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Ragged Individualism

America in the Political Drama of the 1930S

By: Gholamreza Sami

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Ragged Individualism

America in the Political Drama of the 1930S

By: Gholamreza Sami

This book offers a study of the portrayal of America in selected social and political plays of the 1930s and a scrutiny of the intellectual response of the playwrights to the American way of life in the light of socio-political and economic issues in that decade.

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1449089844

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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God

By: Sami Pihlström

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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God

By: Sami Pihlström

The book is a study of pragmatism and pragmatic pluralism in the philosophy of religion. Through critical examinations of James's, Dewey's, and recent neopragmatists' ideas, it argues that key issues in the field--including the debate between evidentialism and fideism, and the problem of evil--need rearticulation from a pragmatic pluralistic perspective.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823251586

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Love Inspired Suspense November 2023 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Jessica R. Patch,Sami A. Abrams,Kari Trumbo

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Love Inspired Suspense November 2023 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Jessica R. Patch,Sami A. Abrams,Kari Trumbo

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: CRIME SCENE CONSPIRACY (A Texas Crime Scene Cleaners novel) by Jessica R. Patch A string of staged deaths forces Texas Ranger Emily O’Connell on a covert mission to investigate a governor’s connection to the deceased women. No one can know what she’s doing—including former ranger Stone Spencer. But when Emily becomes the next target, she must choose between her secrets…and her life. KILLER CHRISTMAS EVIDENCE (A Deputies of Anderson County thriller) by Sami A. Abrams When Detective Kyle Howard rescues a woman from a burning house, he’s shocked that it’s Cassidy Bowman—the detective who was responsible for his fiancée’s death. Now Cassidy can’t remember who she is…or just how close she is to finding a merciless serial killer. DEADLY YELLOWSTONE SECRETS by Kari Trumbo Naturalist Tamala Roth finds herself targeted by a poacher in Yellowstone National Park who will stop at nothing to keep his secret. The only person she can trust is Ranger Clint Jackson. But when a blizzard traps them, will they make it out alive? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense November 2023 Box Set – 1 of 2

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Harlequin

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0369741803

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Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel

White Jews, Black Jews

By: Sami Shalom Chetrit

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Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel

White Jews, Black Jews

By: Sami Shalom Chetrit

This book examines the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. It charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel from post-war relocation through to the present day.

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Routledge

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113520232X

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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion

By: Sami Pihlström

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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion

By: Sami Pihlström

Arguing, humanistically, that we live in a "human world" inescapably colored by meaning, this book shows why the pursuit of meaningfulness is not ethically innocent but must be subjected to critique. Pragmatist critique of meaning both embraces critical humanism and rejects theodicies postulating ultimate meaning in suffering.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666926280

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Regenerative Endodontics, An Issue of Dental Clinics

By: Sami M. Chogle,Harold E. Goodis

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Regenerative Endodontics, An Issue of Dental Clinics

By: Sami M. Chogle,Harold E. Goodis

Regenerative endodontics is the generation and replacement of diseased, damaged or absent pulp. This issue of Dental Clinics of North America provides a clinical view of regenerative endodontics and its aims, methods and techniques.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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145574753X

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Doll's Eye

By: Sami Shalom Chetrit

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Doll's Eye

By: Sami Shalom Chetrit

An American TV correspondent, the daughter of a Palestinian mother and a Jewish father, finds herself, against her will, at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is dragged into a story of life and death, which tears her apart with no solution. This is a fascinating and exciting psychological-political thriller, which digs deep down into the complex Palestinian point of view, in a way that was never done in fiction literature before. Sami Shalom Chetrit is a writer and a poet. He is a professor of Hebrew and Middle Eastern studies at Queens College, CUNY.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479794589

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Radio Science Techniques for Deep Space Exploration

By: Sami W. Asmar

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Radio Science Techniques for Deep Space Exploration

