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Island Press began with a simple idea:knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways for getting us there. Founded in 1984, Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. We elevate voices of change, shine a spotlight on crucial issues, and focus attention on sustainable solutions. Our network of authors includes E.O. Wilson, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Earle, Gretchen Daily, Jan Gehl, Daniel Pauly, and many others. By working closely with experts like these, Island Press has developed a comprehensive and growing body of knowledge—vital resources for all those working to protect the environment and create healthy communities.
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Children's stationery & miscellaneous itemsMarch 2022The Reading Journey
A Writing Journal
by The Otto Foundation
The Reading Journey is a journal for your literary adventures. Join a group of furry and feathered friends for an exploration of the extraordinary world of words, stories, reading and writing. Designed by library designers, linguists and childhood experts, you can now plot your course through the Map of Memories. Join us for a ride on the Book Boat, the Poetry Plane and the Story Sled, Visit the Mountains of Meaning, the Gorge of Gorgeous Words, the Forest of Feelings, and the Desert of Dreams. The Reading Journey is an interactive journal that encourages joyous curiosity about the literary realm, using the written word as a medium to expand children’s horizons, to promote self knowledge, and to cultivate a love for reading.
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November 2021The Metropolitan Age
The decisive force in the Anthropocene
by German Environmental Foundation (Ed.)
Three quarters of the world’s population live in cities. One in eight people lives in a metropolitan area. Megacities swallow up land, energy and resources – and at the same time are particularly hard hit by the current climate crisis that they fuel. However, in the metropolises of the overcrowded world plenty of committed people have heard the warning signals and establish networks to use the potential of cities to reorganize the participative and social-ecological activity that is urgently needed. The contributions to this Yearbook for Ecology focus on the present and future of cities from wide-ranging viewpoints and highlight perspectives for their creative transformation towards liveable sustainability.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2018Islamic Tourism
Management of Travel Destinations
by Ahmad Jamal, Kevin Griffin, Razaq Raj
Islamic tourism is tourism primarily undertaken by its followers within the Muslim world. It is not just motivated by religious feeling - it also includes participants pursuing similar leisure experiences to non-Muslims but within the parameters set by Islam, and destinations are therefore not necessarily locations where Shari'a or full Islamic law is enacted. Demand for Islamic tourism destinations is increasing as the Muslim population expands worldwide, with the market forecast to be worth US$238 billion by 2019. This book bridges the ever-widening gap between specialists within the religious, tourism, management and education sectors through a collection of contemporary perspectives. It provides practical applications, models and illustrations of religious tourism and pilgrimage management from a variety of international perspectives and introduces theories and models in an accessible structure. The book: - Includes a range of contemporary case studies of religious and pilgrimage activity - Covers ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations - Reviews new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities A timely re-assessment of the increasing linkages and interconnections between Muslim consumers, this book provides an important overview of the subject for researchers of religious tourism, pilgrimage and related subjects.
