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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of art and cultural production in the Gulf Cooperation Council. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Arabian Studies.

Despite an increasing number of scattered philosophy-based discussions of management research methodology, there has not been a book that provides a systematic and more comprehensive treatment of the subject. This book addresses this gap in the market and provides new ideas and arguments for guiding management researchers.

Provides the tools and strategies you need to use formative assessment in writing workshops. Through Lynne Dorfman and Diane Dougherty's ideas, you will be able to establish an environment where students will internalize ways that they can assess their own writing and become independent writers.

This book focuses on European banks and analyzes many different aspects of a debt crisis. It covers the cause and the various implications that results from it, allowing a deeper understanding of the effect to enable one to formulate prevention measures and diversification strategies.

The book is an in-depth review on three major agendas: "IMF Reform," "Energy and Commodity Price Volatility," and "Green Growth and Sustainable Development."

Being literate in an academic discipline means more than simply being able to read and comprehend text; it means you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist. Doug Buehl presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy, showing how to mentor middle and high school learners to become ""academic insiders"".

Many teachers are frustrated with not only how spelling traditionally is taught, but also with finding time to support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction. So Mark Weakland has developed Super Spellers, an approach to teaching spelling in a way that is research-based, focused, developmentally appropriate, and tied to authentic reading and writing.

Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers invites you on a journey to become a teacher who refuses to give up on any student, who helps children believe that they can have a positive impact on the world, and who-in some cases-becomes the last hope for a child to heal.

Case Studies in Infection Control has 25 cases, each focusing on an infectious disease, which illustrate the critical aspects of infection control and prevention. Scenarios in the cases are real events from both community and hospital situations, and written by experts. Although brief comments are included in relation to the organism, diagnosis, and treatment the main emphasis is on the case, its epidemiology, and how the situation should be managed from the perspective of infection control and prevention. Each case also has multiple choice questions and answers as well as listing international guidelines and references. All the cases will be an invaluable learning tool for anyone studying or practicing infection control.

This book presents an introduction to the foundations, interpretations, and data-analytic applications of symmetry studies with an emphasis on applications in optical sciences. Symmetry studies connect group theoretic and statistical methods for data summary and inference.

This comprehensive reference covers all major aspects of metallurgical science and engineering of aluminum and its alloys. Topics include extractive metallurgy, powder metallurgy, physical metallurgy, production engineering, corrosion engineering, thermal processing, surface engineering and structure such as crystallography and metallography.

Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.

This book applies a comparative approach to the question of why civil wars occur. It challenges common explanations of civil war both generally and in Tajikistan in particular. This includes highlighting the importance of elites' power perceptions, which have their origins in the interaction of structural-, process-, and network-related variables.

Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the `South Asian Muslim¿ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and in particular since the events of September 11, 2001.

This book re-thinks the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political by exploring the potentiality of a monist ontology in a Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of thinking about security in Brazil. Lima develops a new framework for considering intellectual history in Brazil and applies it to the development of knowledge on security.

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan. It offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the Ismaili community in Tajikistan and analyses the ways in which expressions of political and religious authority have evolved and how they have been adapted to political contexts.

This book seeks to explore how the UN has generated, warehoused, disseminated, structured, packaged, expanded, transferred and leveraged its vast resources of accumulated information and experience throughout the decades and, particularly, since the start of the 21st century.

This is the third in Rudich's trilogy on the intellectual roots of opposition to Nero's rule. The author's approach is based in his own experience, as a Russian exile, of the dissident mentality in the former Soviet Union, which gives the critical treatment of the sources an intriguing personal slant. The book begins with an historical perspective on Rome's relationship with the Greeks and the Jews from their earliest contacts through the period of expansion to the fall of the Roman republic, and further chapters are dedicated to the Principate of Augustus, Judaea's 'triple administration', the political and cultural vicissitudes of Greeks, Jews and Christians in the period between the death of Augustus and the accession of Nero, the beginnings of the Christian Church, and the conditions of the Jewish community in Rome.

Offering the first balanced and in depth analysis of the International Criminal Tribunals, the volume provides an important insight into what lessons have been learned, and how a deeper understanding of the successes and failures can benefit the international legal community in the future.

This book seeks to develop an alternative approach to the analysis of IOs that takes account of all those involved, whether state representatives, IO leaders and members of the secretariat.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world¿s leading international Islamic organization. Turan Kayaoglu provides the first accessible and concise introduction and overview of this important organization.