Current research in genomics and pharmacogenomics is increasingly highlighting the need to move towards stratified disease descriptions and individualized treatment plans. This book explains how a confluence of recent biological, technological and methodological developments is making it possible to[...]

The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of modern Islam. What are the ideas which have influenced the direction of these trends? Here, Hamis Enayat provides an answer by describing and [...]

Covering a major work of one of the most important thinkers of early Islam, this is a fresh translation of a text of inestimable importance to our understanding of Fatimid rule that will appeal to all serious students of early Islamic history and culture. This book, the "Iftitah al-Da'wa", is the mo[...]

Among the most outstanding Ismaili thinkers, Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani was at the forefront of the intellectual advances of his time and almost on a par with his famous contemporary, Ibn Sina, with whom he shared many philosophical ideas. His ideas on the intellect and the order of creation are a depa[...]

As the first complete translation of a classic Arabic text written in the 11th century, this work is an eloquent introduction to mystical love in Islam. Considered one of the most important chapters in al-Ghazali's magnum opus "The Revival of the Religious Sciences," it consists of arguments that fo[...]

Born in Tehran in 1957, film-maker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religiously and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972 Makhmalbaf formed his own urban guerrilla group and two years [...]

Gjennom 200 sider følger vi en mann bokstavlig talt fra vugge til grav i et samfunn i uregulert sterk økonomisk vekst. Det er på samme tid en medrivende fortelling om kjærlighet og kampen for å lykkes og en beisk og opprørende skildring av et kynisk samfunn bygd på den sterkestes rett.[...]

In international arbitration few issues have been as controversial as the foreign enforcement of an arbitral award that has been annulled in its originating jurisdiction. As more and more jurisdictions challenge such annulments, the issue has attracted the intense scrutiny of practitioners and schol[...]

En eldsvåda bryter ut i en by i Cataluña. Hela byn tror snart att det är Alí Hamid, en marockansk invandrare, som anlagt den. Alla utom Esteve. En bok som behandlar dagens rasism i Spanien.

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Den unge pakistaniern Changez kommer till USA som en mönsterimmigrant: elituniversitet, prestigejobb på Manhattan, en älskad flickvän och eleganta vänner. Men efter den 11 september förändras allt och Changez märker hur pengar, [...]