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The ArtsMay 2021Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran
A vital past
by Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook
This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage, Mozaffari and Westbrook suggest that transformations in developmental contexts like Iran must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges, as well as the specificities of localities. The premise of the book is that development has been a globalizing project that originated in the West. Transposed into other contexts, this project instigates a renewed historical consciousness and imagination of the past. The authors explore the rise of this consciousness in architecture, examining the theoretical context to the debates, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, the use of housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and forms of symbolic public architecture that reflect monumental time.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureApril 2022The Fig
Botany, Production and Uses
by Ali Sarkhosh, Alimohammad Yavari, Louise Ferguson
The common fig Ficus carica L. is an ancient fruit native to the Mediterranean. Dried figs have been successfully produced and processed in arid regions with little sophisticated infrastructure for centuries. Figs are rich in fibre, trace minerals, polyphenols and vitamins, with higher nutrient levels than most fruits. Advances in agricultural production and postharvest technologies have not only improved the efficiency of dried fig production but have facilitated the development of both local and export high value fresh fig industries. The result is high quality fresh figs marketed internationally throughout the year. This book provides a comprehensive summary of fig growing, processing and marketing from a scientific and horticultural perspective. The nineteen chapters include in-depth discussions of: · History · Physiology · Breeding and Cultivars · Propagation · Site Selection and Orchard Establishment · Nutrition and Irrigation Management · Pollination Management · Integrated Pest Management · Greenhouse Production · Harvesting, Dried and Fresh Fig Processing · The Medicinal Uses of Figs · World Fig Markets The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses is a comprehensive applied resource for academic researchers, also producers, processors, and marketers of dried and fresh figs.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End
The changing landscape of dress and language
by Fatima Rajina
Drawing on the everyday experiences of 43 British-Bangladeshi Muslims living in East London, this book explores stories of migration and belonging vis-à-vis dress and language. In narrating those stories, the book is framed within the broader socio-political conversations happening regarding Muslims in Britain and their 'place' in this society. Recent work on Muslims focuses on their religious identity and its formation, not paying attention to the role of dress and language. With the former, much of it tends to, obsessively, focus on Muslim women only. This book, alternatively, explores religious identity formation in addition to examining the British-Bangladeshi Muslim community's relationship with their ethnic identity vis-à-vis dress and language. As such, the analysis provides a rich, bottom-up analysis of the community, and readers will be able to understand a community holistically, away from the over-sensationalised community within broader socio-political context.
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Humanities & Social SciencesShi Ji for Teenagers
by Zhang Jiahua
Shi Ji (The Records of the Great Historian) is the first biographical historical book in China, compiled by Sima Qian from 104 BC to 90 BC. This book contains records from the Yellow Emperor (the forefather of Chinese in legend) to Han Emperor Wudi, covering the history of more than 3,000 years. To help today's children better appreciate such a great work, the famous children's literature writer Zhang Jiahua created this set of books Shi Ji for Teenagers. In this book series, there are 60 pieces of writing, which have been composed based on outstanding figures selected from Shi Ji, including emperors, generals, sons of notable families, counselors, educators, warriors, philosophers, and assassins. Upon publication, this book series has just captured reader's interest with vivid story telling. It has been sold for more than 5 millions of copies and won more than 10 awards, including the "China Excellent Publication Award."
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureMay 2022Advances in Fig Research and Sustainable Production
by Moshe A Flaishman, Uygun Aksoy
The common fig (Ficus carica L.) is one of the oldest fruits domesticated by humans, and is native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean. Figs have been associated with health and prosperity since ancient times. They are rich in fibre, potassium, calcium, and iron, as well as being an important source of vitamins, amino acids, and antioxidants. In recent years, increased consumption has caused fig production to shift to new countries such as Mexico, Brazil, India, and China. However, fig is a challenging fruit crop to grow. It is susceptible to insect pests and diseases as well as injuries from abiotic stress during fruit development and ripening. As a delicate fruit it also requires complicated postharvest procedures and climate change presents additional challenges. Comprising 29 chapters written by international experts, the book includes sections on: History Biology and Orchard Management Fruit Ripening and Postharvest Management Pests and Diseases Omics Analysis Cultivars and Breeding Products and Trade. This volume serves as a comprehensive reference for current and future practices of fig production, consumption, research and innovation, and is essential for academic researchers, and those involved in research and development in the fig industry.
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Biography & True StoriesDecember 2018Ji Kang: The Prominent Celebrity in Wei and Jin Dynasties
by Pi Yuanzhen, Huang Dingsan
Ji Kang (223-262) was a renowned ideologist, litterateur, musician, painter in the Wei and Jin dynasties in Chinese history. The book serves as a biography of Ji Kang with the illustration of his life stories to introduce the lengendary life of Ji Kang and explore the historical implication.
