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Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Over-the-Counter Products

Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Over-the-Counter Products

Over-the-Counter products comprise a special category of healthcare products. While these formulations have much in common with their prescription counterparts they are presented in this series separately because of their development approach taken labeling considerations required and support available from suppliers of ingredients in designing these products. Highlights from Over-the-Counter Products Volume Five include:solids liquids and suspensionspractical advice on how to bring manufacturing practices into compliance with regulatory requirementscGMP considerations in great detaila large number of formulations of coatings of solid dosage forms | Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Over-the-Counter Products

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Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude esteem land grants medical care pensions higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war nor combat? These questions have been answered in varying ways by the American people and their elected representatives since the Revolutionary War. Paid Patriotism? explores the genesis and growth of soldiers’ pensions throughout the nineteenth century the Bonus experiment after the First World War the passage and consequences of the GI Bill of Rights the growth of the nation’s system of veterans’ hospitals the evolution of veterans’ programs during the Cold War and Vietnam the post-9/11 GI Bill and contemporary scandals and reform efforts within the veterans’ bureaucracy from its promotion to a cabinet department to wrongdoing in the Veterans Health Administration. James T. Bennett examines the complex and politically charged history and heated present-day debate of what the late columnist William Safire called the “most sacred cow” in Washington: the veterans’ bureaucracy. In the end the United States and its citizens owe veterans a debt. But how has and how should that debt be honored—and at what cost? | Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

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The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood Second Edition

The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood Second Edition

This authoritative guide has been completely revised and expanded with over 90% new material in a new step-by-step format. It details how when and why therapists can make best use of each chapter in Mind Over Mood Second Edition (MOM2) in individual couple and group therapy. Christine A. Padesky's extensive experience as a CBT innovator clinician teacher and consultant is reflected in 100+ pages of compelling therapist–client dialogues that vividly illustrate core CBT interventions and management of challenging dilemmas. Fully updated the book offers research-based guidance on the use of MOM2 to treat anxiety disorders depression anger guilt shame relationship problems and personality disorders. Invaluable therapy tips real-life scenarios and troubleshooting guides in each chapter make this the essential MOM2 companion for novice and experienced therapists alike. Reproducible Reading Guides show how to sequence MOM2 chapters to target specific moods. First edition title: Clinician’s Guide to Mind Over Mood. New to This Edition *Detailed instructions on how when and why to use each of MOM2’s 60 worksheets. *Expanded coverage illustrating effective use of thought records behavioral experiments and imagery. *Shows how to flexibly tailor MOM2 to address particular anxiety disorders using distinct principles and protocols. *Incorporates evidence-based practices from positive psychology motivational interviewing and acceptance and commitment therapy. *Updated practice guidelines throughout based on current clinical research. *More content on using MOM2 for therapist self-study and in training programs and classrooms. *Free supplemental videos on the author's YouTube channel provide additional clinical tips and discuss issues in practicing teaching and learning CBT. See also Mind Over Mood Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think. | The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood Second Edition

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Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar and between the Mauritanian Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Al Nahyans the rulers of Abu Dhabi and senior royal family in the United Arab Emirates. These relationships stretch back decades to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. Using this history as a foundation the book examines the connections between Qaradawi’s and Bin Bayyah’s rival projects and the development of Qatar’s and the UAE’s competing state-brands and foreign policies. It raises questions about how to theorize the relationships between the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama) and the nation-state. Over the course of the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis Qaradawi and Bin Bayyah shaped the Al Thani’s and Al Nahyan’s competing ideologies in important ways. Offering new ways for academics to think about Doha and Abu Dhabi as hegemonic centers of Islamic scholarly authority alongside historical centers of learning such as Cairo Medina or Qom this book will appeal to those with an interest in modern Islamic authority the ulama Gulf politics as well as the Arab Spring and its aftermath. | Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

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Stalin Japan and the Struggle for Supremacy over China 1894–1945

Stalin Japan and the Struggle for Supremacy over China 1894–1945

Stalin was a master of deception disinformation and camouflage by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy. By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggression into a weapon of its own destruction. The book examines Stalin’s covert operations from the murder of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 and the publication of the forged “Tanaka Memorial” in 1929 to Stalin’s hidden role in Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931 the outbreak of all-out war between China and Japan in 1937 and Japan’s defeat in 1945. In the shadow of these and other events we find Stalin and his secret operatives including many Chinese and Japanese collaborators most notably Zhang Xueliang and Kōmoto Daisaku the self-professed assassin of Zhang Zuolin. The book challenges accounts of the turbulent history of inter-war East Asia that have ignored or minimized Stalin’s presence and instead exposes and analyzes Stalin’s secret modus operandi modernized as “hybrid war” in today’s Russia. The book is essential for students and specialists of Stalin China the Soviet Union Japan and East Asia. | Stalin Japan and the Struggle for Supremacy over China 1894–1945

