Subject(s): Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching | Entrepreneurship -- Problems, exercises, etc Scope and content: This text moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimenta

Subject(s): Computer-assisted instruction | Interactive multimedia Summary: Richard E. Mayer examines whether people learn more deeply when ideas are expressed in words and pictures rather than in words alone. He reviews 12 principles of instructional design that are based on experimental research studies and grounded in a theory of how people

Subject(s): Muslims -- Southeast Asia | Islam -- Southeast Asia | Cosmopolitanism -- Southeast Asia | Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects Islam Summary: Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the ne

Subject(s): Islamic law -- History -- Egypt Cairo Summary: What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists' law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the

Subject(s): Banks and banking -- Islamic countries | Banks and banking, Islamic | Corporate governance -- Islamic perspectives | Shari'ah compliance Summary: "A practical guide for robust shari'ah governance of the Islamic banking industryDebate in the market on the extent of shari'ah compliance of Islamic banks, their products,

Subject(s): Finance -- Islamic countries | Financial institutions -- Islamic countries | Financial crises -- Prevention | Finance, Islamic | Banks and banking, Islamic | Financial crises -- Islamic perspectives Summary: "Can Islamic finance save the global system? Islamic Finance and the New Financial System describes how the adoption of I

Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teaching Research | Creativity (Linguistics) | Psycholinguistics Summary: Current, comprehensive, and authoritative, this text gives language teachers and researchers, both a set of conceptual tools with which to think and talk about creativity in language teaching and a wealth of practical advice

Subject(s): Public administration -- Developed countries | Government business enterprises -- Developed countries | Administrative agencies -- Evaluation -- Developing countries Summary: "It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak, and the public sector especially is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. Thi

Subject(s): Psychotherapy | Counseling psychology Summary: "Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive guide to the four main psychological approaches (Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive) and introduces several of the most common therapies used today. This textbook contains sufficient coverage to e

Subject(s): Emotions | Emotions -- Social aspects Summary: "Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an over