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Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates. Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam Islamic fundamentalism Islamic reform Islamic law and capitalism secularization in Islam as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised. Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus Nehemia Levtzion Richard M. Eaton Peter Hardy Rudolph Peters Barbara Metcalf Francis Robinson Patricia Crone Michael Cook and S. N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.

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The European Union as a Global Regulator?

The European Union as a Global Regulator?

The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator. The purpose of this volume is to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards an emphasis on the conditions with which it exerts that influence. Toward that end it focuses on the EU's active efforts both bilateral and multilateral to shape regulations beyond its borders. The empirical chapters in this volume are explicitly comparative among foreign partners across international contexts over time and across issues. The more conceptual contributions posit an explanation for the EU’s choice of regulatory cooperation strategy and take stock of Market Power Europe as a dynamic conceptual framework for understanding and researching the EU as a power. Collectively this volume advances three arguments: the utility of the EU’s regulatory power resources is context-specific; debates about what kinds of power projection the EU has been found to be at least as currently conceived unproductive; and that the EU’s engagement in the world is better explained through general theories of international political economy. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. | The European Union as a Global Regulator?

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Sociological Analysis

Sociological Analysis

Originally published in 1972 this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any particular approach. It explores and compares the work of Weber and Pareto on sociological analysis stressing the vital significance of their contributions to sociological knowledge. It looks at the stimulating implications of Karl Mannheim’s thought on the sociology of knowledge and finds in Mannheim the beginnings of most of the contemporary trends in sociology. It covers the fundamental assumptions of Parsonian thought and analyses the derivative character of the ideas of Robert Merton and Reinhard Bendix along with Dahrendorf’s notions on a re-orientation of sociology.

GBP 80.00
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Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists race theorists decolonizing leaders and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was as it remains a collection of selections from those who have changed how we think about social things. Today as the world is threatened by a global wave of anti-democratic movements Social Theory adds a new early section to remind us of the origins of democratic values in the 1700s. A new concluding section focuses the theoretical mind on how in the 2020s social theorists are rethinking the world in order to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democratic movements. | Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

GBP 66.99
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Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures Concepts and Developments broadens the theoretical scope of public relations studies by applying the work of a group of prominent social theorists to make sense of the practice. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists including Max Weber Karl Marx John Dewey Jürgen Habermas Niklas Luhmann Michel Foucault Ulrich Beck Pierre Bourdieu Anthony Giddens Robert Putnam Erving Goffman Peter L. Berger Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bruno Latour Dorothy Smith Zygmunt Bauman Harrison White John W. Meyer Luc Boltanski and Chantal Mouffe. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions and exploring how these can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. | Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

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Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought this book explores the notion of cultural capital offering insights into its various definitions its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power considering the relationship between cultural social and human capital the distinctions between capital and capitalism and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to – or can be brought to bear on – Bourdieu’s work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber Fernand Braudel Daniel Bell Herbert Marcuse Jean Baudrillard Theodore Adorno Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology philosophy and social theory but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital. | Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

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How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics anthropology sociology ethics and political theory and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind. | How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

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Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

These essays by the brilliant historian of political science Juan Linz comprise a remarkable intellectual review of the life and work of Robert Michels his major book Political Parties and the dimensions of democracy as a functioning system. Linz elucidates the importance of Michels in a way that offers more than a mechanical view of political parties as some sort of precisely ordered system of authority and influence. Instead Michels offers a view of politics that is bottom up and untidy what he calls a reciprocal deference structure. Michels is not simply the father of the iron law of oligarchy but the idea of politics as a less than orderly network of responsiveness responsibility and accountability. Linz demonstrates with magisterial power why Michels must be ranked as a foremost thinker in classical political sociology. The remaining three segments of the volume cover areas with which Linz has also long been identified. Each in its own way illumines aspects of Michels as well. Time and Regime Change articulates differences between change within a regime and change of a regime-sometimes hard to identify because of the elongated time frames involved. The next essay explains why Spain is neither a traditional society nor a successful modern nation. The reliance upon central authority displaced the hoped for evolution of a society based on representative democratic institutions. The final section. Freedom and Autonomy of Intellectuals and Artists is a topic that gripped Michels and Linz alike. Freedom as a goal of the intelligentsia has been frustrated by those who provide ideological justification for repression of ideas and actions in the name of higher values. This segment provides a bridge between Michels and Weber-not to mention both of these major figures with Linz himself. The role of state power in mediating intellectual freedom is the leitmotif that blankets the twentieth century. The work is graced by a full-length bibliography of the writings of Juan J. Linz prepared by his student and colleague H. E. Chehabi. | Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

