Authors:Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Richard N. Frye, Richard N. Frye,
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Keywords: russia, journey, fadlan, ibn
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 155876366X
ISBN-13: 9781558763661

This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Batutta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph in Baghdad to the king of the Bulghars. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs. His is the earliest account of a meeting with the Vikings, called Rus, who had reached the Volga River fr

Authors:Shoeb Ahmad Dr. Qazi, Dr. Mohd. Vaseem Ismail, Ahmad
Publisher: Laxmi Publications
Keywords: statistics, mathematics, business, topics
Number of Pages: 563
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 813180304X
ISBN-13: 9788131803042

Authors:Ahmad Safari, Ahmad Safari, E. Koray Akdogan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, transducer, materials, acoustic, piezoelectric
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2008-09-19
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0387765387
ISBN-13: 9780387765389

Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications combines discussion of the physical properties of piezoelectric and acoustic materials, with the fundamentals, design principles and fabrication methods, and their application in transducers. This book serves as a comprehensive reference on all aspects of piezoelectric materials, such as thermodynamics, crystallography, crystal chemistry, and piezoelectric composite fabrication techniques as they pertain to piezoelectric transducer design and applications. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of topics, which are separat

Authors:Shamim Ahmad, Shamim Ahmad, Fumio Hanaoka,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: experimental, medicine, biology, advances, pigmentosum, mechanisms, xeroderma, molecular
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387095985
ISBN-13: 9780387095981

To understand the molecular mechanisms of XP, XP mouse models have been used, and mice deficient in XPA, XPC, XPD, XPG, XPF, and XPA/CSB have been produced and analysed. A recent elegant technique of targeting gene replacement in mouse embryonic stem cells has provided researchers with the ability to generate mutant mice defective in any specific gene(s). 32 Animals generated in this way display phenotypes and symptoms of XP patients, and have provided valuable tools to understand how and where the deficiency in DNA repair may lead to tumor formation, and also in studies of developmental biolo

Author: Diana L. Ahmad
Publisher: University of Nevada Pre
Keywords: century, american, west, nineteenth, laws, debate, chinese, exclusion, opium
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0874176980
ISBN-13: 9780874176988

Drugs and Racism in the Old West America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium soon spread and this growing use was deemed a threat to the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit and to its growing mportance as a world economic and mil

Author: Zaki Ahmad
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: corrosion, control, engineering, principles
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0750659246
ISBN-13: 9780750659246

Corrosion is a huge issue for materials, mechanical, civil and petrochemical engineers. With comprehensive coverage of the principles of corrosion engineering, this book is a one-stop text and reference for students and practicing corrosion engineers. Highly illustrated, with worked examples and definitions, it covers basic corrosion principles, and more advanced information for postgraduate students and professionals. Basic principles of electrochemistry and chemical thermodynamics are incorporated to make the book accessible for students and engineers who do not have prior knowledge of this

Author: Aijaz Ahmad
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: radical, thinkers, literatures, classes, nations, theory
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2008-01-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1844672131
ISBN-13: 9781844672134

After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europe’s former colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with neither the advanced capitalist “First World” nor with the socialist “Second World.” In this historical context, the category of “Third World literature” emerged, a category that has itse