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The Hajj Today

A Survey of the Contemporary Pilgrimage to Makkah

By: David E. Long,Professor David Long

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The Hajj Today

A Survey of the Contemporary Pilgrimage to Makkah

By: David E. Long,Professor David Long

The Qu'ran admonishes Muslims that "the pilgrimage to the temple is an obligation due to God from those who are able to journey there." Today over one and a half million pilgrims annually fulfill this Fifth Pillar of Islam, the Hajj. Saudi Arabia conquered the Hijaz in part to protect Hajjis from abuses in the management of the Hajj. How does that country now administer the religious event that brings so many people, often poor and illiterate, into one small area to perform a variety of complex rituals? How does the government protect its visitors' health and safety, and ensure their proper guidance through the necessary rites? How does it move so many pilgrims in and out of what is essentially an out-of-the-way desert? David Long has set this thoughtful examination of the twentieth-century Hajj within its historical framework. He first provides a clear, concise description of the rituals either necessary or traditional to the proper performance of the Hajj; he then relates how the inhabitants of Mecca used to manage the pilgrimage and finally, relates how the new Saudi rulers gradually brought the Hajj service industry under government regulation. Today there is probably no agency of the Saudi government which is not at least tangentially concerned with the Hajj. Only in the area of health did there exist a history of public management. By the early nineteenth century it had become all too clear that the Hajj served to carry diseases endemic to the Orient to Europe, and by the end of that century health and quarantine procedures were under international control. Today the Saudi government has sole control of these matters. Oil revenue vastly exceeds Hajj revenues--once a major source of Saudi income--but the Hajj continues to play an enormous role in the religious, social, and political life of the country. And even in economics it structures the Saudi businessman's year and provides part- or full-time employment to more Saudi citizens than does the oil industry. This volume contains an extensive bibliography, appendixes containing statistical material on recent Hajjs, maps, and a glossary.

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0873953827

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Mac OS X Tiger

The No Nonsense Guide!

By: David S. Long,Professor David Long

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Mac OS X Tiger

The No Nonsense Guide!

By: David S. Long,Professor David Long

A visual reference to learning the latest release of Mac OS X, this guide is geared to both new and experienced Mac users. The basics of managing files, organizing and running programs, playing video, listening to music, and using other multimedia are covered, and each step-by-step instruction is accompanied by a screen capture showing exactly where to click to accomplish a task. For users upgrading to the latest version of OS X, instructions are provided for using the many new and improved features, and for those new to Mac OS, this book can be used as a complete introduction.

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0973735244

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Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

From the Revolution to World War II

By: John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine

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Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

From the Revolution to World War II

By: John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine

John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195351231

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The End of Certainty

Towards a New Internationalism

By: Professor Stephen Chan

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The End of Certainty

Towards a New Internationalism

By: Professor Stephen Chan

The End of Certainty is a magical realist book on world politics. Stephen Chan takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through how we can establish a new kind of international relations and construct a common future for the planet. Chan argues that the certainties of singular traditions of philosophy have failed to help us understand power shifts and struggles in an endlessly diverse world. Chan argues that fusing different strands of Western, Eastern, religious and philosophical thought, is far more likely to help us move forward amidst uncertainty. In doing so, he takes us on a journey from the battlefields of Eritrea to the Twin Towers, via the Book of Job, Clausewitz, Fanon and Wahabism. You'll never think about international politics in quite the same way again.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848136579

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Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

By: Professor Judith Johnston

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Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

By: Professor Judith Johnston

Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focusses particularly on the relationships of various British women with continental Europe. At the same time, she sheds light on the possibility of appropriation and British imperial enhancement that such contact produces. Johnston's book is in part devoted to case studies of women such as Sarah Austin, Mary Busk, Anna Jameson, Charlotte Guest, Jane Sinnett and Mary Howitt who are representative of women travellers, translators and journalists during a period when women became increasingly robust participants in the publishing industry. Whether they wrote about their own travels or translated the foreign language texts of other writers, Johnston shows, women were establishing themselves as actors in the broad business of culture. In widening our understanding of the ways in which gender and modernity functioned in the early decades of the Victorian age, Johnston's book makes a strong case for a greater appreciation of the contributions nineteenth-century women made to what is termed the knowledge empire.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472401360

