Sardar travels to the main Asian communities in the UK, to Leicester and Birmingham, Glasgow and Bradford, Tower Hamlets and Oldham, describing their food and their culture...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
This text provides an accessible introduction to this controversial field. It shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties, from fluctuation to animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also examines the the roots of chaos in modern mathematics and physics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
This text provides students and the general reader with an informative tour through the minefield of cultural studies, examining its origins in Britain and its adoption in the USA...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion...more details Format:paperback Pages:356
Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion...more details Format:paperback Pages:356
Sardar learned the Koran at his mother's knee during his childhood in Pakistan. As a young student in London, he sets out on a quest to grasp the meaning and contemporary relevance of his religion and...more details Format:Hardback Pages:356
Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory in the early 1900s. It began with the discovery of randomness in supposedly predictable physical systems and has evolved into a new science that declares that the universe is far more unpredictable than we ever imagined...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Cultural studies - indisputably the hottest subject on planet earth! But what exactly is it? Where does it come from? What is it for? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
The author offers an introduction to Islam, which claims a fifth of the world's population as followers, explaining the history of the religion as well as its basic beliefs and its various cultural expressions around the world...more details Format:paperback Pages:176
Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions, a culture with 1500 years of history and a civilization of one billion people, constituting a quarter of humanity. Yet it is seen only in terms of oil and turmoil...more details Format:Paperback Pages:173
What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all. We depend on it in our daily lives...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
No one can escape the influence of the media. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and comics, go to the cinema...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
No one can escape the influence of the media. Every day we watch hours of TV, listen to the radio, read newspapers and comics, go to the cinema...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions, a culture with 1500 years of history and a civilization of one billion people, constituting a quarter of humanity. Yet it is seen only in terms of oil and turmoil...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
How can Islam reconcile itself with the 21st century? This "No-Nonsense Guide" explains the Islamic worldview, examining the Qur'an and Islamic law (sharia)...more details Format:Paperback
Why did orientalism emerge and how has it evolved? Has the theory of orientalism developed by Edward Said and others stood the test of time? What is the significance of postmodernism for the future of orientalism? Orientalism...more details Format:Paperback
The 21st Century observed by the renowned New Statesman columnist; Through a collection of humorous but challenging essays, grounded in personal experience...more details Format:Hardback Pages:330
He reduced science to puzzle-solving within belief systems, suggesting that normal science was nothing more than dogmatic stability punctuated by occasional revolutions. Sociologists of science went even further...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions of the world. It produced a magnificent civilisation, envied for its science and learning, spanning over a thousand years. The teaching of Islam emphasise unity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:100