• Author(s): Linda Elkins-Tanton
• ISBN: 9780816051939
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Date: 28 Apr 2006
• Pages: 192

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• Author(s): Charles F. Gritzner
• ISBN: 9780791092330
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Date: 30 Nov 2006
• Pages: 128

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• Author(s): C. S. Watkins
• ISBN: 9780521802550
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Edition: 1
• Date: 04 Feb 2008
• Pages: 288

This is a fascinating study of religious culture in England from 1050 to 1250. Drawing on the wealth of material about religious belief and practice that survives in the chronicles, Carl Watkins explores accounts of signs, prophecies, astrology, magic, beliefs about death and the miraculous and demonic. He challenges some of the prevailing assumptions about religious belief, questioning in particular the attachment of many historians to terms such as 'clerical' and 'lay', 'popular' and 'elite', 'Christian' and 'pagan' as explanatory categories. The evidence of the chronicles is also set in its broader context through explorations of miracle collections, penitential manuals, exempla and sermons. The book traces shifts in the way the supernatural was conceptualized by learned writers and the ways in which broader patterns of belief evolved during this period. This original account sheds important new light on belief during a period in which the religious landscape was transformed.

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• Author(s): Nancy Bonvillain
• ISBN: 9780791085943
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Date: 29 Sep 2005
• Pages: 120

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• Author(s): E. Siobhan Mitchell, D. J. Triggle
• ISBN: 9780791076354
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Date: 29 Jan 2004
• Pages: 112

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• Author(s): M. Saito
• ISBN: 9780870403729
• Publisher: Wehman Brothers
• Date: 29 Jun 1989
• Pages: 146

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• Author(s): Mallett
• ISBN: 9780415451031
• Publisher: Routledge
• Edition: 2
• Date: 12 Nov 2007
• Pages: 396

A comprehensive, user-friendly and interesting reference book that explains key concepts, ideas and current requirements in primary English. Includes:

• over 600 entries
• short definitions of key concepts (e.g. parts of speech)
• succint explanations of current UK requirements
• extended entries on major topics such as speaking and listening, reading, writing, drama, bilingualism and children's literature
• up to date information and discussion of important issues
• key references and accounts of recent research findings
• a Who's Who of Primary English.

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• Author(s): Roger Young
• ISBN: 9781403325822
• Publisher: 1st Books Library
• Date: 01 Aug 2002
• Pages: 152

The book is as simple as possible and aimed at a non-technical audience with absolutely no knowledge of computers or electronics, but it is an electrical engineering text. A typical page consists of a circuit diagram (or program) and a paragraph or two of explanation. The book begins with a VERY simple circuit and continues to a very complex circuit (a computer) while explaining everything. Everything has been made as simple as possible while leaving nothing out. Eighty-four circuit diagrams and some timing diagrams and short programs make every point clear.

Computers are the most complex machines that have ever been created. This is the first book to make it possible for ordinary people to understand precisely how the processor, the main and most complex part of a computer, works. In fact, it completely explains the operation of a complete, though simple, computer.

Relays, which are explained, are used in the circuitry instead of transistors for simplicity, though transistors are mentioned.

Did you ever wonder what a bit, a latch, a word (of memory), a data bus, an address bus, a memory, a register, a processor, a timing diagram, a clock (of a processor), an instruction, or machine code is? Though most explanations of how computers work are a lot of analogies or require a background in electrical engineering, this book will tell you precisely what each of them is and how each of them works without requiring any previous knowledge of computers or electronics.

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• Author(s): David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons
• ISBN: 9780801013003
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Date: 01 Oct 2007
• Pages: 256

Based on groundbreaking Barna Group research, unChristian uncovers the negative perceptions young people have of Christianity and explores what can be done to reverse them.

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• Author(s): Anthony James Leggett
• ISBN: 9780198526438
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date: 23 Nov 2006
• Pages: 408

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter
systems. Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and
superfluidity; the physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, "classical" superconductors, superfluid 3-He, "exotic" superconductors and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases.The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced
undergraduates.

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• ISBN: 9781591403739
• Publisher: IGI Global
• Date: 27 Oct 2004
• Pages: 347

Contemporary Research in E-Marketing brings the intrinsically inter-disciplinary work of e-marketing, by academic researchers from various fields, to one outlet. This book fuels the cross-fertilization of ideas and greater dissemination of key research concepts. Contributions from fields as diverse as marketing, management, MIS, communication, computer science and finance offer exposure to cutting-edge ideas with broad scope and international focus.

