The year was 702 C.E., the place North Africa's Aures Mountains. Al-Kahina, "the Sorceress" and princess of the Jewish Berber Jarawa tribe, prepared to lead her army in a last battle against invading Muslim forces. But not before sending her son, a descendant of the biblical King David, to safety. In 1799, Chaim Farhi, advisor to Jezzer Ali Pasha, ......
An Essential Guide for Students Preparing for Simulation Conferences
This unique manual provides a comprehensive training guide to prepare students for model diplomacy competitions. Designed for students at all levels (middle school, high school, college, and university), it is ideal for new and established model diplomacy programs, classes, and clubs. The manual provides a twelve-week training protocol that offers ......
In the ever-evolving landscape of medicine, the boundaries between science, technology, and human experience continue to blur, leading us into uncharted territories where the possibilities seem as infinite as the universe itself. Narrative Frontiers: Essays at the Edge of Medicine and the Multiverse, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, is a collection ......
The England We Know: Russian Voices Abroad is based on a series of interviews, recorded between 2019 and 2021, with twelve Russophone immigrants-those who have achieved success and those who haven't, the well-educated and the blue-collar-interpolated with the author's memoir. Each story invites the reader into the intimate world of these men and ......
Volume IV of A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship treats the rise of classical scholarship during the first two centuries of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) based on the philological handling of the texts of the Confucian classics. This new paradigm overturns the interpretive approach based on Neo-Confucian philosophical speculation that had ......
Computer Modeling and Simulation provides a comprehensive but concise analysis of the concepts, methods, and software for students, educators, and professionals in the field of modeling and simulation by computers. Stanislaw Raczynski's book can be used in preparing and delivering graduate-level courses. It is written rather as an encyclopedic ......
Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism
The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term "wokeism" calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics. The social justice movement challenges us fundamentally to reconceive our being with one another in society and to reassess our profoundest traditions. There is something ......
Intriguing, innovative, and meticulously documented, Muhammad and the Christians pierces through veils of dogmatic darkness, theological accretions, political propaganda, and religious obfuscation in search of the historical Prophet of Islam. Sound in its premise, major arguments, and methodology, respected scholar John Andrew Morrow's ......
In 2007, the Watson Affair - the worldwide character assassination and exclusion from public life of Dr. James Watson, the brilliant, Nobel Prize-winning scientist co-credited with the discovery of DNA - shocked the global public in an early episode of what would come to be called "cancel culture." Watson was as an early and very public victim of ......
