Two-volume Set Research Articles

Recasting the Religious Architecture of Islam

This most recent, and comprehensive compendium, on the subject of the architecture of Islam sheds light on the subject materials. New information on well-known historical examples, the inclusion of historical examples not usually (if ever covered) in such scholarship and an expansion of analysis with respect to modern and contemporary case studies of Islamic religious spaces all underscore the scholarly contribution of this two-volume set. By including such a range of buildings examined, by a large number of scholars from various backgrounds, the compendium effectively recasts the direction of scholarship in this field in a manner that is neither linear or hierarchical.This two-volume set includes 58 essays on a range of regionally-specific examples of architecture from the Islamic world. The first volume of The Religious Architecture of Islam focusses on Asia and Australia, and the second volume focusses on Africa, Europe and the Americas. The volumes are organized in a non-chronological manner, with essays grouped by geographical region covering materials directly related the understanding of religious architecture of Islam.In Volume I, there are four sections with a total of 32 essays written by 29 different scholars. The four sections are: Background themes, West and Central Asia, South and East Asia and Australia.In Volume II, there are four sections with a total of 26 essays written by 20 different scholars. The four sections are: Al-Andalus and the Maghrib, Africa and Sicily, Europe and the Americas.

Hansen Lecture 2022: The Evolution of the Use of Models in Survey Sampling

Abstract Morris Hansen made seminal contributions to the early development of sampling theory, including convincing government survey administrators to use probability sampling as opposed to nonprobability (NP) methods like quota sampling. He codified many of the early results in design-based sampling theory in his 1953 two-volume set co-authored with Hurwitz and Madow. Since those developments, the explicit use of models has proliferated in sampling for use in basic point estimation, nonresponse and noncoverage adjustment, imputation, and a variety of other areas. This paper summarizes some of the early developments, controversies in the design-based versus model-based debate, and uses of models for inference from probability and NP samples.

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson

Reviewed by: The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson Xiomara Santamarina (bio) The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century p. gabrielle foreman, jim casey, and sarah lynn patterson, editors University of North Carolina Press, 2021 364 pp. This exciting volume, and its accompanying digital collections and interpretive exhibits (see https://coloredconventions.org/), stems from the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), a composite print and digital archival [End Page 262] collaboration that originated in undergraduate and graduate coursework and a 2015 symposium at the University of Delaware. As an ongoing collective sustained by multiple groups of undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars from many fields, the project serves as a brilliant example of scholarly crowdsourcing, modeling itself explicitly after the collaborative blueprint inaugurated by Colored Conventions, the antebellum civic meetings organized by African American activists at national and state levels. If it is at all possible to redress the gaps in antebellum archives about African American communal life, beyond the epistemic violence and deficits common to period debates about slavery and antislavery, CCP suggests how we may do so. In both its print and digital incarnations, CCP displays an extraordinary range of topics and methods, making it a truly standout achievement. It is challenging to offer a sense of its immense scholarly and pedagogical potential; it is fair to say that it is as difficult to render a comprehensively accurate description of the entire project as it is to navigate its entirety. To date, most nineteenth-century African American and American studies scholars' familiarity with the many conventions—inaugurated in 1830, there were twelve national and forty-five state conventions—is largely limited to a few landmark speeches, like Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 "Address to the Slaves," and debates concerned with emigration, education, or manual labor. Until recently, the principal print sources consisted of a 1969 reprint of Howard Holman Bell's 1953 dissertation on twelve national conventions and Philip Foner and George Walker's two-volume set covering forty-five state conventions. CCP dramatically expands timelines along with geographic scope, covering antebellum, postbellum and post-Reconstruction conventions as well as conventions in the West and South, ranging outside the customarily circumscribed orbit of the Northeast US. This exciting recontextualization of nineteenth-century Black activism relocates the role of slavery/abolition in African American history within an epistemologically broader historical context, offering valuable insights into the participatory politics enacted by free Black folks who refused the unfreedom to which a racist nation consigned them. The volume's sixteen essays are organized in four sections that straddle regions, time periods, methods, and debates. The CCP's expansive focus on the entire orbit of the various conventions allows us to engage anew with familiar and less familiar archives: along with already available minutes and committee reports, the essays and related exhibits offer a bigger [End Page 263] picture of the print footprint of the conventions as well as paratextual print materials that flesh out the social experiences of delegates and hosting communities. Casting this larger net makes clear that the collaborative enterprise of nineteenth-century African American political organizing challenges dominant elite and masculinist narratives about civil rights activism: as such a collectivizing and community-based enterprise, Colored Conventions were only possible through the participation and contributions of men and women hailing from virtually every domain of African American life. The volume's introduction by P. Gabrielle Foreman, one of the project's principal editors, offers a critical and generative consideration of how this composite project revises our "genealogies of reform" ("Black Organizing, Print Advocacy, and Collective Authorship: The Long History of the Colored Conventions Movement" 24). By simultaneously reconceptualizing nineteenth-century activism around a combination of abolition and Colored Conventions as practices of "parallel politics," Foreman encourages us to reframe our understandings of Black agency and print culture (23). CCP's conceptual framework allows us to explore "the committee alongside the singular figure: the eloquent preacher, lecturer, or editor, the exceptional author, or the heroic protagonist"; and it illuminates the ways these convention spaces demonstrated that "part of recognizing Black humanity was understanding complexity rather than...

