Subject(s): Motion pictures in education | Audio-visual education | Mass media in education | Educational films Summary: "Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitu

Subject(s): Minarets | Islamic art and symbolism Summary: Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, me

Subject(s): Stay-at-home mothers -- Fiction | Foster mothers -- Fiction | Biological children of foster parents -- Fiction | Foster children -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Motherhood -- Fiction | Domestic fiction | Psychological fiction Review: After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addic

Subject(s): Islamic civilization | Islamic countries -- Civilization Summary: This book describes the birth and development of Islamic civilization; Islamic political and economic situation; Islamic literature and art, as well as Islamic education and civilization.Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 : Rise of an Islamic civilization -- Chapter 2 :

Subject(s): Banks and banking -- Islamic countries | Finance -- Islamic countries | Banks and banking, Islamic | Finance, Islamic Summary: "A complete, detailed guide to modern Islamic banking fundamentals Modern Islamic Bankingprovides a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to the products, processes and legal doctrines underlying Islamic

Subject(s): Leadership -- Asia | Leadership -- Middle East | Sex role -- Asia | Sex role -- Middle East Summary: "The overall aim of this volume is to present the research studies carried out in the Middle East and Asia in the fields of culture and gender and their influence on leadership in particular. The cultures and practices of these g

Subject(s): Fixed-income securities | Derivative securities | Portfoliio management Summary: "A highly-detailed, practical analysis of fixed income management The Advanced Fixed Income and Derivatives Management Guide provides a completely novel framework for analysis of fixed income securities and portfolio management, with over 700 usefu

Subject(s): Financial crises -- Islamic perspectives | Gold standard -- Islamic perspectives | Finance, Islamic Summary: "Askari and Krichene provide a comprehensive background for recent international financial crises--rapid expansion of interest-bearing debt and monetary expansion though the fractional reserve banking system. In this cont

Subject(s): Islam and politics | Islam and civil society | Citizenship -- Religious aspects Islam | Globalization and Islam -- Religious aspects Islam | Globalization and Islam Summary: "This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state, and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and

Subject(s): English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain | English language -- Variation -- Great Britain | English language -- Great Britain Summary: Combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler's observations about the author's encounters with language and its users throughout the English-speaking world. Cont