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• Author(s): Jack Smart, Frances Altorfer
• ISBN: 9780071430180
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Edition: 3
• Date: 14 Apr 2004

Talk like an Egyptian. Teach yourself Arabic!

With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow Teach Yourself Arabic at your own pace or use it as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is professionally designed for self-guided study, making it one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Teach Yourself Arabic includes an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.

Prepared by experts in Arabic, the course begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

• Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
• Regular and irregular verb tables
• Plenty of practice exercises and answers
• Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
• Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
• An exploration of the culture
• And much more

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• ISBN: 9780631216346
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date: 18 Feb 2005
• Pages: 640

A Companion to Religious Ethics is a rich resource for understanding the moral teachings and practices of the world's religions.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first section on moral inquiry covers concepts and theories in ethics, the means whereby religions transmit morals, and the issues involved in comparing different religions. The second section takes an in-depth look at particular moral traditions, discussing the origins, history, and potential future directions of each one, as well as the relevance of ethical categories to various forms of religious thought. The final series of essays discusses the ways in which the religions provide resources for addressing current moral challenges in areas such as ecology, economics, global dynamics, religious war, human rights, and other topics.

Written by internationally renowned scholars, this Companion maps the moral teachings of the world's religions, and also charts new directions for work in the field of religious ethics.

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• ISBN: 9781405117524
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date: 02 Jul 2006
• Pages: 560

The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an is the ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life.

The volume is divided into accessible sections, including an initial orientation to the text for the first-time reader. The Companion then goes on to consider:

* The structure of the Qur'an, asking why it looks the way it does.

* The content of the Qur'an and what the text is about.

* The rhetoric of the Qur'an and how it conveys its message.

* How Muslims have interpreted the text.

* The place of the Qur'an in the religion of Islam.

* The manifestation of the Qur'an in the world.

The main body of the book comprises over 30 original essays written by leading scholars in the field. These are supported by notes, an extensive bibliography, and indexes of names, Qur'an citations, topics, and technical terms.

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• Author(s): Kelton Cobb
• ISBN: 9781405106986
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date: 16 Dec 2005
• Pages: 352

The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music, television shows and advertising.

A timely examination and contribution to the rapidly expanding field of theology and popular culture

Locates the theological analysis of culture alongside political, sociological, economic, aesthetic and psychological analyses

Surveys the work of religious and theological scholars who have turned their attention to popular culture

Considers classic Christian thinkers who have wrestled with culture, such as St. Paul, Tertullian, Augustine, Schleiermacher, Tillich, and Ricoeur

Proposes a method for analysing culture to discern its religious content

Identifies religious themes in popular culture

Uses illustrations, ranging from the fiction of Nick Hornby to Six Feet Under

An appendix provides lists of films, novels, television series, consumer products, architectural works, cultural events, and corporate icons that lend themselves to theological analysis.

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• ISBN: 9781402074066
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 01 Apr 2003
• Pages: 520

Halogenated organic compounds constitute one of the largest groups of environmental chemicals. The industrial production of new halogenated organic compounds has increased throughout the last century and these compounds are integral to a variety of industrial applications. Although organohalide compounds are typically considered to be anthropogenic industrial compounds, these have their counterpart in several thousands of natural biogenic and geogenic organohalides, representing most classes of organic chemicals. Natural sources account for a significant portion of the global organohalogen budget.

This volume, authored by leading experts in the field, provides a current perspective on how both natural and synthetic organohalides are formed and degraded, and how these processes are incorporated into a global halogen cycle. The list of organohalides that can be utilized by microbes continues to increase dramatically, as do the number of dehalogenating microorganisms that have been identified and characterized. A critical step in the degradation of organohalides is cleavage of the carbon-halogen bond, and microorganisms have evolved a variety of metabolic strategies for dehalogenation. The chapters provide a global perspective on the diversity of dehalogenating microorganisms, explore their ecology, biochemistry and genetics, and review the range of biologically-mediated dehalogenation mechanisms. Many of the problematic organohalides, such as pesticides, chlorofluorocarbons, chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls, are covered in detail. The book provides a comprehensive overview of fate of these compounds in the environment, practical applications in the laboratory and the field, and strategies for the development of bioremediation technologies for organohalide-contaminated sites.

Detailed information on biodegradation and biotransformation mechanisms for a variety of organohalides and on the microorganisms mediating these processes has greatly increased our understanding of the cycling and fate of these unique and widespread compounds in our environment. The book will serve as a comprehensive resource on the processes and applications of microbial degradation of halogenated organic compounds.

