Om du tror på én Gud, mange guder eller ingen gud i det hele tatt: Denne boken vil utfordre hvordan du ser på det guddommelige og dets rolle i vår hverdag. I Gud - en menneskelig historie utforsker Reza Aslan menneskehetens forsøk på å gi mening til det guddommelige. En inspirerende, lærerik og kontroversiell bok om hvordan vi i stadig større grad tillegger Gud menneskelige egenskaper, og hvordan vi forlater det tradisjonelle gudsbegrepet til fordel for en panteistisk tro på mennesket og verdens guddommelighet. Reza Aslans forrige bok Seloten var en internasjonal bestselger, og lå på New York Times' bestselgerliste i månedsvis.

Timely, riveting, and revealing, A Time to Betray gives readers an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the Iranian government and an insightful look at one of America's greatest enemies. Reza Kahlili was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran's capitol and hub of power. Rebellious and adventurous even as a young boy, Reza attends college in America, where independence and freedom become further etched into his mind. But after the sudden death of his father, Reza leaves his carefree times behind to return home, to a country on the cusp of change. In 1979, the revolution triggers an age of religious fundamentalism, and Reza joins the Revolutionary Guards of Iran. After witnessing much brutal violence and bloodshed under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, Reza travels back to America and becomes a CIA spy named "Wally," where he learns counterintelligence and how to communicate using secret code. Now, for the first time, readers will get an inside look at the clandestine practices and brutal ethos of the notorious unit.

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This book provides a set of detailed instructions to help you construct your departmental, divisional, or organizational functional tree structure (FTS) and work towards world-class service. Preparing for Continuous Quality Improvement for Healthcare: Sustainability through Functional Tree Structures outlines a method that will enable your organization to set a stable base for future improvements that are sustainable and create breakthrough improvements in service, quality, and costs. More importantly, the FTS method outlined in the book will provide you with the tools to build processes tailored to your customers' specifications and standards. It will enable you to improve your department, division, and entire organization and edge ahead of your competition. The book explains why organizations steeped in process improvement need to re-evaluate and re-establish their procedures-especially if initial outcomes have not met expectations. Illustrating key concepts with examples, case studies, and flow charts, it provides you with a clear understanding of organizational functional structure and how to document current organizational and departmental functional tree structures.Describing how to identify a department's functional deficits, shortcomings, and waste, it explains how to select the best course of action for your organization. After reading this book, you will be able to create a pictorial representation of your organization's current functional structure and select the best course of action for achieving sustainable advancements in service, quality, and costs. The book will help to convert your managers from a people-management mentality to one of process management-transforming leaders to educators and not guards.

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This intermediate textbook is appropriate for students in vehicle dynamics courses, in their last year of undergraduate study or their first year of graduate study. It is also appropriate for mechanical engineers, automotive engineers, and researchers in the area of vehicle dynamics for continuing education or as a reference. It addresses fundamental and advanced topics, and a basic knowledge of kinematics and dynamics, as well as numerical methods, is expected.The contents are kept at a theoretical-practical level, with a strong emphasis on application. This third edition has been reduced by 25%, to allow for coverage over one semester, as opposed to the previous edition that needed two semesters for coverage. The textbook is composed of four parts:Vehicle Motion: covers tire dynamics, forward vehicle dynamics, and driveline dynamicsVehicle Kinematics: covers applied kinematics, applied mechanisms, steering dynamics, and suspension mechanismsVehicle Dynamics: covers applied dynamics, vehicle planar dynamics, and vehicle roll dynamicsVehicle Vibration: covers applied vibrations, vehicle vibrations, and suspension optimizationVehicle dynamics concepts are covered in detail, with a concentration on their practical uses. Also provided are related theorems and formal proofs, along with case examples. Readers appreciate the user-friendly presentation of the science and engineering of the mechanical aspects of vehicles, and learn how to analyze and optimize vehicles' handling and ride dynamics.

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Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century, has been perceived in the main as lacking in artistic merit and, crucially, as apolitical in content. This highly readable history of Iran as revealed through the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situat

Safety is the first rule for any engineer's hand book. And Transport engineering specially Traffic engineering is no different. So, during the design process traffic engineers have to be very cautious about the safety of the network. Not only during design process but also operation stages traffic engineers' most priority is safety. This book has dealt with the evaluation of safety at a signalized intersection. All over the world amber lights most of the time causes some confusion among the approaching drivers' mind. That is why Amber Light Dilemma has been a major point of research for the last half century. In this book the writer has tried to focus on the major works on amber light dilemma in the past and then preformed a methodological survey to study the behaviour of the approaching drivers at a specific intersection. Based on that survey some statistical tests were done to represent the behaviour of drivers. At the end some recommendations were made to ensure safety. Those recommendations may be taken as generalized recommendations for any intersection similar to the study site. In some cases the recommendations were universal which are applicable to any type of intersection.

