R Bowen: 31 books
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Memories from a Life in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Being governor is like no other job although it has similarities to being a country doctor. Like a physician, a governor is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, asleep, awake, eating, in the shower, traveling in a car, or at a meeting. There are emergencies, so he lives with unpredictability....
by Howard R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) expresses a fundamental morality in the way a company behaves toward society. It follows ethical behavior toward stakeholders and recognizes the spirit of the legal and regulatory environment. The idea of CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s and 1960s with the...
Can Islam Be French?
Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of French non-Muslims to focus on those of the country's...
On British Islam
Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shariʿa Councils
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shariʿa councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially divorce. They have a higher profile in Britain than in other Western nations. Why? Taking a historical...
by John R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in...
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
Islam, the State, and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social...
by D R Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This compact book offers brief descriptions of episodes from local history, combined with a history of the senior age group football teams to have represented the village of Binley Woods. As well as looking at the many lives of the village’s football teams and any links, if known, with the pub and...
Religions in Practice
An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Religions in Practice provides a comprehensive and primarily theme-based overview for students of the anthropology of religion. Whilst covering traditional topics such as magic, witchcraft, and spiritual healing, the book addresses key contemporary subjects including migration, transnationalism, nationalism,...
by H.-G. Attendorn, R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Accelerating progress in the application of radioactive and stable isotope analysis to a varied range of geologicla and geochemical problems in geology has required a complete revision of Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, published in 1988.
This new book comprises four parts: the first introduces isotopic...
Religions in Practice
An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Examines religious practices from an anthropological perspective
Religions in Practice, 6/e, offers an issues-oriented perspective on everyday religious behaviors – prayer, sacrifice, initiation, healing, etc. – by focusing on such topics as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws. The text...
by Christopher R. Bowen, Vitaly Yu. Topolov, Hyunsun Alicia Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book covers the topic of vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials. Piezoelectric materials are analyzed in the context of their electromechanical coupling, heterogeneity, microgeometry and interrelations between electromechanical properties. Piezoelectric ceramics and composites...
Piezo-Active Composites
Orientation Effects and Anisotropy Factors
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The book is devoted to the problem of microgeometry properties and anisotropy relations in modern piezo-active composites. These materials are characterized by various electromechanical properties and remarkable abilities to convert mechanical energy into electric energy and vice versa. Advantages...
Piezo-Active Composites
Microgeometry–Sensitivity Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
This book is devoted to the systematic description of the role of microgeometry of modern piezo-active composites in the formation of their piezoelectric sensitivity. In five chapters, the authors analyse kinds of piezoelectric sensitivity for piezo-active composites with specific connectivity patterns...
by Nancy R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological students and pastors. The commentaries are also useful for upper-level college or university students and for those responsible for teaching in congregational...