Subject(s): Organizational effectiveness | Success in business | Strategic planning | Industrial management Summary: Leading data analysts Raynor and Ahmed conducted a five-year study to sort through mountains of data and identify 18 companies who have truly exceptional lifetime performance. They found that success derives from how executives m

Subject(s): Cooking Summary: "Savor the basics. Master new techniques. Find everything you need to cook like a pro. No matter what you crave - from the best chocolate chip cookies to holiday-worthy roasts - cook it with confidence with Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook."-- Source other than Library of Congress Holdings:

Subject(s): Finance -- Islamic countries | Financial institutions -- Law and legislation -- Islamic countries | Finance, Islamic Summary: "Explore Islamic finance at a deeper level Intermediate Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice fills the gap for students and professionals who are already familiar with the fundamentals of Islamic finance,

Subject(s): Customer equity -- Research Methodology | Customer equity -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Research Methodology Summary: "Customer equity has emerged as the most important metric to manage firm performance. This Handbook covers a broad range of strategic and tactical issues related to defining, measuring, managing, and implementin

Subject(s): Religion | Religion -- Philosophy | Religions Summary: This very clearly written book provides a rational justification for responding religiously to our ambiguous universe and for seeing the major world religions as different culturally conditioned forms of this reponse. It is the classic exposition of the pluralist theory of an ul

Subject(s): Islamic fundamentalism | Islam -- 20th century | Islam -- 21st century | Islam and politics Summary: Challenging the similarly romantic, a historic and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, this book cuts through conventional wisdom and common cliches to highlight the plurality and historicity of both. For Aziz Al-

Subject(s): Critical pedagogy | Developing countries Summary: "Development education is much more than learning about development; it is a pedagogy for the globalised societies of the twenty-first century that incorporates discourses from critical pedagogy and postcolonialism, and a mechanism for ensuring that differing perspectives are ref

Subject(s): Convertible securities -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Convertible bonds -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: "Introducing a revolutionary new quantitative approach to hybrid securities valuation and risk managementTo an equity trader they are shares. For the trader at the fixed income desk, they are bonds (after all, they pay coupo

Subject(s): Rape (Islamic law) | Sex crimes (Islamic law) Summary: "This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on legal discourses of t

Subject(s): Emotions -- Social aspects | Social change Summary: "This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias's theory of the "civilizing process," through historical essays and contemporary analysis from sociologists and cultural theorists. It focuses on changes in emotional regimes or styles and conside