Rafik: 30 books

In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-winning author.The time is present-day Damascus, and Salim the coachman, the city's most famous storyteller, is mysteriously...

Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is...

Among the Bedouin tribesmen of Saudi Arabia and Jordan, there flourishes a cult practicing a philosophy of religion so bizarre that both Islamic and Western theologians alike have been trying to eradicate it for more than 1,000 years. Called Bani Odra, its devotees structure their entire lives upon the...

Written in simple, easy to understand format with lots of screenshots and insightful tips and hints. If you are an AX implementer, AX developer, network administrator or IT Person charged with configuring Dynamics AX2012 in your company, then this book is for you. The book assumes that you are familiar...

Microsoft Dynamics AX is an ERP software that supports multisite operations. The variety of security features in MS Dynamics AX 2012 enables stakeholders to deal with business data smoothly and securely, avoiding security threats and raising their competencies in the market.This book begins...

25 recipes to deeply understand and implement advanced algorithms in Clojure About This Book Explore various advanced algorithms and learn how they are used to address many real-world computing challenges Construct elegant solutions using impressive techniques including zippers, parsing, and...

Uncertain computation is a system of computation and reasoning in which the objects of computation are not values of variables but restrictions on values of variables. This compendium includes uncertain computation examples based on interval arithmetic, probabilistic arithmetic, fuzzy arithmetic,...

Management of antibiotic therapy is one of the most complex and important areas in medicine.  Once the clinician has selected an antimicrobial to use, this guide provides all the essential information required to administer the antimicrobial safely and effectively: dosing schedules, side effects/toxicity,...

This book deals with the theory, design principles, and application of hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy sets in combination with other paradigms of Soft Computing technology such as Neuro-Computing and Evolutionary Computing. It provides a self-contained exposition of the foundation of...

Real-world information is imperfect and is usually described in natural language (NL). Moreover, this information is often partially reliable and a degree of reliability is also expressed in NL. In view of this, the concept of a Z-number is a more adequate concept for the description of real-world...

Master the art of agile single page web application development with ClojureScript About This Book Set up interactive development workflows for the browser or Node.js thanks to the ClojureScript ecosystem Learn the basics of interactive single page web app development taking advantage of the...

Every day decision making in complex human-centric systems are characterized by imperfect decision-relevant information. The principal problems with the existing decision theories are that they do not have capability to deal with situations in which probabilities and events are imprecise. In this...

A comprehensive compendium of all commonly used antibiotics, including indications, side effects, dosage information, and drug/food interactions Antibiotics Manual: A Guide to Commonly Used Antimicrobials, Second Edition is a unique, user-friendly guide made for all who prescribe antibiotics....

Una storia d'amore proibita e struggente, quella tra il giovane Farid e la bella e sensuale Rana. La saga di due famiglie, quella dei Mushtak e quella dei Shanin, divise dalla legge dei clan e da una faida sanguinosa. Un affresco storico che ripercorre le tormentate vicende del Medio Oriente, dalla...