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Arabic Language and Linguistics

by Reem Bassiouney, E. Graham Katz, Nizha Chatar-Moumni, Kamel A. Elsaadany, Salwa Muhammed Shams, Ali Farghaly, Youssef A. Haddad, Sarah Ouwayda, Usama Soltan0, Hana Zabarah1, Elena Canna2, Ahmed Fakhri3, Gunvor Mejdell4, Catherine Miller5, Karin C. Ryding6, Yasir Suleiman7, David Wilmsen8 ...

Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today’s political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the ... Read more

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Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today’s political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the
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Sources and Methods in African History

Spoken Written Unearthed

by Dennis Cordell, Edwin Wilmsen, Gerard Chouin, James Denbow, James Giblin, Jamie Monson, Jan Jansen, Kevin Roberts, Kristin Mann, Laura J. Mitchell0, Christian Jennings2, Matt Childs3, Meredith McKittrick4, Paul Lovejoy5, Russell Lohse6, Steven Steven Salm7, Thomas Spear8, Akin Ogundiran9, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch0, Christopher DeCorse1, Constanze Weise2, Cynthia Brantley3, David Henige4 ...

Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of ... Read more

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Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of
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Collaborating for Change

A Participatory Action Research Casebook

by Natalicia R. Tracy, Tim Sieber, Anne Phillips, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Lisa Marie Alatorre, Bilal Mafundi Ali, Jennifer Friedenbach, Chris Herring, TJ Johnston, Dilara Yarbrough, Peggy Kahn, Bill Hoynes, Jonathan Bix, Carl Wilmsen, Diane E. Bush, Victoria Breckwich Vásquez, Rich Heyman, Emily Timm, Pablo Alvarado, Chris Newman, Bliss Requa-Trautz, Nik Theodore, Teófilo L Reyes, Christina Fletes-Romo, Veronica Avila, Gretchen Purser, Kathleen Sexsmith, Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, Rebecca Fuentes, Carly Fox, David A Gadsby, Robert C Chidester, Leontina Hormel, Elliott Moffett, Julian Matthews, Lucinda Simpson, Chris Norden, Robert Elliott, Janne Underriner ...

Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering ... Read more

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Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering
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Illusion Of Progress in the Arab World

A Critique of Western Misconstructions

by Galal Amin ...

Translated by David Wilmsen ...

With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with which the west habitually assails Arab countries and politics. He applies his sharp wit and powers of ... Read more

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With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west. Amin deconstructs in his own inimitable style the language and underlying assumptions with which the west habitually assails Arab countries and politics. He applies his sharp wit and powers of
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Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians?

From the Revolution to the Age of Globalization

by Galal Amin ...

Translated by David Wilmsen ...

At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the habitable and cultivable land of the country is strictly limited? After the success of Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?, Galal Amin now takes a ... Read more

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At the time of the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, the population of Egypt was around 22 million. At the end of 2002, it stood at 69 million, and was growing at a rate of 1.33 million a year. What happens to a society that grows so quickly, when the habitable and cultivable land of the country is strictly limited? After the success of Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?, Galal Amin now takes a
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The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

Edited by Karin Ryding, David Wilmsen ...

Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
Arabic linguistics encompasses a range of language forms and functions from formal to informal, classical to contemporary, written to spoken, all of which have vastly different research traditions. Recently however, the increasing prominence of new methodologies such as corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics have allowed Arabic linguistics to be studied from multiple perspectives, revealing key ... Read more

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Arabic linguistics encompasses a range of language forms and functions from formal to informal, classical to contemporary, written to spoken, all of which have vastly different research traditions. Recently however, the increasing prominence of new methodologies such as corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics have allowed Arabic linguistics to be studied from multiple perspectives, revealing key
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Here Comes Trouble

Stories from My Life

by Michael Moore ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Moore returns with his first major book in eight years -- a blend of memoir, history, and politics that only he could write."I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ... Read more

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Moore returns with his first major book in eight years -- a blend of memoir, history, and politics that only he could write."I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found
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Reefer Madness

Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

by Eric Schlosser ...

New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of "off the books" businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of "off the books" businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric
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Arabic Grammar (Speedy Study Guides)

by Speedy Publishing ...

Series series Learning Arabic Edition 2
The Arabic language is hard to understand and learn for many westerners. The letters and word are completely foreign to their ears. An Arabic Grammar study guide can help them to master this language. Study guides for this language can be used to break the language down into an easy to comprehend format. This way students can quickly grasp what it means. ... Read more

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The Arabic language is hard to understand and learn for many westerners. The letters and word are completely foreign to their ears. An Arabic Grammar study guide can help them to master this language. Study guides for this language can be used to break the language down into an easy to comprehend format. This way students can quickly grasp what it means.
... Read more
Washington

A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Ron Chernow ...

**From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed ... Read more

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**From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed
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African History: A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent.
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Friction

An Ethnography of Global Connection

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

$28.09 USD

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of
... Read more

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