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Mathematical Methods in Science

This book captures some of Pólya's excitement and vision. Its distinctive feature is the stress on the history of certain elementary chapters of science; these can be a source of enjoyment and deeper understanding of mathematics even for beginners who have little, or perhaps no, knowledge of physics.

' This tenet underlies all of Professor Plya's works on teaching and problem-solving. This book captures some of Plya's excitement and vision.

How to Solve It

A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out—from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya's deft—indeed, brilliant—instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem.

A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight.

The Random Walks of George Polya

Both a biography of Pólya's life, and a review of his many mathematical achievements by today's experts.

Both a biography of Pólya's life, and a review of his many mathematical achievements by today's experts.

After Abu Ghraib

Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's "War on Terror" torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses), and Middle Eastern attempts to challenge their own leaders' human rights violations in light of American interventions. This book presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed, and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts. The inquiry has three facets: first, it explores intersections between human rights norms and power as they unfold in the era. Second, it lays out the layers of the era's American and Middle Eastern encounter on the human rights plane. Finally, it draws out the era's key lessons for moving the human rights project forward.

For example, as Daud went on to explain, after the American invasion, in contrast
to other populations in the region, Iraqis' freedom of expression was officially
recognized; yet, it remained absent in practice. “In Iraq you have access to ...

E-learning

Teaching and Professional Development with the Internet

This guide for teachers discusses the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education. Ten contributions from Kwok-Wing Lai and other educators examine such topics as professional development for teachers using ICT, educational resources on the Web, development and evaluation of websites, dealing with inappropriate materials on the Internet, and health and safety issues.

This guide for teachers discusses the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education.

Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robots

Neuromorphic and brain-based robotics have enormous potential for furthering our understanding of the brain. By embodying models of the brain on robotic platforms, researchers can investigate the roots of biological intelligence and work towards the development of truly intelligent machines. This book provides a broad introduction to this groundbreaking area for researchers from a wide range of fields, from engineering to neuroscience. Case studies explore how robots are being used in current research, including a whisker system that allows a robot to sense its environment and neurally inspired navigation systems that show impressive mapping results. Looking to the future, several chapters consider the development of cognitive, or even conscious robots that display the adaptability and intelligence of biological organisms. Finally, the ethical implications of intelligent robots are explored, from morality and Asimov's three laws to the question of whether robots have rights.

Moreover, because neuromorphic and brain-based robotics follows a working
model (i.e. the biological brain and body), we believe this field will lead to
autonomous machines that we can truly call intelligent. Neuromorphic and brain-
based ...

A History of Islamic Societies

An accessible worldwide history of Muslim societies provides updated coverage of each country and region, in a volume that discusses their origins and evolution while offering insight into historical processes that shaped contemporary Islam and surveying its growing influence. Simultaneous. (Social Science)

growing and wine making, similarly declined owing to the loss of export markets
in Anatolia and the end of Christian pilgrimages to Palestine. The migration of
Arab bedouins also damaged the economies of northern Syria and Mesopotamia
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A History of the Arabs in the Sudan

And Some Account of the People who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr

A comprehensive history of the indigenous people of Sudan based on interviews and local genealogies, first published in 1922.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Arab element entered the country
from two sides. In the first place the nomads came in from the direction of
Dongola and soon obtained a predominance in the plains north of the latitude of
Kaga.

History for the IB Diploma: The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1945-79

Tailored to the requirements and assessment objectives of the syllabus, they provide opportunities for students to make comparisons between different regions and time periods.

Arab hopes of independence and unity were ignored. It seemed to many Arabs in
the Middle East that they were simply exchanging one set of rulers for another,
European instead of Ottoman. Only the kingdom of Hejaz and the province of ...

Stalking the Subject

Modernism and the Animal

Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. The Island of Dr. Moreau embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; The Croquet Player thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and Women in Love, St. Mawr, and Nightwood all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues.

Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity.