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The Land of Zeekola
by Amr Abdelhamid
Can you imagine entering a crypt to find yourself in a strange land whose people deal with intelligence units? You work and do not take your wage in cash, but rather your intelligence units increase, and if you buy something, they decrease. It is the wondrous land of Zeekola, where there is no place for lazy ones. Whoever runs out of units will be killed. A strange adventure in which the novel takes us with its hero Khaled, who suddenly finds himself there to get to know that country. We live with its people, witness his meeting with the doctor Aseel, and go with him on a path he never choose.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureSeptember 2023Pre and Probiotics for Poultry Gut Health
by Helen Masey O'Neill, Emily Burton, Dawn Scholey
Poultry are the most widely used animal protein source in the world: billions of meat birds are produced globally each year, using 360 million tonnes of feed. Within Europe, over 30,000 companies involved in the production of poultry create an annual turnover of €107 billion. However, maintaining the sustainability of the industry as it moves towards antibiotic-free production is one of the key challenges. Starting with an overview of antibiotics as growth promoters and the challenges faced as the industry moves away from their use, this book then thoroughly considers the potential of pre and probiotic additives in poultry gut health. The book: - Includes thorough definitions of additives in the pre and probiotic space and examples of how they work; - Addresses how to test pre and probiotics and other similar additives, and how they interact with other products, with learning from both poultry and allied sectors; - Combines authors from both academic and industry backgrounds on all chapters, to ensure coverage is balanced, robust and commercially relevant. Based on the renowned World Poultry Science Association UK Branch Poultry Science Symposium 2022, this book provides a thorough and valuable contribution to the field for all involved with the nutrition and production of poultry.
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MedicineSeptember 2018Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Edited by Andrew Butterworth
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
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January Revolution: Critic Vision
by Amr Abdelrahman, Amr Adly, Mahmoud Hadhood and Aly El-Raggal
This book looks through the question of “the historical horizon of January Revolution”; namely it follows the roots and the characteristics of the main and active powers in the revolution; studying their histories before 2011 to find out the limits of their potentials and historical horizon. The book supposes that the revolution did not happen by coincidence. It has not evoluted and progressed, then retreated and defeated at random. This is understood and self-evident. But in addition to, and based on, this axiom; the four authors present what can be described as the DNA profiling of the main actors in January, the DNA profiling that reveals the genetic trait, namely defines the nature and limits of options. For example, the new capitalism that emerged in the late 1970s and participated in the governance one way or another under the umbrella of the project of power inheritance to Gamal Mubarak, whose spearhead was the Committee of Policies in the National Democratic Party – this capitalism rushed to put forth its demands and try to impose them. So, it merged in this context, due to the nature of the Egyptian political sphere, in a project of power inheritance with an authoritarian nature. This exactly what played a critical role in defining its situations and options after January. Another example is the Muslim Brothers, who waged the turbulence of the revolution carrying a long history of “liability to otherness”, namely to isolation and marginalization as “others” that can be depicted -as said in a song- “they are people and we are people”. Those isolated Brothers, as opposite to the pressing powers to isolate them, entered in a mutual trajectory of exclusion and disengagement that ended with the catastrophic results we have witnessed. That was also the case with the civil powers that introspected practices and crystalized a discourse of “wholly national” nature that included in its combination what allowed later the explosion of “statehood” that defined the period after June 2013. At all these levels and fields, the book reveals the roots of January’s victories and defeats in the history previous to 2011, not with the logic of “historical determinism” but with the logic of potentials whose limits can be understood only through the deconstruction of the context and the history.
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Crescent of Sovereignty
Islam and Ordering of the World
by Amr AbdulAziz
This book aims at articulating and discussing the basics and essentials of the Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) and its principals, and elucidating its grandeur by detecting how it administrates the global political sphere in Islam, and unveiling its explanatory motives behind the political actions, which are religious and promotive. ITIR is a masterpiece paradigm, and has an unrivaled logic that no other foreign independent theory has ever assembled. Although it may show some common similarities with one aspect in specific contemporary theory, however, it swiftly shows a distinct dissent in many others. Further, the magnitude of disagreement is usually much higher than any concordance. In conclusion, this is a research in the richness of Islam, as an explanatory and constructor of international political system, and its uniqueness as a pilot and interpreter theory.
