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This book is an invaluable manual for researchers, authors, scholars, and others interests in Islamic literature, culture, and civilization. it is an attempt to clarify terms, phrases, words, and concepts who means have become distorted due to faulty translations and transliterations. Dr. Al-Faruqi states that, "in modern times, the English language stands in need of the precepts and values of Islam which only the Qur'anic language can provide. constant use of the arabic form will help shiled the English-speaking muslims from the onslought of materialism, utilitarianism, skepticism...and hedonism, that in the last two hundred years, have become firmly established in the english consciousess."
This book, Toward Islamization of Disciplines, is a compilation of selected papers presented at the Third International Conference on Islamization of Knowledge, sponsored by the International Institute of Islamic Thought, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Culture of Malaysia, July 26-31 1984 A.C. / 27th Shawwal -2nd Dhu al Qiddah 1404 A.H. This Conference, which attracted major leaders, educators and scholars from around the world, confirmed the growing appeal of the concept of "Islamization" among Muslim scholars; moreover it indicated that this concept has spread beyond the bounds of academia and has become the concern of peoples, institutions and governments. The selected pape...
Timber construction is one of the most prevalent methods of constructing buildings in North America and an increasingly significant method of construction in Europe and the rest of the world. Timber Engineering deals not only with the structural aspects of timber construction, structural components, joints and systems based on solid timber and engineered wood products, but also material behaviour and properties on a wood element level. Produced by internationally renowned experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in research on the understanding of the material behaviour of solid wood and engineered wood products. There is no comparable compendium currently available on...
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Accurately forecasting the building works is vital to the survival of any business or organization. Building consists of many elements that need to be properly priced. Building estimation is useful for owner and consultant to determine the project scope; while for contractor it is normally used for bidding or tendering process. This book provides a simple guideline in doing elementary estimation of building works. It consists of 12 chapters giving example calculations of various building elements covering from excavation and earthwork until rainwater disposal system. Besides students in the construction environment, this book is also relevant for practitioners in the construction related industries such as building contractors, subcontractors, consultants or clients and also individual who are looking for knowledge related to building costing. Globalization era in higher education system and a great demand on construction related programmes in Malaysia has contributed to the publication of this book. Thus, this book is purposely written in English for the benefit of local and international students. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Natural products chemistry-the chemistry of metabolite products of plants, animals and microorganisms-is involved in the investigation of biological phenomena ranging from drug mechanisms to gametophytes and receptors and drug metabolism in the human body to protein and enzyme chemistry. Introduction to Natural Products Chemistry has collected the
An argument against neobehaviorism and for "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples a wholly materialist approach to the mind with a fully realist attitude to the phenomena of conscious experience. In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative position, "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical ...