Author: Tahir Shah
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: casablanca, year, house, caliph
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0553383108
ISBN-13: 9780553383102

In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems….Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he

Author: Mukarram A. Tahir
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Keywords: networks, neural, implementation, java
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 2007-09-27
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1419665359
ISBN-13: 9781419665356

Java Implementation of Neural Networks is a short and to-the-point guide to implementing neural networks in Java. Both network architectures and components are implemented in pure Java. All source code is available online.

Authors:Abba Gumel, Suzanne Lenhart,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, discrete, theoretical, computer, science, series, dimacs, analysis, paradigms, disease, transmission, models, modeling
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2010-10-07
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 0821843842
ISBN-13: 9780821843840

This volume stems from two DIMACS activities, the U.S.-Africa Advanced Study Institute and the DIMACS Workshop, both on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases in Africa, held in South Africa in the summer of 2007. It contains both tutorial papers and research papers. Students and researchers should find the papers on modeling and analyzing certain diseases currently affecting Africa very informative. In particular, they can learn basic principles of disease modeling and stability from the tutorial papers where continuous and discrete time models, optimal control, and stochastic featur

Author: Muhammad Al-Tahir Ibn Ashour
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Keywords: shariah, maqasid, treatise, ashur, ibn
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1565644220
ISBN-13: 9781565644229

Shaikh Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur is the most renowned Zaytuna Imam and one of the great Islamic scholars of the 20th century. The publication of this translation of Shaikh Ibn Ashur s Treatise on Maqasid al-Shari ah is a breakthrough in studies on Islamic law in the English language. In this book, Ibn Ashur proposed Maqasid as a methodology for the renewal of the theory of Islamic law, which has not undergone any serious development since the era of the great imams. Ibn Ashur quite courageously also addressed the sensitive topic of the intents/Maqasid of Prophet Muhammad (SAAS) behind hi

Author: Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Publisher: Tehreek-e-Minhaj-ul-Quran
Keywords: arabic, english, mahdi, imam, awaited
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9693202171
ISBN-13: 9789693202175

Authors:Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir,
Publisher: New Riders Press
Keywords: deconstructed, websites, usability, homepage
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-11-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 073571102X
ISBN-13: 9780735711020

The book begins with a briefing on Jakob’s web usability principles, themselves culled from years of research. The 50 sites fall under such categories as Fortune 500 Sites, Highest-Traffic Sites, and E-Commerce Sites. The content is simply presented: Four book pages are devoted to each homepage. The first page is a clean screenshot of the site’s homepage (for readers to make their own, unbiased judgments), followed by a page that explains the site’s purpose and summarizes its success--or failure--at usabilty. The third and fourth pages are devoted to crtiques, where Jakob and

Authors:Richard Harrington, Abba Shapiro, Robbie Carman,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: spot, {series}, studio, final
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-10-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0240810074
ISBN-13: 9780240810072

Packed with more than 500 techniques, this book delivers what you need to know-on the spot. It is suited to editors of all experience levels, whether you are:* Migrating from another NLE* Upgrading to Final Cut Studio 2* Seeking a handy reference to raise your proficiencyNo need to wade through tomes of documentation. Final Cut Studio On the Spot presents immediate solutions in an accessible format. Step-by-step instruction by Apple Certified Pros shows you how to:* Optimize system performance* Create impressive titles with Generators, Motion, LiveType, and Photoshop* Build Commercial-quality