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 Marion Holmes Katz, "Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice " English | ISBN: 0521887887 | 2013 | 249 pages | PDF | 2 MB The five daily prayers (ṣalāt) that constitute the second pillar of Islam deeply pervade the everyday life of observant Muslims. Until now, however, no general study has analyzed the rules governing ṣalāt, the historical dimensions of its practice, and the rich variety of ways that it has been interpreted within the Islamic tradition. Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values, and interpretations relating to ṣalāt. This innovative study on the subject examines the different ways in which prayer has been understood in Islamic law, Sufi mysticism, and Islamic philosophy. Katz's book also goes beyond the spiritual realm to analyze the political dimensions of prayer, including scholars' concerns about the righteousness and piety of rulers. The last chapter raises significant issues around gender roles, including the question of women's participating in and leading public worship. Katz persuasively describes ṣalāt as both an egalitarian practice and one that can lead to extraordinary religious experience and spiritual distinction. This book will resonate with students of Islamic history and comparative religion.
 William N. Dunn, "Pragmatism and the Origins of the Policy Sciences: Rediscovering Lasswell and the Chicago School " English | ISBN: 1108730515 | 2019 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB This Element presents an examination of the origins of the policy sciences in the School of Pragmatism at the University of Chicago in the period 1915-38. Harold D. Lasswell, the principal creator of the policy sciences, based much of his work on the perspectives of public policy of John Dewey and other pragmatists at Chicago. Characteristics of the policy sciences include orientations that are normative, policy-relevant, contextual, and multi-disciplinary. These orientations originate in pragmatist principles of the unity of knowledge and action and functionalist explanations of action by reference to values. These principles are central to the future development of the policy sciences.
 Practical Theorising in Teacher Education Holding Theory and Practice Together English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003183945 | 268 pages | True PDF | 2.39 MB This insightful collection offers a timely contribution to the body of research on practical theorising in teacher education. Acknowledging the importance of experience and reflective practice in teaching, this book simultaneously embraces the essential need for teachers at all career stages to engage effectively and critically with evidence from research.  Max Katz, Ilya Shaikovsky, Exadel Inc, "Practical RichFaces" English | 2011 | pages: 405 | ISBN: 1430234490 | PDF | 21,7 mb RichFaces 4 is a component library for JavaServer Faces, and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business applications.It lets you quickly develop next-generation web applications based on JSF 2/Ajax.
 Ryan Trost, "Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century" English | 2009 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0321591801 | PDF | 13,9 mb "Practical Intrusion Analysis provides a solid fundamental overview of the art and science of intrusion analysis."
 Peter Vogel, "Practical Code Generation in .NET: Covering Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010" English | 2010 | pages: 529 | ISBN: 0321606787 | PDF | 5,6 mb Enlist Visual Studio's Built-in Code Generation Tools to Write Better Software Faster  Russell Bradberry / Eric Lubow Bradberry / Lubow, "Practical Cassandra: A Developer's Approach" English | 2013 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 032193394X | PDF | 4,8 mb "Eric and Russell were early adopters of Cassandra at SimpleReach. In Practical Cassandra, you benefit from their experience in the trenches administering Cassandra, developing against it, and building one of the first CQL drivers. If you are deploying Cassandra soon, or you inherited a Cassandra cluster to tend, spend some time with the deployment, performance tuning, and maintenance chapters... If you are new to Cassandra, I highly recommend the chapters on data modeling and CQL."  Pieter Greyling, Lucas Jordan, "Practical Android Projects" English | 2011 | pages: 410 | ISBN: 1430232439 | PDF | 62,2 mb Take a practical approach to becoming a leading-edge Android developer, learning by example while combining the many technologies needed to create a successful, up-to-date web app.  Jerome DiMarzio, "Practical Android 4 Games Development" English | 2012 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1430240296 | PDF | 3,7 mb Practical Android4 Games Development continues your journeyto becoming a hands-onAndroid game apps developer. This title guides you through the process of designing and developing game apps that work on both smartphones and tablets, thanks to the new Android SDK 4.0 which merges the User Interface and Experience APIs and more.  Barry Ralston, "PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint" English | 2011 | pages: 299 | ISBN: 143023380X | PDF | 63,1 mb PowerPivot comprises a set of technologies for easy access to data mining and business intelligence analysis from Microsoft Excel and SharePoint. Power users and developers alike can create sophisticated, online analytic processing (OLAP) solutions using PowerPivot for Excel, and then share those solutions with other users via PowerPivot for SharePoint. Data can be pulled in from any of the leading database platforms, as well as from spreadsheets and flat files. |
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