Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam...
Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers-Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703-1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)-each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam...
To Hell and Back
Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghettos. From such a corner comes the story of Samira Bellil, who by raising her voice and telling h...
Circular Economy in Engineering Design and Production
This concise text provides the concepts, methods, and application examples for integrating sustainability into engineering design and production. It discusses the role of sustainability in the value creation processes of various enterprises and di...
Love, Hate & Other Filters
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 A romantic and relevant debut about Islamophobia and how it affects the normal life of a teenage girl. Maya Aziz dreams of being a film maker in New York. Her family have oth...
Internment
'Samira has created a chilling, powerful, all-too-real near future that's a must-read for everyone's TBR' Karen M. McManus, author of One Of Us Is Lying 'A must-read . . . A heart-rending and all-too credible tale of sacrifice, the ugly face of au...
En Gång I Veckan Drömmer Jag Att Jag Är I Iran
En personlig berättelse om en tillvaro där tiden blivit ett vapen i händerna på myndigheterna, och om villkoren för ett liv i ständig förhandling mellan ett innanför och ett utanför. Dessa texter, som baseras på en flerårig blogg, är ett uppfordrande vittnesmål om en europeisk asylpolitik som tvingar människor att försätta sig i allt farligare situationer för att bevisa sitt behov av att få stanna. Och om kampen för det liv som, trots allt, oavbrutet måste levas.Samira Motazedi är uppvuxen i Iran, där hon bl a studerat ekonomi. 2012 kom hon som flykting till Sverige och sökte asyl, året därpå fick hon avslag på sin ansökan. Sedan dess har hon stridit för att Migrationsverket ska ompröva hennes ärende samtidigt som hon kontinuerligt skrivit på sin blogg på Gläntas hemsida och i andra medier. I december 2016 beviljades Samira tillfälligt uppehållstillstånd i Sverige.
Kärlek, Hat Och Andra Filter
En New York Times bestseller"Kärlek, hat och andra filter är en lovande debut som man inte riktigt vill släppa."BTJMaya Aziz är sjutton år och född i USA, men det känns som att hon lever i två världar. Hon slits mellan att följa sina indiska föräldrars önskan - att börja på college i närheten av deras hem i Chicago och så småningom gifta sig med en trevlig, muslimsk kille - och att göra det hon själv drömmer om. För hon vill inget hellre än att flytta till New York och gå en filmutbildning, stå på egna ben och klara sig själv.Men just som hon trodde att saker inte kunde bli mer komplicerade sker en terrorattack i närheten av hennes hem, och det visar sig snart att den huvudmisstänkta delar efternamn med Maya. Grannar, klasskamrater och andra människor i Mayas närhet blir plötsligt fyllda av fruktan och hat, och hennes liv förändras till oigenkännlighet. "en fängslande bok om tonårskärlek, kontrollerande föräldrar, islamofobi, rädsla och rasism, men också om drömmar och förmåga att slå sig fri."Dast"storyn [är] fin och tänkvärd och något jag kommer bära med mig länge" Tusen sidor
Karachi Vice
Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. A place of political turbulence, where lavish wealth and absolute poverty sit side by side, and where the lines between idealism and corruption can quickly blur. Through the s...
Home Has No Borders
From New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra comes this uplifting contemporary teen anthology celebrating South Asian stories and writers. From first crushes to first heartbreaks, complicated family dynamics to community relationships, this powerful collection of stories explores race, class, culture, language, and the very idea of home as both a place and a feeling. Edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra and featuring some of the most acclaimed, bestselling South Asian authors writing for teens today—this is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it means to be South Asian. With stories by: * Anuradha D. Rajurkar, award-winning author of American Betiya * Fatimah Asghar, author of If They Come for Us and cocreator behind the Emmy-nominated miniseries Brown Girls * Jasmin Kaur, celebrated author of When You Ask Me Where I’m Going and If I Tell You the Truth * Navdeep Singh Dhillon, author of Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions *
Lebanese Cuisine
Whole grains, fruits, vegetables, chickpeas, garlic, parsley, olive oil, lemons, fresh seafood, poultry, and lamb-with its abundance of healthful ingredients, Lebanese cuisine will leave you fully satisfied! Author and recipe developer Samira Kaza...
The Singular Life of Aria Patel
'Hilarious and heart-wrenching, romantic and searching... a poetic, deeply profound exploration of the multiverses we inhabit' - Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author of the DIVINERS series 'Addictive, inventive, and sometimes chilling... One of the most original YAs I've read in years' - Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of the HAZEL WOOD series Aria Patel believes in facts. She likes stability, certainty, predictability. It's why she's so into science. And it's why she dumped her boyfriend Rohan, before they went to different colleges - the odds were that something would go wrong eventually. Unlike love, science is something you can count on. But there's no scientific explanation when Aria suddenly finds herself falling through parallel universes. And there's no formula to explain how she keeps meeting Rohan in every new universe she falls into. After being ripped away from her world seconds before a tragedy occurs, Aria is left with two mindbending,
Love, Hate And Other Filters
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventee...
Aenne Biermann
Aenne Biermann (1898-1933) was one of the leading figures of photography in the 1920s and 1930s. Today, she is considered one of the most important avant-garde photographers of the 20th century. In just a few years of practice, the self-taught art...
Data Mining and Learning Analytics
Data Mining and Learning Analytics
This Book Won't Burn
'Blazes with searing honesty and unflinching emotional truth' Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA From the New York Times bestselling author of Internment comes a timely and gripping social-suspense novel ab...
Hollow Fires
'Powerful, timely and relentlessly compelling. HOLLOW FIRES burns brightly with Samira Ahmed's trademark blend of thought-provoking social relevance, heartfelt coming-of-age and whip-smart plotting' Karen McManus, author of ONE OF US IS LYING Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. One thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the facts and not let personal bias affect the story: but that changes the day she discovers Jawad. Jawad Ali was just fourteen when a teacher saw him wearing a cosplay jetpack and mistook it for a bomb. A mistake that got Jawad arrested, labelled a terrorist - 'Bomb Boy' - and eventually killed. But who was the young boy behind the headlines? With Jawad's haunting voice guiding her throughout her investigation, Safiya seeks to tell the whole truth about the murdered boy and those who killed him. A powerful story of our times, Hollow Fires exposes the evil that hides in plain sight and the silent complicity
Impossible Revolution
Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his junta regime have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Syrians in the name of fighting terrorism. Former political prisoner, and current refugee, Yassin al-Haj Saleh exposes the lies that enable Assad to co...
Combat Trauma
Combat Trauma
Genealogical Science
The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populatio...
Facts on the Ground
Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity-and national rights-have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeolo...
Impossible Revolution
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution in...
Formation of the Modern State
With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluat...
The Sediments Of Time
Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field. In The Sediments of Time, preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early prehuman ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team's fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors. Meave's personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana--including the 3.5-million-year-old skull of the flat-faced man from Kenya, representing an important new branch of the human family--to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her
R Programming
This book is written for statisticians, data analysts, programmers, researchers, professionals, and general consumers on how to perform different types of statistical data analysis for research purposes using R object-oriented programming language...
