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Cover of Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an

Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an

Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century

by Majid Daneshgar
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science, his publications shocked the Cairo...
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Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India

Narratives and Social Movements

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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts — of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical...
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Cultural Processes

A Social Psychological Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010

With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to...
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by Shirley Gatenio Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

This brief resource sets out a rights-based framework for policy analysis that allows social workers to enhance their long-term vision as well as their current practice. It introduces the emerging P.A.N.E. (Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination, Equity) model for evaluating social policy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018

Applications have transformed the collaboration environment from a mere document collection into a highly interconnected social space. These systems interoperate within a social and organizational context that drives their everyday use and provides a rich context for understanding the role of nodes...
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by Charles H. M. Beck, Louis Neal Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016

The Evolutionary Imperative provides a unifying perspective on the evolution of the universe in all its physical and biological detail, with a call to action for redirecting the evolutionary trajectory of human society in a way that will preserve the planet and improve the human condition. The book's...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks...
Cover of Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010

Few contemporary social problems in the U.S. affect more people daily than those within the American health care system. Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care is the first collection of essays to examine dynamics of change in health care institutions through the lens of contemporary...
Cover of Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

East Asia is at the heart of the global economic transformation, and the countries of the region are witnessing rapidly changing labour markets, alongside the pressure to cut production costs and lower taxes in order to become successful ‘competition states’. These changes have resulted in increased...
Cover of Migration and Transnationalism Between Switzerland and Bulgaria
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. Due to several unique factors, this in-depth case study provides a basis for understanding transnational migration in a wider European context. Bulgarians represent a fairly small...
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Ecological Social Work

Towards Sustainability

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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

The world is on the brink of ecological crisis. In the last decade we have seen a number of catastrophic events that illustrate this, including the 2004 tsunami across the Pacific, which killed over 150,000 people, and Hurricane Katrina in the United States, which left thousands dead and millions displaced....
Cover of Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018

Designers provide creative solutions for user problems and identify the needs of users in a given environment. However, it is often difficult to understand the social design of a product or service. Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability is a critical scholarly resource that provides...
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Political Biology

Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics

by M. Meloni
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of...
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Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects

Experience in India and Other Asian Countries

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative social impacts of building dams, power stations, urban infrastructure, highways, industries, mining and other development projects, is now widely in use...
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