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Encyclopedia of Islam & the Muslim World

Macmillan Technical, 2003

A growing number of scholars and pundits have declared that the twenty-first century will be the era of Islam. Such predictions, whether intended in a positive or negative light, err in failing to appreciate the spread and influence of Islam during the past millennium and a half, especially on the continents of Asia and Africa. Nonetheless, events...

Game Theory: A Critical Introduction

Routledge, 1995

As ever there are people and cats to thank. There is also on this occasion electronic mail. The first draft of this book took shape in various cafeterias in Florence during YV’s visit to Europe in 1992 and matured on beaches and in restaurants during SHH’s visit to Sydney in 1993. Since then the mail wires between Sydney and Norwich, or...

Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

Oxford University Press, 2015

The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of the political concept of "family values." Through Spanish-bilingual and sex education, moderates and conservatives in California came to define the family as a politicized and racialized site in the late 1960s and 1970s. Sex education became a vital...

Empire and the Five Kings

Holt Paperbacks, 2020

One of the West’s leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America’s withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind.

The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations and...

Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance

Kogan Page, 2012

This book is the fourth in the coaching series with Kogan Page and the Association for Coaching. In the first book in the series, Excellence in Coaching: The industry guide, we explored coaching models and core coaching concepts such as ethics, supervision and cross-cultural working. That book has become one of the best-respected...

Advertising and Society: An Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Now revised and updated to reflect the impact of emerging technologies, this new edition of Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences examines the evolution of advertising and its influence on society. Expanded with five new chapters covering the impact of emerging technologies, including the evolution of Direct to Consumer...

Structural Changes and their Econometric Modeling (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2018

This book focuses on structural changes and economic modeling. It presents papers describing how to model structural changes, as well as those introducing improvements to the existing before-structural-changes models, making it easier to later on combine these models with techniques describing structural changes. The book also...

Numerical Methods for Least Squares Problems

SIAM, 1996

The method of least squares was discovered by Gauss in 1795. It has since become the principal tool for reducing the influence of errors when fitting models to given observations. Today, applications of least squares arise in a great number of scientific areas, such as statistics, geodetics, signal processing, and control.

In the last 20 years...

A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed

CRC Press, 2012

For disciplines concerned with human well-being, such as medicine, psychology, and law, statistics must be used in accordance with standards for ethical practice. A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed illustrates the proper use of probabilistic and statistical reasoning in the behavioral, social, and biomedical...

Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day

Sybex, 2008

Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your website in just an hour day with the second edition of this bestselling SEO guide, Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day. Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often...

Recent Progress in Data Engineering and Internet Technology: Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)

Springer, 2012

The latest inventions in internet technology influence most of business and daily activities. Internet security, internet data management, web search, data grids, cloud computing, and web-based applications play vital roles, especially in business and industry, as more transactions go online and mobile. Issues related to ubiquitous computing...

The Vaal Uprising of 1984 and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa

James Currey, 2021

On 3 September 1984 a bloody uprising set the African townships of the Vaal Triangle aflame. Triggered by dissatisfaction over rent increases and a local government that was failing to provide any meaningful political power or social transformation to the black majority, it heralded the insurrectionary period that was to profoundly...

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