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Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology

Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology

This second edition features new and expanded coverage of contaminant hydrogeologic investigations. It presents a practical approach to completing investigations for environmental compliance emphasizing the use of geologic principles in assessment to move sites toward cleanup. Stressing the basics of collecting data that can withstand regulatory scrutiny and achieve remediation Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology Second Edition demonstrates how to solve a client's site contamination problem while maximizing cost effectiveness. It focuses on small- and medium-sized firms for which speed accuracy and cost are all crucial factors in the site assessment and closure process. Based on real world problems the book takes you step-by-step through the investigation and includes client-consultant-regulator interaction budgets ethics and data extrapolation for solving problems. It introduces concepts such as field logistics drilling techniques sampling protocols contaminant movement and remediation. Regulatory personnel hydrogeological consultants drilling contractors remediation contractors university instructors and students will benefit from the wealth of information provided in this new edition.

GBP 59.99
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CMOS Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Practices and Innovations

CMOS Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Practices and Innovations

The purpose of this book is to provide a complete working knowledge of the Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) analog and mixed-signal circuit design which can be applied for System on Chip (SOC) or Application-Specific Standard Product (ASSP) development. It begins with an introduction to the CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuit design with further coverage of basic devices such as the Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) with both long- and short-channel operations photo devices fitting ratio etc. Seven chapters focus on the CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuit design of amplifiers low power amplifiers voltage regulator-reference data converters dynamic analog circuits color and image sensors and peripheral (oscillators and Input/Output [I/O]) circuits and Integrated Circuit (IC) layout and packaging. Features: Provides practical knowledge of CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuit design Includes recent research in CMOS color and image sensor technology Discusses sub-blocks of typical analog and mixed-signal IC products Illustrates several design examples of analog circuits together with layout Describes integrating based CMOS color circuit | CMOS Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Practices and Innovations

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Fundraising Management Analysis Planning and Practice

Fundraising Management Analysis Planning and Practice

Applying the principles of marketing to nonprofit organisations and the fundraising sector is vital for the modern fundraiser who wants to increase profitability and diversify their fundraising efforts in this challenging industry. This comprehensive how-to guide provides a thorough grounding in the principles underpinning professional practices and critically examines the key issues in fundraising policy planning and implementation. This new edition of Fundraising Management builds on the successful previous editions by including an integrated theoretical framework to help fundraisers develop a critical and reflective approach to their practice. Also new to this edition are how-tos on budgeting and making a strong and compelling case for investment two vital core skills as well as comprehensive coverage of digital fundraising and fundraising through social media. The new edition also accounts for recent changes in the fundraising environment notably in the UK the introduction of a new fundraising regulator and new thinking on professional ethics. Combining scholarly analysis with practical real-life examples Fundraising Management has been endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and is mapped to the Certificate and Diploma in Fundraising making it the definitive guide to best practice both in the UK and globally. This is a clear problem-solving guide that no fundraising student or professional should be without. | Fundraising Management Analysis Planning and Practice

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Understanding Spectrum Liberalisation

Understanding Spectrum Liberalisation

Until the 1990s almost all spectrum licenses were given away practically for free—even the first mobile licenses which laid the foundation for multi-billion dollar companies that dominate stock markets around the world. In the past fifteen years there has been a concerted attempt to liberalise the sector and make it more open to market forces. This book examines this attempt. Exploring the new frontier for spectrum policy Understanding Spectrum Liberalisation identifies the successes and failures of the main policy initiatives of the past decade. It explains in layman’s terms the technical and policy background needed to understand these debates. For those already working in the field the book provides a lively analysis of recent policy initiatives along with an authoritative interpretation of the latest developments in spectrum policy. It examines individual liberalisation initiatives in detail and explains the logic behind moves towards spectrum sharing which is seen as the next policy phase. This book will help non-specialists climb the formidable learning curve quickly. It is ideal for those who have just become involved in the spectrum field whether in industry government or as a regulator as well as those with expertise in one area of spectrum management who want to learn more about the other areas. History is about the concerns of the present so the saying goes and the authors hope that their interpretation of the very recent past will stimulate debate about future policy and help you make substantive contributions to ongoing policy debates.

