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This is a major effort by Islamic studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. It explores many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework.

Focuses on the adverse effects and life-threatening emergencies caused by reactions to the contrast media. This book teaches proper recognition and treatment of adverse contrast reactions, use of sedation and analgesic agents, management of an airway in an emergency situation and principle concepts in basic and advanced life support.

Analyzes the causes and the consequences of deadly transfers of clandestine arms, illegal migrants, illicit drugs, hazardous materials, infectious diseases, and information disruptions.

This volume provides a guide to the way organizational management in Africa is practiced. It offers background and theory and stresses the application of concepts and principles to privatization, strategic planning, human resource planning and training, and to many other skills.

In this new edition of An Introduction to Pseudo Differential Operators, the style and scope of the original book are retained. A chapter on the interchange of order of differentiation and integration is added at the beginning to make the book more self-contained, and a chapter on weak solutions of pseudo-differential equations is added at the end to enhance the value of the book as a work on partial differential equations. Several chapters ar...

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The men who made up the Supreme Court when Earl Warren was Chief Justice (1953-69) changed America forever, and their decisions are still affecting constitutional law today. This overview of the Warren Court focuses on its landmark cases and enduring legacy.

An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16, 000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and other researchers' field data and demonstrates the potential contribution of conducting archaeological research into anthropology-related issues in...

In this introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning fiction of Toni Morrison, Jan Furman surveys six novels, a short story, and a book of criticism to reconstruct the development of Morrison's creative vision and to assess its influence on contemporary literature. She chronicles Morrison's growth as a writer and traces the recurrent characters, themes, and settings that embody Morrison's literary philosophy. Demonstrating that Morrison strongly su...

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No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission.

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, womens studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality ...

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, womens studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality ...

In this fresh translation of five lectures delivered in 1907 at the University of Göttingen, Edmund Husserl lays out the philosophical problem of knowledge, indicates the requirements for its solution, and for the first time introduces the phenomenological method of reduction. For those interested in the genesis and development of Husserl's phenomenology, this text affords a unique glimpse into the epistemological motivation of his work, his c...

Offers a unique new way of viewing and understanding organizations, and how to manage them in today's rapidly evolving and uncertain economy.

The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society. Settlement entrepreneurs used the press to persuade Europeans to come to America. Immigrants brought religious tracts with them to spread Puritanism and other doctrines to Native Americans and the white population. The colonists used the press to openly debate issues, print advertisements for business, an...

Analyzes the pivotal role of women in the development processes of African countries.

This volume situates the rise of ethnic studies in the context of Hawai'i's political and economic development.

An invaluable asset for population experts, this book provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Examines literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging, through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts.

After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status. In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of ...