Alam: 83 books

Book cover of Moss Flora of India. An Updated Summary of Taxa

Moss Flora of India. An Updated Summary of Taxa

A Summary of Orders and Species

by Afroz Alam
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Document from the year 2015 in the subject Biology - Botany, , course: Research, language: English, abstract: The present compilation of moss flora of India revealed the occurrence of total 1578 species of mosses which belong to 21 orders, under 66 families and 328 genera. Out of these 897 retained...
Book cover of Challenging the New Orientalism

Challenging the New Orientalism

Dissenting Essays On The "War Against Islam"

by M. Shahid Alam
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

Over the past few decades, a new form of Orientalism has been developing. As exemplified by Elie Kedourie and Bernard Lewis, it points to Islam as the West's archenemy. The rise of political Islam and its opposition to Western domination of the Islamic world are seen as evidence of a deep, abiding hatred...
Book cover of That Kind of Mother
by Rumaan Alam
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe •  The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living • Vogue • Popsugar • Kirkus • The Washington Post • Library Journal • Real Simple • NPR “With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan...
Book cover of A Boy, His Bibi and a Bari
by S. R. Alam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

It was December 1979 and my dad was sending me ‘home’, to become more cultured in the ways of Bangladeshi life. To me home was England... Being the eldest son, I had to grow up and needed this indoctrination in the ways of Bengali life and culture before I became too ‘westernised.’ A Boy,...
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Chasing American Dreams

293 Million Dollars and Me

by Mahmudul Alam
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013

The world is enormous, entire 197 million square miles of it. However, it pales into insignificance when compared to the scale and complexity of the human brain, the human mind. The mind lives in the unlimited space of imagination and can move mountains, cause the skies to fall and earth to spin....
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Rich and Pretty

A Novel

by Rumaan Alam
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives. As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together...
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Love and Verse

The Two Insomnias

by Naima Alam
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

Naima Alam is a 24-year-old poet stirred into writing by her love for all things ominous, ambiguous, and confusing. Her respect for poetry was awakened by all whimsical ingredients of the written and spoken word. Her poetry is a fusion of mystical spirituality, teeny-bopper playful crush stories,...
Book cover of Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women

Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women

Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh

by Sarwar Alam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses...
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Women and Transitional Justice

Progress and Persistent Challenges in Retributive and Restorative Processes

by M. Alam
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval? How can transitional justice provide redress to women for harms suffered? How can transitional justice help transform unequal gender relations post-conflict?...
Book cover of Recuadro de Nueva España
by Lucas Alamán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018

Este volumen recoge una descripción detallada de México en los albores de su independencia. El ocaso del mundo novohispano es visto con la lente del polifacético y polémico historiador guanajuatense Lucas Alamán (1792-1853), una de las figuras más destacadas del siglo XIX mexicano.
Book cover of The Languages of Political Islam in India c.12001800
by Muzaffar Alam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This book shows the ways in which political Islam, from its establishment in medieval north India, adapted itself to a variety of Indian contexts and became deeply Indianized. This process, by which pre-existent Arabo-Persian traditions were moulded to new Indian contexts, involved changes in the...
Book cover of Religion, Community, and Education

Religion, Community, and Education

The Case of Rural Bihar

by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012

Religion-based educational disparities, especially relative educational backwardness amongst the Muslims in India, are the focus of serious debate. The 2006 Sachar Committee Report rekindled public interest and attention in this important issue. Yet, considerable gaps exist in our understanding of...
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Writing the Mughal World

Studies on Culture and Politics

by Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government...
Book cover of Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series: Treatment of Leg Veins E-Book
by Murad Alam, MD, Sirunya Silapunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

Procedures in Cosmetic Dermatology Series: Treatment of Leg Veins by Murad Alam, MD and Sirunya Silapunt, MD, offers practical, step-by-step visual guidance as well as expert hints and tips for performing a full range of cosmetic procedures including ambulatory phlebectomy, sclerotherapy, foam sclerotherapy,...
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