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  • A History of the Knights of Malta

    Battles, Sieges, and the Making of a Sovereign Order

    by Robert Bianchi ...
    *A History of the Knights of Malta* traces the extraordinary evolution of one of the longest-lasting institutions in Western history, following the Order from its humble origins in 11th-century Jerusalem to its modern humanitarian role. Founded by Amalfitan merchants as a hospital for sick and impoverished pilgrims near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of St. John began as a purely ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guests of God

    Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World

    by Robert Bianchi ...
    Each year, about two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the Islamic holy city of Mecca for the hajj. While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. No government can resist the temptation to manipulate the hajj for political and economic gain. Every large Muslim state has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Islamic Globalization: Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, And Diplomacy

    by Robert R Bianchi ...
    Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural. The author describes an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas — pilgrimage and religious travel, capitalism and Islamic finance, democracy and Islamic modernism, and ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • China and the Islamic World

    How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics

    by Robert R. Bianchi ...
    China is building a New Silk Road that runs through the heartland of the Muslim world, promising it will create integrated economies and stronger ties across Eurasia and Africa. Robert R. Bianchi argues that while China has the financial and technical resources to accomplish its infrastructure goals, it is woefully unprepared to deal with the social and political demands of its partner countries' ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition

    by Momina Zakzouk, Lila Abu-Lughod, Fida J. Adely, Walter Armbrust, William O. Beeman, Anne H. Betteridge, Robert R. Bianchi, Melani Cammett, Steven Caton, Dawn Chatty, Victoria Fontan, Angel Foster, Sherine Hamdy, Farha Ghannam, Simon Hawkins, Marcia C. Inhorn, Natalie K. Jensen, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kristin V. Monroe, Kristina Nelson, Yagmur Nuhrat, Christine El Ouardani, Marcie Patton, Jonathan Holt Shannon, Samer S. Shehata, Brian Silverstein, Diane Singerman, Susan Slyomovics, Jenny White, Quintan Wiktorowicz, Erika Friedl Loeffler, Andrew Gardner, Brian K. Barber ...
    The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book also ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Recurrent Neural Networks for Short-Term Load Forecasting

    An Overview and Comparative Analysis

    by Enrico Maiorino, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Michael C. Kampffmeyer, Robert Jenssen, Antonello Rizzi ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The key component in forecasting demand and consumption of resources in a supply network is an accurate prediction of real-valued time series. Indeed, both service interruptions and resource waste can be reduced with the implementation of an effective forecasting system.Significant research has thus been devoted to the design and development of methodologies for short term load forecasting over ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

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    Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi‘ite South Beirut

    by Lara Deeb, Mona Harb ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • City of Fortune

    How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

    by Roger Crowley ...
    A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure.In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests - the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, the fight ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Normans

    From Raiders to Kings

    by Lars Brownworth ...
    There is much more to the Norman story than the Battle of Hastings. These descendants of the Vikings who settled in France, England, and Italy - but were not strictly French, English, or Italian - played a large role in creating the modern world. They were the success story of the Middle Ages; a footloose band of individual adventurers who transformed the face of medieval Europe. During the course ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • Paradise Beneath Her Feet

    How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

    by Isobel Coleman ...
    Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles TimesInthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Our Vision For Liberation

    Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out

    Edited by Ramzy Baroud, Ilan Pappe ...
    "This is a fascinating, great book." -- ROGER WATERS, founding member, Pink Floyd "These moving visions of a decolonized, democratic and free Palestine will resonate wherever collective yearnings for freedom have survived. Palestinian intellectuals, activists, and artists are a beacon both for the future of Palestine and the destiny of our globe." -- ANGELA DAVIS "Read this book and you will be ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD