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Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination prurient or otherwise for Westerners who being either Catholic or Protestant were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions and pious denunciations of sodomy bestiality transvestitism and incest abound in Western travel narratives missionary accounts and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality and how was this influenced by Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Islam and Christianity over time and place? What sex practices were tolerated or even encouraged by society community and religious ritual and what acts were considered undesirable transgressive and worthy of punishment? Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600-1950 is the first book to foreground same- sex acts and pleasure seeking in the histories of India China Japan the Philippines Thailand and Indonesia. Drawing on a range of indigenous and foreign sources the contributors all renowned experts in their fields shed light on indigenous notions of gender and the body social hierarchies fundamental ideas concerning morality and immorality and episodes of seduction. The book illuminates - in striking case studies – attitudes toward non-procreative sex acts and representations and experiences of same-sex pleasure seeking in the histories of Asia. This path-breaking book is an important contribution to the study of gender and sexuality in Asian cultures and will also interest students and scholars of world history. | Sexual Diversity in Asia c. 600 - 1950

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A History of the Islamic World 600-1800 Empire Dynastic Formations and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia

A History of the Islamic World 600-1800 Empire Dynastic Formations and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia

A History of the Islamic World 600–1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era. Containing two chronological parts and fourteen chapters this impressive overview explains how different tides in Islamic history washed ashore diverse sets of leadership groups multiple practices of power and authority and dynamic imperial and dynastic discourses in a theocratic age. A text that transcends many of today’s popular stereotypes of the premodern Islamic past the volume takes a holistically and theoretically informed approach for understanding interpreting and teaching premodern history of Islamic West-Asia. Jo Van Steenbergen identifies the Asian connectedness of the sociocultural landscapes between the Nile in the southwest to the Bosporus in the northwest and the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) in the northeast to the Indus in the southeast. This abundantly illustrated book also offers maps and dynastic tables enabling students to gain an informed understanding of this broad region of the world. This book is an essential text for undergraduate classes on Islamic History Medieval and Early Modern History Middle East Studies and Religious History. | A History of the Islamic World 600-1800 Empire Dynastic Formations and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia

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Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Covers all your testing and inspection needs to help you pass your exams on City & Guilds 2391 and EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 and Part P courses. Entirely up to date with the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations Step-by-step descriptions and photographs of the tests show exactly how to carry them out Completion of inspection and test certification and periodic reporting Fault finding techniques Testing 3 phase and single phase motors Supporting video footage of the tests contained in this book are available on the companion website This book covers everything you need to learn about inspection and testing with clear reference to the latest updates to the legal requirements and wiring regulations. It answers all of your questions on the basics of inspection and testing using clear and easy to remember language along with sample questions and scenarios as they will be encountered in the exams. Christopher Kitcher tells you what tests are needed and describes them in a step-by-step manner with the help of colour photographs and the accompanying website. All of the theory required for passing the inspecting and testing element of all electrical installation qualifications along with the AM2 City & Guilds 2391 certificate and the EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 qualifications is contained within this easy-to-follow guide – along with some top tips to help you pass the exam itself. With a strong focus on the practical element of inspection and testing for NVQs or apprenticeships this is also an ideal reference tool for experienced electricians and those working in allied industries on domestic and industrial installations. www. routledge. com/cw/kitcher provides a large bank of helpful video demonstrations multiple choice questions to test your learning and further supporting materials. | Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

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Women and Kink Relationships Reasons and Stories

Women and Kink Relationships Reasons and Stories

Based on original research from nearly 1 600 women from the kink community this book takes you on a journey into the motivations meanings and benefits of kink in these women’s own words. Women and Kink presents a diverse range of personal and intimate stories about life love relationships kink sex self-discovery growth resilience community and more. The book offers insight into the breadth of the kink community with chapters discussing different aspects of kink and forms of engagement both individually and within relationships. Filled throughout with personal vignettes and examples the authors provide commentary reflection questions and thought-provoking considerations to readers who are looking to explore a new area of their life. By exploring personal stories of love alternative sexualities and reasons for participating in the unconventional the book supports and empowers each reader to build a relationship and life that best suits their needs. It is also an illuminating resource for sex therapists counselors and other mental health professionals interested in developing a kink-affirmative practice. | Women and Kink Relationships Reasons and Stories

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The Routledge History of Literature in English Britain and Ireland

The Routledge History of Literature in English Britain and Ireland

The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day it emphasises the growth of literary writing its traditions conventions and changing characteristics and includes literature from the margins both geographical and cultural. Extensive quotations from poetry prose and drama underpin the narrative. The third edition covers recent developments in literary and cultural theory and features:a new chapter on novels drama and poetry in the 21st century;examples of analysis of key texts drawn from across the history of British and Irish literature including material from Chaucer Shakespeare John Keats and Virginia Woolf; an extensive companion website including extra language notes and key text analysis; lists of Booker Costa and Nobel literature prize winners; and an A-Z of authors and topics. The Routledge History of Literature in English is an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language. | The Routledge History of Literature in English Britain and Ireland