By: Sami W. Asmar

Explore the development and state-of-the-art in deep space exploration using radio science techniques In Radio Science Techniques for Deep Space Exploration, accomplished NASA/JPL researcher and manager Sami Asmar delivers a multi-disciplinary exploration of the science, technology, engineering, mission operations, and signal processing relevant to deep space radio science. The book discusses basic principles before moving on to more advanced topics that include a wide variety of graphical illustrations and useful references to publications by experts in their respective fields. Complete explanations of changes in the characteristics of electromagnetic waves and the instrumentation and technology used in scientific experiments are examined. Radio Science Techniques for Deep Space Exploration offers answers to the question of how to explore the solar system with radio links and better understand the interior structures, atmospheres, rings, and surfaces of other planets. The author also includes: Thorough introductions to radio science techniques and systems needed to investigate planetary atmospheres, rings, and surfaces Comprehensive explorations of planetary gravity and interior structures, as well as relativistic and solar studies Practical discussions of instrumentation, technologies, and future directions in radio science techniques Perfect for students and professors of physics, astronomy, planetary science, aerospace engineering, and communications engineering, Radio Science Techniques for Deep Space Exploration will also earn a place in the libraries of engineers and scientists in the aerospace industry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119734169

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The Role I Played

Canada's Greatest Olympic Hockey Team

By: Sami Jo Small

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The Role I Played

Canada's Greatest Olympic Hockey Team

By: Sami Jo Small

Three-time Olympic medalist shares behind-the-scenes insight into the beloved Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team Men’s hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women’s hockey has never been higher. The Role I Played is a memoir of Sami Jo Small’s ten years with Canada’s National Women’s Hockey Team. Beginning with her experience as a rookie at the first-ever women’s Olympic hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998 and culminating with Canada’s third straight Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, the veteran goaltender gives the reader behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most successful teams in sports history. Small offers insider access, writing with unflinching honesty about the triumphs of her greatest games and the anguish of difficult times. This book honours the individuals who sacrificed so much of their lives to represent Canada on a world stage and celebrates their individual contributions to the team’s glory. While bringing the personalities of her teammates to life, Small takes the reader into the dressing rooms and onto the ice for an up-close glimpse into the ups and downs of athletes pursuing a sport’s highest achievement.

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ECW Press

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1773056093

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Love Inspired Suspense September 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Elizabeth Goddard,Jenna Night,Sami A. Abrams

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Love Inspired Suspense September 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Elizabeth Goddard,Jenna Night,Sami A. Abrams

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: TRACKING A KILLER (A Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard The last thing K-9 officer Harlow Zane expects when she and cadaver dog Nell join an investigation is to draw the killer’s obsessive attention. But FBI Special Agent Wes Grey notices she matches the victim profile and when another lookalike goes missing, they must work together to catch the criminal…before Harlow’s the next to disappear. FUGITIVE AMBUSH (A Range River Bounty Hunters novel) by Jenna Night Pursuing a dangerous bail-jumper has bounty hunter Hayley Ryan barely escaping an attack by the fugitive. Teaming up with rival Jack Colter results in the discovery of another criminal—one who’s been missing for years. Can their uneasy partnership—and lives—survive their search for not one but two notorious escaped felons? TWIN MURDER MIX-UP (A Deputies of Anderson County novel) by Sami A. Abrams After capturing a murder on camera, photographer Amy Baker becomes the next target—and her identical twin is killed instead. Now on the run with her sister’s newborn, Amy turns to Detective Keith Young, her childhood crush. But when they discover Keith is the baby’s father, can he regain Amy’s trust…before the killer strikes again? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense September 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2

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0369729277

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Pragmatist Metaphysics

An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of Ontology

By: Sami Pihlström

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Pragmatist Metaphysics

An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of Ontology

By: Sami Pihlström

Provides a novel reading of the relations between two central philosophical disciplines - metaphysics and ethics, from a pragmatist perspective.

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1847065937

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The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management

A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices

By: Sami Itani

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The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management

A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices

By: Sami Itani

This book is a pioneering work that explores and maps out the ideological evolution of HRM research and practices, with a particular focus on our contemporary era of multinational corporations.

