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2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"e;[A] fascinating biography .

Founded by Sayyid Ahmad (1786-1831) of Rae Bareli, the Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents.

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.

This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam - the 19th sura of the Qur'an - according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

Linear programming is a relatively modern branch of Mathe- matics, which is a result of the more scientific approach to management and planning of the post-war era.

Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system.

Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam war (Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July), insider trading (Wall Street), presidential assassination (JFK), and a voyeuristic media (Natural Born Killers).

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date.

Handbook of Contemporary China is a convenient reference in one single volume that offers comprehensive overviews of crucial cultural dimensions and key institutions of China.

With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries.

This book discusses how face-to-face interaction via the Internet affects what we can and will do, and its limitations and potential benefits.

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics.

A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra is a text which is heavily biased towards functional methods.

Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all fronts political, social, economic, and diplomatic.

Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies.

The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, provides an authoritative introduction and overview of the latest research in cellular automata (CA) models of physical systems, emergent phenomena, computational universality, chaos, growth phenomena, phase transitions, self-organised criticality, reaction-diffusion systems, self-replications, parallel computation, and more.

In answer to the perennial question "e;What else should I read?

Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "e;help"e; must be reexamined.

This book examines the relationship between women and terrorist activities in the post-World War II era.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

This book explores efforts being made to create Russian-American cooperation in managing recurrent conflict in the Middle East.

This is an essential practical guide for all information professionals who want to get to grips with or improve their use of mobile services.

Master the essentials of cryptography and cryptanalysis and learn how to put them to practical use.

Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement.

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history.

This book traces how the current wave of industrial digitalization relates to processes of domination and emancipation.

Does conflict transformation work?

Forty-three women who have made major contributions to the law through their work in the legal profession, scholarly legal research, and political activism directed at socio-legal reforms are profiled in this bio-bibliographical sourcebook.

The Conservation and Restoration of Ceramics brings together the wide range of current information relevant to the practising conservator.

The book presents a collection of scientific research in the field of agriculture cyber-physical systems (ACPSs).

As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece.

This two-volume set IFIP AICT 701-702 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.

This textbook is the result of the enhancement of several courses on non-equilibrium statistics, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, anomalous diffusion and disorder.

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected.

This book by influential policymaker Chi Fulin lays out in issue-oriented and detailed chapters, at a time when China is at a crossroads, exactly how the government plans to deal with the social, political and economic issues the world's second-largest economy faces.

From the origins of critical theory in the bowels of the academy to its use in justifying rioting and arson in the name of a dubious equity agenda, an eminent philosopher unmasks the intellectual origins of this mental virus, and details steps rational thinkers can take to combat its insidious spread.

The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today.

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim''s bones.

This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy.

There is not a person on Earth who hasn't come into contact with Disney in some way.

This book explores the development in Japan throughout the twentieth century of marketing and consumerism.

This original monograph investigates several unsolved problems that currently exist in coding theory.

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.