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  • GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND LAYERED DISASTERS
    NAHID REZWANA / RACHEL PAIN
    This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute ‘layered disasters’ in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another. The evidence is now overwhelming that disasters and gender-based violence are closely connecte...

    $1,060.00

  • ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES AS DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
    NAHID REHMAN / ANJANA PANDEY
    This book highlights application of nanomaterials for drug delivery, therapy, and engineering. It covers stimuli-sensitive drug delivery systems including an overview of the physical, chemical, biological, and multi-stimuli-responsive nanosystems. It also presents analysis of clinical status for different types of nanoplatforms and assesses novel applications of nanomaterials i...

    $1,320.00

  • JUDEO-PERSIAN WRITINGS
    NAHID PIRNAZAR
    Introducing Judeo-Persian writings, this original collection gives parallel samples in Judeo-Persian and Perso-Arabic script and translations in English. Judeo-Persian writings not only reflect the twenty-seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions. Such writings, found in the forms of verse...

    $640.00

  • DISASTERS, GENDER AND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE
    NAHID REZWANA
    Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women’s experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities. The study is situated in the coastal region of Bangladesh, considered as one of the most disaster-prone regions in the wo...

    $1,260.00

  • MUSLIM AMERICANS
    NAHID AFROSE KABIR
    With Islamophobia on the rise in the US since 9/11, Muslims remain the most misunderstood people in American society. Taking as its point of departure the question of the compatibility of Islam and democracy, this book examines Muslims’ sense of belonging in American society. Based on extensive interview data across seven states in the US, the author explores the question of wh...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIAL FORMATION IN DHAKA, 1985-2005
    KAMAL SIDDIQUI / JAMSHED AHMED / KANIZ SIDDIQUE / SAYEEDUL HUQ / ABUL HOSSAIN / SHAH NAZIMUD-DOULA / NAHID
    By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in these two continents seem woefully unprepared for the challenges they will face in providing their urban citizens with the basic services and security from pover...

    $1,460.00

  • MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA
    NAHID KABIR
    Muslims in Australia investigates the basis of Australian society's fear of Muslims by tracing their history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. The author investigates how events such as September 11 and Bali terrorist attacks reinforce suspicion and fear, giving an insight into what it means to be a Muslim in contemporary Australia, and how the actions of militant Islamic gr...

    $1,360.00

  • WOMEN IN THE AGE OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
    ASLANBEIGUI, NAHID / PRESSMAN, STEVEN / SUMMERFIELD, GALE
    Changes are sweeping the world economy and are most apparent in post-socialist Europe and in the developing world. This volume examines the impact these changes are having on women. The authors discuss the evidence of gender bias and reach some telling if unsurprising conclusions. Regardless of the country involved, the findings point to consistent female disadvantage in the tr...

    $780.00

  • BORDERLANDS OF ECONOMICS
    NAHID ASLANBEIGUI
    In recent years there has been increasing discontent with the abstract nature of mainstream economics. Not only does this make the subject less relevant to real issues, it drives a wedge between economics and other disciplines ostensibly addressing the same issues. Borderlands of Economics explores the ways in which economics might be reconnected, both with the real world and w...

    $860.00

  • FOREIGNER
    NAHID RACHLIN
    "A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." —Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review "Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day everyday Iran — of people and places, houses, streets, and families — and she writes of them with a clarity of perception and style that m...

    $311.70