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1787434605

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Syria and the USA

Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower

By: Sami Moubayed

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Syria and the USA

Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower

By: Sami Moubayed

The conclusion of World War I and the subsequent breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to the independence of a number of Arab nations and resulted in a Western scramble for roles of control and influence over them. It was not until after World War I that Syria and the United States had a formal diplomatic relationship - prior to then the only Americans who had developed a relationship with the nation were missionaries, particularly those involved with the Syrian Protestant College, established in 1866. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire, however, single-handedly brought Syria into the sphere of influence of the Western world, and as Sami Moubayed here illustrates, particularly that of the United States. The relationship between the two nations was by no means uncomplicated, and there were a number of challenges from the years following World War I to the early years of the Cold War. Though relations were warm between the United States and Syria while Emir Faisal was ensconced in Damascus, Washington saw little point in pursuing an American-Arab alliance, and Faisal's reputation suffered greatly as a result of his relationship with Wilson, particularly with respect to his stance on the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. Relations cooled between the two nations during the presidencies of both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, neither of whom saw any value in being involved in Middle East affairs. However, with the discovery of large oil reserves in the Middle East, as well as Syria's siding with the Allies and declaring war on Nazi Germany, interest in the American-Syrian relationship was greatly revived. As quickly as the relationship warmed though, it also cooled: in the aftermath of World War II, the United States was linked to involvement in a series of coups and counter-coups that destabilized Syria from 1949 until the Syrian-Egyptian union of 1958. Furthermore, Washington's initially benevolent attitude towards the right to self-determination gradually evolved into one of manipulation, espionage and covert activity during the Cold War when the US considered Syria as a Soviet proxy in the Middle East. The forty years between 1919 and 1959 saw the creation and unravelling of America's relationship with Syria. In this book, Moubayed brilliantly explores the events of these years and, using original research and previously unpublished material, sheds light on an often overlooked subject. Syria and the USA is an essential read for scholars of the Middle East, US diplomatic history and twentieth-century international relations.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857730673

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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance

Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights

By: Somaya Sami Sabry

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Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance

Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights

By: Somaya Sami Sabry

The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry argues that the Arab-American experience has been powerfully shaped by racial discourse and Orientalism, and is further complicated today by hostility towards Arabs in post-9/11 America. She shows how Arab-American women writers and performers confront and subvert racial stereotypes in this charged context by recasting representations of Sheherazade. Shedding new light on Arab-American women's negotiations of identity, this book will be indispensable for all those interested in the Arab-American world, American ethnic studies and race, as well as diaspora studies, women's studies, literature, cultural studies and performance studies.

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0857731629

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Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy

By: Sami Pihlström

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Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy

By: Sami Pihlström

The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlström emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational. There is no way of even approaching, let alone resolving, the philosophical issue of realism without drawing due attention to the ways in which human values are inextricably entangled with even the most purely “factual” projects of inquiry we engage in. This entanglement of the factual and the normative is, as explicitly argued in Chapter 7 but implicitly suggested in all the other chapters as well, both pragmatic (practice-embedded and practice-involving) and transcendental (operating at the level of the necessary conditions for the possibility of our representing and cognizing the world in general). The author claims we need to carefully examine the complex relations of realism, value, and transcendental arguments at the intersection of pragmatism and analytic philosophy. This book does so by offering case-studies of various important neopragmatists and philosophers close to the pragmatist tradition, including Hilary Putnam, Nicholas Rescher, Joseph Margolis, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. It appeals to scholars and advanced graduate students focusing on pragmatism and analytic philosophy.

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Springer Nature

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3031280423

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Sergius of Reshaina: Introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, Addressed to Philotheos

By: Sami Aydin

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Sergius of Reshaina: Introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, Addressed to Philotheos

By: Sami Aydin

The physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) composed two related texts in Syriac about the philosophy of Aristotle, chiefly dealing with themes discussed by Aristotle in his Categories, but also with his teaching on space as found in the Physics. This book presents a critical edition and English translation of the shorter of these texts. A survey of Sergius’ life and works is given in the introduction and the intellectual context of his education in Alexandria is outlined, with focus on the medical and philosophical curricula of the Alexandrian school. Sergius’ line of thought is clarified and his text is compared to Greek commentaries on the Categories that also present the teaching of his Neoplatonist master Ammonius Hermeiou.

