Author: Arin Salamah-Qudsi
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Sufism and Early Islamic Piety Personal and Communal Dynamicsoffers a new story about the formative period of Sufism. Through a fresh reading of diverse Sufi and non-Sufi sources, Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi reveals the complexity of personal and communal aspects of Sufi piety in the period between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. Her study also sheds light on the interrelationships and conflicts of early Sufis through emphasising that early Sufism was neither a quietist or a completely individual mode of piety. Salamah-Qudsi reveals how the early Sufis commitment to the Islamic ideal of family life lead to different creative arrangements among them in order to avoid contradictions with this ideal and the mystical ideal of solitary life. Her book enables a deeper understanding of the development of Sufism in light of the human concerns and motivations of its founders. **Book Description Primarily addressed to academic specialists in Sufi studies, this book is useful for advanced students in Islamic studies and those who work with a wider spectrum of fields like socio-religion and psychology of religion. Specialists in classical Arabic literature will benefit from the philological analysis of the fresh sources involved. About the Author Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi is a lecturer of Sufi and Islamic studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses on Medieval Sufi literature and doctrines, the role and position of women in early Sufism, Sufi autobiographies, and Sufism and society in early medieval Islam. In 2011, Dr Salamah-Qudsi obtained Mauf fellowship for Outstanding Arab Lecturers, the Council of Higher Education.
Author: Lois W. Choi-Kain
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In Borderline Personality and Mood Disorders Comorbidity and Controversy, a panel of distinguished experts reviews the last two decades of progress in scientific inquiry about the relationship between mood and personality disorders and the influence of this empirical data on our ways of conceptualizing and treating them. This comprehensive title opens with an introduction defining general trends both influencing the expansion of the mood disorder spectrum and undermining clinical recognition and focus on personality disorders. The overlaps and differences between MDD and BPD in phenomenology and biological markers are then reviewed, followed by a review of the overlaps and distinctions between more atypical mood disorder variants. Further chapters review the current state of thinking on the distinctions between bipolar disorder and BPD, with attention to problems of misdiagnosis and use of clinical vignettes to illustrate important distinguishing features. Two models explaining the relationship between mood, temperament, and personality are offered, followed by a review of the literature on risk factors and early signs of BPD and mood disorders in childhood through young adulthood as well as a review of the longitudinal studies on BPD and mood disorders. The last segment of the book includes three chapters on treatment. The book closes with a conclusion with a synthesis of the current status of thinking on the relationship between mood and borderline personality disorder.An invaluable contribution to the literature, Borderline Personality and Mood Disorders Comorbidity and Controversy insightfully addresses the mood and personality disorders realms of psychiatry and outlines that it has moved away from contentious debate and toward the possibility of synthesis, providing increasing clarity on the relationship between mood and personality to inform improvements in clinical management of the convergence of these psychiatric domains in common practice.**
Author: Andrea Bubenik
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This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Durers engraving Melencolia I (1514)the first visual representation of artistic melancholythis volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include Melencolia I and its reception how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects melancholia in medical and psychological contexts how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation and Sigmund Freuds essay Mourning and Melancholia (1917).About the Author Andrea Bubenik is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia.
Author: Tag Gallagher
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This radical re-reading of Fords work studies his films in the context of his complex character, demonstrating their immense intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.From Library JournalFord directed his first film in 1917, his last in 1965. Although many of his best-known movies re-create the mythos of the Old West, he directed enduring classics in other genres. Gallagher believes Fords oeuvre can be placed in four ages introspection, idealism, myth, and mortality. These may mirror Fords personal evolution, but he was an extremely private, complex man, so correlations are uncertain. Still, Gallagher has deftly interwoven detailed interpretations of Fords major works with knowledgeable analysis of the man. There is also discussion of film theory in order to place Ford in the proper framework. Many books have been done on Ford (by Andrew Sarris, Peter Bogdanovich, et al.), but this is definitive and possibly one of the best of its kind. Highly recommended. Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the AuthorTed Gallaghers articles have appeared in Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Artforum, and many other publications.hrhr
Author: Alex Zamalin
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The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges, like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration, continuing economic and gender inequality, the rise of conservative and libertarian politics, and the appropriate role of religion in American politics. Current scholarship in American political thought research neither adequately responds to the contemporary moment in American politics nor fully captures the depth and scope of this rich tradition. This collection of essays offers an innovative expansion of the American political tradition. By exposing the major ideas and thinkers of the four major yet still underappreciated alternative traditions of American political thoughtAfrican American, feminist, radical and conservativethis book challenges the boundaries of American political thinking about such values like freedom, justice, equality, democracy, economy, rights, identity, and the role of the state in American life. These traditions, the various authors show in different ways, not only present a much fuller and more accurate characterization of what counts as American political thought. They are also especially unique for the conceptual resources they provide for addressing contemporary developments in American politics. Offering an original and substantive interpretation of thinkers and movements, American Political Thought will help students understand how to put American political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory. **
Author: Cynthia Sugars
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This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada. It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of the British Gothic tradition to the colonies on the other, they turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential. After charting this history of Gothic infusion, Canadian Gothic turns its attention to the body of Aboriginal and diasporic writings that respond to this discourse of national self-invention from a post-colonial perspective. These counter-narratives unsettle the naturalising force of this invented history, rendering the sense of Gothic comfort newly strange. The Canadian Gothic tradition has thus been a conflicted one, which reimagines the Gothic as a form of cultural sustenance. This volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.