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

From Private Dreams to Public Damnings

From Private Dreams to Public Damnings

RECORD OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ILLUMINATION, VOLUME 1: AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF ZEN MASTER KEIZAN'S DENKŌROKU. Edited by T. GriffithFoulk. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press/Tokyo: Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2021. Pp. xiv + 594. Paperback, $85.00 (price of the Two‐Volume set).

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 48, Issue 3 p. 436-437 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: East Asia RECORD OF THE TRANSMISSION OF ILLUMINATION, VOLUME 1: AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF ZEN MASTER KEIZAN'S DENKŌROKU. Edited by T. Griffith Foulk. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press/Tokyo: Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2021. Pp. xiv + 594. Paperback, $85.00 (price of the Two-Volume set). First published: 16 November 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.16028Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume48, Issue3September 2022Pages 436-437 RelatedInformation

Book Reviews

Nuno Palma of University of Manchester and Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa reviews “The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World. Volume 1. 1700 to 1870” edited by Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Volume 1 of a two-volume set contains nineteen papers that provide an overview of the modern world economy from 1700 to 1870, examining the beginnings of modern economic growth and the main factors governing differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy.”

Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. By Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir (SardisRep 8). 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 2021. Pp. 570. $100. ISBN 9780674248557 (cloth).

<i>Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis</i>. By Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, and R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir (<i>SardisRep</i> 8). 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 2021. Pp. 570. $100. ISBN 9780674248557 (cloth).

I Kings 12–22. Concordia Commentary

I Kings 12–22. Concordia Commentary

Constructing Paul: The Canonical Paul

Constructing Paul: The Canonical Paul

Book Review of A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, edited by Irene S. Lemos and Antonis Kotsonas

This publication is an eagerly awaited two-volume set that forms part of Blackwell’s ever-expanding “Companions to the Ancient World” series. Its focus is Greece and the Aegean, but a section is devoted to the wider Mediterranean. In chronological terms, it covers the long period from the Mycenaean era to the seventh century BCE—the Late Bronze Age (LBA) through to the later years of the Early Iron Age (EIA)—a period that saw the rise of complex society, its collapse, and its re-emergence some centuries later.

Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction Seventh edition – Vol 1. Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics Series Volume 258 P. Zarchan Reston, VA, USA. xxxi; 699 pp. 2019. Illustrated. Distributed by Transatlantic Publishers Group, 97 Greenham Road, London N10 1LN, UK. £116. (20% discount available to RAeS members on request; mark.chaloner@tpgltd.co.uk). ISBN 978-1-62410-537-1. - Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile

Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction Seventh edition – Vol 1. Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics Series Volume 258 P. Zarchan Reston, VA, USA. xxxi; 699 pp. 2019. Illustrated. Distributed by Transatlantic Publishers Group, 97 Greenham Road, London N10 1LN, UK. £116. (20% discount available to RAeS members on request; mark.chaloner@tpgltd.co.uk). ISBN 978-1-62410-537-1. - Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile

Book Review: Effective School Librarianship: Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World

Spotlighting school librarians from across the globe, Effective School Librarianship: Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World, the two-volume set collected and edited by Patrick Lo, Heather Rogers, and Dickson K.W. Chiu, introduces readers to a wide range of librarians working in rural and urban schools. The various experiences of these diverse librarians are captured through a question and answer format which highlights the challenges and opportunities they encounter. Read collectively, these interviews showcase commonalities among the profiled librarians nationally and internationally, serving as windows into the experiences of other librarians and as mirrors of shared professional values. At the same time, these conversations provide a treasure trove of inspiring narratives sure to spark rich discussions about global issues facing contemporary school librarians.

Doublespeak: Louisa Jacobs, the American Equal Rights Association, and Complicating Racism in the Early U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement

DoublespeakLouisa Jacobs, the American Equal Rights Association, and Complicating Racism in the Early U.S. Women's Suffrage Movement Susan Goodier (bio) Members of the U.S. women's suffrage movement, usually noted as being from the 1840s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, faced many struggles related to race from the outset. Periods of close collaboration between Black and white activists have been punctuated by longer periods with virtually no cooperation between them. Turning our attention to Louisa Jacobs, the daughter of the once-enslaved Harriet Jacobs (author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), helps us unpack racial cooperation—and the lack thereof—in the years immediately following the Civil War. After establishing freedmen's schools in the South during the war, Louisa returned to the North and joined the American Equal Rights Association to promote universal suffrage as a speaker on the lecture circuit. This article, representing preliminary research into the topic, argues that while Black women criticized the women's suffrage movement for perpetuating racism, they maintained ongoing relations with members of the dominant movement as they sought to overcome that racism and win the right for women to vote. Louisa Matilda Jacobs was born to Harriet Jacobs in Edenton, North Carolina, on October 19, 1833. Because her mother had been willed to the daughter of Dr. James Norcom, and children followed the condition of the mother, Louisa, too, was enslaved. Much of the knowledge we have of her is thanks to the extraordinary work of Jean Fagan Yellin, who, back in the 1970s, realized that a slave narrative, long dismissed as a fictional account written by Lydia Maria Child, a white woman, was instead an accurate "historical record" of the life of a woman born enslaved in a community in the South. 1 In addition to editing Incidents and writing a biography of Harriet Jacobs, Yellin has compiled the papers of the [End Page 195] Jacobs family in a two-volume set readily available in many libraries. 2 This article is indebted to and builds on the meticulous research of Yellin. 3 From the time Harriet was fifteen, Norcom demanded she have sexual relations with him. She engaged in a close relationship with another elite member of the white community, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, in an attempt to ward off the attentions of Norcom. She had two children with Sawyer: Joseph, born in 1829, and Louisa Matilda, born four years later. Despite this, Norcom persisted in his attentions. Fiercely determined that Norcom would not have his way with her, in 1835 Harriet went into hiding, spending a total of seven years in an attic space—measuring nine feet by seven feet, and three feet in height—above the woodshed at her grandmother's house. 4 Through tiny openings in the wall of the attic space she watched her children play and grow. Jacobs arranged for Sawyer, a newspaper editor and member of Congress, to purchase Louisa and her brother Joseph to keep Norcom from using them to blackmail her into sexual intercourse. 5 Sawyer also purchased Harriet's brother John, who ran away from Sawyer the next year, eventually making his way to Boston. A poignant passage in Incidents details the one night the mother spent with her daughter during that period, just before the father took her north in the spring of 1839. Apparently, the child had known of her mother's hiding place and deliberately kept in sight of her mother as much as possible. Louisa never told anyone about the hiding place. 6 Sawyer took five-year-old Louisa to Washington to care for her infant half sister; six months later she moved in with relatives of her father in Brooklyn, New York. A Sawyer cousin had proposed adopting Louisa, or at least educating her. Neither plan came to fruition; Louisa seems to have been used by the family as a "waiting-maid." 7 When Louisa's mother Harriet left the hiding place in her grandmother's attic and arrived in New York in the fall of 1842, Harriet found work as a nursemaid in the family of Nathaniel Parker Willis, an author and editor of some note, and rescued...