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900432514X

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Beyond Islam

A New Understanding of the Middle East

By: Sami Zubaida

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Beyond Islam

A New Understanding of the Middle East

By: Sami Zubaida

In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally viewed, is to completely misunderstand it. Many of what we think of as the 'Islamic' characteristics of the region are products of culture and society, not religion.To think of Islam itself as an essential, anti-modern force in the region rather than something shaped by specific historical-economic processes is, Zubaida argues, a mistake. Instead, he offers us an alternative view of the region, its historic cosmpolitanism, its religious and cultural diversity, its rapid adoption of new media cultures, which reveals a multi-faceted and complex region teeming with multiple identities. Wide-ranging, erudite and powerfully argued, Zubaida's work will be essential reading for future generations of students of this fascinating region.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857718649

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War Is Coming

Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon

By: Sami Hermez

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War Is Coming

Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon

By: Sami Hermez

War Is Coming is an ethnographic study that sheds light on the everyday conversations, practices, and experiences of people in Lebanon who live in between moments of political violence, remember past wars, and anticipate future turmoil.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812248864

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Troubleshooting for Network Operators

The Road to a New Paradigm with Encrypted Traffic

By: Van Van Tong,Sami Souihi,Hai-Anh Tran,Abdelhamid Mellouk

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Troubleshooting for Network Operators

The Road to a New Paradigm with Encrypted Traffic

By: Van Van Tong,Sami Souihi,Hai-Anh Tran,Abdelhamid Mellouk

Nowadays, the Internet is becoming more and more complex due to an everincreasing number of network devices, various multimedia services and a prevalence of encrypted traffic. Therefore, in this context, this book presents a novel efficient multi modular troubleshooting architecture to overcome limitations related to encrypted traffic and high time complexity. This architecture contains five main modules: data collection, anomaly detection, temporary remediation, root cause analysis and definitive remediation. In data collection, there are two sub modules: parameter measurement and traffic classification. This architecture is implemented and validated in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394236654

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Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian

By: Antonio Loprieno,Matthias Müller,Sami Uljas

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Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian

By: Antonio Loprieno,Matthias Müller,Sami Uljas

The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion of the non-verbal patterns of the Egyptian language, from the Pyramid Texts (Earlier Egyptian) to Coptic (Later Egyptian), based on an extensive use of data, especially for later phases. By providing a narrative contextualisation and a linguistic glossing of all examples, it addresses the needs not only of students of Egyptian and Coptic, but also of a linguistic readership. After an introduction into the basic typological features of Egyptian, the main book chapters address morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the three non-verbal sentence types documented throughout the history of this language: the adverbial sentence, the nominal sentence and the adjectival sentence. These patterns also appear in a variety of clausal environments and can be embedded in verbal constructions. This book provides an ideal introduction into the study of Egyptian historical grammar and an indispensable companion for philological reading.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110409941

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Under the Black Flag

An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS

By: Sami Moubayed

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Under the Black Flag

An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS

By: Sami Moubayed

The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed, a Beirut-based journalist who has been analysing Syria and the region for 20 years, has unrivalled access to the movement and its participants. His book is the first inside account of an organisation which has dominated the headlines with a dangerous mix of barbarity and military prowess. In looking at the historical background of ISIS: where it came from, how it evolved, where it stands today and what its aims are for the future to reveal, it will provide, for the first time, a fully-fledged picture of what lies at the heart of the Islamic State.

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0857727176

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Death and Finitude

Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality

By: Sami Pihlström

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Death and Finitude

Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality

By: Sami Pihlström

Death and Finitude offers an examination and defense of a pragmatic transcendental anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit, finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of human life as we know it. Sami Pihlström develops a special kind of philosophical anthropology —a pragmatic yet transcendental examination of the human condition—that interprets what is worth preserving in the tradition of transcendental philosophy in such a manner that this unusual combination will crucially enrich our understanding of a human problem we all share: mortality. In some sense, all serious philosophy inevitably reflects on the human condition and is thus philosophical anthropology, broadly conceived. There can hardly be any more serious problem concerning the human condition than the problem of death. Yet, mainstream analytic contributions to the philosophy of death usually addresses death in general, and it is far from obvious that such contributions are philosophically relevant in the sense of addressing the agony of an individual human being trying to understand their own mortal condition. “Continental” philosophy of death may be frustrating in a different sense, as it often fails to be conceptually as clear and argumentatively as rigorous as the analytic literature. Claiming to address my “being-toward-death”, such contributions may also fail to speak to the mortal individual if they end up in endless pseudo-philosophical jargon. It is against this background of frustration that Death and Finitude contributes to humanity’s on-going reflections on death, dying, and mortality—from a pragmatist yet transcendental perspective, seeking to accommodate these topics within a broader philosophical anthropology. The book is primarily intended for academic philosophers, but the potential readership includes not only scholars but also both graduate students and advanced undergraduates, as well as general educated readers. It is relevant to the concerns of philosophers specializing in transcendental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion. As the book may be said to be an attempt to “philosophize historically,” it is in principle of interest to both systematically and historically oriented philosophers and students.

