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Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Oxford University Press, 2001

Over the course of the past two decades Islamism has exercised a growing influence on politics in Muslim countries from Morocco to Malaysia. In some instances this trend has led to regime change as in Iran and Sudan, but more often, it has ensconced Islamic norms, symbols, and rhetoric in the public sphere, and in the process,...

Guide to Scientific Computing in C++ (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Springer, 2012

Many books have been written on the C++ programming language, varying across a spectrum from the very practical to the very theoretical. This book certainly lies at the practical end of this spectrum, and has a particular focus for the practical treatment of this language: scientific computing.

Traditionally,...

Photography: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2006

Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives, from sensationalist images in tabloid papers, to personal family snapshots, to the art photography displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Steve Edwards provides a clear, lively, and imaginative approach to the...

Diabetes: The Biography (Biographies of Diseases)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Diabetes is a disease with a fascinating history and one that has been growing dramatically with urbanization. According to the World Health Authority, it now affects 4.6% of adults over 20, reaching 30% in the over 35s in some populations. It is one of the most serious and widespread diseases today. But the general perception of diabetes is...

A Dictionary of Law (Oxford Paperback Reference)

Oxford University Press, 2003

This dictionary has been written by a distinguished team of academic and practising lawyers. It is intended primarily for those without a qualification in law who nevertheless require some legallmowledge in the course oftheir work: chartered surveyors and accountants, civil servants and local-government officers, social workers and probation...

Proof and Disproof in Formal Logic: An Introduction for Programmers (Oxford Texts in Logic)

Oxford University Press, 2005

Proof and Disproof in Formal Logic is a lively and entertaining introduction to formal logic providing an excellent insight into how a simple logic works. Formal logic allows you to check a logical claim without considering what the claim means. This highly abstracted idea is an essential and practical part of computer science. The idea of a...

Introduction to Reactive Gas Dynamics

Oxford University Press, 2009

In the high energy gas flows, associating high velocities and high temperatures, physical and chemical processes such as molecular vibrational excitation, dissociation, ionisation or various reactions take palce and deeply influence the structure of the flows. The characteristic times of these processes have the same order of magnitude as...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the...

Built by Animals

Oxford University Press, 2008

From termite mounds and caterpillar cocoons to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times even rival our own feats of engineering. But how do creatures with such small brains build these complex structures? What drives them to do it?

In this...

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

Oxford University Press, 2007

a truly important contribution to the study of the legal history of the later Roman Empire Gregory Halfond, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Humfresss engaging book makes an original, incisive contribution to our understanding of the continuity of legal practice in the later empire and to the role of forensic advocacy by Christians in the genesis and...

The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity (Themes in Biblical Narrative)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

The revelation of YHWH's name to Moses is a momentous event according to the Old Testament. The name `Yahweh' is of central importance in Judaism, and `Yahwism' became tantamount to Jewish monotheism. As such, this designation of God also attracted the attention of pagan writers in the Graeco-Roman period. And early Christians had to deal...

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: The Poems and Lucina's Rape

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, was born on All Fools’ Day, 1647, at Ditchley in Oxfordshire on the estate that had belonged to his mother’s first husband, Sir Henry Lee. Rochester’s father, Lord Wilmot, was a royalist general; witty, restless and hard-drinking, he was with the exiled court in Paris, and hardly saw...

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