Book Review: Eating Disorders: Understanding Causes, Controversies and Treatment

This two-volume set from Greenwood explores eating disorders and their causes, treatment, and prevention. The editor, Justine Reel, is a researcher and licensed counselor specializing in disordered eating, obesity prevention, and sports psychology, and she has assembled a knowledgeable team of psychologists, nutritionists, eating disorder specialists, and researchers as contributors to this encyclopedia. Articles in the volume are listed alphabetically and include topics on medical and psychological disorders, sports medicine and exercise, popular culture, therapies, and comorbidities common to eating disorder patients.

Book Review: The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia

This latest two-volume set from Greenwood’s Daily Life Encyclopedia series provides an overview of everyday life and society in Italy during the Renaissance period. After the preface, a brief introductory essay, and chronology, volume 1 contains thematic sections spanning “Arts” to “Food and Drink.” The second volume picks up at “Housing and Community” and concludes with “Science and Technology.” Sections begin with a broad overview (“Introduction”) and are then broken down into alphabetical sub-topical entries offering more nuanced explorations of each. The section “Family and Gender,” for example, contains entries such as “Childhood,” “Espousal and Wedding,” “Old Age,” and “Siblings.” Further readings suggestions, most of which are books, accompany each entry.

Thomas Young and the Rosetta Stone

Thomas Young (1773–1829) is best known in the physics community for his double-slit experiment demonstrating the wave property of light and for his work on the tensile properties of solids (Young’s modulus). His reputation as a physicist was built almost entirely upon a short, three-year period (1801–1803) of intense work as an instructor in physics and philosophy at the Royal Institution. The culmination of his work at the Royal Institution is described in A Course in Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Mechanical Arts (1807), a two-volume set containing a wide diversity of topics, including his double-slit experiments. Physics teachers and their students should be aware that Thomas Young’s contributions went far beyond these two accomplishments. Little known is that, despite having a reputation as a physicist, Young never took degrees in natural philosophy (physics). He studied to become a physician by attending prestigious medical schools in London, Edinburgh, and Göttingen. To become certified as a physician, he completed a bachelor’s and doctorate degrees at Cambridge University in physic (medicine).