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Lexington Books

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1498524427

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Law and Power in the Islamic World

By: Sami Zubaida

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Law and Power in the Islamic World

By: Sami Zubaida

Islamic law (the Shari'a) and its application is a central issue in contemporary Islamic politics and culture. Starting from modern concerns, this book examines the origins and evolution of the Shari'a and the corpus of texts, concepts and practices in which it has been enshrined. The central paradox in this history is one of power: the Shari'a is jurist's law, theoretically derived from sacred sources, yet dependent for its institution and application on rulers, with their own agendas and priorities. Sami Zubaida here considers key historical episodes of political accommodations and contests between scholars and sultans. Drawing on modern examples, mainly from Egypt and Iran, Zubaida explores how the Shari'a has evolved and mutated to accommodate the workings of a modern state by examining the reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries and the politics of the contemporary world. Law and Power in the Islamic World is an original and significant contribution to the debates surrounding Islam and ideas of modernity. As such its appeal and importance range across a wide spectrum of readers, students and scholars interested in Islamic law and the politics and social structures of the Muslim world. "Extremely informed and highly readable: unlike any previous writings on the subject, it combines deep historical analysis with a vital sociological and political perspective. In these difficult times, it will be required reading both for experts and for the general reader with any serious interest in the world today." Eberhard Kienle, SOAS.

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0857714260

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THE AGONY OF THE KEMALIST REPUBLIC AND THE RISE OF A FASCIST BROTHERHOOD

OF THE CORRUPT, BY THE CORRUPT, FOR THE CORRUPT

By: Sedat Sami

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THE AGONY OF THE KEMALIST REPUBLIC AND THE RISE OF A FASCIST BROTHERHOOD

OF THE CORRUPT, BY THE CORRUPT, FOR THE CORRUPT

By: Sedat Sami

The Agony of the Kemalist Republic and the Rise of a Fascist-Naqshibendi Brotherhood presents, in vivid terms, the slow undoing of all the reforms introduced by the immortal Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkish Republic. Today Turkey is facing a most daunting challenge mounted by a corrupt religious party usurping the police powers at its disposal and aiming to reverse the course of the past eighty years. A sham democracy cannot solve Turkey’s critical problems: in the east, a tribal and feudal society within which abject poverty reigns and in the west, powerful conglomerates with international partnerships dominate the business world. Everywhere an army of unemployed, young and old, is hoping for better days . . . Against great odds, the fight for secular education, for full employment, for women empowerment, and for social justice has to go on.

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1450037895

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Violence Against Women

An International Perspective

By: Holly Johnson,Natalia Ollus,Sami Nevala

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Violence Against Women

An International Perspective

By: Holly Johnson,Natalia Ollus,Sami Nevala

This is an international, comparative survey which interviews random samples of women about their experiences with male violence. The authors form a management team for the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS). The primary objective of IVAWS is to investigate the level and nature of victimization of women in a number of countries worldwide This work builds on the international network and experience of the European Institute of Crime Prevention and Control (HUENI).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387732047

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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age

Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism

By: Sami Pihlström

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Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age

Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism

By: Sami Pihlström

It is commonly believed that populist politics and social media pose a serious threat to our concept of truth. Philosophical pragmatists, who are typically thought to regard truth as merely that which is 'helpful' for us to believe, are sometimes blamed for providing the theoretical basis for the phenomenon of 'post-truth'. In this book, Sami Pihlström develops a pragmatist account of truth and truth-seeking based on the ideas of William James, and defends a thoroughly pragmatist view of humanism which gives space for a sincere search for truth. By elaborating on James's pragmatism and the 'will to believe' strategy in the philosophy of religion, Pihlström argues for a Kantian-inspired transcendental articulation of pragmatism that recognizes irreducible normativity as a constitutive feature of our practices of pursuing the truth. James himself thereby emerges as a deeply Kantian thinker.

