Author: Hisham M. Ramada
Publisher: AltaMira Pre
Keywords: contemporary, issues, islam, classical, islamic, law, understanding
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0759109915
ISBN-13: 9780759109919

Ramadan brings together essays to explain the history of Islamic law and its role in the contemporary world.

Author: Tariq Ramada
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: believe
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0195387856
ISBN-13: 9780195387858

Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine’s most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported by organizations like the American Academy of Religion and the ACLU, he is still barred from the country at this time. In What I Believe, Ramadan attempts to set the record straight, laying ou

Author: Hisham Matar
Publisher: The Dial Press
Keywords: men, country
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0385340427
ISBN-13: 9780385340427

Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that s

Author: Hisham Sharabi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: arab, society, change, distorted, theory, neopatriarchy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1992-10-29
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195079132
ISBN-13: 9780195079135

Focusing on the region of the Arab world--comprising some two hundred million people and twenty-one sovereign states extending from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf--this book develops a theory of social change that demystifies the setbacks this region has experienced on the road to transformation. Professor Sharabi pinpoints economic, political, social, and cultural changes in the last century that led the Arab world, as well as other developing countries, not to modernity but to neopatriarchy--a modernized form of patriarchy. He shows how authentic change was blocked and distorted forms and

Authors:Götz Penkert, Hisham Fansa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: nerve, reconstructive, repair, secondary, surgery, lesions, peripheral
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2003-07-29
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540443940
ISBN-13: 9783540443940

No other book covers as extensively all aspects of peripheral nerve surgery. This includes the pathology and pathophysiology of compression neuropathies, traumatic nerve lesions and nerve tumours, and their treatment with various techniques. All body regions are described adequately. The second part of the book deals with palliative surgery for reconstruction of lost function. This includes a comprehensive array of muscle and tendon transfers, functional muscle transplantation and intramuscular neurotisation.

Authors:Hisham K. Hamadeh, Cynthia A. Afshari,
Publisher: Wiley-Liss
Keywords: applications, principles, toxicogenomics
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2004-09-06
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0471434175
ISBN-13: 9780471434177

With the sequencing of human and other genomes completed, the new field of toxicogenomics is now emerging into the realm of practice. This field brings together many different disciplines to incorporate current genomics knowledge into traditional toxicology. By finding more precise ways to measure the response of living systems and environments to chemical exposures, toxicogenomics promises to greatly alter and improve the drug development process, to name just one area of application. Toxicogenomics: Principles and Applications provides a unified, thorough text on key breakthrough technolog