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Disability Gender and Violence over the Life Course Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches

Disability Gender and Violence over the Life Course Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches

This is the first book to explore the interplay of disability gender and violence over the life course from researcher practitioner and survivor perspectives. It gives due weight to the accounts of disabled children and adults who have survived institutional or individual violence evidencing barriers to recognition disclosure and reporting. Written by disabled and non-disabled women from around the world Disability Gender and Violence over the Life Course addresses the dearth of voices and experiences of disabled women and girls in empirical research policy and practice on issues of violence victimisation protection support and prevention. Divided into three parts – Childhood Adulthood and Older Life – this collection offers diverse perspectives on the intersectionality of disability age ethnicity sexuality and violence that have hitherto been absent. This book will be an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of multiple fields of practice and academic studies including health and social care nursing social work childhood studies gender studies disability studies safeguarding and child protection equality and human rights sociology and criminology. | Disability Gender and Violence over the Life Course Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches

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The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states guilt the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique. Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique. | The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

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Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life and whose ideas of morality propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life? Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups taking up cases studies about environmental protection co-housing schemes political protest heritage preservation participatory planning collaborative art production and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit political and programmatic. Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

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Promoting Activity and Participation in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness The Action Over Inertia Approach

Promoting Activity and Participation in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness The Action Over Inertia Approach

This book presents Action Over Inertia a recovery-orientated strengths-based approach to address the profound disruptions in daily activities and community participation often experienced by those living with serious mental illnesses. With a focus on supported doing the Action Over Inertia approach engages individuals in small activity and participation efforts as an opening to making longer term and sustained changes that offer meaning and well-being. The book helps service providers develop their own knowledge of activities and the health and well-being benefits an individual might receive from activities. It also asks them to consider the biases assumptions and constraints that might impact their ability to implement interventions related to activity and participation. A range of worksheets resources vignettes and other tools are provided to support this practice. The manual was developed from the knowledge and practice of occupational science and therapy but it will be of interest to any mental health professional peer-provider administrator or policy maker interested in promoting recovery for people with serious mental illness | Promoting Activity and Participation in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness The Action Over Inertia Approach

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The Mysteries of Mithra The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment when a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept over the Roman Empire

The Mysteries of Mithra The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment when a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept over the Roman Empire

First published in 1956 this seminal study by the great Belgian scholar Franz Cumont remains the definitive coverage of a great ideological struggle between the West and the Orient in the first centuries of the Christian era. Mithraism a mystery religion originating in Persia spread rapidly through the Roman Empire and achieved such strength that Europe almost became Mithraic. Dr. Cumont the world’s’ greatest authority on aspects of classical religions here discusses the origins of this colourful oriental religion and its association with the Roman army. Then utilizing fragmentary monuments and texts in one of the greatest feats of scholarly detection he reconstructs the mystery teachings and secret doctrines the hidden organization and cult of Mithra. This volume includes 70 illustrations. | The Mysteries of Mithra The Definitive Account of a Crucial Historical Moment when a Colorful Oriental Religion Swept over the Roman Empire

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Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe

Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe

This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’ offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards refugees from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Focusing on the public sphere the book follows the assumption that solidarity is a social value political concept and legal principle that is discursively constructed in public contentions. The analysis refers systematically and comparatively to eight European countries namely Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Poland Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Treatment of data is also original in the way it deals with variations of public spheres by combining a news media claims-making analysis with a social media reception analysis. In particular the book highlights the prominent role of the mass media in shaping national and transnational solidarity while exploring the readiness of the mass media to extend thick conceptions of solidarity to non-members. It proposes a research design for the comparative analysis of online news reception and considers the innovative potential of this method in relation to established public opinion research. The book is of particular interest for scholars who are interested in the fields of European solidarity migration and refugees contentious politics while providing an approach that talks to scholars of journalism and political communication studies as well as digital journalism and online news reception. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. tandfebooks. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe

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Belief Action and Rationality over Time

Belief Action and Rationality over Time

Action theorists and formal epistemologists often pursue parallel inquiries regarding rationality with the former focused on practical rationality and the latter focused on theoretical rationality. In both fields there is currently a strong interest in exploring rationality in relation to time. The exploration raises questions about the rationality of certain patterns over time. For example it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of intention; similarly it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of belief. While the action-theoretic and epistemic questions raised are closely related advances in one field are not always processed by the other. This volume brings together contributions by scholars in action theory and formal epistemology working on questions regarding rationality and time so that researchers in these overlapping fields can profit from each other’s insights. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. | Belief Action and Rationality over Time

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MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

