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The Sufferers
Stories and Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Taha Hussein (1889-1973), blind from early childhood, rose from humble beginnings to pursue a distinguished career in Egyptian public life, but he was most influential through his voluminous, varied, and controversial writings. The stories in The Sufferers were first published in the periodical al-Katib...
Cultural Property Law
A Practitioner's Guide to the Management, Protection, and Preservation of Heritage Resources
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Crossing into many disciplines, cultural property law continues to grow as an established area of practice and study. Now completely updated, Cultural Property Law: A Practitioner's Guide to the Management, Protection, and Preservation of Heritage Resources provides an accessible and objective overview...
Sherlock Holmes for Lawyers
100 Clues for Litigators from the Master Detective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Sherlock Holmes, the iconic fictional English detective that he was, had a lot to teach modern-day lawyers about logical reasoning and forensic science. The popular and well-beloved creation of the Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes was an immediate success after...
by Nicholas S. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
The Food Question in the Middle East
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 4
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In recent years, the food question has been a central concern for politicians, economists, international organizations, activists and NGOs alike, as well as social scientists at large. This interest has emerged from the global food crisis and its impact on the environment and the political economy...
Global Child Health Advocacy
On the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Global Child Health Advocacy: On the Front Lines inspires and equips child health professionals to join together and work for positive change.
This first-in-its-field resource brings you up-close accounts of successful initiatives straight from the front lines. If offers an inside look on the...
Exclusion
Strategies for Improving Diversity in Recruitment, Retention and Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The subtle actions that make an employee feel like an outsider in the workplace, and impact today’s professional work environments are termed micro-inequities, and this extensively-researched book offers workable strategies for changing the behaviors that create them. You'll find valuable information,...
Illusion Of Progress in the Arab World
A Critique of Western Misconstructions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with...
The Archival Turn in Feminism
Outrage in Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts...
Ocean Circulation
Mechanisms and Impacts -- Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 173.
The ocean's meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is a key factor in climate change. The Atlantic MOC, in particular, is believed to play an active role in the regional and global climate...
The Stratosphere
Dynamics, Transport, and Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 190.
The Stratosphere: Dynamics, Transport, and Chemistry is the first volume in 20 years that offers a comprehensive review of the Earth's stratosphere, increasingly recognized as an important component...
Post-Perovskite
The Last Mantle Phase Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 174.
Discovery of the perovskite to post-perovskite phase transition in MgSiO3, expected to occur for deep mantle conditions, was first announced in April 2004. This immediately stimulated numerous...
Climate Dynamics
Why Does Climate Vary?
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189.
Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? presents the major climate phenomena within the climate system to underscore the potency of dynamics in giving rise to climate change and variability....