrey G. Kostianoy

“The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia” is the second one in the new series of encyclo- dias about the seas of the former Soviet Union published by Springer-Verlag. The ?rst volume – “The Aral Sea Encyclopedia” was published by Springer in 2009. The series will be continued by “The Black Sea Encyclopedia” in 2010. Today the Caspian Sea is known to readers thanks to its oil and gas resources, sturgeon and caviar, signi?cant sea-level variations, socio-economic and political problems. The Caucasus and Central Asia (http://eurodialogue. org/?les/fckeditor_?les/Caspian-s- map2. png) vii viii Introduction For more than 250 years the Caspian Sea was shared by two states: Russia (the Soviet Union) and Persia (Iran). After the disintegration of the USSR in 1992, the new independent states of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have radically changed the political and economic situation in the region. In addition to Russia and Iran, who had determined the situation on the Caspian for a long period, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are now interested parties, beginning a new stage in the historical development of the Caspian region. This increase in the number of the Caspian legal entities from two to ?ve has given rise to a whole tangle of geopolitical, economic, international legal, ethnic and environmental problems, each of which demands its own approach and settlement mechanism.

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The 100

A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

By: Michael H. Hart

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The 100

A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

By: Michael H. Hart

Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence on the course of history.

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Global Connections

By: John Coatsworth,Juan Cole,Michael P. Hanagan,Peter C. Perdue,Charles Tilly,Louise Tilly

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Global Connections

By: John Coatsworth,Juan Cole,Michael P. Hanagan,Peter C. Perdue,Charles Tilly,Louise Tilly

Volume 1 of this undergraduate history textbook covers the origin of hominids through to the Middle Ages.

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Cambridge University Press

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Root Zone Salinity Management Using Fractional Skimming Wells With Pressurized Irrigation: Farmers' skimming well technologies: Practices, problems, perceptions and prospects

By: Muhammad Mazhar Saeed,Muhammad Ashraf,Muhammad Nadeem Asghar,Michael Bruen,Muhammad Siddique Shafique

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Root Zone Salinity Management Using Fractional Skimming Wells With Pressurized Irrigation: Farmers' skimming well technologies: Practices, problems, perceptions and prospects

By: Muhammad Mazhar Saeed,Muhammad Ashraf,Muhammad Nadeem Asghar,Michael Bruen,Muhammad Siddique Shafique

In the short water supply environment of Pakistan, farmers try to minimize the gap between demand and supply of canal water extracting groundwater for irrigation purposes. However, saline groundwater upconing may occur in response to fresh groundwater withdrawals from unconfined aquifer underlain by salty groundwater. Skimming well technology can help controlling this upconing phenomenon. However, in most cases, the small discharges of such wells cannot be efficiently applied on surface irrigated croplands. Pressurized irrigation application systems use small discharge effectively, but the cost and availability of equipment in the local market is a significant constraint. Root zone salinity is also expected to increase if this skimmed groundwater is used for irrigation purposes, particularly in the absence of proper salinity management practices. To address these issues, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and Water Resource Research Institute (WRRI) of National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Mona Reclamation Experimental Project (MREP) of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) are collaborating to undertake an applied research under the Project, Root Zone Salinity Management Using Fractional Skimming Wells with Pressurized Irrigation.

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9290904747

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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith

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March's Advanced Organic Chemistry

Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure

By: Michael B. Smith

The completely revised and updated, definitive resource for students and professionals in organic chemistry The revised and updated 8th edition of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry: Reactions, Mechanisms, and Structure explains the theories of organic chemistry with examples and reactions. This book is the most comprehensive resource about organic chemistry available. Readers are guided on the planning and execution of multi-step synthetic reactions, with detailed descriptions of all the reactions The opening chapters of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition deal with the structure of organic compounds and discuss important organic chemistry bonds, fundamental principles of conformation, and stereochemistry of organic molecules, and reactive intermediates in organic chemistry. Further coverage concerns general principles of mechanism in organic chemistry, including acids and bases, photochemistry, sonochemistry and microwave irradiation. The relationship between structure and reactivity is also covered. The final chapters cover the nature and scope of organic reactions and their mechanisms. This edition: Provides revised examples and citations that reflect advances in areas of organic chemistry published between 2011 and 2017 Includes appendices on the literature of organic chemistry and the classification of reactions according to the compounds prepared Instructs the reader on preparing and conducting multi-step synthetic reactions, and provides complete descriptions of each reaction The 8th edition of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry proves once again that it is a must-have desktop reference and textbook for every student and professional working in organic chemistry or related fields. Winner of the Textbook & Acadmic Authors Association 2021 McGuffey Longevity Award.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119371805

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Look Back to Get Ahead

Life Lessons from History's Heroes

By: Michael Anthony Jackson

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Look Back to Get Ahead

Life Lessons from History's Heroes

By: Michael Anthony Jackson

The further backward you look, the further forward you can see, said Winston Churchill. Using that statement as a springboard, this informative and helpful book studies five of history's heroes and shows how their qualities can help reshape your life.

