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187 Iz an Art
Mikal H. El-AminKamikaze becomes infatuated with (Paula an older girl from his projects, but after she rejects him, he realizes that the world ... (Paula, Tiffany, and Nee Cee, are three close friends from Liberty Street (projects, whom are all very beautiful street ...
Seeing Like a City
Ash AminAsh Amin, Nigel Thrift ... available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Amin, Ash, author. | Thrift, N.J., author. Title: Seeing like a city / Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift. Description: Cambridge, UK; Malden, ...
Dear Chris, Dear Sam
Mikal KeeferChris hates spelling but learns to like it when he gets a pen pal named Sam who likes basketball as much as he does. Find out what happens when Chris travels across town to Sam's school to visit and play basketball.
Land of Strangers
Ash AminJudging these developments as dangerous, this book offers a counter-argument by looking to relations that are not reducible to local or social ties in order to offer new suggestions for living in diversity and for forging a different ...
The Handmaid's Tale
Preview... but “to allow certain tendencies in modern society to spin forward without the brake of sentiment and humaneness.”3 3. Binary Oppositions: Dystopias dramatize the eternal conflict between individual 82 AMIN MALAK ON ATWOOD IN THE ...
Fordsburg Fighter: The journey of an MK volunteer
Cajee, AminThe book makes a significant contribution to the hidden history of exile, and documents Cajee's emotional odyssey from idealism to disillusionment.
Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews
PreviewThanks for sending the interesting piece by Amin Malak!2 He has ingeniously put together those 2 old papers to credit me with a theory of fiction! In fact (of course) I have none—except that I think people shd write well! Also he touchingly ...
Placing the Social Economy
Ash AminThis book provides a refreshing and accessible account of real life experience in a social economy.
Cities for the Many Not the Few
Ash AminCities for the many not the few reflects on the development of policy towards cities so far, by asking some of the bigger questions about how we might imagine cities in this new century.
Zone of Crisis: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran
Amin SaikalWhat solutions can be taken to ensure regional security? An informed and balanced overview on a troubled region, this book will fascinate general readers and prove essential reading for specialists.
Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities
Ash AminIn this book, these questions of the dynamics of innovating/learning through practices of knowing, and the management of the interface between transactional and knowledge imperatives, are approached in a cross-disciplinary and empirically ...
Balthasar's Odyssey
Amin MaaloufIn 1665, with prophecies and portents fortelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation.
Cancer Stem Cells
Vinagolu K. RajasekharBiochim Biophys Acta 1377, M25–37. Uddin, S.,Bavi, P., Siraj, A.K., Ahmed, M., AlRasheed, M., Hussain, A.R., Amin, T., Alzahrani,A., AlDayel, F., Abubaker, J., etal. (2010a). LeptinR and its associationwithPI3K/AKT signalingpathwayinpapillary ...
Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization
PreviewAsh Amin, Joanne Roberts. Prologue: Community. of. Practice. Then. and. Now. Paul Duguid On the last morning of the workshop from which this book emerged, the participants were asked to give their understanding of a community of ...
Weak States, Strong Societies: Power and Authority in the ...
Amin SaikalKarima Laachir Introduction State–society dynamics in Morocco and Algeria are complex and multilayered and must be contextualized within the historical, political, and social trajectories of the two countries. These dynamics have evolved ...
Reforms in Islamic Education: International Perspectives
PreviewIndira Falk Gesink Introduction Nineteenthcentury Egypt seethed with debates on the content of education. As one Egyptian remarked, 'the whole nation was occupied with it' (Amin, 1979, p. 195). There were two primary venues of formal ...
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Talal AsadIn a powerful critique of that work, Leila Ahmed has argued that "In calling for women's liberation the thoroughly patriarchal Amin was in fact calling for the transformation of Muslim society along the lines of the Western model and for the ...
Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New ...
PreviewThis article studies Che Husna Azhari's short story collection The Rambutan Orchard to gauge the extent to which Amin Malak's classification of the text as a Muslim narrative can be accepted, in the context of rereading of the text within the ...
Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English
PreviewAmin Malak has even claimed that the appeal of Vassanji's work resides mainly in its ironic ridicule of the claim of ethnic or religious purists: half-castes, mixed ancestries, and cross-cultural relationships or marriages are conspicuous in his ...
The social economy: international perspectives on economic ...
Ash AminThis book gathers together material on the social economy from around the world. The Social Economy is a topic of considerable contemporary research and policy interest.
Placing the social economy
Ash AminPlacing the Social Economy analyses policy and offers opinion on the future potential of the so-called Third Way, an initiative that is supposed to fulfill the role that a welfare state would normally undertake.
There Goes the Gayborhood?
Amin GhazianiScholars use many different terms to describe these settings, including abeyance structures (Verta Taylor), cultural laboratories (Carol Mueller), cultures of solidarity (Rick Fantasia), free social spaces (Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling), free ...
A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth
Preview6 What is more, as Amin Malak has noted of other Muslim uses of English, “the English language, despite all its colonial evocations and its atavistically anti- Muslim connotations, can be utilized as a sophisticated Muslim currency of credible ...
Beyond Extravagance: A Royal Collection of Gems and Jewels
Amin JafferThis spectacular volume reveals for the first time an exceptional private collection of the most beautiful royal Indian jewels from the Mughal Empire to the British Raj to today.
Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and ...
Bobby M. Wilson... 1966), 30-31. 39. Samir Amin, Empire of Chaos (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1992), 79-80. 40. hooks, Yearning, 27; Delgado, Beyond the Politics of Place, 20. 41. Stephen Philion "Bridging the Gap Between New Social Movement ...
Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New ...
PreviewThe novel's somewhat implausible 'happy ending' (Amin Malak speaks of a "deus ex machina" solution") contradicts the pessimism suggested by both the novel's title and its first epithet (taken from the poem "The City" by the Greek-Egyptian ...
Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions
Jennifer A. Wagner-LawlorEmphasis in the original. Gonzalez, “Feminist Praxis,” 29. Sargisson, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism, 14. See Amin Malak, Muslim Narratives and the Discourse ofEnglish (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005) notes that “[t]he confinement ofwomen ...
Finite Fields and Applications: Proceedings of The Fifth ...
PreviewSANDRA FEISEL, JOACHIM VON ZUR GATHEN, AND M. AMIN SHOKROLLAHI, Normal bases via general Gauft periods. Mathematics of Computation 68(225) ( 1999), 271-290. 6. S. GAO AND H. W. LENSTRA, JR., Optimal normal bases.
Head & Neck Surgery--otolaryngology
Preview... Evaluation of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract 745 Gregory N. Postma, Peter C. Belafslry, Milan R. Amin, Stacey L. Halum, and Jamie A. Koufman 54 Esophageal Disorders 755 William W. Shockley and Subinoy Das 55 Complex Upper Airway ...
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