Author: Blair Kamin
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For more than twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamins writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the worlds tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the worlds leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability. For Kamin, the story of our built environment over the past ten years is, in tangible ways, the story of the decade itself. Terror and Wonder considers how architecture has been central to the main events and crosscurrents in American life since 2001 the devastating and debilitating consequences of 911 and Hurricane Katrina the real estate boom and bust the use of over-the-top cultural designs as engines of civic renewal new challenges in saving old buildings the unlikely rise of energy-saving, green architecture and growing concern over our nations crumbling infrastructure. A prominent cast of playersincluding Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind, Barack Obama, Renzo Piano, and Donald Trumpfills the pages of this eye-opening look at the astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our valuesand shapes our everyday lives.
Author: Larry L. Rasmussen
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Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change species extinction the destruction of entire ecosystems the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point change or perish. But precisely how to change remains an open question. In Earth-honoring Faith, Larry Rasmussen answers that question with a dramatically new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the ongoing health of our planet. Rejecting the modern assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Rasmussen insists that we must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements upon which it depends earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight. He argues that good science, necessary as it is, will not be enough to inspire fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as well to make the difficult transition from an industrial-technological age obsessed with consumption to an ecological age that restores wise stewardship of all life. Earth-honoring Faith advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the material requirements for planetary life are reconciled with deep traditions of spirituality across religions, traditions that include mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic practices, asceticism, and the cultivation of wisdom. It is these shared spiritual practices that can produce a chorus of world faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation, oppression, and folly that have pushed us to the brink. Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring Faith reminds us that we must live in the present with the knowledge that the eyes of future generations will look back at us. **
Author: Gio Wiederhold
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Valuing Intellectual Capitalprovides readers with prescriptivestrategies and practicalinsights for estimating the value of intellectual property (IP) and the people who create that IP withinmultinational companies. This bookaddresses the crucial topic of taxation from a rigorous and quantitative perspective, backed by experience and original research that illustrateshow large corporations need to measure the worth of their intangible assets. Each method in the text is appliedthrough the lens of a model corporation, in order for readers to understand and quantify the operation of a real-worldmultinational enterprise and pinpoint how companies easily misvalue their intellectual capital when transferring IP rights to offshore tax havens. The effect contributes to the issues that can lead to budgetary crises, such as the so-called fiscal cliff that was narrowly averted by passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act on New Year s Day 2013. Thisbook also features a chapter containing recommendations for a fair and balanced corporate tax structure free of misvaluation and questionable mechanisms. CFOs, corporateauditors, corporatefinancial analysts, corporate financial planners, economists, and journalistsworking with issues of taxation will benefit fromthe concepts and background presented in the book. The material clearlyindicateshow a trustworthyvaluation of intellectual capital allows a realistic assessment of a company s income, earnings, and obligations. Because of the intense interest in the topic of corporate tax avoidance the material is organized to be accessible to a broad audience. Gio Wiederhold is professor emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco and an honorary D.Sc. from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has been elected as a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the ACMI. Gio has been consulting on technical- and business-related issues since 1965 in government, academia, and industry, including several multinationals in finance, computing, and pharmaceuticals. He currently teaches two courses at Stanford Business on the Internet and Software Economics.