"The Mughal emperor Timur (1336–1405), known also as Tamerlane, conquered large parts of central Asia in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. He was renowned for being an exceptionally good military strategist, but also for being a ruthless conqueror. His purported autobiography was not published in English until 1830, when it was translated by the orientalist Charles Stewart (1764–1837) from a Persian version of the Chagatai original. This reissue offers an insight into Timur's m...

The Mulfuzāt Timūry, presented as the autobiographical memoirs of Timūr, is a striking work of royal self-fashioning that combines martial narrative, political reflection, and ethical instruction. Framed as the emperor's own recollections, it recounts campaigns, administrative principles, and the exercise of sovereignty in a prose style at once direct and ceremonious, characteristic of Persianate court historiography. Whether read as authentic autobiography or as a later text shaped by Tim...

The customer was conceptualized as an individual who was surrounded by products and messages and could make a choice between these products and messages, but now the customer can shape the products and messages that are directed to him with engagement by producing content. The customer not only participates in co-production in visible business processes but also through consumption produces identity, image, meaning, value and experience in the marketplace. This book hereby emerged out of t...

800+ images make this the most effective overview of operative techniques in vascular and endovascular surgery availableA Doody's Core Title for 2026!Using full-color anatomic procedural illustrations, CT/MRI images, and step-by-step videos taken from surgeons’ head-mounted GoPro cameras, Gateways in Vascular Surgery: An Operative Atlas covers operative techniques for both open and endovascular surgery. Concise, high-yield...

This book analyzes initiatives and concepts initiated by China, Japan and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) toward Central Asia to ascertain their impact on regionalism and regional cooperation in Central Asia.Using the case study of Uzbekistan, the book focuses on the formation of the discourse of engagement with the region of Central Asia through the notion of the Silk Road narrative. The author puts forward the prospects for engagement and cooperation in the region by analyzin...

This book examines picroilmenites and their ferromagnetic behavior in the kimberlites from the Yakut diamondiferous province. Picroilmenites are minerals used to identify the location of diamonds. The author shows a solid interpretation of the magnetic-mineralogical analysis of ferromagnetic minerals based on a large number of experimental data and modeling of the magnetic state. He also presents the problems of the variability of the composition of picroilmenites from various kimberlite p...

The 1980s were the years of profound transformations since the years of Great Depression of 1929. The GreatDepression revealed the Social Welfare State. However, the Welfare State left the stage to Neoliberalism in the1980s. Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, we are right in the middle of a similar transformation asthe Neoliberal paradigm is at the brink of collapse. Now the world is heading towards another new profoundtransformation. Prepare t...

For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture. This provides fertile ground for a comparative study across traditions and forms.Timur Yuskaev offers a meditation on the Qur’an and human sensibilities, heard together, in American Muslim sermons. Foregrounding sound, poetry and music, it is a cultural anthropology of the Qur’an, carried out in conversation with colleagues in multiple disciplin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC 2024, which took place in Rennes, France, during September 2 - September 6, 2024.The 19 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The annual International Workshop CASC 2024 aims to bring together researchers in theoretical computer algebra (CA), engineers, scholars, as well as other allied professional...

Popular podcaster (The Anxiety Guy Podcast) Dennis Simsek takes us on a rollercoaster ride of emotions in this gripping and personal book. Dennis demonstrates how anxiety forms and grows as time goes on, and shows you powerful practical ways on desensitizing yourself from your greatest internal and external fears. Get ready to become more than anxiety as Dennis puts his experience, knowledge, and passion to work as he shows you the truth behind overcoming anxiety once and for all.F...

Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it bland. In Private Truths, Public Lies Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, i...

In the height of Sultan Mustafa’s reign, a war between Ubir factions has begun leaving the fate of the Ottoman Empire in the hands of one vampire.Abandoned as a child, Timur never knew his parents or a life outside of the Janissary Corp. The only thing he’s ever known is that he belongs to the Ubir underworld, a group of vampires led by the valide sultan, Queen Naz. Despising himself for everything this life has made him do, Timur’s world changes one fateful day wh...