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Global crises and the crisis of global leadership

Table of Contents: “…Global leadership and the Islamic world - crisis, contention and challenge Mustapha Kamal Pasha; 9. …”
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La communauté politique en question : Regards croisés sur l’immigration, la citoyenneté, la diversité et le pouvoir /

Table of Contents: “…""; ""La polarisation du discours sur l'Islam en Occident ""…”
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Values in Heritage Management : Emerging Approaches and Research Directions /

Table of Contents: “…: Perspectives on Heritage Values Rooted in Arabic-Islamic Traditions / Hossam Mahdy -- Changing Concepts and Values in Natural Heritage Conservation: A View through IUCN and UNESCO Policies / Josep-Maria Mallarach and Bas Verschuuren -- Valuing Traumatic Heritage Places as Archives and Agents / Randall Mason -- Values and Relationships between Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Heritage Places / Ayesha Pamela Rogers -- The Paradox of Valuing the Invaluable: Managing Cultural Values in Heritage Places / Tara Sharma -- Heritage Economics: Coming to Terms with Value and Valuation / David Throsby -- From the Inside Looking Out: Indigenous Perspectives on Heritage Values / Joe Watkins -- Appendix: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Symposium Participants -- Further Readings in Heritage Values / compiled by Erica Avrami and Randall Mason.…”
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The Dutch intersection the Jews and the Netherlands in modern history /

Table of Contents: “…Cooperman -- The boundaries of community : urban space and intercultural interaction in early modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London / Adam Sutcliffe -- Amsterdam, the forbidden lands, and the dynamics of the Sephardi diaspora / Yosef Kaplan -- Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva : an Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish merchant abroad in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Schorsch -- Amsterdam as "locus" of Iberian printing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Harm den Boer -- The Temple mount in the Lowlands / Gary Schwartz -- The persistence of images : reproductive success in the history of Sephardi sepulchral art / Michael Studemund-Halévy -- Patrocinio and authority : assessing the metropolitan role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the eighteenth century / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz -- Philosophy, deism, and the early Jewish enlightenment (1655-1740) / Jonathan Israel -- Yiddish book production in Amsterdam between 1650-1800 : local and international aspects / Shlomo Berger -- "In Hamburg a High German Jew was murdered" : the representation of foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686-1687) / Hilde Pach -- Amsterdam and the inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters / Avriel Bar-Levav -- Ashkenazi-Dutch pinkassim as sources for studying European-Jewish migration : the cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the eighteenth century / Stefan Litt -- The Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem : David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750-1767 / Gérard Nahon -- From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca : the influence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on haggadah illustration among the Jews in India and the lands of Islam / Shalom Sabar -- A maskil reads Zunz : Samuel Mulder and the earliest Dutch reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums / Irene E. …”
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The Dutch intersection the Jews and the Netherlands in modern history /

Table of Contents: “…Cooperman -- The boundaries of community : urban space and intercultural interaction in early modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London / Adam Sutcliffe -- Amsterdam, the forbidden lands, and the dynamics of the Sephardi diaspora / Yosef Kaplan -- Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva : an Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish merchant abroad in the seventeenth century / Jonathan Schorsch -- Amsterdam as "locus" of Iberian printing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Harm den Boer -- The Temple mount in the Lowlands / Gary Schwartz -- The persistence of images : reproductive success in the history of Sephardi sepulchral art / Michael Studemund-Halévy -- Patrocinio and authority : assessing the metropolitan role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the eighteenth century / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz -- Philosophy, deism, and the early Jewish enlightenment (1655-1740) / Jonathan Israel -- Yiddish book production in Amsterdam between 1650-1800 : local and international aspects / Shlomo Berger -- "In Hamburg a High German Jew was murdered" : the representation of foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686-1687) / Hilde Pach -- Amsterdam and the inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters / Avriel Bar-Levav -- Ashkenazi-Dutch pinkassim as sources for studying European-Jewish migration : the cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the eighteenth century / Stefan Litt -- The Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem : David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750-1767 / Gérard Nahon -- From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca : the influence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on haggadah illustration among the Jews in India and the lands of Islam / Shalom Sabar -- A maskil reads Zunz : Samuel Mulder and the earliest Dutch reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums / Irene E. …”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Greater Khorasan : history, geography, archaeology and material culture /

