Author: Ismail S. Talib
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: introduction, literatures, postcolonial, language
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-03-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415240190
ISBN-13: 9780415240192

Drawing on a range of writers, including Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nuruddin Farah, The Language of Postcolonial Literatures provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. Ismail S. Talib illustrates how English has been shaped by and had to contend with other languages in former British colonies. Exploring literatures from a range of countries including India, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Caribbean, he shows how individuals retai

Authors:Abu Talib Ahmad, Liok Ee Tan,
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: ris, southeast, series, ohio, asia, sea, history, terrains, asian, new
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0896802280
ISBN-13: 9780896802285

AT a watershed moment in the scholarly approach to the history of this important region, New Terrains in Southeast Asian History captures the richness and diversity of historical discourse among Southeast Asian scholars. Through the perspectives of scholars who live and work within the region, the book offers readers a rare opportunity to enter into the world of Southeast Asian historiography. Individual chapters subject the dominance of national narratives to critical reflection and deconstruction, while others highlight the need to go beyond essentially political narratives to seek out deepe

Author: Ismail Kadare
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: concert
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1998-02-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1559704152
ISBN-13: 9781559704151

A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation’s diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of governmental insecurity.

Author: Ismail Kadare
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: dreams, palace
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-02-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1559704160
ISBN-13: 9781559704168

A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, and interpret the dreams of the people in the empire, seeking the ""master-dreams"" that give clues to the empire’s destiny. 10,000 first printing.

Author: Ahmed Ismail
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Keywords: management, operations, office
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2001-12-20
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0766823431
ISBN-13: 9780766823433

If you need to know about the nature and operation of hotels as they exist today, this new book is for you. You will learn about the inner workings of a hotel, preparing readers for what to expect in the current and future hotel market. The primary focus is the front office, housekeeping, reservations and night audit departments. Other departments are discussed to provide and understanding of how these departments relate to the front office and how they operate to enhance the guest experience. An introduction of basic analyses, techniques and trends both in policy and technology are reviewed a

Author: Ismail Kasikci
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Keywords: engineer, field, guide, systems, power, design, low, voltage, analysis
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2004-07-12
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 3527304835
ISBN-13: 9783527304837

You are responsible for planning and designing electrical power systems? Good. Hopefully you know your way through national and international regulations, safety standards, and all the possible pitfalls you will encounter. You’re not sure? This volume provides you with the wealth of experience the author gained in 20 years of practice. The enclosed CAD software accelerates your planning process and makes your final design cost-efficient and secure.

Author: Ismail Tosun
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: phenomena, transport, modelling
Number of Pages: 605
Published: 2002-08-29
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 0444510524
ISBN-13: 9780444510525

Modelling in Transport Phenomena is intended as an introduction to Transport Phenomena courses. Although it is written for students majoring in chemical engineering, it can also be used as a reference or a supplementary text in environmental, mechanical, petroleum and civil engineering courses. It has been designed in order to help students understand basic concepts that are usually difficult to grasp. These concepts are clearly explained within this text and their applications to fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, chemical reaction engineering and thermodynamics are presented through a