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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Stephane Lacroix TITLE Awakening Islam Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia CATEGORY religion trade NUMBER OF PAGES 328 1 map PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Stéphane Lacroix was born in Clamart, France in 1978. Educated at the University of Paris VI, INALCO and Science Po he is now Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po. He is the co-author of Al-Qaeda in Its Own Words published by HUP in 2008 and originally published in French by PUF in 2005. BOOK DESCRIPTION The story of Islamism in Saudia Arabia. In the 1950s and 1960s, Saudi Arabia became the driving force behind an Islamic bloc of conservative states opposed to the rise of secular nationalist regimes in the Middle East. Consequently, the Saudi Kingdom gave shelter to thousands of Islamist militants persecuted by those regimes. Soon, many of those activists were integrated to the core of the Saudi state, occupying key positions in some of its main sectors, especially education. Their encounter with the Wahhabi religious culture gave birth to an indigenous social movement known as the Sahwa (The Islamic Awakening), which blended Islamist conceptions of political activism with local religious views. This book analyzes the birth and development of the Sahwa, and explains how, within decades, it managed to gain deep-reaching influence on Saudi society, especially on the youth. While the Sahwa had traditionally been supportive of the regime, arguing that there was no true Islamic state in the world except Saudi Arabia, in the late 1980s many of its members turned against the royal family. Sahwa ulema and intellectuals then started spearheading a wide movement of political protest, known as The Sahwa Insurrection, which lasted until the mid-1990s. The book explores this episode in detail, with the aim of understanding what prompted the Sahwa to turn against its protector, and why its Insurrection eventually failed. The collapse of the Sahwa Insurrection led to the split of the Sahwa into different groups with diverse political orientations. Two of its most vocal heirs, the pro-Osama bin Laden neo-jihadis and the constitutionalist Islamo-liberals, have since the late 1990s striven to relaunch the protest, with very different goals and methods (bombings for the former, and petitions for the latter). The book examines these attempts, and concludes that the coming to power of King Abdallah in 2005 marked the end of a cycle of Islamist protest in Saudi Arabia – but certainly not the end of Islamism, which remains the dominant social force on the ground in the kingdom. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages except French AUTHOR James Livingston TITLE Rising Force The Magic of Magnetic Levitation CATEGORY science trade NUMBER OF PAGES 260 34 halftones, 5 line illustrations PUBLICATION MONTH May AUTHOR BIO James Livingston was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. Educated at Cornell and Harvard, he is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of materials Science at MIT. He is the author of a number of books including Driving Force published by HUP in 1996. BOOK DESCRIPTION Intended for the scientifically curious reader rather than one well versed in the science of magnetics this book conveys everything you might want to know about magnetic levitation of animate and inanimate objects and provides concise descriptions of concepts basic to the science of magnetism, making frequent reference to, but no display of, the equations of electrodynamics and electromagnetism. This is a popular-science book on the general topic of magnetic levitation. The book covers in depth maglev topics that some readers may already be aware of, like high-speed trains, novelty items like Levitrons and floating globes, and the flying frogs that received intense press coverage some years ago. It also introduces the reader to a surprisingly wide variety of other less-known but important maglev applications in science and technology. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Serena Mayeri TITLE Reasoning from Race Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution CATEGORY law monograph NUMBER OF PAGES 320 PUBLICATION MONTH May AUTHOR BIO Serena Mayeri was born in New York in 1976. Educated at Harvard and Yale she is now Assistant Professor of Law and History at the University of Pennsylvania law School. This is her first book. BOOK DESCRIPTION Examines analogical reasoning in a historical context, showing its varying impact and success as a rhetorical strategy in the law. In the 1960s and 1970s, American women transformed their legal status. From factory floors and elementary classrooms to the halls of Congress, from grassroots activism to Supreme Court legislation, feminist advocates argues for women’s equality with men under the law. The African American freedom struggle provided a compelling model for securing women’s rights. In fighting discrimination and inequality, feminists retooled the rhetorical and legal arguments that powered the rights revolution. They frequently reasoned by analogy, arguing that sex, like race, should not determine an individual’s life prospects or treatment under law. Reasoning from Race details the rich and often surprising history of feminist legal advocacy and its relationship to racial justice. In law as in life, race and sex were not merely parallel, but intricately intertwined. Battles over employment discrimination, school segregation, reproductive freedom, affirmative action, and constitutional change revealed the promise and peril of reasoning from race. Women and men of color, often overlooked as bit players in a drama starring white middle-class professionals, played a central role in conceiving and executing feminist legal strategy. The economic downturn and conservative retrenchment of the mid- to late-1970s threatened to derail feminists’ legal agenda but also prompted creative new conceptions of race and sexual equality. Looking beneath the surface of Supreme Court opinions to the deliberations of feminist advocates, their antagonists, and the legal decisionmakers who heard - or chose not to hear - their claims, Mayer’s book showcases previously hidden struggles that continue to shape the scope and meaning of equality under the law. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. 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