Authors:Tazim Jamal, Professor Mike Robinson,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: sage, business, library, tourism, handbook, studies
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 1412923972
ISBN-13: 9781412923972

Tourist Studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues, and agenda of Tourism Studies.

Author: Tazim R. Kassam
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: shams, pir, saint, mcgill, studies, religions, history, muslim, ili, circles, wisdom, dance, hymns, isma, satpanth, songs
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 1995-08-17
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0791425924
ISBN-13: 9780791425923

Coursing though cultures and time, tuneful verse has given moving expression to the human longing for the divine. As poetry strung on sweet melodies, hymns bear testimony to the religious life of the devout, and to the inspiring teachings of minstrels and saints. Such is the ginan tradition of the Satpanth Isma’ilis, Indian successors of the Fatand Nizari Isma’ili sect of the Shi’ah Muslims. Traditionally recited during daily ritual prayers, ginans have been revered for generations among the Satpanth Isma’ilis as sacred compositions. This work offers for the first time

Author: Jamal T. Manassah
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: engineers, using, matlab, computer, electrical, mathematical, computational, tools, elementary
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-05-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0849310806
ISBN-13: 9780849310805

Engineers around the world depend on MATLAB for its power, usability, and outstanding graphics capabilities. Yet too often, engineering students are either left on their own to acquire the background they need to use MATLAB, or they must learn the program concurrently within an advanced course. Both of these options delay students from solving realistic design problems, especially when they do not have a text focused on applications relevant to their field and written at the appropriate level of mathematics.Ideal for use as a short-course textbook and for self-study Elementary Mathematical and

Author: Jamal Saleh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: handbook, flow, fluid
Number of Pages: 1000
Published: 2002-03-26
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0071363726
ISBN-13: 9780071363723

Analyze and design fluid flow and piping systems projects The most comprehensive reference available on this topic, Fluid Flow Handbook skillfully blends theoretical review and engineering practicality. The author, expert Jamal Saleh, provides a balanced, detailed, and extensive treatment of pumps, pipes and piping systems, hydraulics, hydrology, and more. Well-illustrated, and completely up-to-date, the Handbook offers: Discussion of issues critical to civil engineers, including flow in open channel, flow meters in rivers, and discharge from hydraulic structures Integration between physical

Author: Jamal Nasir
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: islamic, laws, series, arab, status, law, personal
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1990-04-10
List price: $99.50
ISBN-10: 1853332801
ISBN-13: 9781853332807

This new edition of the authoritative English-language treatment of Islamic personal status law gives practitioners and courts throughout the world direct access to this important body of law in its most up-to-date development. All Middle Eastern and North African Arab states are covered; new to this edition is coverage of recent provisions enacted in Kuwait, Yemen, and Sudan. The chapter on dissolution of marriage has been completely revised to reflect current legal interpretation and judicial practice in this rapidly changing area of Islamic law. Also new and especially valuable are English

Author: Jamal T. Manassah
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: engineers, using, matlab, second, computer, electrical, mathematical, computational, tools, elementary
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-10-20
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0849374251
ISBN-13: 9780849374258

Showing how MATLAB® can help solve computational problems in engineering, Elementary Mathematical and Computational Tools for Electrical and Computer Engineers Using MATLAB®, Second Edition explores practical mathematical methods for students, covering numerical techniques of elementary calculus and linear algebra and detailed introductory material on difference equations, complex variables, transformation theory, and probability theory. This integrated approach strengthens students’ analytical and computational abilities.Updated to reflect the newest version of MATLAB, this edition f

Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: prisoners, usa, defending, jailhouse, lawyers
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0872864693
ISBN-13: 9780872864696

“Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village Voice In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal’s words, “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the d