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Subfertility: Recent advances for management and prevention

Rehana Rehman and Aisha Sheikh

With the increased prevalence of subfertility (any form of reduced fertility with prolonged time of unwanted non-conception) and the number of subfertile patients turning to assisted reproductive clinics for help, Subfertility: Recent Advances for Management and Prevention is a much-needed resource for today's health care providers. Written by doctors with extensive expertise in the areas of reproductive physiology and endocrinology, it provides a description of the methods for achieving conception, an overview of the causes of subfertility and how to detect them, a review of the psychological impact of subfertility, guidelines for the treatment of subfertility, and a look at assisted reproductive technologies"--Publisher's description
Rivals: A novel

Saad Shafqat

At Karachi's prestigious Avicenna Hospital, the hostility between Dr Tanya Shah and Doctor Hammad Khan towards each other is hard to miss. With very different styles, the only similarity being excellence in their field, Tanya and Hammad have been rivals from the time they were med students. But the fight to outdo each other at school is nothing compared to the battle to the death which will ensue when they both go up for the top job at Avicenna.
From the pen of a leading neurologist comes a heartstopping medical thriller about sexual politics, class, and the business of medicine set against a backdrop of one of the most violent cities in the world.
An examination of the stratigraphy and neolithic-iron age pottery from Tel Jezreel, area A

Charlotte Whiting and Gloria London

This volume presents the results of the Tel Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project, directed by Charlotte Whiting on behalf of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL). The project analyzed the Tel Jezreel excavation archive stored at the CBRLs Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. The current volume presents the stratigraphic sequence (by Charlotte Whiting) and the Neolithic to Iron Age pottery (by Gloria London) excavated during the 19951996 seasons. The Tel Jezreel stratigraphy and ceramics have been deemed relevant to determining Iron Age chronological and social issues, two topics that are highly debated in the literature. Despite the fragmentary nature of the deposits, they are published here in order to address these questions. In addition, the study of the ceramics revealed an unanticipated abundance of highly varied pre-Iron Age pottery. Social and technological aspects of the manufacturing techniques, including burnish practices, are discussed.
UK Think-Tanks, the War on Terror and the Radicalisation Debate

Hadi Enayat

This paper maps the discursive and ideological habitus in which UK think-tanks operate in connection with the ‘war on terror’. It discusses how UK think-tanks have both shaped and been shaped by this habitus and the impact their work has had on counter-terrorism policy in the UK. It begins by discussing the concept of think-tanks and their role and input into politics. It then sketches the rise of ‘terrorism’ as both an academic object of study, from the mid-1970s onwards, and as an increasingly vital policy area for governments and the military-security establishment, especially after 9/11. The paper then focuses on UK think-tanks dividing them into three broad categories: conservative-orthodox think-tanks, establishment think-tanks and alternative-radical think-tanks.
Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syria, Iran and Pakistan

Maryam Ghadyani, Hinna Hussain, Wael Odeh, and Philip Wood

This paper describes the reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak on social media in Iran, Syria and Pakistan. In particular, we focus on issues of the place of religion in society, on international relations and on trust between society and government, where these issues have been invoked in the discussion of the epidemic. We conclude with timelines for the early phases of the epidemic in the three countries.
Islamic and Middle East Area Studies Librarianship

Walid Ghali, Waseem Farooq, Paul Auchterlonie, and Arnoud Vrolijk

The three papers collected here are based on a seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship held on 31 January 2019 at the Aga Khan Library (AKL), in conjunction with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). Curators, area studies directors, and collection librarians, who are currently involved in this field, gathered to discuss common challenges and to identify strategic areas for collaboration.
Endodontic retreatment: A practitioner's guide to gutta-percha removal

Shizrah Jamal, Zainab Haji, and Rabia Ghafoor

This book highlights the causes of primary root canal failure and itstreatment. It elaborates various methods to remove root canal filling materials. This book is a mini guide for dental graduates to attain basic knowledge regarding non - surgical endodontic treatment which can help them in clinical decision making.This book further discusses the evolution of obturation and file systems, along with their application in endodontic retreatment.
Retreatment endodontics: Ex to next file systems: Advancement in retreatment file systems