MIMO systems have been known to better the quality of service for wireless communication systems. This book discusses emerging techniques in MIMO systems to reduce complexities and keep benefits unaffected at the same time. It discusses about benefits and shortcomings of various MIMO technologies like spatial multiplexing space time coding spatial modulation transmit antenna selection and various power allocation schemes to optimize the performance. Crux of the book is focus on MIMO communication over generalized fading channels as they can model the propagation of signals in a non-homogeneous environment. Relevant MATLAB codes are also included in the appendices. Book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in electronics and wireless engineering specifically interested in electromagnetic theory antennas and propagation future wireless systems signal processing. | MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

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Iterative Learning Control over Random Fading Channels

Iterative Learning Control over Random Fading Channels

Random fading communication is a type of attenuation damage of data over certain propagation media. Establishing a systematic framework for the design and analysis of learning control schemes the book studies in depth the iterative learning control for stochastic systems with random fading communication. The authors introduce both cases where the statistics of the random fading channels are known in advance and unknown. They then extend the framework to other systems including multi-agent systems point-to-point tracking systems and multi-sensor systems. More importantly a learning control scheme is established to solve the multi-objective tracking problem with faded measurements which can help practical applications of learning control for high-precision tracking of networked systems. The book will be of interest to researchers and engineers interested in learning control data-driven control and networked control systems. | Iterative Learning Control over Random Fading Channels

GBP 130.00
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The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD Reclaim Your Life and Help Your Loved One

The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD Reclaim Your Life and Help Your Loved One

When a loved one has OCD it's a constant struggle. It hurts to see your spouse so anxious or your teen spending so much time alone. You've tried logic reassurance even accommodating endless rituals-but too often these well-meaning attempts actually make OCD worse. Psychologist Jonathan Abramowitz has worked with countless families affected by OCD and he understands the strain. He also knows you can turn things around. Grounded in state-of-the-art treatment research this compassionate guide helps you change your own behavior to support your loved one's recovery. By gently but firmly encouraging the person you care about to face their fears you can stop being controlled by the disorder disentangle yourself from unhealthy patterns and see your whole family grow more confident and hopeful. Vivid stories dos and don'ts and practical tools (which you can download and print for repeated use) help you follow the step-by-step strategies in this life-changing book. | The Family Guide to Getting Over OCD Reclaim Your Life and Help Your Loved One

GBP 14.99
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TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems

TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems

The evolution of the mobile communication market is causing a major increase in data traffic demands. This could lead to disrupted mobility and intermittent degraded channel conditions that contribute to poor transmission control protocol (TCP) performance. TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems presents a comprehensive study of the effect of TCP on achieved application bit rate performance and system capacity and shows how to reduce the interaction of wireless networks on TCP with minimal cost. With self-contained chapters the book consists of two main sections. The first several chapters provide background and describe the state of the art for wireless networks emphasizing one of the third-generation (3G) wireless technologies: the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS). These chapters also include an analysis of the overall cell capacity for UMTS Release 99 and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) systems. The second section focuses on the interaction of TCP with wireless systems presenting an exhaustive list of TCP versions and link layer solutions that adapt TCP (often modifying the original TCP) to a wireless network. This section also displays mathematical modeling of the interaction of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) and TCP in UMTS networks. While offering information for advanced undergraduate students who are unfamiliar with code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless systems as well as UMTS and HSDPA cellular systems the book also provides extensive coverage of TCP over wireless systems problems and solutions for researchers developers and graduate students.

GBP 56.99
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Visible Learning: The Sequel A Synthesis of Over 2 100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

Visible Learning: The Sequel A Synthesis of Over 2 100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

When the original Visible Learning® was published in 2008 it instantly became a publishing sensation. Interest in the book was unparalleled; it sold out in days and was described by the TES as revealing teaching’s Holy Grail. Now John Hattie returns to this ground-breaking work. The research underlying this book is now informed by more than 2 100 meta-analyses (more than double that of the original) drawn from more than 130 000 studies and has involved more than 400 million students from all around the world. But this is more than just a new edition. This book is a sequel that highlights the major story taking in the big picture to reflect on the implementation in schools of Visible Learning how it has been understood – and at times misunderstood – and what future directions research should take. Visible Learning: The Sequel reiterates the author’s desire to move beyond claiming what works to what works best by asking crucial questions such as: Why is the current grammar of schooling so embedded in so many classrooms and can we improve it? Why is the learning curve for teachers after the first few years so flat? How can we develop teacher mind-frames to focus more on learning and listening? How can we incorporate research evidence as part of the discussions within schools? Areas covered include: The evidence base and reactions to Visible Learning The Visible Learning model The intentional alignment of learning and teaching strategies The influence of home students teachers classrooms schools learning and curriculum on achievement The impact of technology Building upon the success of the original this highly anticipated sequel expands Hattie’s model of teaching and learning based on evidence of impact and is essential reading for anyone involved in the field of education either as a researcher teacher student school leader teacher trainer or policy maker. | Visible Learning: The Sequel A Synthesis of Over 2 100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