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1009051504

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The Vanguard Messiah

Lettrism between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde

By: Sami Sjöberg

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The Vanguard Messiah

Lettrism between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde

By: Sami Sjöberg

In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism’s renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou’s theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110424525

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The Hour of Sunlight

One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker

By: Sami al Jundi,Jen Marlowe

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The Hour of Sunlight

One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker

By: Sami al Jundi,Jen Marlowe

The inspiring story of a young Palestinian man who rejected his militant past to become the leader of a peace movement

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1568584482

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

By: Sami Moisio

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

By: Sami Moisio

We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

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Routledge

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1317587774

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Hunting for the word of God

By: Sami Ameri

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Hunting for the word of God

By: Sami Ameri

Almost a century ago, scholars were debating the authenticity of some passages of the New Testament. After a revolutionary renaissance in the field of biblical textual criticism, however, they began to doubt the genuineness of the entire text. No longer are we able to claim the authenticity of even one passage from the New Testament. The whole Christian edifice is now in danger. Conversely, today the authenticity of the Qur'ānic text is also being challenged by questioning the Islamic version of the preservation of the Muslim holy book, and the preservation of the canonical readings of the original text. In the last decade, some missionaries started using the recent discovery of Qur'ānic manuscripts in Sana'a (Yemen) to claim that there had been an early corruption of the text. This book aims at taking its readers on a journey through the latest academic research on the topic, in the hope of bringing them as close as possible to the heart of the debate. It also has, as its objective, to provide the most satisfactory answers to the most bewildering questions readers may have about the authenticity of the two texts in question-the New Testament and the Qur'an. The author's expertise in both areas, the Biblical and Qur'ānic, will enable the reader to gain solid knowledge of the subject matter tackled in this book.

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Academic Research Initiative for Comparative Religion - مبادرة البحث العلمي لمقارنة الأديان

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0988565900

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9780988565906

Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities

By: Sami Pihlström

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Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities

By: Sami Pihlström

Humanist scholars often feel the need to defend the humanities. The value of humanistic research is sometimes challenged, as the cultural "reality" investigated by disciplines such as history, literary studies, and theology may seem unclearIn particular, the ontology of the humanities might be considered obscure in comparison to the ontology of the natural sciences. Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities proposes to develop a comprehensive philosophical account of the humanities, focusing on the ontology and epistemology of humanistic inquiry from the standpoint of pragmatism. Sami Pihlström argues that humanistic cognitive pursuits can be interpreted along the lines of a pragmatist theory of inquiry, defending pragmatic realism about the humanities. However, far from leading to any reductive naturalization of the human world, the pragmatist philosophy of the humanities defended by Pihlström takes a distinctively Kantian critical turn in emphasizing the need for transcendental argumentation in the philosophy of the humanities, insisting on the irreducibly ethical dimensions of humanistic scholarship.

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State University of New York Press

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1438491077

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9781438491073

Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy

On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other

By: Sami Pihlström

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Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy

On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other

By: Sami Pihlström

As a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this remarkable book, Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops and defends an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a ‘God’s-Eye-View’ ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy. With its strong positions and precise arguments, the volume provides a new approach which is likely to stimulate discussion in the wider academic world of philosophy of religion.

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Helsinki University Press

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9523690051

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9789523690059

Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood

By: Sami Timimi

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Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood

By: Sami Timimi

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood is a strong challenge to this way of thinking. Sami Timimi uses a wide variety of sources that shape our understanding including his personal experiences to highlight the role of culture, beliefs, science, social hierarchy and power, in shaping our understanding of childhood problems and how to deal with them. He urges professionals who work with children to question their assumptions in a manner that will enable them to access a greater variety of potentially helpful therapeutic frameworks. Since the 1960s, psychiatry has had to learn to accommodate critical analysis of its beliefs and methods. The legitimacy of its core assumptions continues to be questioned. Now child psychiatry too must engage with such a debate, if it wishes to develop into a genuinely democratic and inclusive profession. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood will be of great interest to professionals and trainees in psychiatry and child psychiatry, social work, family therapy and other psychotherapies for children and adolescents.

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Routledge

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1317710819

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9781317710813

The Making of Islamic Economic Thought

Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses

By: Sami Al-Daghistani

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The Making of Islamic Economic Thought

Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses

By: Sami Al-Daghistani

Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Sharī'a's moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam's moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108997546

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The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses

A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language

By: Sami Uljas

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The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses

A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language

By: Sami Uljas

This volume presents a novel analysis of complement clauses in Earlier Egyptian language. The grammar of these constructions is shown to be organised around a system for expressing Irrealis and Realis modality.

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9004158316

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9789004158313

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