Shizrah Jamal, Zainab Haji, and Rabia Ghafoor
Nairobi Noir

Peter Kimani

This short story anthology, released simultaneously in London and New York, provides an entire spectrum of generations of Kenyan writers—an unprecedented feat in Kenya’s literary history. The oldest writer in this anthology is 81, the youngest is only 24 capturing the entire spectrum of Kenyan writing: past, present, and future. Kimani also contributed an original story, Blood Sister.
Atlas of diagnostic and predictive histopathology

Shahid Pervez

The second edition of this atlas covers the histopathology of all organ systems, supporting trainees and residents in the histopathological diagnosis of a wide range of inflammatory, neoplastic, degenerative, developmental and metabolic disorders. Though organ-specific books and atlases are increasingly available, there is a growing demand for a comprehensive guide to the histopathological diagnosis of each organ system, enabling histopathology trainees/residents and general pathologists to make reliable provisional or final diagnoses in routine practice. Each chapter covers a specific organ system and provides a better understanding of the microscopic pathology of common diseases and cancers, their interpretation, clinical presentation, epidemiology and demographics. The book also includes a chapter on ‘Predictive Pathology’ to help pathologists and other medical and healthcare professionals understand histopathology and report on it in keeping with standard international guidelines for individualized patient management.
Intended as a concise and handy guide, this book offers a ready reference for trainees in histopathology, surgical pathology, anatomic pathology and cellular pathology, as well as practicing pathologists. It can also serve as a useful resource for biologists, biomedical scientists and physicians in general. The book features over 2200 illustrations with microscopic descriptions and interpretations. Besides H&E, special stains, IHC, FISH and radiology are included.
40 Years On: Reflections on the Iranian Revolution

Sevgi Adak, Touraj Atabaki, Kamran Matin, and Valentine M. Moghadam

The three articles compiled here are based on a panel discussion held at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) on 23 May 2019.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, its aim was to revisit the debate on the causes and impact of the revolution for Iran and beyond.

Three questions in particular guided the interdisciplinary dialogue and political reflections on this world historical event: How should we analyse the conditions underpinning the revolutionary dynamics in Iran in the global context of the 1970s? How should the Iranian Revolution be analysed in an historical-comparative perspective? And, what is the legacy, or rather, the multiple legacies, of the revolution for the political struggles in Iran and the Middle East today
Delusional states: Feeling rule and development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier

Nosheen Ali

Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social struggle in Gilgit-Baltistan - the only Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border zone that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For seven decades, the political conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centered nationalisms. This book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, and beauty and terror. Placing these emotionalities at the centre of its analysis, Delusional States rethinks the state–citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan. A powerful contribution to studies of state-making and Muslim sociality in South Asia, the book additionally offers distinct theoretical insights in the fields of social movements, political ecology, education, and global development studies.
Health and sustainable development goals for Pakistan

Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Jai K. Das

This Book Is All About Pakistan was one of the countries that did not achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals. After the Millennium Development Goals, all the countries of the world signed up to the 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015. These goals encompass many elements of the previous MDGs but are far more ambitious and while many of the SDG goals are relevant to health, health per se is only one of the 17 goals. Pakistan has embarked on the mission to attain these goals by 2030 and we anticipate that a major contribution towards these goals would come from the science, academia, and public health communities. While no publication or plan can ever replace sound implementation, the thoughts and scholarship reflected in these pages set the scene for the hard work and struggle ahead for Pakistan to take an integrated and sustainable approach to achieve the goals.
Education in Tanzania in the era of globalisation: Challenges and opportunities

Joe Lugalla and Marriote Ngwaru

Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation Challenges and Opportunities is a product of papers presented at a National Education Conference held in Dodoma, Tanzania in November 2016 and organised by the Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED-EA). The individual chapters in this publication, and their collective thrust, discuss the challenges in the education system in good faith and in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration guided by the belief that it is not the responsibility of the Government alone to see how these can be addressed. The various authors of Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation Challenges and Opportunities discuss issues within the context of the Tanzanian political economy against the effects of globalization and seek to initiate a new kind of debate that is long overdue; a debate aimed at charting out appropriate strategies whose objective is to improve the quality of education in Tanzania so that it becomes a useful vehicle in enhancing processes of social change, transformation and development.
Political kinship in Pakistan: Descent, marriage and government stability