GBP 44.99
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Competence Conduct and Billion Dollar Consequences How Regulatory Strategy and Relationships Can Improve Organisational Outcomes

Competence Conduct and Billion Dollar Consequences How Regulatory Strategy and Relationships Can Improve Organisational Outcomes

This practical guide to understanding how regulators build insight and form judgements will help organisations to develop their strategy and approach to engagement and to improve their regulatory outcomes. From robot-assisted surgery and advances in stem cell technology the explosion in use of social media and advances in computing power to the development of autonomous vehicles and digital environments such as the metaverse these exciting developments present questions invite debate and have implications. These rapid new developments also join a world described as being increasingly VUCA (volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous) making industry-regulator relationships more important than ever to prevent consumer harm and to configure business success. This book is written for those who wish to build positive and progressive relationships with their regulators in these exciting times of rapid advancement. From developing their strategy through to the practicalities of how to prepare and engage with regulators readers are navigated through an ecosystem of insight to help build an understanding of what informs their regulator’s opinion and judgements. Underpinned with real-world experiences and examples this book shows that through clearer strategic focus and more effective relationships organisations can refine their approach and build their relationships to drive mutually beneficial regulatory relationships that avoid negative consequences and unnecessary costs. Board members executives senior leaders risk compliance legal professionals regulators and students of business finance and law will refer to this book again and again to guide holistic thinking about regulatory relationships and use the insights these can provide to help them calibrate their actions activities and progress. | Competence Conduct and Billion Dollar Consequences How Regulatory Strategy and Relationships Can Improve Organisational Outcomes

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DC Power Supplies Power Management and Surge Protection for Power Electronic Systems

DC Power Supplies Power Management and Surge Protection for Power Electronic Systems

As we increasingly use electronic devices to direct our daily lives so grows our dependence on reliable energy sources to power them. Because modern electronic systems demand steady efficient reliable DC voltage sources—often at a sub-1V level—commercial AC lines batteries and other common resources no longer suffice. New technologies also require intricate techniques to protect against natural and manmade disasters. Still despite its importance practical information on this critical subject remains hard to find. Using simple accessible language to balance coverage of theoretical and practical aspects DC Power Supplies Power Management and Surge Protection details the essentials of power electronics circuits applicable to low-power systems including modern portable devices. A summary of underlying principles and essential design points it compares academic research and industry publications and reviews DC power supply fundamentals including linear and low-dropout regulators. Content also addresses common switching regulator topologies exploring resonant conversion approaches. Coverage includes other important topics such as: Control aspects and control theory Digital control and control ICs used in switching regulators Power management and energy efficiency Overall power conversion stage and basic protection strategies for higher reliability Battery management and comparison of battery chemistries and charge/discharge management Surge and transient protection of circuits designed with modern semiconductors based on submicron dimension transistors This specialized design resource explores applicable fundamental elements of power sources with numerous cited references and discussion of commercial components and manufacturers. Regardless of their previous experience level this information will greatly aid designers researchers and academics who study design and produce the viable new power sources needed to propel our modern electronic world. | DC Power Supplies Power Management and Surge Protection for Power Electronic Systems

GBP 74.99
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Forensic Gait Analysis Principles and Practice

Forensic Gait Analysis Principles and Practice

Gait analysis is the systematic study of human walking using the eye and brain of experienced observers augmented by instrumentation for measuring body movements body mechanics and the activity of the muscles. Since Aristotle’s work on gait analysis more than 2000 years ago it has become an established clinical science used extensively in the healthcare and rehabilitation fields for diagnosis and treatment. Forensic Gait Analysis details the more recent and rapidly developing use of gait analysis in the forensic sciences. The book considers the use of observational gait analysis based on video recordings to assist in the process of identification or exclusion. With the increase in use of CCTV and surveillance systems over the last 20 to 30 years there has been a steady and rapid increase in the use of gait as evidence. Currently gait analysis is widely used in the UK in criminal investigations with increasing awareness of its potential use in the US Europe and globally. The book details the history of the science current practices and of the emergent application to establish best-practice standards that conform to those of other forensic science disciplines. Engagement with the Forensic Science Regulator and the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences in the UK and the International Association for Identification has helped to ensure and enhance the quality assurance of forensic gait analysis. However there remains a fundamental lack of standardized training and methodology for use in evidentiary and investigative casework. This book fills that void serving as one of the first to describe the current state of practice capabilities and limitations and to outline methods standards of practice and expectations of the gait analyst as a forensic practitioner. Forensic Gait Analysis reflects current research and forensic practice and will serve as a state-of-the-art guide to the use of gait analysis in the forensic context—for both education and training purposes. It will be a welcome addition to the libraries of professionals in the areas of podiatry gait analysis forensic video analysis law enforcement and legal practice. | Forensic Gait Analysis Principles and Practice

GBP 82.99
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