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• Author(s): Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
• ISBN: 9789960850443
• Publisher: International Islamic Publishing House
• Date: 27 May 2003
• Pages: 475

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• Author(s): Jonathan Owens
• ISBN: 9780199290826
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date: 13 Jul 2006
• Pages: 328

A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the
history of Arabic. The arguments are set out in a manner accessible to students and scholars of Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as to those studying Arabic and historical linguists.

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• Author(s): Wheeler M. Thackston
• ISBN: 9780936347400
• Publisher: Ibex Publishers
• Date: 01 Sep 2004
• Pages: 328

An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic is an elementary-level grammar of standard classical Arabic, the literary norm of the Arabic language that has not changed appreciably in fourteen hundred years. An indispensable tool for all who are interested in Islamic religion, science, and literature, the language presented in this book will enable the learner to study firsthand the primary sources of Islamic civilization and the classics of the Islamic Near East.

The grammar is presented clearly and in a logical progression amply illustrated by examples, most of which, along with the readings, have been taken directly from the text of the Koran and the body of hadith (the reports of Muhammad's sayings) and supplemented with extracts from other classical sources.

In the forty lessons all essential features of grammar are covered, and the student will acquire an active base vocabulary of over 450 common words and productive roots, from which many times that number of individual lexical items can be regularly and predictably formed. In the course of readings, passive exposure is given to more than 400 additional items of vocabulary.

Wheeler M. Thackston is Professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages at Harvard University, where he has taught Persian and Arabic for over twenty years.

Author of numerous books and articles on the languages and literatures of the Near East, his works include a new English translation of the Baburnama, A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art, and Tales from Luristan: Tales, Fables and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala-Garva. Other grammars by the author include Persian.

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• Author(s): Glen Baker, Susan Dunn, Andrew Holt, Abel Lajtha
• ISBN: 9780387303598
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 3
• Date: 26 Mar 2007
• Pages: 496

The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and most important, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid advances in the years since the second edition

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• ISBN: 9780631206453
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date: 28 May 2004
• Pages: 440

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

• Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
  
• Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
  
• Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
  
• Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
  
• Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

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• Author(s): Ben Caldwell
• ISBN: 9781402716126
• Publisher: Sterling
• Date: 01 Jun 2005
• Pages: 96

The sizzling hot author of Action! Cartooning (100,000 copies sold!) has created a truly "fantastic" second book: a visually eye-popping, covers-it-all manual on drawing and understanding fantasy art.

A former Marvel cartoonist and one of the most talented young artists in this very hip field, Ben Caldwell now delivers his thrilling follow-up to Action! Cartooning . Fantasy! Cartooning is ideal for all kids and adults who love the Lord of the Rings movies, anticipate the Christmas 2005 release of The Chronicles of Narnia film, or have ever read a Harry Potter book. As before, Ben does not merely teach readers how to draw a line here or a circle there; he provides much, much more. Artists will find true insider tips on how to create mind-blowing scenes, awe-inspiring monsters, bigger-than-life heroes, and really incredible, magical landscapes. And because Ben Caldwell knows the fantasy genre inside out, he explains all the complex stories and legends behind each image, too.




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• ISBN: 9783540248347
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 11 Aug 2005
• Pages: 542

The priority research program Analysis and Numerics for Conservation Laws was funded by the German research foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for a period of six years starting in 1997. The diversity of topics, represented in the present book, was one of the strengths of the research program. Research groups of very different background, most of which were interacting for the first time, contributed to this interdisciplinary work.

The present book contains contributions from interlinked participating projects ranging from the analysis of hyperbolic systems of first order partial differential equations, the development of improved numerical methods for these equations to applications in astrophysics and engineering. It aims at conveying their results achieved in the program to readers outside of their own particular field.

The book contains a large number of figures and a number of color plates. The reader can find an up-to-date presentation of many current research topics in the field.

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• ISBN: 9783540230267
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 12 Jan 2005
• Pages: 303

The numerical treatment of partial differential equations with particle methods and meshfree discretization techniques is a very active research field both in the mathematics and engineering community. Due to their independence of a mesh, particle schemes and meshfree methods can deal with large geometric changes of the domain more easily than classical discretization techniques. Furthermore, meshfree methods offer a promising approach for the coupling of particle models to continuous models. This volume of LNCSE is a collection of the papers from the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Meshfree Methods held in September 2003 in Bonn. The articles address the different meshfree methods (SPH, PUM, GFEM, EFGM, RKPM, etc.) and their application in applied mathematics, physics and engineering. The volume is intended to foster this new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research and to present recent advances and results in this field.

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