Islam: The Key Concepts By Kecia Ali, Oliver Leaman
2007 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0415396395 | PDF | 2 MB
Islam: The Key Concepts is a clear andВconcise guide to the religion and culture of Islam. Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman explore this highly topical subject focusing on keyВissues including: the Qur’an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in Europe and Islamic Law. This is the ideal study resource and includes: a comprehensive introduction, an alphabetical list of relevant terms (fully cross-referenced),Вa short bibliographical guide, bibliography, and index. A glossary of all non-English terms is also provided.

Invisible Women: Junior Enlisted Army Wives By Margaret C. Harrell
2001 | 131 Pages | ISBN: 0833028804 | PDF | 2 MB
Military manpower policy is often crafted by policymakers without an in-depth understanding of the life experiences and views of junior enlisted personnel. It is plausible to expect that some policymakers attribute the attitudes and experiences of these young soldiers to such features as youth or lack of an advanced education and may thus believethemselves able to empathize with this population group by recalling their own parallel life experiences. However, this approach oversimplifies the life experiences of these families and neglects the reality that most policymakers and professional managers have never experienced the compendium of problems these couples face, such as youth, lack ofeducation, financial difficulties, emotional and physical distance from extended family, and invisibility in a large bureaucracy. At the center of this book are the personal stories of three junior enlisted spouses, told in their own voices and selected to emphasize the dilemmas numerous enlisted families face. The stories provide insight into the experiencesand attitudes of other junior enlisted families. Those interested or involved in the military, or those who live a military lifestyle--at any pay grade--will find these stories both useful and engaging.

Infection and Immunity By Jon S. Friedland, Liz Lightstone
2004 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 1841843733 | PDF | 4 MB
Imperial College London, UK. Explores current areas of research and discusses the role of MHC genes, cytokine networks, and B-cells. Examines the genetics of infection with emphasis on the building blocks on which host defense is based. For researchers and practitioners.

Health Information Management: Integrating Information and Communication Technology in Health Care Work By Marc Berg
2003 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0415315190 | PDF | 3 MB
This book introduces the reader to the challenges, lessons learned and new insights of health information management at the beginning of the 21st century with a strong international orientation.

Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy By Janet Salmons, Janet Salmons, Lynn Wilson
2008 | 898 Pages | ISBN: 1605661066 | PDF | 15 MB
Collaboration among organizations in the digitally connected 21st century society often requires electronic communications within and across fields to facilitate superior outcomes that would not be possible without the power of communication technologies. The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy offers exhaustive research on collaborations in education, business, and the government and social sectors. Through 50 in-depth research contributions by multidisciplinary scholars from 20 countries, this unique collection identifies areas where previous theories, literature, research methods, and approaches need to be updated to acknowledge the changes now emerging in a digitally connected global economy and society.

Groundwater Treatment Technology By Evan K. Nyer
2009 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0471657425 | PDF | 7 MB
AВkey resource on groundwater remediation, thoroughly updated and revised The cleanup of groundwater is unique. Unlike every other type of water, groundwater is not self-cleaning; we must clean the body of water, the aquifer, itself. Evan Nyer's Groundwater Treatment Technology has been the key to understanding the treatment of groundwater contamination for professionals in environmental engineering and treatment systems. Adapting to recent developments in technology, regulations, and approaches for mitigating newly monitored contaminants, this Third Edition updates and extends its coverage, this time with a dedicated focus on aboveground treatment. Groundwater Treatment Technology, Third Edition provides a complete review of current technologies for groundwater treatment. It also explains the design techniques that are required to apply those technologies successfully in a groundwater cleanup and provides the reader with the unique design criteria and detailed knowledge of these specific treatment methods. Given the current prominence of aboveground treatment, the text limits the design discussion to aboveground techniques, though it still discusses how the various aboveground technologies interact with various in-situ methods. New to the Third Edition: A unique focus on aboveground treatment technologies Coverage of new treatment methods and regulations for arsenic, radon, 1,4-dioxane, MTBE, perchlorate, and NDMA among others New material covering the operations of treatment systems Detailed strategies for remediation Specific data on treatment methods as applied in the field Wide-ranging, authoritative, and completely updated, the Third Edition of Groundwater Treatment Technology is essential reading for wastewater engineers, industrial managers, hydrologists, soil experts, government officials, and environmental lawyers who want to keep abreast of the latest developments in this still challenging field.

Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages By David Rollo
2000 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 0816635463 | PDF | 14 MB
Medieval Studies A new picture of the relationship between literacy, social status, and political power in the medieval period. Through the analysis of magic as a metaphor for the mysterious workings of writing, Glamorous Sorcery sheds light on the power attributed to language in shaping perceptions of the world and conferring status. David Rollo considers a series of texts produced in England and the Angevin Empire to reassess the value and nature of literacy in the High Middle Ages. He does this by scrutinizing metaphors that represent writing as a form of sorcery or magic in Latin texts and in the work of the Old French writer Benot de Sainte-Maure. Rollo then examines the ambiguous representation of literacy as a skill that can be exploited as a commodity. Glamorous Sorcery demonstrates how closely interconnected certain types of vernacular and Latin writing were in this period. Uncovered through a series of illuminating, incisive, and often surprising close readings, these connections give us a new, more complex appraisal of the relationship between literacy, social status, and political power in a time and place in which various languages competed for cultural sovereignty-at a critical juncture in the cultural history of the West. David Rollo is associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. Medieval Cultures Series, volume 25 Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press

Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change by Larry Weaner, Thomas Christopher
2016 | ISBN: 1604696168 | English | 328 pages | EPUB/AZW3 (True) | 118 MB/27 MB
"Shows us that guiding natural processes rather than fighting them is the key to creating healthier landscapes and happier gardeners." -Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home

Fool Britannia: Headline Making Stories from Jobsworth Britain by Sue Blackhall
2011 | ISBN: 184563117X | English | 176 pages | EPUB | 0.6 MB
Shoppers barred because they don't fit the bill, motorists targeted while real villains win the day, health and safety becoming a sick joke and Big Brother putting a dampener on our freedom, fun and fancies.

FT Guide to Saving and Investing for Retirement: The definitive handbook to securing your financial future
by Yoram Lustig
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1292129298 | 321 Pages | PDF | 6 MB