Stephen M. Lyon

In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon illustrates how contemporary politics in Pakistan are built on complex kinship networks created through marriage and descent relations. Lyon points to kinship as a critical mechanism for understanding both Pakistan’s continued inability to develop strong and stable governments, and its incredible durability in the face of pressures that have led to the collapse and failure of other states around the world.
Determinants and outcome of esophageal caustic stricture interventions

Dunya Moghul‬, Mohammad Tareq Rahimi, and Tazeen Saeed Ali

This book is based on the research which is done by one the first female pediatric surgeons of a war torn country and her tireless struggles in giving hope of life to the society specially the children and trying to provide high stranded treatment in-spite of limited resources provided. Children makes one third our populations today, and our all future.Thinking about health of children today, will give us a healthy population tomorrow. Afghanistan has been in 40 years of unwanted wars, and counts as one of five young developing countries, beside researching the conflicts and outcomes of war, we need to study silent killers such as caustic ingestion. As we know,we can prevent from mortality and morbidity of caustic ingestion by taking very ordinary measures but unfortunately no such measures are being taking care of, and the incidence are significant, so we are hoping this study be the first step for start to work in such area and create general awareness.*
America & Islam: Soundbites, suicide bombs and the road to Donald Trump

Lawrence Pintak

Donald Trump's first term as the 45th President of the United States of America has shocked the world. His attitudes towards Islam became a key point of contention on the campaign trail, and in power Trump has continued his war of divisive words and deeds. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak scrutinizes America's relationship with Islam since its foundation. Casting Donald Trump as a symptom of decades of misunderstanding and demonization of the Islamic world, as well as a cause of future tensions, Pintak shows how and why America's relationship with the world's largest religion has been so fractious, damaging and self-defeating.
Featuring unique interviews with victims and perpetrators of Trump's policies, as well as analysis of the media's role in inflaming debate, America & Islam seeks to provide a complete guide to the twin challenges of terrorism and the polarizing rhetoric that fuels it, and sketches out a future based on co-operation and the reassertion of democratic values.
If stones could speak : Echoes from the past

Iftikhar Salahuddin and Naseem Salahuddin

The most compressed and visually stunning pictorial tour of ancient civilizations and historical landmarks of the past. ‘If Stones Could Speak’ takes the readers on a fascinating journey in the form of 4 splendid sections, and every one of them retells the history through a dimension of power utilized by the religious rulers of these sites. These images show the shared commonalities between us and our ancestors, the complexities of societies and more captivating attributes which transcends the reader to a realm of pure mysticism. A preaching scholar’s dream journal and a history fanatic’s treasure, this book greatly captures the beauty and remarkability of famous locations with helpful descriptions and subtexts on the sides. The duo writers of this book ‘Iftikhar and Naseem Salahuddin’ elevate each other in terms of visual storytelling and it’s ever so transparent in this universal truth of a journey through history’s timeless monuments.
Safe anaesthesia in resource-limited situations

Aliya Ahmed and Robyna Irshad Khan

In the extensive field of medicine, Anaesthesiology has established itself as an essential, life-saving specialty. Multiple states of the art textbooks and guidelines are available on the subject of anesthesiology. However, reports from resource-limited healthcare settings keep highlighting the enormous burden of morbidity and mortality related to less-than-ideal anesthesia services. This book describes the management of patients for anaesthesiologists working in such circumstances and striving to provide safe and effective care. Provision of examples of typically encountered cases has led to a comprehensive coverage of the topic. Description of the management options available in the developed world enhances the usefulness of the information provided since available healthcare facilities within the same country may differ vastly.
Hematology and oncology: Handbook of cancer chemotherapy protocols