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Arcade Publishing

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1559707275

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GaN-based Materials and Devices

Growth, Fabrication, Characterization and Performance

By: Michael Shur,Robert Foster Davis

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GaN-based Materials and Devices

Growth, Fabrication, Characterization and Performance

By: Michael Shur,Robert Foster Davis

The unique materials properties of GaN-based semiconductors havestimulated a great deal of interest in research and developmentregarding nitride materials growth and optoelectronic andnitride-based electronic devices. High electron mobility andsaturation velocity, high sheet carrier concentration atheterojunction interfaces, high breakdown field, and low thermalimpedance of GaN-based films grown over SiC or bulk AlN substratesmake nitride-based electronic devices very promising.

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World Scientific

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9812562362

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Seven Wonders of Ancient Asia

By: Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods

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Seven Wonders of Ancient Asia

By: Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods

Describes seven monumental ancient Asian architectural sites that still exist today, including the Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat, and Borobudur Temple.

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0822575698

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Living with Drugs

By: Michael Gossop

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Living with Drugs

By: Michael Gossop

Now in its sixth edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new edition to take account of new laws and practices that have come in to place since the previous edition, published in 2000. Written in an accessible style and providing a balanced perspective, the book is ideal for non-specialists in training, such as student nurses and social workers and for anyone with an interest in this complex, ever-present and emotive issue.

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0754649199

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By All Means Available

Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

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By All Means Available

Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy

By: Michael G. Vickers

A vivid insider's account of a life in intelligence, special operations, and strategy from the Cold War to the war with al-Qa’ida • "[An] illuminating and richly detailed memoir." —The New York Times Book Review "Deeply insightful...A sweeping and breathtaking journey that gives the reader unprecedented access to the courage, sacrifice, and bravado of our nation’s finest warriors, in their finest hours." —Admiral William H. McRaven, author of Wisdom of the Bullfrog and #1 New York Times bestseller, Make Your Bed In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA’s secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. After inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on the Soviets for their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Vickers transformed the covert campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghan resistance win their war. More than any other American, he was responsible for the outcome in Afghanistan that led to the end of the Cold War. In By All Means Available, Vickers recounts his remarkable career, from his days as a Green Beret to his vision for victory in Afghanistan to his role in waging America’s war with al-Qa’ida at the highest levels of government. In captivating detail, he depicts his years in the Special Forces—including his training to parachute behind enemy lines with a backpack nuclear weapon in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe—and reveals how those experiences directly influenced his approach to shaping policy. Vickers has played a significant role in most of the military and intelligence operations of the past four decades, and he offers a deeply informed analysis of the greatest challenges facing America today, and in the decades ahead. Riveting and illuminating, this is a rare and important insider’s account of the modern military and intelligence worlds at every level.

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1101947713

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Governance Risk Management and Financial Product Development in Islamic Financial Institutions

By: Michael Bock

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Governance Risk Management and Financial Product Development in Islamic Financial Institutions

By: Michael Bock

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,7, Maastricht University (School of Business and Economics), course: -, language: English, abstract: 1.1 General Introduction to the Topic Islamic finance is on the march. The underlying logic is simple: All investments and services are consistent with the principles of Islamic law, called Shari'ah, which literally means 'a clear path to be followed and observed' (Hourani, 2004a). This clear path is followed only if profit does not stem from interest (riba), speculation (gharrar) or sectors that are considered sinful according to the Qur'an (haraam), namely everything that involves alcohol, tobacco, entertainment, gambling or pork, just to name a few. The high potential of Islamic finance is clear for three reasons. The first reason relates to the emergence of a new consumer type, as there is increased demand for a Shari'ah-compliant way of investing that stems from increased globalization. The middle class from emerging markets rose from one third to 56 percent between the 1990s and 2006 (The Economist, 2009). Many Muslim countries can be found in the list of emerging markets, such as Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia. With the Muslim population of the world exceeding 1.5 billion people (about 21 percent of the world population) and due to the fact that it is the fastest growing religion, it becomes clear why the general conditions for Islamic finance are so favourable (Central Intelligence Agency, 2009). The second reason relates to the global trend for sustainable investment; the fact that Islamic finance is an ethical way of investing which does not invest in harmful businesses and instead donates purified gains to charity is becoming more and more attractive among non-Muslim investors as well (Global Finance, 2007). The Shari'ah aspect makes Islamic financial products an alternative to socially responsible investments (Khan, 2009). The last reason is a matter of

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364071279X

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