This book explores the role of halal production, trade, and standards based on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe. It explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge.  Meer

Halal (literally, "permissible" or "lawful") production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two countries a special position in the rapidly expanding global market for halal products: in these nations state bodies certify halal products as well as spaces (shops, factories, and restaurants) and work processes, and so consumers can find state halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world.  Meer

Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change.  Meer

In today’s globalized world, halal (meaning ‘permissible’ or ‘lawful’) is about more than food. Politics, power and ethics all play a role in the halal industry in setting new standards for production, trade, consumption and regulation.  Meer

Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change.  Meer

Inside the Mind of Bobby Fischer gathers most of Fischer’s articles, annotations, and miscellaneous writings together in one place, drawing heavily on Fischer’s first book, Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess, and his Boys’ Life and Chess Life columns.  Meer

Diese Schrift verfolgt das Ziel, eine quantitative Beschreibung der magneti­ schen Felder, Zustande, Vorgange und Eigenschaften zu geben, die bei der An­ wendung von Dauermagneten auftreten, und damit die Mittel fur die Gestaltung und Vorausbestimmung dauermagnetischer Gerate darzustellen und vollstandiger zu machen.  Meer

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch behandelt die klassische Elektrodynamik, das heiBt die makroskopische oder phlinomenologische Theorie elektrischer Felder und Wellen.  Meer

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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.  Meer

Over the last three decades there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will.  Meer

Originally published in 1935, this book presents the content of a lecture given by Ernest Alfred Benians to celebrate the quatercentenary celebrations of four Cambridge Colleges: Queens', Christ's, St John's, and Trinity.  Meer

For most of the 20th century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race.  Meer