Search Results - "reality"

Sharīʻa in Africa today : reactions and responses /

Table of Contents: “…"Sharia and reality": a domain of dontest among Sunni Muslims in the District of Shendi, Northern Sudan / Osman Mohamed Osman Ali -- Contradicting state ideology in Sudan: Christian-Muslim relations among the internally displaced persons in Khartoum-The Case of Mandela and Wad al-Bashir Camps / Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla -- Debates over interest rate: Sudanese perspectives from 35 years' experience of Islamic banking / Ahmad Elhassab, Umar Elhassab -- The evolution of the independent sharia panel in Osun State, South-West Nigeria / Abdul-Fatah Kola -- Makinde "Education is Education": contemporary Muslim views on Muslim women's education in northern Nigeria / Chikas Danfulani -- 'We Introduced sharia'-the Izala Movement in Nigeria as initiator of sharia-reimplementation in the north of the country: Some Reflections / Ramzi Ben Amara -- Debates on kadhi's courts and Christian-Muslim relations in Isiolo Town: thematic issues and emergent trends / Halkano Abdi Wario -- "Necessity removes restrictions": Swahili Muslim women's perspectives on their participation in the public sphere / Esha Faki Mwinyihaji -- Women's views on the role of kadhi's courts: a case study of Kendu Bay, Kenya / Rebecca Osiro -- Demand for the re-Introduction of kadhi's courts on the Tanzanian mainland: a religious, social and political analysis / William Andrew Kopwe -- "Chaos will never have a chance": sharia debates and tolerance in a rrovincial Tanzanian town / Bernardin Mfumbusa.…”
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Dirty assets : emerging issues in the regulation of criminal and terrorist assets /

Table of Contents: “…Borgers -- Post-conviction confiscation of assets in England and Wales : rhetoric and reality / Karen Bullock and Stuart Lister -- Anti-Mafia forfeiture in the Italian system / Daniele Piva -- Civil forfeiture of criminal assets in Bulgaria / Rositsa Dzhekova -- Criminal asset recovery in Australia / Andrew Goldsmith, David Gray, and Russell G. …”
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Games in libraries : essays on using play to connect and instruct /

Table of Contents: “…Kirsch, and Chris Vidas -- Beyond the board : alternate reality games in libraries / Jason J. Battles -- A bag of tricks for successful library games / Mary J. …”
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English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /

Table of Contents: “…: an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. …”
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Transdisciplinary interfaces and innovation in the life sciences /

Table of Contents: “…Taking a transdisciplinary approach to the life sciences / Eunsook Hyun -- Transdisciplinarity and ethics as challenges for life sciences : transdisciplinarity from a problem-based perspective / Winston Langley -- Healthcare systems research : ethics and reality / Heidrun Sturm -- To create and control life : a critical view on synthetic biology / Rainer Paslack -- Different legal regulations on life sciences in Europe and worldwide : protecting humans as consumers and subjects : different ethical standards in the conduct of research in Europe and America / Jennifer Radden -- Legal regulation of genetic information in the USA and Germany: promises kept in insurance / Julian Ziegler -- Enhancement in medicine and everyday life : ethical aspects and requirements for legal regulation / Ju?…”
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Philosophic values and world citizenship Locke to Obama and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Cosmopolitanism -- World citizenship : mirage or reality? / Alain Locke -- Cosmopolitanism and epideictic rhetoric / Robert Danisch -- What difference does difference make? …”
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What We Are Becoming Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors /

Table of Contents: “…A major in flexibility / Rebecca de Wind Mattingly and Patricia Harkin -- Redefining the undergraduate English writing major: an integrated approach at a small comprehensive university / Randy Brooks, Peiling Zhao, and Carmella Braniger -- Re-storying disciplinary relationships: the development of an undergraduate writing concentration / Lisa Langstraat, Mike Palmquist, and Kate Kiefer -- Outside the English department: Oakland University's writing program and the writing and rhetoric major / Wallis May Andersen -- "Between the idea and the reality-- falls the shadow": the promise and peril of a small college writing major / Kelly Lowe and William Macauley -- The writing major as shared commitment / Rodney F. …”
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Making News at The New York Times by Usher, Nikki

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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Global warming gridlock creating more effective strategies for protecting the planet / by Victor, David G.

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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism by Barrish, Phillip

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Valuing energy for global needs : a systems approach / by Mart�inez, Daniel M., 1976-, Ebenhack, Ben W.

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Public health and community nutrition / by Eilender, Elizabeth

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International law / by Klabbers, Jan

Aviation and human factors : how to incorporate human factors into the field / by Sánchez-Alarcos, José, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Commercial aviation: a general picture -- Aviation : a high stakes field -- The fight for efficiency -- The learning process : how the system evolves -- The enlightened despotism in aviation -- Event analysis as an improvement tool -- Potential and uses of event analysis -- The search for the failure -- Breakage of causal chains -- Establishment of legal responsibility -- The event-based learning cycle -- Information gathering phase -- Information distribution phase -- Information utilization phase: generation of new abilities -- Limitations of event-based learning -- The changing role of technology and people in aviation -- Human error : myths and reality -- The human role: skills and knowledge as accident triggers -- The human role : skills and knowledge in accidents avoidance -- The human contribution -- People as alternative resource : feasibility and requirements -- Common practice -- Alternative model -- Organizational learning in air safety : the role of the different stakeholders -- A single keyword -- The manufacturers world -- The regulators world -- The operators' world -- Conclusions -- The engine for organizational learning: where it is and where it should be -- Introduction -- Aviation learning short history : from aviation dusk to present -- What the new training principles should be -- The future of improvements in air safety -- The "PISS" rule : produce intelligible software, stupid -- The "lack of training" issue -- Knowledge and performance -- The human value and the conditions to use it.…”
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Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now / by Allday, Jonathan

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China's Belt and Road Initiative : strategic and economic impacts on Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…/ Frédéric Lasserre, Eric Mottet and Linyan Huang -- From railway dreams to reality check : achievements and challenges of Sino-Polish relations at the local level : the case of Łódź-Sichuan partnership / Bartosz Kowalski -- Economic (policy) implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East and Southeast Europe / Julia Grübler and Robert Stehrer.…”
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Cultural politics in Harry Potter : life, death and the politics of fear /

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Biomechanical Principles on Force Generation and Control of Skeletal Muscle and their Applications in Robotic Exoskeleton. by Yin, Yuehong

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Handbook of harnessing biomaterials in nanomedicine : preparation, toxicity, and applications /

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