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Author : Melis Hafez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427845
A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a way to understanding emerging civic culture in the Ottoman Empire.
Author : Randal L. Schwartz,Tom Phoenix,brian d foy
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596551858
Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text. Topics include: Perl data & variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation Lists & sorting Process management Smart matching Using third party modules Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.
Author : Uri M. Kupferschmidt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110777222
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between “small” and “big” technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many “small” Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willingly acquired by the agency of individual users elsewhere. In a few cases, however, the inventions had to be adapted, or were overstepped, and even delayed. Some were adopted as social markers or status symbols only by elites who could afford them. Processes of adoption and diffusion therefore differed according to cultural settings, preferences, and needs. Social and cultural historians, and social scientists, not only of the Middle East, will find in this collection of essays a new approach to the impact of Western technological inventions on the Middle East.
Author : Katie Barclay,Darrin McMahon,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040020708
Unmatched in originality, breadth, and scope, The Routledge History of Happiness features chapters that explore the history, anthropology, and psychology of happiness across the globe. Through a chronological approach that ranges from the Classical and Postclassical to the twenty-first century, this volume balances intellectual-history treatments and wider efforts to deal with relevant popular culture and experience, including consumerism. It explores how and why the history of happiness has emerged in recent decades, as well as psychological and social science approaches to happiness, with a history of how relevant psychological research has unfolded. Chapters examine early cultural traditions concerning happiness, including material on Buddhist and Chinese traditions, and how they continue to influence ideas about happiness in the present day. Overall, each section emphasises wide geographical coverage, with particular attention paid to East Asia, Latin America, Europe, Russia, and Africa. The Routledge History of Happiness is of great use to all undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the global history of emotions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780755647422
What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popular entertainment for Arabic-speaking audiences, many of whom were uneducated and striving to contend with modernity's anxiety-inducing realities? Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century's transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely focussed on concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups. Highlighting overlooked aspects of this movement, this book shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences. Its ten contributions range in scope, from music and visual media to theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, this book heeds the call for 'translocal/transnational' cultural histories, while contributing to timely global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality. Focusing on the often-marginalized frequenters of cafés, artist studios, cinemas, nightclubs, and the streets, it expands the remit of who participated in the nahda and how they did.
Author : Mostafa Minawi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503634053
Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural currents between 1878 and the First World War. He narrates lives lived in these turbulent times—the joys and fears, triumphs and losses, pride and prejudices—while focusing on the complex dynamics of ethnicity and race in an increasingly Turco-centric imperial capital. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, travelogues, personal letters, diaries, photos, and interviews, Minawi shows how the loyalties of these imperialists were questioned and their ethnic identification weaponized. As the once diverse empire comes to an end, they are forced to give up their home in the imperial capital. An alternative history of the last four decades of the Ottoman Empire, Losing Istanbul frames global pivotal events through the experiences of Arab-Ottoman imperial loyalists who called Istanbul home, on the eve of a vanishing imperial world order.
Author : Nora Barakat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503635630
In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the "tribe" became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the "empty land" they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land.
Author : Tanja Skambraks,Martin Lutz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031298349
This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are explored from antiquity through to the 20th century. The long-term trajectory and comparative perspective allows for moral economy to be seen in relation to ancient Greek commerce, medieval pawn-broking, Christian and Jewish economic ethics, urban social politics during the Plague, the Jesuit mission in Paraguay, the Ottoman Empire, religion in modern American capitalism, and Catholic attitudes toward taxation. This book aims to provide insight into how moral thinking about the economy and economic practice has evolved from a long historic perspective. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in economic history and cultural economics.
Author : Jaume Navarro,Kostas Tampakis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003834427
“Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, “science-and-religion” is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of “science” and of “religion” are seldom challenged. This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of “religion” played in the construction of modern science in national contexts: the use of anti-clerical rhetoric as scapegoat for a perceived scientific and technological backwardness; the part of religious tropes in the emergence of a sense of belonging in new states; the creation of “invented traditions” that included religious and scientific myths so as to promote new identities; the struggles among different confessional traditions in their claims to pre-eminence within a specific nation-state, etc. Moreover, the chapters in this book illuminate the processes by which religious myths and institutions were largely substituted by stories of progress in science and technology which often contributed to nationalistic ideologies.
Author : Joseph P. Kennedy,Wayne H. Watkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781118369371
A straightforward guide to inventing, patenting, and technology commercialization for scientists and engineers Although chemists, physicists, biologists, polymer scientists, and engineers in industry are involved in potentially patentable work, they are often under-prepared for this all-important field. This book provides a clear, jargon-free, and comprehensive overview of the patenting process tailored specifically to the needs of scientists and engineers, including: Requirements for a patentable invention How to invent New laws created by President Obama's 2011 America Invents Act The process of applying for and obtaining a patent in the U.S. and in foreign countries Commercializing inventions and the importance of innovation Based on lecture notes refined over twenty-five years at The University of Akron, How to Invent and Protect Your Invention contains practical advice, colorful examples, and a wealth of personal experience from the authors.
Author : Isha,Isha Judd
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608681211
A down-to-earth spiritual teacher offers real-world access to love, empowerment and enjoyment. By the author of Why Walk When You Can Fly. Original.
Author : T M Caufield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798672436531
Everyone's got their own path when it comes to bringing their ideas to life and creating the life of their dreams; and for some of us that path involves a hefty dose of laziness. Insert The Art of Laziness. A book written to honor the journey of us "lazy (creative and/or entrepreneurial) bastards," and support us in getting the most enjoyment and productivity out of our laziness, and therefore our life. If you, or those around you, have ever agonized over your laziness in a state of confusion this is the book for you. After reading The Art of Laziness you will: (1)Understand why you're lazy and how your laziness assists you in your spiritual development.(2)Understand how laziness helps you in creating physical manifestations so that you can consistently use it to turn your thoughts into reality and literally create the life of your dreams.(3)Differentiate laziness from other often-confused-with states, like procrastination and depression, so that you're able to get the most out of your lazy moments in life.(4)Rid yourself of any society-fueled guilt or shame around laziness so that you can have a more accepting and loving relationship with yourself.(5)Use laziness to have more satisfying and rewarding creative experiences, diverse life experiences, and a richer and fuller life experience overall.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251096352
Using qualitative research and econometric analysis, this report analyses how unconditional cash transfer programmes impact crop production, agricultural inputs, labour allocation, risk management and social networks in seven sub-Saharan countries.
Author : Thomas S. Walters
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0533153409
Author : T. K. Rosevear
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781425747503
Get the rhythm of CYCLES to CHANGE CIRCLES and CHOOSE COMMUNITY with CHARACTER and CHAKRA energies...7C´s Come sail with me... Pull up the anchors, take the wheel and set sail, we begin this journey, as our "true self" prevails; questioning "what makes us come alive", we find these 7C´s rhythms give us more than ´peace of mind´. We´ll follow the stars to grasp our bearings, Identify our emotions from ´just´ caring to sharing; we´ll choose to be mindful and map out our thoughts, steering clear of the ´sharks´ encircling what´s sought. We dig for the treasure and connection to our ´tribe´, and identify our chakras, or energetic vibe; we´ve created a compass to find destiny´s port, complete in community of like-minded sorts. The journey is stormy, the destination unclear, until we remember "there is nothing to FEAR"... Come sail with me, you are not alone! We´ll sail together, and reap what we´ve sown... T.K. Rosevear (1/2007) CONTACT: [email protected]