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Environmental Thought in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
This book looks at Pakistani fiction from an environmental perspective, focusing on the novels of the internationally renowned author Uzma Aslam Khan. It explores the rich environmental landscapes of Khan’s works and their distinctive contribution to developing Pakistani ecocriticism. The book examines the discourse on the environment in contemporary Pakistani fiction in English and the contribution of Khan’s fiction, such as The Story of Noble Rot, Trespassing, Thinner than Skin, and others, towards developing ecological thinking in Pakistani literature and literary criticism. In her novels, Khan gives voice to the nonhuman or the ‘Other’, highlights the harmonious connections betwe...
Political Muslims
In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims has generated concerns about religious radicalism, Islamism, and conflicts in multicultural societies. However, few studies have been devoted to how a new generation of Muslims is reshaping society in positive ways. In Political Muslims, Abbas and Hamid provide a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organizations where resistance leads to negotiated change. In a series of case studies that cross ...
Blue Dust
Ayesha Salman is a writer and poet. Her poems have been published in several literary journals in the UK including Smoke and Splizz. She is currently working on two more works of fiction and remains committed to experimental fiction and the complex relationship between private and public domains in terms of meaning and comprehension. She also continues to write poetry. This is her first novel. Ayesha Salman works as a writer and editor in the development sector in Pakistan.
Web Information Systems and Technologies
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, April 2014, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected originally 153 paper submissions. They were organized in topical sections names, internet technology; web interfaces and applications; society, e-business and e-government; web intelligence; and mobile information systems. The book also contains two invited talks in full-paper length.
Unsinkable
A financial crisis, a divorce, losing your job or a loved one, a health scare--we all face painful, life-shattering events at some point. They can leave us feeling drained and drowning in depression. Author Sonia Ricotti draws upon her own experiences, as well as those of other high-profile self-help leaders, to help you overcome these difficult situations with ease, and bounce back quicker and higher than you thought possible. Unsinkable is not only inspiring, but it offers clearly written, step-by-step tools, strategies, stories, and exercises that will teach you how to: Powerfully move forward, take action, and create the life you deserve. Transform your way of thinking--and feel better now. Experience inner peace and happiness--no matter what your circumstances. Release your negative past experiences and create a new and exciting present and future. Ricotti gives you direct access to her unique gifts as a world-renowned transformational teacher, including the 20 Lessons to Live By When Life Knocks You Down. Lessons such as: Say Yes! to Change. Let Go of What Was. Within Every Crisis Lies a Golden Opportunity. Have Faith in What Will Be. Recreate Your Reality.
Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes
Enzymes are biological molecules of great relevance. In addition to the fundamental role in metabolic reactions, they have diverse applications in industrial processes in generating products of great commercial utility for the most diverse areas. Thus, industries seek to expand research to select microorganisms capable of producing enzymes according to their commercial objectives. Considering the diversity of the microbiota kingdom, as well as the diversity of mode of action of different classes of enzymes, this is an area that deserves constant investments to elucidate new applications, considering that these biological catalysts have great selectivity and a diversity of mode of action, reu...
Responsible Production and Consumption
Zero Hunger (SDG-2) and Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG-12) of the United Nations are very crucial aspects for any economy in the world. In terms of Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security, the world should see to it that agriculture is sustainable enough to ensure food security for all its people. While nobody should be deprived of food for whatever reasons and at the same time nobody should use the agricultural resources (both inputs and outputs) in a manner harmful to the society at large. The use of any resources in terms of production and consumption, and vice versa, should take into account the carbon-footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. While the producers have a major role in the optimum use of the resources, the consumers, for whatever items, should take into account the responsible consumption practices. Since production and consumption are like two sides of a coin, complementary to each other, any change in one of the aspects will have its repercussions on the other one. So, it is a collective responsibility of everyone to ensure that things are practiced the way they are supposed to.
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory. Nomi and Zee are Local Borns--their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him. The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty. In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next. Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers with only her body and her memory. When war descends up...
Trespassing
Standing In A Room With Eight Thousand Tiny Creatures, Witnessing Them Perform A Dance That Few Humans Even Knew Occurred; This Was Life. Everywhere She Looked, Each Caterpillar Nosed The Air Like A Wand And Out Passed Silk. They Sashayed To The Left And Swivelled To The Right. They Bobbed And Undulated, Dotting The Air In Figure-Eights. They Worked Ceaselessly For Three Days And Nights, With Material Entirely Of Their Own, And With Nothing To Orchestrate Them Besides Their Own Internal Clock. Each, A Perfectly Self-Contained Unit Of Life. When Dia Watched One Spin, She Came Closer To Understanding The Will Of God Than At Any Other Time. Dia Is The Daughter Of A Silk Farmer, Riffat An Innova...
