Subject(s): Resilience (Personality trait) | Stress management Summary: Resilience and wellbeing - namely how people cope, handle and even thrive despite stress and adversity - are topics in the psychological literature canon that are gaining increasing attention. Within these fields researchers have aimed to identify individual characteristics

Subject(s): Strategic planning | Industrial management Summary: Examine strategic management with the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most intellectually rich, practical analysis of strategic management. Written by respected experts Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, the 12th edition of STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT is steeped in cutting-e

Subject(s): Muslims -- Non-Islamic countries | Citizenship | Political participation | Muslims -- Non-Islamic countries Summary: "This book investigates Muslims' struggle for recognition as equal citizens in Australia, Great Britain and Germany: what measures have been adopted by Muslims to achieve active citizenship? How do socio-polit

Subject(s): Tourism Summary: "Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It stimulates large-scale, global movements of people and forges distinctive relationships between people and the places they visit. It shapes processes of physical development and resource exploitation, while the presence of visitors forges a range of economic, so

Subject(s): Psychiatry | Mental illness Summary: "Mental health is very complicated and much of it remains inherently or contingently mysterious. And yet, if we were to take the rhetoric of the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization or (even more dubiously) the drug companies seriously, we should all believe in a co

Subject(s): Imagery (Psychology) -- Therapeutic use | Imagination -- Therapeutic use | Psychoanalysis | Psychotherapy Summary: "Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while therapists use their ima

Subject(s): Eschatology, Islamic | Paradise -- Islam | Future punishment -- Islam | Yawm al-akhirah Summary: "The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the top

Subject(s): Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism, Textual | Allegory | Cities and towns in literature Summary: "Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens' writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous tru

Subject(s): Women in the Qur'an | Women in the Hadith | Women -- Religious aspects Islam | Shi'ah -- Doctrines History Summary: "This book is a study of the manner in which women are portrayed in the Qurʼan and in Shiʻi traditions. It is a comprehensive study of all the female characters mentionedin the Qurʼan, and is selective i

Subject(s): Business cycles | Recessions | Economic development Summary: "Cycles, Growth and the Great Recession is a collection of papers that assess the nature and role of the business cycle in contemporary economies. These assessments are made in the context of the financial market instability that distinguishes the Great Recession from