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Centennials

The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations

By: Professor Alex Hill

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Centennials

The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations

By: Professor Alex Hill

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come? Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of groundbreaking research into a clutch of organisations that have outperformed their peers for over 100 years - from NASA to the New Zealand All Blacks, from Eton College and the Royal College of Art to the Royal Marines and the Royal Shakespeare Company. And what he has found is that these very different organisations all share remarkably similar strategies when it comes to building and maintaining excellence and success - strategies that frequently fly in the face of conventional business wisdom. Here Professor Hill shares the twelve traits that have set these organisations apart for over a century, from the way they analyse success and failure to their approach to finding the best people and the brightest new ideas. In so doing, he identifies the strategies and habits that you can employ in your company to create a strong and stable core and to ensure the same long-term prosperity. In short, he shows you how to build a promising enterprise into an enduring, great organisation. _____________________________________________ 'An instant classic.' Charles Handy, author of 'The Empty Raincoat' and 'The Second Curve' 'Every CEO should be given a copy with their morning coffee.' Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford 'If you want to learn what it takes to achieve truly sustainable success in an organisation, then this is a book for you.' Shaun Fitzgerald, OBE, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge

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Random House

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1529159172

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic – the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409480224

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The Vietnamese War

Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975

By: David W. P. Elliott

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The Vietnamese War

Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975

By: David W. P. Elliott

16. Holding On -- 17. Civil War -- 18. The Final Chapter -- Notes -- Appendix A: The Human Cost -- Appendix B: Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index

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M.E. Sharpe

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076560602X

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9780765606020

Ecological Literacy

Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World

By: David W. Orr,Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Senior Advisor to the President David W Orr

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Ecological Literacy

Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World

By: David W. Orr,Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Senior Advisor to the President David W Orr

The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological catastrophes meet what some call sustainable development. While a great deal of attention has been given to what governments, corporations, utilities, international agencies, and private citizens can do to help in the transition to sustainability, little thought has been given to what schools, colleges, and universities can do. Ecological Literacy asks how the discovery of finiteness affects the content and substance of education. Given the limits of the earth, what should people know and how should they learn it?

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SUNY Press

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0791408736

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9780791408735

Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012 (book Only)

By: Professor David Ormerod,David Ormerod,The Right Honourable Lord Justice Hooper

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Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012 (book Only)

By: Professor David Ormerod,David Ormerod,The Right Honourable Lord Justice Hooper

Your single point of reference on criminal law and procedure, Blackstone's Criminal Practice is the only text to offer all the material you need to practise with ease in the Crown and magistrates' courts. Regularly cited, its incomparable quality and accessibility make it an essential reference for all criminal law specialists.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199694389

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

By: Institute of Criminology Cambridge University David P. Farrington Professor of Psychological Criminology,Department of Criminal Justice University of Massachusetts Brandon C. Welsh Assistant Professor, Lowell

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus what America's national crime fighting priority ought to be. At a time when unacceptable crime levels in America, rising criminal justice costs, and a punitive crime policy have spurred a growing interest in the early prevention of delinquency, Farrington and Welsh here lay the groundwork for change with a comprehensive national prevention strategy to save children from a life of crime.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199719624

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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

By: David Andrew Schultz,James A Beverly,Professor and Senior Fellow David Schultz

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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

By: David Andrew Schultz,James A Beverly,Professor and Senior Fellow David Schultz

An alphabetical listing of administrative agencies and departments with details about the office and its role in government as well as terms and definitions.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438110146

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What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education

Using Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies

By: Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation David Mitchell,David Mitchell

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What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education

Using Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies

By: Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation David Mitchell,David Mitchell

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134203322

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Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

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Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.

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Yale University Press

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0300057326

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9780300057324

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Reading with Hindsight

By: Professor Simon Dentith

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Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Reading with Hindsight

By: Professor Simon Dentith

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472418875

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Measures of Possibility

Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

By: Domhnall Mitchell,Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell

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Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

By: Domhnall Mitchell,Professor of English Domhnall Mitchell

The author confronts the thorny question of whether any set of editing practices can adequately represent in print the distinctive characteristics of Emily Dickinson's writing".--BOOKJACKET.

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Liverpool University Press

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1558494626

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The Hajj Today

The Hajj Today

Mac OS X Tiger

Mac OS X Tiger

Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism : From the Revolution to World War II

The End of Certainty

The End of Certainty

Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

Centennials

Centennials

Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

The Vietnamese War

The Vietnamese War

Ecological Literacy

Ecological Literacy

Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012 (book Only)

Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2012 (book Only)

Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education

What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education

Picturing a Nation

Picturing a Nation

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Measures of Possibility

Measures of Possibility

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