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Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities Contrasting Identities Belongings and Wellbeing

Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities Contrasting Identities Belongings and Wellbeing

The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers service providers and lesbian gay bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council this book explores these questions from the perspectives of over 600 research participants. Examining ideas about community ‘ownership’; ‘difference’ and diversity; relational practices within and beyond physical spaces; imagined communities and belongings; the importance of ‘ritual’ spaces and symbols and consequences for wellbeing the book foregrounds the lived experience of LGBT people to offer a broad analysis of commonalities and divergences in relation to LGBT identities. Drawing on an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in international social science research the book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in sexual and/or gender identities in the fields of community studies cultural studies gender studies geography leisure studies politics psychology sexuality studies social policy social work socio-legal studies and sociology. The book also offers implications for practice suitable for policy-maker practitioner and activist audiences as well as those with a more personal interest. | Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities Contrasting Identities Belongings and Wellbeing

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Developing EU Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context A Focus on Security Law and Policies

Developing EU Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context A Focus on Security Law and Policies

Relations between the EU and East Asia have consistently expanded in recent years particularly between the EU and Japan. Against the background of negotiations on an economic and strategic partnership agreement the EU–Japan relationship is set to become the single most comprehensive ‘region-to-state’ relationship the world has known today accounting for more than a third of world GDP and a combined population of more than 600 million people. This book addresses the potential role of the EU in cooperation with Japan to craft a stable and prosperous mode of governance in the Asian region. In today’s globalized world seemingly defined by waxing Chinese power and waning American power the book reflects the lack of appreciation for an EU-Japan concert in maintaining and developing multilateral principles. It aims towards fortifying this relationship by acknowledging that in order to enhance the credibility and capabilities of such an alliance it is necessary to take stock of where the partnership stands today what kind of obstacles still need to be overcome and which options have been left untouched. By introducing state-of-the-art empirical research in multiple fields this book will be of key interest to students and scholars of international relations comparative regionalism the European Union and Japanese politics. | Developing EU�Japan Relations in a Changing Regional Context A Focus on Security Law and Policies

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Aleppo A History

Aleppo A History

Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular an active traditional suq with a continuous tradition going back centuries. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze/Iron Age temple complex suggesting an even earlier role as a ‘high place’ in the Canaanite tradition. In the Arab Middle Ages Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence. Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition. In Mamluk and Ottoman times the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant. Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras. Its diverse ethnic mixture with significant Kurdish Turkish Christian and Armenian communities provide a richer layering of influences on the city’s life. In this volume Ross Burns explores Aleppo's rich history from its earliest history through to the modern era providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history accessible both to scholarly readers and to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city’s past. | Aleppo A History

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Time Series A First Course with Bootstrap Starter

Time Series A First Course with Bootstrap Starter

Time Series: A First Course with Bootstrap Starter provides an introductory course on time series analysis that satisfies the triptych of (i) mathematical completeness (ii) computational illustration and implementation and (iii) conciseness and accessibility to upper-level undergraduate and M. S. students. Basic theoretical results are presented in a mathematically convincing way and the methods of data analysis are developed through examples and exercises parsed in R. A student with a basic course in mathematical statistics will learn both how to analyze time series and how to interpret the results. The book provides the foundation of time series methods including linear filters and a geometric approach to prediction. The important paradigm of ARMA models is studied in-depth as well as frequency domain methods. Entropy and other information theoretic notions are introduced with applications to time series modeling. The second half of the book focuses on statistical inference the fitting of time series models as well as computational facets of forecasting. Many time series of interest are nonlinear in which case classical inference methods can fail but bootstrap methods may come to the rescue. Distinctive features of the book are the emphasis on geometric notions and the frequency domain the discussion of entropy maximization and a thorough treatment of recent computer-intensive methods for time series such as subsampling and the bootstrap. There are more than 600 exercises half of which involve R coding and/or data analysis. Supplements include a website with 12 key data sets and all R code for the book's examples as well as the solutions to exercises. | Time Series A First Course with Bootstrap Starter

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No-Body Homicides The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution

No-Body Homicides The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution

No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence. Based on an examination of over 600 cases in the United States and Canada this book shows the length some killers will go to avoid punishment and the determination of police and prosecutors to bring them to justice. For over 300 years murderers in the United States and Canada could avoid prosecution by successfully disposing of the body of their victim. No-Body Homicides provides the reader with a historical overview of prosecutions in which a killer destroyed or hid the body of the victim. It explains why prosecutions were once extremely rare and how legal attitudinal and technical changes have made them more common. The book also explores how the logic of no-body homicide prosecutions differs from body-present homicides. It allows police and prosecutors to draw on the accumulated experience of hundreds of prosecutions. For criminology students it provides fascinating insights into the process of investigating and prosecuting homicides – as well as a glimpse into the motivations and practices of killers who are so determined to avoid punishment that they remove the bodies of their victims. No-Body Homicides will be of practical interest to police or prosecutors confronted with a missing person’s case that could be sinister. It is also written to be appropriate as a supplementary text in an undergraduate criminology class or for an aficionado of “True Crime. ” | No-Body Homicides The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution

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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c. 600 to 1050 AD the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The crisis of the tenth century put an end to the political unity of the Muslim world and saw the emergence of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt and independent dynasties in the Eastern Islamic world. The book concludes with the advent of Seljuk Turkish rule in the mid-eleventh century. This new edition is fully updated to take into account recent research and there are two entirely new chapters covering the economic background during the period and the north-east of Iran in the post Abbasid period. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long-term social and economic processes. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century when it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear informative and readable introduction to the subject. | The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

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The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French

The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French

Now in its second edition The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French as used in the press going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of traditional bilingual dictionaries. Even foreign learners of French who possess a good level of French often have difficulty in fully understanding French articles not because of any linguistic shortcomings on their part but because of their inadequate knowledge of the cultural references. This cultural dictionary of French provides the reader with clear and concise explanations of the crucial cultural dimension behind the most frequently used words and phrases found in the contemporary French press. This vital background information gathered here in this innovative and entertaining dictionary will allow readers to go beyond a superficial understanding of the French press and the French language in general to see the hidden yet implied cultural significance that is so transparent to the native speaker. This fully revised second edition includes: a broad range of cultural references from the historical and literary to the popular and classical; an enhanced analysis of punning mechanisms used in the press; over 3 000 cultural references explained with updated examples; a three-level indicator of frequency; new and expanded chapters on the French of Quebec institutional and academic references and English borrowings in the areas of IT and medical science; over 600 online questions to test knowledge before and after reading. The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French is the ideal reference for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of French seeking to enhance their understanding of the French language. It will also be of interest to teachers translators and Francophiles alike. French students in khgne Sciences-Po and schools of journalism will also find this book valuable and relevant for their studies. Test questions and solutions are available at www. routledge. com/9780367376758 in addition to three online chapters. These bonus chapters explore figurative expressions involving the names of animals the language of the law and slang terms.

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Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

In response to national concerns a decade ago driven by research that showed that higher education was making little impact on students’ development of broad competencies and critical thinking the provost and president of Purdue University a research university instituted a program whose goals were to build on the accumulated knowledge on effective teaching to facilitate student learning improve outcomes and change the institutional culture around teaching and learning – objectives to which many institutions aspire but which few consistently attain or attain at scale. This book describes the development of Purdue’s IMPACT program (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) from its tentative beginning when it struggled to recruit 35 faculty fellows to the present when 350 have been enrolled and the university has more applications than it can currently handle. Overall more than 600 courses have been impacted many of which have seen significantly reduced DFW rates. Chantal Levesque-Bristol whose Center for Instructional Excellence is part of an institutional team that comprises the Provost’s Office Teaching and Learning Technologies Unit Institutional Assessment the Purdue University Library and School of Information Studies and the Evaluation and Learning Research Center describes the evolution of IMPACT lessons learned and the central tenets that have led to its success. The purpose of this book is notonly to describe the program but also to highlight the importance and implications of the underlying motivational theoretical framework guiding the initiative. Having started as a course redesign program that faltered in achieving its objectives the breakthrough came with the introduction of the fundamental motivational principles of self determination theory (SDT) followed by the applications of these principles to the research in higher education leadership and pedagogy. Giving faculty fellows the autonomy to build on their disciplinary expertise pursue their interests and predilections within a guided framework and leveraging interactions with colleagues through FLCs stimulated faculty fellows’ motivation and creativity. This book describes the core and structure of the IMPACT program presents details of faculty learning curriculum explains how the focus on SDT principles shaped the program’s evolution and transformation from a course redesign to a professional faculty development program and covers the considerations behind the formation of faculty fellow IMPACT teams A concluding chapter addresses how the IMPACT program having helped faculty pivot to emergency remote teaching when the campus closed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic is being modified so it can be successfully sustained online if circumstances require or as a means to expand its reach in the future. While the principles behind this initiative will be of compelling interest to its primary audience of faculty developers several chapters will have appeal to instructors and administrators. | Student-Centered Pedagogy and Course Transformation at Scale Facilitating Faculty Agency to IMPACT Institutional Change

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