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Islam and Evolution : Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
ABSTRACT This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual fr…
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- 9780429345753
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- 362 p
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Married Women in Legal Practice: Agency and Norms in the Swedish Realm, 1350-…
ABSTRACT This book describes the ways in which married women appeared in legal practice in the medieval Swedish realm 1350-1450, through both the agency of women, and through the norms that surrounded their actions. Since there were no court protocols kept, legal practice must be studied through other sources. For this book, more than 6,000 original charters have been researched, and a databas…
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- 9780429345234
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- 198 p
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Missing and Modified Data in Nonparametric Estimation
This book presents a systematic and unified approach for modern nonparametric treatment of missing and modified data via examples of density and hazard rate estimation, nonparametric regression, filtering signals, and time series analysis. All basic types of missing at random and not at random, biasing, truncation, censoring, and measurement errors are discussed, and their treatment is explaine…
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Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination : Transcultural Movements
ABSTRACT Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literature, film, and art from a range of transnational contexts including Europe, the Middle East, Central America, Australia, and th…
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- 9780429325403
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- 222 p
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An elementary transition to abstract mathematics
ABSTRACT An Elementary Transition to Abstract Mathematics will help students move from introductory courses to those where rigor and proof play a much greater role. The text is organized into five basic parts: the first looks back on selected topics from pre-calculus and calculus, treating them more rigorously, and it covers various proof techniques; the second part covers induction, sets, …
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- 9780429324819
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- 292 p
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Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: theory, models and practice
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an …
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- 9780429324529
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- 326 p
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Digital Transformation and Public Services : Societal Impacts in Sweden and B…
ABSTRACT Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimately, this book seeks to understand if it is conceivable for digital advancement to result in the creation of private/non-governmental alt…
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- 9780429319297
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- 378 p
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The Digital Transformation of Labor : Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare
ABSTRACT Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process causes (or may cause) the autonomy of various labor functions, and its impact in creating (or stymieing) various job opportunities on the labor market. This book also seeks to illuminate what actors/groups are mostly benefited by the digitalizati…
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- 9780429317866
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- 366 p
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Motivation in Organisations : Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance
ABSTRACT Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant factor, amorality and non-spirituality) and explains why this approach to teaching business is…
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- 9780429317293
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- 254 p
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Rethinking Governance in Europe and Northeast Asia: Multilateralism and Natio…
ABSTRACT This book explores how nationalism and multilateralism transform international society and global governance. It does so by comparing the governance model of the EU – a constitutionalised and increasingly polycentric form of multilateralism – with Northeast Asia. There nationalist administrations have resisted multilateral commitments and are locked into rivalries instead of pursu…
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- 9780429317125
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