Middle Eastern Leaders and Islam
Middle Eastern Leaders and Islam

Author: Sonia Alianak

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780820469249

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This book breaks down and elucidates the relationships between the several leaders of an increasingly religious Middle East. Considering Islamic religious figures as well as the political leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, it explains how, in times of crisis, these leaders counter the influences of moderate and extremist Islamists with Islam itself. Each uses an interpretation of the religion to effect equilibrium amongst their people, thus generating relative stability for their rule. As a result, many leaders have enjoyed remarkable longevity of power, and some have managed to obtain legitimate political ends. This book goes beyond state- and society-centered theories to focus on the dynamic interactions between the rulers and the ruled, shedding new light on how international crises create domestic crises, and suggesting new solutions to the Middle East's international problems.

Equilibrium
Equilibrium

Author: Tiana Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781495157646

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Equilibrium searches for that point where there is a balance, even as the poems display a consciousness and self-awareness that belie that balance. The poems negotiate the colossal movement of hearts figuring and being figured by history.

The Great Transition
The Great Transition

Author: B. M. S. Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 0521195888

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Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Precarious Balance
Precarious Balance

Author: Ming K. Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1317462238

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This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.

The Precarious Generation
The Precarious Generation

Author: Judith Bessant

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317289188

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This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation to have a lower standard of living than previous generations. While governments and experts typically explain this by referring to globalization, new technologies, or young people’s deficits, the authors of this book offer a new political economy of generations, which identifies the central role played by governments promoting neoliberal policies that exacerbate existing social inequalities based on age, ethnicity, gender and class. The book is a must read for social science students, human service workers and policy-makers and indeed for anyone interested in understanding the impact of government policy over the last 40 years on young people.

The Proper Study of Mankind
The Proper Study of Mankind

Author: Isaiah Berlin

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-08-02

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9780374527174

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"The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his studies of intellectual originals.

A Dilemmatic Approach to Education
A Dilemmatic Approach to Education

Author: Ariel Sarid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1000451658

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A Dilemmatic Approach to Education offers a unique approach to educational theorizing that enriches the way we think about education. Problematizing conventional education theory, it presents an unorthodox thesis that education is defined by an internal conflict between competing core values, which in turn produce core dilemmas. The book locates the theoretical foundations of a dilemmatic approach in the works of thinkers such as G. H. Mead, Gert Biesta, Luca Tateo, and Etienne Wenger. It then relates this dilemmatic approach to a general theory of education, partly defined as the realization of the 'good', conceived in terms of competing core values. The book uses Schwartz's theory of universal values as a framework for disclosing the core values competing in educational models. The dilemmatic nature of educational leadership (including social justice leadership) is set within the context of leading leadership theories and illustrated through exemplary leadership dilemmas. Lastly, the book identifies ethical self-understanding and communities-of-practice as practically affecting a dilemmatic approach to education. Presenting an innovative understanding of the nature and meaning of education, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the field of educational theory and educational research, as well as those interested in a deep engagement about the meaning of education.

Physics and Chance
Physics and Chance

Author: Lawrence Sklar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780521558815

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Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.

Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism
Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism

Author: Gregory Minissale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 110891246X

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This book examines the psychology involved in handling, and responding to, materials in artistic practice, such as oils, charcoal, brushes, canvas, earth, and sand. Artists often work with intuitive, tactile sensations and rhythms that connect them to these materials. Rhythm connects the brain and body to the world, and the world of abstract art. The book features new readings of artworks by Matisse, Pollock, Dubuffet, Tápies, Benglis, Len Lye, Star Gossage, Shannon Novak, Simon Ingram, Lee Mingwei, L. N. Tallur and many others. Such art challenges centuries of philosophical and aesthetic order that has elevated the substance of mind over the substance of matter. This is a multidisciplinary study of different metastable patterns and rhythms: in art, the body, and the brain. This focus on the propagation of rhythm across domains represents a fresh art historical approach and provides important opportunities for art and science to cooperate.

Theories of Trade Unionism
Theories of Trade Unionism

Author: Michael Poole

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-06-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1000319903

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First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-century foundations to the more advanced conceptual models present at the time of original publication. The book surveys the main tributaries of modern approaches – the moral and ethical, the revolutionary, the defensive or conservative, and the economic and political – and analyses the work of contemporary industrial relations scholars. This includes the main types and varieties of systems theory, the disparate pluralist approaches and the ‘radical school’. The book identifies links between the differing premises of the various schools of thought, and combines the main perspectives in a higher analytical and conceptual unity. It concludes with a discussion of a number of avenues for theoretical and conceptual progress. Theories of Trade Unionism is ideal for those with an interest in the history of trade union theory.