Awan: 12 books

Part 1: “Manifest Destiny.” International student Andrew Marcus world is torn asunder when interstellar forces, the “Kibrani,” invade earth. With all hope seemingly lost, humanitys last chance may be a long-despised and forgotten race: the Jinn (otherwise known as “genies”)! But are they...

Islamophobia examines the online and offline experiences of hate crime against Muslims, and the impact upon victims, their families and wider communities. Based on the first national hate crime study to examine the nature, extent and determinants of Muslim victims of hate crime in the virtual and...

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples...

A practical and fast-paced guide, with step-by-step explanations to give you all the information you need to know the power of Cognos BI Administration.If you are a Cognos BI administrator or architect, this is the book for you. You must have basic knowledge of databases and business intelligence....

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...

Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has...

How can Islam be understood in the context of internal struggles for unity and identity, a rise in anti-Muslim hate crime and continued media portrayals of violence, extremism, warfare and oppression? Looking at Islam as a faith, a whole system with political dimensions and through the lens of Western...

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference,...

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: M.Sc(Hons), , course: Human Development and Family Studies, language: English, abstract: Personality is the total quality of an individual due to bodily pattern, mental integration and chemistry of internal functions...

This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there appears to be emerging threats...

Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are intended to cause harm. This book examines...

In the spring of ‘77, wealthy socialite Claire MacKennsey returns home and her dying mother reveals the turbulent past of her late father’s family: Her grandmother decapitated her grandfather in his sleep, and the head was never found; and an uncle she never knew existed committed suicide. Mental...