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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

Sustained engagement with the Islamic world during this period also
encompassed the Persian and Mediterranean realms bordering the Ottomans,
though involvement with the Islamic empire of the Mughals was minimal.2 These
ties affected ...

Romanticism and the Rise of English

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized—a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only in a history of English, but also in a recovery of major events shaping English studies as a coherent discipline. This book points to new directions in literary criticism by arguing for the need to reconceptualize authorial agency in light of a broadened understanding of linguistic history.

Yet his students' descriptions of his pedagogy are notable in two respects. first,
using hales provided another venue for iqbal's characteristic movement back and
forth between european and islamic sources; just as his philosophical writings ...

Islam and English Law

Rights, Responsibilities and the Place of Shari'a

Should England adopt shari'a law? Does Islam threaten British ideals? Lawyers, theologians and sociologists provide here a constructive, forward-looking dialogue.

For all the sensationalism stirred by the term jihad, this is its indisputable
definition in Islamic theology and law. The meaning of jihad is both this
straightforward and simple and also this complex and indeterminate. jihad could
be in the form of ...

English Verbs and Tenses

A series of books which show learners what they get wrong and how to put it right.

A series of books which show learners what they get wrong and how to put it right.

A Short Account of the Hebrew Tenses

Originally published in 1901, this book addresses the meaning conveyed by various Hebrew tenses which are difficult to relate in English.

Originally published in 1901, this book addresses the meaning conveyed by various Hebrew tenses which are difficult to relate in English.

Linear Programming and Extensions

In real-world problems related to finance, business, and management, mathematicians and economists frequently encounter optimization problems. In this classic book, George Dantzig looks at a wealth of examples and develops linear programming methods for their solutions. He begins by introducing the basic theory of linear inequalities and describes the powerful simplex method used to solve them. Treatments of the price concept, the transportation problem, and matrix methods are also given, and key mathematical concepts such as the properties of convex sets and linear vector spaces are covered. George Dantzig is properly acclaimed as the "father of linear programming." Linear programming is a mathematical technique used to optimize a situation. It can be used to minimize traffic congestion or to maximize the scheduling of airline flights. He formulated its basic theoretical model and discovered its underlying computational algorithm, the "simplex method," in a pathbreaking memorandum published by the United States Air Force in early 1948. Linear Programming and Extensions provides an extraordinary account of the subsequent development of his subject, including research in mathematical theory, computation, economic analysis, and applications to industrial problems. Dantzig first achieved success as a statistics graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. One day he arrived for a class after it had begun, and assumed the two problems on the board were assigned for homework. When he handed in the solutions, he apologized to his professor, Jerzy Neyman, for their being late but explained that he had found the problems harder than usual. About six weeks later, Neyman excitedly told Dantzig, "I've just written an introduction to one of your papers. Read it so I can send it out right away for publication." Dantzig had no idea what he was talking about. He later learned that the "homework" problems had in fact been two famous unsolved problems in statistics.

In this classic book, George Dantzig looks at a wealth of examples and develops linear programming methods for their solutions.

The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program

Details the one-week course designed to increase reading speed and improve reading comprehension.

Specifically, as you develop your subvocal linear skills, you may expect to move
through these levels: • 200-400 words per minute. In this speed range, you are
reading rather inefficiently. There are periodic or frequent regressions, where you
 ...

How Snakes Work

Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes

A heavily illustrated and complete account of the functional biology of snakes, written for an audience of both scientists and a general readership.

Although the potency of venoms varies, recent studies (e.g., Susanta Pahari,
Stephen Mackessy, and Manjunatha Kini) suggest that there is greater
compositional similarity among advanced snakes than has been previously
recognized.

Preaching Eugenics

Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement

With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has given rise to difficult ethical questions. Although opponents of genetic manipulation frequently raise the specter of eugenics, our contemporary debates about bioethics often take place in a historical vacuum. In fact, American religious leaders raised similarly challenging ethical questions in the first half of the twentieth century. Preaching Eugenics tells how Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders confronted and, in many cases, enthusiastically embraced eugenics-a movement that embodied progressive attitudes about modern science at the time. Christine Rosen argues that religious leaders pursued eugenics precisely when they moved away from traditional religious tenets. The liberals and modernists-those who challenged their churches to embrace modernity-became the eugenics movement's most enthusiastic supporters. Their participation played an important part in the success of the American eugenics movement. In the early twentieth century, leaders of churches and synagogues were forced to defend their faiths on many fronts. They faced new challenges from scientists and intellectuals; they struggled to adapt to the dramatic social changes wrought by immigration and urbanization; and they were often internally divided by doctrinal controversies among modernists, liberals, and fundamentalists. Rosen draws on previously unexplored archival material from the records of the American Eugenics Society, religious and scientific books and periodicals of the day, and the personal papers of religious leaders such as Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rev. John M. Cooper, Rev. John A. Ryan, and biologists Charles Davenport and Ellsworth Huntington, to produce an intellectual history of these figures that is both lively and illuminating. The story of how religious leaders confronted one of the era's newest "sciences," eugenics, sheds important new light on a time much like our own, when religion and science are engaged in critical and sometimes bitter dialogue.

Kenneth C. MacArthur, “Eugenics and the Church,” Eugenics 1 (December 1928
): 6, 7. 28. Edwin A. Kirkpatrick (chairman of the Massachusetts State Eugenics
Committee) to Lillian Armstrong (corresponding secretary of the AES), 27 July ...