Abi Talib, son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, first Shi'i imam and fourth caliph, is a monumental figure within the Islamic tradition. But despite the immense importance of Ali, there is a dearth of literature in Western languages about his life and thought. This book - the first serious engagement in English with the intellectual principles underpinning his teachings - is therefore a welcome and valuable addition to the sources available. It consists of three parts. Part one introduces the person of Ali in a general manner, and focuses particularly on the spiritual and ethical con

Vi vet inte mycket om Jesu liv, men vi vet säkert att han blev hängd och dog på korset. Och vi vet att det var ett straff som de romerska ockupanterna av Palestina reserverade för statens fiender. Det är utgångspunkten för Reza Aslans biografi över Jesus från Nasaret, mannen som efter sin död, i evangelierna, skulle bli Jesus Kristus. Aslan utgår från det vi faktiskt kan belägga om Jesus och hans tid, och beskriver sedan hur Jesu efterföljare byggde upp bilden av en Jesus som inte bara ville störta överheten utan lika mycket, eller ännu mer, sprida kärleksbudskapet. Av upprorsmakaren blev en religionsgrundare. Reza Aslan är född i Iran men bor sen länge i USA och har doktorerat i religionssociologi vid University of California. Han har flera mycket uppmärksammade böcker om religion och politik bakom sig. Han är troende muslim, men har berättat om hur han i tonåren blev helt överväldigad av berättelsen om Jesus. Hans bok blev en bästsäljare i USA direkt den kom ut sommaren 2013, bl a efter en famös intervju i den högerinriktade TV-kanalen Fox News.

A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of CNN's Believer FINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam--the origins and evolution of the faith--in all its beauty and complexity . This updated edition addresses the events of the past decade, analyzing how they have influenced Islam's position in modern culture. Aslan explores what the popular demonstrations pushing for democracy in the Middle East mean for the future of Islam in the region, how the Internet and social media have affected Islam's evolution, and how the war on terror has altered the geopolitical balance of power in the Middle East. He also provides an update on the contemporary Muslim women's movement, a discussion of the controversy over veiling in Europe, an in-depth history of Jihadism, and a look at how Muslims living in North America and Europe are changing the face of Islam. Timely and persuasive, No god but God is an elegantly written account that explains this magnificent yet misunderstood faith. Praise for No god but God "Grippingly narrated and thoughtfully examined . . . a literate, accessible introduction to Islam." --The New York Times " Reza] Aslan offers an invaluable introduction to the forces that have shaped Islam in this] eloquent, erudite paean to Islam in all of its complicated glory." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Wise and passionate . . . an incisive, scholarly primer in Muslim history and an engaging personal exploration." --The New York Times Book Review "Acutely perceptive . . . For many troubled Muslims, this book will feel like a revelation, an opening up of knowledge too long buried." -- The Independent (U.K.) "Thoroughly engaging and excellently written . . . While Aslan] might claim to be a mere scholar of the Islamic Reformation, he is also one of its most articulate advocates." --The Oregonian

Although Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamic political party, regularly holds conferences from Jakarta to Ramallah attended by tens of thousands of people, little is known about the organisation, which was founded in 1953, beyond generalities and conjecture. Its members are repeatedly arrested in Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and across the Middle East, and since the Arab uprisings it has emerged as an influential political actor in Tunisia, has a growing profile in Egypt, and is making a visible impact in the Syrian revolution. It is also paradoxically often dismissed as inconsequential despite its call for the implementation of Islam and the establishment of a universal caliphate across the Muslim world. 'Hizb ut-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation Party' uncovers the history of the global Islamic political party, based upon a diverse array of archival research, internal documents, multiple interviews and other sources to build an authoritative account of the party as told from inside and out. From coup attempts in Jordan, sending delegations to meet Sadat, al-Gaddafi and Khomeini, and the execution of hundreds of its members in Libya and Iraq, Pankhurst's book blends political, intellectual and personal history, moving from global, regional and local perspectives.

What could Wittgenstein's work contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life's meaning? This book not only examines Wittgenstein's scattered remarks about value and 'sense of life' but also argues that his philosophy and 'way of seeing' has far reaching implications for the ways theorists approach an ancient question: 'How shall one live?'.

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.