Subject(s): Democracy -- History | Radicalism -- History Summary: "Democracy and extremism are usually considered opposites. We assume our system (in the UK, the USA, The Netherlands etc.) is democratic and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremis

Subject(s): Islam -- Economic aspects | Economic justice -- Islamic perspectives | Economics, Islamic -- Moral and ethical aspects | Economics, Islamic | Finance, Islamic Summary: Mankind is faced with a number of serious problems that demand an effective solution. The prevalence of injustice and the frequency of financial crises are two of the

Subject(s): Hospitality industry -- Management Summary: "Hospitality is an industry characterised by its complex nature and numerous sectors including hotels, hostels, B&Bs, restaurants, pubs, nightclubs and contract catering. However, despite its segmentation, there are key issues that are pertinent to all subsectors. The Routledge Han

Subject(s): Educational psychology Summary: "There are a number of psychological themes which are key to really understanding education, for example, the internal processes of learners, the nature of learning in culture and the influences on teaching and learning. Written specifically for education studies students, Psychology and Education

Subject(s): Sustainable architecture | Urban density Summary: "Dense + Green explores innovations in architectural typologies that emerge from the integration of green components, such as sky terraces, green facades, and vertical parks, in high-density buildings. In-depth case studies of various building types are presented with analytical

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