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Faith and the State offers a historical development of Islamic philanthropy from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia.

New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical thermody­ namics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress in research. However, some areas of chemistry, especially many of those taught at the graduate level, suffer from a real lack of up-to-date textbook...

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On November 9-11, 1998, 85 participants, representing 17 countries, gathered in Aubum Hills, Michigan, at the Chrysler Tech Center, to attend a workshop "SSM'98" (or Sculptured Surface Machining '98) organized by IFIP Working Group 5.3. This was the first major workshop on sculptured surface machining since the CAM-I sponsored conference "Machining Impossible Surfaces" held in 1981. The purpose of the SSM'98 workshop, entitled "Machining Impos...

The transItIOn-state theory has been, from the point of its inception, the most influential principle in the development of our knowledge of reaction mechanisms in solution. It is natural that as the field of biochemical dynamics has achieved new levels of refinement its students have increasingly adopted the concepts and methods of transition-state theory. Indeed, every dynamical problem of biochemistry finds its most elegant and economical s...

In many of nowadays web-based environments for electronic marketing and commerce, that present large multimedia product and service catalogues, it becomes more and more difficult to provide naive end users, such as private consumers or commercial business partners, with intuitive user interfaces to access the large multimedia collections describing the presented products and services. The same holds for marketing managers and other employees r...

This concise and practical guide thoroughly presents the characteristics of children with specific mild exceptionalities in today's diverse classroom. Using an active, problem-solving approach that reflects how today's students learn, Dr. Sydney S. Zentall identifies the characteristics of children with mild exceptionalities that can be gleaned from observations, written descriptions, and personal interactions. Unlike many texts on this topic,...

Intriguya obiliem tayn i zagadok, roman zastavlyaet razmyshlyat' ob istinnykh tsennostyakh: o zhizni, o druzhbe, o lyubvi, o Puti i Prednaznachenii. A takzhe, o nenavisti, podlosti, predatel'stve... Nesmotrya na syuzhetnuyu zanimatel'nost', eto ne legkoe razvlekatel'noe chtenie. No chitatel', davshiy sebe trud preodolet' khitrospleteniya syuzheta i ikh filosofskoe osmyslenie, nesomnenno budet voznagrazhdyen. Podkupaet neistoshchimaya fantaziya...

Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and viewpoints. Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education provides a collection of performative texts that retell the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful and engaging ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling. Performances of...

Energy consumption level is a significant indicator in measuring a nation's economic, scientific and technological progress. The energy industry in China is a topic of interest for many researchers, given the rapid industrialization taking place in the country for the past ten years. This book provides a comprehensive ¿map¿ of energy industry in China based on objective data, and uses this data to analyze the status and current trends in the i...

Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the impor...

Shared Prophets brings together in one place all the relevant revelations about the biblical heroes, and the odd villain, of both the Old (Hebrew Bible) and the New Testament, whom Allah invited to strut their stuff on His stage, the Koran. ---- Like most non-Muslims who are familiar with the Christian Bible but not the Koran I assumed it was like the Bible with stories from the past with God taking center-stage, occurring at a specific time a...

The focus in INTRODUCTORY & INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA: AN APPLIED APPROACH, 6th EDITION remains on the Aufmann Interactive Method (AIM). Students are encouraged to be active participants in the classroom and in their own studies as they work through the How To examples and the paired Examples and You Try It problems. Student engagement is crucial to success. Presenting students with worked examples, and then providing them with the opportunity to i...

The author is a direct descendent of the adventurous Baron Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (immortalized by Longfellow) and Pidianiske, daughter of Penobscot Chief Madockawando. Feted as a veteran of the liberation of Europe, Charles Shay unexpectedly finds himself in the footsteps of his French ancestry, being received in Basque villages, in the region of Castine (184 illustrations). "Charles Norman Shay is a Penobscot Indian elder at ...

Wombat is looking for a musical instrument to play. But his real problem is finding one that is not too big and not too long. Not too difficult and not too tall. And not too heavy and not too loud. With the help of Bundy the dog Wombat begins to look at some musical instruments. But will he find one that is just the right size and shape for a little Wombat to play?

Contains more than 140 triple-tested recipes from Tom Parker Bowles' kitchen notebook, with authoritative information on choosing ingredients and cooking techniques and stunning specially commissioned photography by renowned food photographer Cristian Barnett. Chapters covered include family favourites, quick fixes and dishes inspired by Tom's travels, such as ceviche or lime marinated prawns with avocado and a chapter on cooking for children ...

For over 80 years, Osborn s has been the dictionary of choice for law students. With over 4, 700 references from the obscure to the everyday it contains everything needed for the study of law. No matter what the subject, Osborn will cover it with references on Criminal Law, Company Law, International Law through to EU and Constitutional Law. Osborn s also includes an extensive citations list, a useful tool for finding and understanding journal...

Stories from the Street is a theological exploration of interviews with men and women who have experienced homelessness at some stage in their lives. Expanding the existing literature of contextual theology, this book provides an alternative focus to a church-shaped mission by advocating with, and for, a very marginal group.

The Ukulele Playlist: Kids' Songs is a fantastic selection of songs old and new, specially arranged for Ukulele! Contains over 40 well known favourites such as 'If Your Happy And You Know It', 'Let¿s Go Fly A Kite' and 'The Circle of Life'.