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The ArtsJune 2021Algerian national cinema
by Guy Austin
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Algerian national cinema
by Guy Austin
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.3/9) GOOD GOVERNANCE IN ISLAM
by Mohd Sani bin Badron, Suzana binti Md. Samsudi, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Mohamad Rasid
This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.4/9) ISLAM, AND MORAL FREEDOM: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
by Siti Fatimah binti Abdul Rahman, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid
This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.2/9) DEVELOPING THE ISLAMIC MIND
by Nik Roskiman, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad
This volume is part of the Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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December 2015Gift of the Dark Mother Earth
by Can Xue
Gift of the Dark Mother Earth, the latest novel by Can Xue, is a profound metaphor of her hometown. It follows her usual magical style in the sense that it vividly unfolds the complex and delicate inner world of the characters. The story takes place in the remote Wuliqu School, with such distinctive characters as Teacher Meiyong, Zhang Danzhi, Yutian, Xiao Man, Uncle Yun and Sha Men presented one after another. The personality and human nature exposed through unique dialogues enable the readers to feel a return to simplicity so that they want to explore human soul and nature and start in-depth reading and thinking. The book depicts petty matters in a great age. The author’s ambition is to create a feeling for the pattern of the whole universe through the structure of an ordinary tree leaf, and to unify the arbitrarily split world through the narration of various folk sundries so that different characters can all become the center of this unity and their performance can have a universality. As the only Chinese writer who has won the Best Translated Book Award in the United States, Can Xue was nominated for the foreign novel prize of The Independent of the UK and shortlisted in the Neustadt International Prize for Literature of the US. As the Chinese woman writer, whose works have been translated and published the most abroad, Can Xue has been called the most creative Chinese writer by overseas critics.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.5/9) THE FAILURE OF EXTREME CAPITALISM: IS ISLAMIC ECONOMICS THE ANSWER?
by Muhammd Hisyam bin Mohamad, Nur Syahidah binti Abdul Jalil, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid
This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO.1/9) MAQASIDIDC FRAMEWORK FORTHE FORMATION OF KHAYRA UMMAH (THE BEST OF PEOPLE)
by Azrina binti Sobian, Haji Mohammad Rohaizad bin Haji Mohamad Rasid (Illustrator)
This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2021Women Emirate? The Female Politicians of Muslim World
by Natalia Malynovska
If you ask someone the name of a famous politician, you will probably hear a European or American name. And this will once again confirm how little we know about women in politics from other parts of the world. In our book you will find stories of famous politicians and statesmen from different Muslim countries. These women not only became the first parliamentarians, prime ministers, ministers, speakers of parliament in their countries, but went through a thorny path, became influential and famous both at home and abroad. The book will help to understand the Muslim world and the nature of women’s rights in Islam, the contradictions and combinations of feminism in the conventional «West» and «East». The author examines social movements and organizations public campaigns and protests in Muslim countries that have influenced women’s political rights and led to significant changes in the Middle East and beyond.
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KHAYRA UMMAH SERIES (NO. 6/9) RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIROMENTAL DEGRADATION
by Shaikh Mohd Saifuddeen bin Shaikh Mohd Salleh
This volume is part of The Khayra Ummah series, being itself the culmination of a sequence of colloquium of several themes organised by IKIM. The issues addressed in this series are: Islamic economics; Islamophobia; governance; moral deterioration; disruptive technology; the Islamic state and society; enviromental degradation; and the Islamic mind.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Capitalism in contemporary Iran
Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics
by Kayhan Valadbaygi
By situating Iran within the neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics, this book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and transformations in class and state formation emanating from it. It shows that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about two capital fractions, namely the internationally-oriented capital fraction and the military-bonyad complex. It substantiates that the co-existence of these competing class fractions with different accumulation strategies has generated hybrid neoliberalism. The book further demonstrates how this new class formation has reorganised the function and operation of state institutions and transformed state ideology. By documenting the ways in which Iranian neoliberalisation has reshaped the subaltern classes and formed Iran's volatile foreign policy, it also provides a novel account of major events and processes in contemporary Iran, such as the post-2017 wave of uprisings, the nuclear programme and international sanctions.