Table of Contents: “…J.a℗EC., a la lumiere des contextes geomorphologiques de 3 sites d'Iran Oriental (Bam, Tepe Damghani, Jiroft) / Eric Fouache, Henri-Paul Francfort, Claude Cosandey, Chahryar Adle -- From Parthian to Islamic Nisa / Carlo Lippolis and Vito Messina -- Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th-13th centuries / Paul Wordsworth -- Ancient Herat Revisited. …”
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Greater Khorasan : history, geography, archaeology and material culture /

Table of Contents: “…J.a℗EC., a la lumiere des contextes geomorphologiques de 3 sites d'Iran Oriental (Bam, Tepe Damghani, Jiroft) / Eric Fouache, Henri-Paul Francfort, Claude Cosandey, Chahryar Adle -- From Parthian to Islamic Nisa / Carlo Lippolis and Vito Messina -- Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th-13th centuries / Paul Wordsworth -- Ancient Herat Revisited. …”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies /

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Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies /

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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

Table of Contents: “…The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy -- Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz -- Was calculus invented in India? …”
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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

Table of Contents: “…The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy -- Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz -- Was calculus invented in India? …”
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Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) by Pirnie, Bruce, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Overview of the conflict in Iraq -- Ba'athist regime -- Invasion of Iraq -- Occupation of Iraq -- First priority : setting up a constitutional government -- Spring -- The spiral downward begins (Spring 2004) -- Benchmark one : holding Iraqi elections -- Islamic extremists and sectarian violence -- A U.S. approach hesitantly unfold -- Armed groups in Iraq -- Overview -- Kurdish separatists -- Sunni Arab insurgents -- Violent extremists -- Shi'ite Arab militias -- Criminal gangs -- Insurgent use of terrorism -- Counterinsurgency in Iraq -- Organization and recognition of the U.S. …”
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Debating security in Turkey challenges and changes in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : debating security, changes and challenges for Turkey in the twenty-first century / Ebru Canan-Sokullu -- Approaches to "security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century -- "Security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century : a theoretical outlook / Craig Snyder -- Insulator, bridge, regional center : Turkey and regional security complexes / Thomas Diez -- Continuities and changes in Turkish foreign and security policy in the twenty-first century and the EU / Selcen �Oner -- Turkey and internal security challenges in the twenty-first century -- Beyond military tutelage : civil-military relations and the AKP government / Asmet Ak�ca and Evren Balta-Paker -- Islamization : a challenge to Turkey's secular democracy? …”
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Counterinsurgency in Iraq (2003-2006) by Pirnie, Bruce, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Overview of the conflict in Iraq -- Ba'athist regime -- Invasion of Iraq -- Occupation of Iraq -- First priority : setting up a constitutional government -- Spring -- The spiral downward begins (Spring 2004) -- Benchmark one : holding Iraqi elections -- Islamic extremists and sectarian violence -- A U.S. approach hesitantly unfold -- Armed groups in Iraq -- Overview -- Kurdish separatists -- Sunni Arab insurgents -- Violent extremists -- Shi'ite Arab militias -- Criminal gangs -- Insurgent use of terrorism -- Counterinsurgency in Iraq -- Organization and recognition of the U.S. …”
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Debating security in Turkey challenges and changes in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : debating security, changes and challenges for Turkey in the twenty-first century / Ebru Canan-Sokullu -- Approaches to "security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century -- "Security" and "challenges" in the twenty-first century : a theoretical outlook / Craig Snyder -- Insulator, bridge, regional center : Turkey and regional security complexes / Thomas Diez -- Continuities and changes in Turkish foreign and security policy in the twenty-first century and the EU / Selcen �Oner -- Turkey and internal security challenges in the twenty-first century -- Beyond military tutelage : civil-military relations and the AKP government / Asmet Ak�ca and Evren Balta-Paker -- Islamization : a challenge to Turkey's secular democracy? …”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

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Cultural styles of knowledge transmission essays in honour of Ad Borsboom /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jean Kommers and Eric Venbrux -- Ad Borsboom / Charles de Weert -- Maradjiri and Mamurrng: Ad Borsboom and me / Jon Altman -- Conversations with Mostapha: learning about Islamic law in a bookshop in Rabat / Léon Buskens -- Education in eighteenth century Polynesia / Henri J.M. …”
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