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View book details for The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
The American University in Cairo Press
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted …
View book details for Burn It Down
Women Writing about Anger
Basic Books
A rich, nuanced exploration of women's anger from a diverse group of writersWomen are furious, and we're not keeping it to ourselves any longer. We're expected to be composed and compliant, but in a world that would strip us of …
View book details for The Broken Heart of America
St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Timesbestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 …
View book details for The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
Working and Living in Contingency
This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, …
View book details for Transnational Lives in China
Expatriates in a Globalizing City
Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, …
View book details for Gothic Science Fiction
1818 to the Present
Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that …
View book details for The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide:
Political Violence in Guatemala
This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983. In doing so it brings to light a genocide …
View book details for New Approaches to Countering Terrorism
Designing and Evaluating Counter Radicalization and De-Radicalization Programs
Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to design and effectively implement and …
This volume presents new methodologies for the design of dimension stone based on the concepts of structural design while preserving the excellence of stonemasonry practice in facade engineering. Straightforward formulae are provided for computing action on cladding, with special emphasis …
View book details for Digital Exposure
Postmodern Postcapitalism
This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which …
View book details for African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup
This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately …
This book is about how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning, and presents data on the ways in which teachers used those tasks in a particular research project. It is the product of research findings focusing …
This is the second volume of a unique collection that brings together the best English-language problems created for students competing in the Computational Linguistics Olympiad. These problems are representative of the diverse areas presented in the competition and designed with …
View book details for Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s
The Challenge to Public Service
Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.
View book details for Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations
Adaptation and Ownership from Sidney to Richardson
The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary property.
View book details for Crib Death - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Sudden Infant and Perinatal Unexplained Death: The Pathologist's Viewpoint
Crib death or sudden infant death syndrome is the most frequent death-causing syndrome during the first year of life, striking one infant in every 700-1,000. Despite a wide spectrum of theories and years of research, crib death remains a great …
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in …
View book details for South Africa's Renegade Reels
The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), and Fools (1998) have taken on an iconic status within South African culture. In this much-needed study, author Litheko …
This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India. It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of …
View book details for The Other People
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration
This book offers an interdisciplinary and accessible approach to issues of global migration in the twenty-first century in 13 essays plus an appendix written by scholars and practitioners in the field.
This new edition presents information and knowledge on the field of biomedical devices and surgical tools. The authors look at the interactions between nanotechnology, nanomaterials, design, modeling, and tools for surgical and dental applications, as well as how nanostructured surfaces …
View book details for Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or …
View book details for Prozess zur Losung komplexer Entscheidungsprobleme
Ein heuristischer Ansatz
Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit der wichtigsten Aufgabe von Fuhrungskraften: dem Treffen von Entscheidungen mit groer Tragweite. Es handelt sich dabei um eine schwierige Aufgabe, weil die bedeutsamen Entscheidungen meist auch komplex sind. Im Zentrum des vorliegenden Buches steht ein …
View book details for Essays on James Clarence Mangan
The Man in the Cloak
This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers …
The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies. Particular emphasis is given to the latest years available in order to consider the effects of the global …
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