Arifa Aziz

This Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy Protocols was written to make it a clinically relevant source of knowledge for chemotherapy protocols and safe administration of cytotoxic drugs. It provides a quick reference to chemotherapy protocols their doses calculation, common side effects, dilution and the duration of administration of cytotoxic drugs. It also includes molecular targeted therapy.This is the only chemotherapy protocols book which was written and introduced in Pakistan in 2017. This book is available in library of all reputable oncology centres like The Aga Khan University Hospital at Karachi, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer and Reseach Center at Lahore, Sind Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT). The reader friendly format of this book, with its comprehensive review of management of cancers with treatment regimens including dosing and schedule will make this book unique and useful. Also, that this publication will continue to find interest of national and international audience and will provide medical oncologists, hematologists, oncology surgeons and radiation oncologists with most recent available information required for the therapy of adult cancer.
Emerging trends in metabolic syndrome

Syeda Sadia Fatima

This book covers key features of metabolic syndrome which are usually not addressed while considering overall health status. The goal of writing this book is generally aimed at clarifying this concept and spreading awareness regarding the rising obesity epidemic worldwide. The book covers the spectrum of obesity from pathophysiology to related disorders such as infertility, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and epilepsy, etc. The general flow of the book begins from introduction of the concept and moving to more advanced areas such as intricate relationship of metabolic syndrome and obesity with overall health, reproductive health, unorthodox etiological factors and challenges for management.
Obstetric anesthesia for co-morbid conditions

Berrin Gunaydin and Samina Ismail

This book presents general measures and offers a comprehensive overview of anesthetic considerations for specific serious medical problems in pregnant patients, with a focus on the anesthetic management of non-obstetric disorders during pregnancy and pregnancy-induced diseases. Although many books on this topic are available, this unique volume addresses specific disorders that may be encountered in daily obstetric anesthesia practice and discusses in detail serious medical problems during pregnancy. As such it is a valuable tool, providing targeted information particularly on the anesthetic considerations and management of not only non-obstetric diseases during pregnancy but also pregnancy- induced diseases.
Enhancing primary science teaching through school-based mentors: A study from Pakistan

Nelofer Halai

Aiming to develop a model in understanding key strategies, the author indicates existing gaps and exposes the readers to logistical components of workshops, while at the same time, places special emphasis on conceptualization of ideas for preparing and using appropriate materials to teach science to adult teachers. In addition to this, the book also provides teachers’ insights on how to develop themselves into mentors or teacher educators and thus enhance their impact in schools by not only teaching students, but also other teachers. Halai aims at aiding teachers away from conventional and towards new tutoring techniques by providing a broad context of study.
AKU-IED reflecting on the past journeying into the future

Anil Khamis and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta

This Commemorative Edition, with its 12 engaging chapters written by AKU-IED graduates, exemplifies the depth and scale of the educational challenges to be confronted. The chapters provide insights into how different discourses and educational practices are envisaged by the students themselves, which in turn is a reflection of their experiences as post-graduate students at the Institute, leading to changes they chart — both of themselves in developing their research capabilities and the impact of their studies in each of the particular projects. The chapters provide compelling insight and evidence of the AKU-IED Master of Education programme effect, with its two specialisation strands of teacher education and educational leadership and management, and the influence of the MEd on its graduates' personal and professional lives, their enhanced capabilities and capacities as pedagogues and critical thinkers, their vision for real and potential change to impact their home institutions and more broadly in the educational arenas they study. The graduates' biographical snapshots presented along with their chapters convey a powerful perennial message: the journey and creation and re-creation of individuals and institutions is a personal and public narrative that needs to be acknowledged, critically examined, and recast in the pursuit of producing new knowledge and sustainable approaches particularly for the Global South.
Mobile technologies and socio-economic development in emerging nations

Fredrick Mtenzi, George Oreku, Dennis Lupiana, and Jim Yonazi

As technology advances, mobile devices have become more affordable and useful to countries around the world. As a result, mobile evolution has become an essential part of economic and social advancement. This book provides emerging research on the role of mobile devices as an important aspect of social and economic growth in developing countries. While highlighting topics, such as device authentication, mobile data management, and sensor services, this book explores how mobile devices have evolved to become an extremely useful tool. This book is a vital resource for academicians, researchers, students, practitioners, politicians, and professionals seeking current research on the uses, applications, and advantages of mobile services in increasing economic growth.