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At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers another way of looking at Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.Drawing on extensive ethnograph...

Making Marketing Happen' is prompted by needs of practising managers who have found the traditional marketing planning texts to be "fine in theory, but hard to apply to my special market." In short, it holds that marketing planning fails for most companies because it either does not fit their organizational culture, their market conditions or both. Successful companies do not plan. They use a hybrid strategy making process including vision, in...

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines the relationship between space and the production of local popular culture in contemporary China.

Patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) are at increased risk of death when compared with age-matched healthy controls. They are also, whether symptomatic or not, six times more likely to die within ten years when compared to patients without the disease. This excess mortality exists even if coronary artery disease is not clinically present, and makes the treatment of PVD a highly important and pressing topic. In this fully up-to-date ...

Religion and Cyberspace explores how religious individuals and groups are responding to the opportunities and challenges that cyberspace brings.

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With the globalization of production and consumption, shipping and ports play an increasingly vital part in facilitating the world-wide movement of cargoes. Containing a selection of papers by some of the world's leading maritime economists, this book provides comprehensive and detailed analyses of the most critical issues affecting these sectors. Areas addressed include: the role of ports and shipping within the global supply chain, the devel...

Karl Barth' is an unparalleled accomplishment. An authentic church father of the Post-Reformation era, the Basel professor's contributions to theology, the life of the church, and the world of culture and politics have been frequently noted. This work, however, presents extraordinary new information and insight based on his own correspondence and notes. What one finds in this work is Barth's own running commentary on events and people - from 1...

Soul Sister Sonnets and Images is a serious attempt to describe definitively, the whole soul woman. It is one natural man's effort to celebrate the majesty of true sisterhood and also to unmask some of the many frailties of womanhood in the partnership of man. Soul Sister Sonnets and Images seeks to strip away the frivolous stereotypical and unrealistic guidelines which often govern a woman's sociometry. It says that there is absolutely no sho...

Refreshing and insightful, this is the story of a spirited woman who crosses foyers and moral boundaries to snoop in people's apartments while walking their dogs.

Upon completing Middle Age (35-65), Mr. Kelley felt it incumbent to share his pent-up wild thoughts on such diverse topics as Lucretia Borgia's sex life to George Washington's expense account (an absolute whopper!) Along the way, he found inspiration in documenting his penchant for satire, parody, annoyance, distemper, and pique with wicked thoughts on wacky subjects, vitriol sprinkled with humor, and historical facts such as famous celebritie...

The most famous movie cowboy of the movies died violently in 1940 and is virtually forgotten today because all but ten of his films were silent movies. Tom Mix was a town marshal and cowboy in the Oklahoma Territory, a rodeo champion and a wild west show performer. With his devil-may-care attitude, quick wit and penchant for doing breath-taking stunts on his wonder horse, Tony, Tom Mix went on to become the #1 movie cowboy of silent films, ear...

The Lemurians and the Ancients offer much to the world at this time and it is interwoven with the revelations of higher Truths and their teachings in this writing. Secrets are revealed! Earth Healing, activation of sites and the Crystal Skulls of the Maya were directed by the Lemurians and the Angelic realm. The ancient Mayan Gods and Spirits intervened to assist the completion of my task. They also had a few incredible side jobs planned for m...

In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.

He suddenly left the valley floor and headed off into the trees. It was daylight now, but he still had no sign yet that he was on the right path. He ran through the trees like he was born in the forest. He ran around bushes, under branches, jumped over fallen logs and rocks, and he ran as fast as his legs would carry him. All he could think about was that Brian needed his help.A menacing one world government has taken control and has forced th...

A survey of the interaction between science and Anglo-American literature from the late medieval period to the 20th century, examining how authors, thinkers, and philosophers have viewed science in literary texts, and used science as a window to the future.

Looking beneath the surface of today's news stories, we can discern an explosive mixture - SPACE AGE SCIENCE AND STONE AGE POLITICS. This book discusses the tensions created by the rapid rate of scientific and technological change, contrasted with the slow rate of change of our political institutions. Because of the enourmous destructive power of modern weapons, and because of today's instantaneous global communication, the institution of war ...

Alan and Donna, in their early twenties, fall in love in Washington, D.C., as World War II draws to a close. Alan is intent upon writing a novel that will expose his stepfather as his father's murderer. Donna hopes to marry him and escape her dysfunctional home. Despite Alan's slow recovery from a war wound and conflicts arising from prior involvements, they pursue an intense affair. Social changes and Alan's meager income as a musician strain...

Erzählweise, Struktur, Umfang und Sprachniveau dieses spannenden utopischen Romans über Geistesfeindlichkeit im totalitären Staat gewährleisten eine ertragreiche Behandlung in Grund- und Leistungskursen. Abiturthemen: Science and Technology, Utopia and Dystopia, Media und Literary Visions of the Future Lesen macht Spaß - umso mehr mit Lektüren, die Ihre Schüler/-innen auch allein zu Hause bewältigen können. Mit diesem Literaturangebot...

Marsh Logan resigned from the NYPD to pursue his passion: music. But everything changes when his father is murdered and the capture of the killer continues to elude all efforts to identify and apprehend him. That is the frustrating fix in which Marsh finds himself, so when he is offered the chance to investigate a woman's murder and her husband's disappearance, he accepts because it provides an opportunity to clear his mind of his depressing f...