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Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

The over-riding premise for biotechnology in this book is bringing novel products to market to substantially advance patient care and disease mitigation. Biotechnology over its relatively brief existence of 40 years has experienced a mercurial growth. The vast educational need for biotechnology information in this rapidly burgeoning field is a basic rationale here. However a more prominent underpinning is that bringing biotech products to market for patient care involves success in the following four areas of engagement simultaneously - scientific advances for healthcare technologies novel and varied products for untreated diseases regulatory authorities and biotech companies. Features Comprehensive coverage of biotechnology science topics used in development and manufacturing Addresses all the scientific technologies within biotechnology responsible for products on the market and the pipeline Presents business issues such as marketing and sales of the products as well as companies engaged and how biotech business has evolved | Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

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The Popular Revolutions of the Late Middle Ages

The Popular Revolutions of the Late Middle Ages

This book first published in 1973 examines the period when wars famines and epidemics bred widespread conflicts culminating in the revolutionary years of 1378–82 with the Florentine ‘Ciompi’ revolts in Flanders and France and the risings among English labourers. The analysis ends with the Hussite crisis which gave the movement a new aspect. The troubles were varied with hunger riots in cities and brigandage in the country open struggles between lords and peasants urban conflicts over municipal power and labour conflicts over pay and hours. | The Popular Revolutions of the Late Middle Ages

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The State of the World Atlas

The State of the World Atlas

Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political social economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night. • The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population over the last 50 years. • Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries. • Climate change may put 2. 7 billion at risk of armed conflict. • Germany generates more tourists than anywhere else. • Americans use 160 times more water than people in Rwanda. If you want to get behind the headlines and understand the world - from urbanization to globalization terrorism to tourism military spending to human rights - The State of the World Atlas is unmatched.

GBP 175.00
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Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics economy and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality. With a focus on Africa and its Diaspora the author calls for a radical turning over of a new leaf predicated on decolonial turn and epistemic freedom. The key themes subjected to decolonial analysis include: (1) decolonization/decoloniality – articulating the meaning and contribution of the decolonial turn; (2) subjectivity/identity – examining the problem of Blackness (identity) as external and internal invention; (3) the Bandung spirit of decolonization as an embodiment of resistance and possibilities development and self-improvement; (4) development and self-improvement – of African political economy as entangled in the colonial matrix of power and the African Renaissance as weakened by undecolonized political and economic thought; and (5) knowledge – the role of African humanities in the struggle for epistemic freedom. This groundbreaking volume opens the intellectual canvas on the challenges and possibilities of African futures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and International Relations Development Sociology African Studies Black Studies Education History Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. | Decolonization Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

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Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

This volume examines the Melkite church from the Arab invasion of Syria in 634 until 969. The Melkite Patriarchates were established in Antioch Jerusalem and Alexandria and following the Arab campaigns in Syria and Egypt they all came under the new Muslim state. Over the next decades the Melkite church underwent a process of gradual marginalization moving from the privileged position of the state confession to becoming one of the religious minorities of the Caliphate. This transition took place in the context of theological and political interactions with the Byzantine Empire the Patriarchate of Constantinople the Papacy and over time with the reborn Roman Empire in the West. Exploring the various processes within the Melkite church this volume also examines Caliphate–Byzantine interactions the cultural and religious influences of Constantinople the synthesis of Greek Arab and Syriac elements the process of Arabization of communities and Melkite relations with distant Rome. | Between Constantinople the Papacy and the Caliphate The Melkite Church in the Islamicate World 634-969

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The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

Prior to the outbreak of World War II the British presided over the largest Empire in world history a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions colonies protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world’s land mass and comprised a population of over 450-million subjects. Spanning Europe the Americas Africa Asia and Oceania over fifty modern nations—currently recognized by the International Olympic Committee—were governed and controlled by the British crown at some stage prior to the gradual dissolution of the Empire. The British World and the Five Rings seeks to explore the relationship between the former British Empire and the Olympic Movement. It pays due regard to the settler dominions but it also addresses those territories who were less willing partners in the British imperial project. In doing so the tendency of so-called ‘British World’ histories to promote an apologia for Empire is rejected in favour of a critical approach to imperialism. Combining thorough research with engaging and accessible writing The British World and the Five Rings is applicable to many fields of Olympic scholarship making it a central work in the growing field of sports studies. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. | The British World and the Five Rings Essays in British Imperialism and the Modern Olympic Movement

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