Haim: 73 books
Serendipity in Anthropological Research
The Nomadic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic...
by Sabato, Haim
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The Jewish community of Aleppo, Syria, the biblical Aram Soba, is one of the world's most ancient. The community serves as guardian of the famous Keter Torah scroll, and boasts of a synagogue dating back to the Second Temple Period. This three-story collection interlaces the fictionalized history...
by Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Humans are diurnal organisms whose biological clock and temporal organization depend on natural light/dark cycles. Changes in the photoperiod are a signal for seasonal acclimatization of physiological and immune systems as well as behavioral patterns. The invention of electrical light bulbs created...
Time Series Analysis and Adjustment
Measuring, Modelling and Forecasting for Business and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Time Series Analysis and Adjustment the authors explain how the last four decades have brought dramatic changes in the way researchers analyze economic and financial data on behalf of economic and financial institutions and provide statistics to whomsoever requires them. Such analysis has long...
Systems Thinking for School Leaders
Holistic Leadership for Excellence in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book presents a new approach to school leadership – Holistic School Leadership, whereby school leaders lead schools through systems-thinking concepts and procedures. Facing growing complexity, change and diversity, school leaders need to regularly apply the systems view and perform at the systems...
by Haim Yacobi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book...
by Mario Haim
Language: German
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften, Informationsmanagement, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbes. Informationsmanagement), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unternehmensnetzwerke beeinflussten und beeinflussen die Managementlehre in den...
by Haim Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Stability and Vibrations of Thin-Walled Composite Structures presents engineering and academic knowledge on the stability (buckling and post buckling) and vibrations of thin walled composite structures like columns, plates, and stringer stiffened plates and shells, which form the basic structures...
by Rivkah Teitz Blau, Shalom Carmy, Michelle Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for their actions? These questions have persisted all through the history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and mighty tension underlies today's intellectual...
Israel and Africa
A Genealogy of Moral Geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Israel and Africa critically examines the ways in which Africa – as a geopolitical entity - is socially manufactured, collectively imagined but also culturally denied in Israeli politics. Its unique exploration of moral geography and its comprehensive, interdisciplinary research on the two countries...
Palestine and World War I
Grand Strategy, Military Tactics and Culture in War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The Palestine Campaign undertaken by the British during the Great War has become one of the most glorified military offensives of the 20th Century. Shattering the reach of Ottoman imperial power for the final time, the conflict both pushed Germany back into Europe and laid the groundwork for splitting...
by Haim Shaked
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It contributed substantially to the emergence of the Sudan as a nation-state in the twentieth century. The Mahdi's family and heritage played a major political and cultural...
The Literacy Myth
Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy...
Against Hybridity
Social Impasses in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price for this celebration of hybridity:...