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The Egyptian Economy in the 21st Century
by Wael Gamal, Sameh Naguib, Mohamed Gad, Mohamed Moslem, Ashraf Hussein, Salma Hussein, Heba Khalil, Amr Adly, Mohamed Sultan and Dina Makram Ebeid
The dominant discourse in economy has a double danger. In addition to its expression, as all dominant discourses, of the interests of prevailing social powers, excluding intentionally the other insights and alternatives; it presents itself, in this case specifically, as an unquestionable technique scientific discourse; because it is based on disciplined accounts and undoubtable mathematical equations. This exactly what this book aspires to expose. For the dominant economic discourse here and everywhere is an ideological discourse saturated with social prejudices, though its coverage with supposed sacristy of numbers and mathematical equations. Along ten chapters, the book presents an analytical panorama of the Egyptian economy; from the income distribution to the international compactivity, from the investment and formation of new capitalists of favouritism to the distribution of income and wealth, from trade to debts, and from conditions of clerks to the monetary policy. All that comes out of a premise that sees the economic process not as a technical subject only for experts, but as a subject of social conflict where property patterns are linked to the patterns of distributing profits and wealth, where policies are laid out of interests, and where alternatives are offered as an expression of ambitions to change not only policies, but the structures of property and the patterns of administration.
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Sports & outdoor recreationSeptember 2015Trading Secrets
Squash Greats Recall Their Greatest Duels
by Rod Gilmour
The greatest names in squash describe their most famous matches, the stories behind their success, the legendary training secrets and physical attributes that made them champions. From Pakistani great Azam Khan and the extraordinary story of how he came to Britain, Trading Secrets follows the emergence of Geoff Hunt and Jonah Barrington, two players who took fitness and sporting rivalry to a new level in the 60s and 70s. Their rivalry ignited the back pages of newspapers across the globe. Trading Secrets also lifts the lid on the stars' secrets in a sport that is slowly rediscovering its lustre after several decades in the wilderness. Reflecting this popular resurgence, the book looks at the battles of Peter Nicol, Britain's first world champion, and Canadian magician Jonathon Power before the likes of Nick Matthew and Ramy Ashour recall the matches which have transcended them into modern greats of the game. Their duels have been brought to life with archived reports from squash's correspondents of the time.
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Aquaculture & fish-farming: practice & techniquesJune 2021Innovations in Fishing and Fish Processing Technologies
by Ravishankar C.N., Mohanthy, Kumar Amulya,Sajeev M.V. & Murugadas V.
The present book Innovations in Fisheries and Fish Processing Technologies covers the entire gamut of topics in the field of fishing technology. The book starts with, history, genetic resources m information on mariculture, ornamentals fishes, sustainable fishing, designing of new fishing gears and trawlers, storage and value addition, Packaging, nutraceuticals, utilization of waste material from fishes, fish products etc.
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Religion & beliefsAl-Kafi Ossoul vol 2
by Mohammad Ibn-e Yaghoub Al-Kulayni
Al-Kafi Ossoul is the title of the first of the three sections of the book Al-Kafi Hadith. In this section, hadiths related to Shiite beliefs and the lives of Shiite Imams and some hadiths that speak about the behavior of a Muslim are collected. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the most important source for understanding the beliefs of the Shiites, which has been published many times separately from the original Al-Kafi Book, and numerous translations and commentaries have been written and published on it. The author of the book Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ya'qub ibn Ishaq Kolini Razi is known as the Trustee of Islam Kolini. He is one of the scholars and narrators of the period of minor absence. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the title of the first of the three sections of the book Al-Kafi Hadith. In this section, hadiths related to Shiite beliefs and the lives of Shiite Imams and some hadiths that speak about the behaviors of a Muslim are collected (3785 Hadith). In the other two parts of the book, the author deals with jurisprudential narrations and moral sermons. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the most important source for understanding the beliefs of the Shiites, which has been published many times separately from the original Al-Kafi Book, and numerous translations and commentaries have been written and published on it.
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Agriculture & farmingJuly 2019Rainfed Agriculture and Watershed Management
by R.K.Nanwal
The book will cater the need of the students about rainfed agriculture. The chapters of this book have been selected and arranged in such a manner as to lead the students through the entire gamut of rainfed agriculture both theory and practical. It is supported by suitable examples and diagrams. The materials on subject matter is set forth in such a manner and order as to enable them to better understand and follow to a reasonable degree of uniformity and their approach to the problems of rainfed agriculture.
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Agriculture & farmingJune 2017Rainfed Agriculture
by R.K. Nanwal & G.A. Rajanna
The chapters of the book have been selected and arranged in such a manner as to lead the students through the entire gamut of rainfed agriculture supported by suitable examples and diagrams. The topics covered are most relevant in view of growing interests in rainfed agriculture technologies. The focus is on new concept and approaches in dryland and rainfed lands; rainfed farming-introduction, characteristics, distribution and problems; efficient management of rainfed crops; water harvesting and moisture conservation; study of mulches and antitranspirants; principles of intercropping; concept of watershed resource management; drought and its management; soil erosion-definition, nature and extent of erosion; stress physiology; scope of agro-horticultural, agro-forestry and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture etc.