Patterns behind the Patterns

Patterns behind the Patterns Liane Tanguay (bio) Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies Stuart Hall David Morley, ed. Duke University Press www.dukeupress.edu 424 Pages; Print, $30.95 Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora Stuart Hall David Morley, ed. Duke University Press www.dukeupress.edu 352 Pages; Print, $28.95 In 2004, the Centre for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies held a conference entitled Culture, Politics and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall. Invited to deliver the closing address, Hall described the estranging effects of "experiencing [himself]" in such a venue: "this experience of, as it were … encountering oneself from the outside … is uncanny," he observed; yet, in the process, "one sees all sorts of things about one's self and one's own thinking, connections in one's work, the patterns behind the patterns, which one could not possibly see for oneself in any other way." The address now serves as the epilogue to David Morley's two-volume set Essential Essays, one of several collections and tributes that have appeared since Hall's passing in 2014. It is a fitting conclusion to a collection which itself reveals the "connections" and the "patterns behind the patterns" that comprise Hall's lifelong engagement with the political and intellectual project known as Cultural Studies, and that situates some of its now most "familiar" ideas and references in the broader context of his life and times. To extract the "essential" from a decades-long project that is aware of, even committed to, its own contingency could have been no easy task, and Morley, a Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, and longtime friend and colleague of Hall, acknowledges that another editor might justifiably have made choices very different from his own. Morley's advantage, however, consists in some thirty years of "conversations" with Hall about precisely this sort of project, dating back to the 1980s when Hall asked for help compiling some of his works for a collection planned by Macmillan. That collection never materialized, nor did similar ones initiated and abandoned over the ensuing decades; Hall was unwilling, Morely writes, to "prioritize … self-curatorial work over the more pressing demand of his ongoing involvement in … public policy and politics," and hesitant to canonize essays that had been "produced for … specific context(s)" and made no claim to present "eternal truths." But the conversations occasioned by successive attempts at the project did ultimately inform the posthumous result: a roughly chronological selection of twenty-three essays, lectures, and interviews that, Morley writes, bears "[Hall's] own imprimatur in its overall shaping, if not in its final detail." Reading through the collection, it is clear how Hall's reluctance to "[perfect] a selection of his work for the historical record" is consistent with his vision for Cultural Studies as a whole. Profoundly influenced by Antonio Gramsci's concept of the "conjunctural," Hall was drawn to "necessarily provisional modes of analysis" that allowed him work through concrete and immediate political problems without subordinating them to any grand theoretical model. Anyone seeking in the collection an "origin story" for Cultural Studies as a unified methodology or an authoritative account of its evolution, is therefore likely to be disappointed; Hall envisioned no teleology for the work he was doing and laid no claim to "patriarchal authority" where Cultural Studies as a whole was concerned, stressing instead the collaborative spirit of serious intellectual work such as took place at the Birmingham Centre and in the collaborative book-length project Policing the Crisis (1978). Yet considered as a whole, and assisted by an "editorial voice" that furnishes the historical, biographical and intellectual contexts of the work and skillfully illuminates its connections and continuities, Essential Essays does weave together the patterns, impulses, and influences that shaped the emergence and trajectory of Cultural Studies and that must indeed be considered "essential" if we wish to keep it relevant today. The first volume, Foundations of Cultural Studies, features works on culture, class, media, ideology, and representation through which Hall developed, in Morley's words, a "nonessentialist form of 'Marxism without guarantees...

Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods. Volume 1: Life, Culture, and Society. Volume 2: The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages

<i>Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods</i>. Volume 1: <i>Life, Culture, and Society</i>. Volume 2: <i>The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages</i>

Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology and Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing

This is the second edition of this book and consists of a two-volume set contained in 1430 pages in 52 chapters. The complexity of today’s designs and tools means that we can’t afford to rerun an EDA tool for each change, so tools must allow incremental runs. Design today is not feed-forward only. Changes made by a back-end tool must be reflected in the database used by front-end tools. This short and instructive chapter on this topic illustrates one of the main benefits of these books. Just as no two tools can work independently today, designers at different stages of implementation must work together. That means understanding, at least at a basic level, the tools used by other members of the design team. At least one set of these volumes belongs in the library of every design team, so that those working at the back end can understand the issues at the front end and vice versa. The second chapter is on logic synthesis, a reasonably mature area. This chapter deals with changes in the past decade with a short update section. It is a good, short tutorial. If the reader needs to explore further, there are 207 references. The high quality of the sample chapters reviewed suggests that the entire two-volume set is equally as good. This is a powerful resource for new designers and will also be valuable for experienced designers who find that they have fallen behind in some parts of the design flow, thanks to lack of time. You are not likely to find this much information in one place anywhere else.