Subject(s): Marginality, Social -- Malaysia Kuala Lumpur | Sociology, Urban -- Malaysia Kuala Lumpur | Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -- Social conditions Summary: "Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in recent decades--expanding its size, "modernising" and "globalising". For many people t

Subject(s): School improvement programs | Student-centered learning | Effective teaching Summary: "This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for ensuring all students achieve above their exp

Subject(s): Jacobs, A. J., 1968- -- Health | Health | Nutrition -- Biography | Exercise | Health -- Humor Summary: "Having sanctified himself in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He didn't wan

Subject(s): Architecture -- 21st century | Building -- 21st century | Architectural design -- 21st century | Architectural design -- Pictorial works -- 21st century Summary: " ... offers both students and professional architects an inspiring and informative overview of how today's major architectural projects are designed and built. The

Subject(s): Police -- Fiction -- Finland | Homicide investigation -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction -- Investigation | Finnish Americans -- Fiction | Brain -- Fiction -- Tumors Patients | Helsinki (Finland) -- Fiction Summary: Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . .

Subject(s): Human-animal relationships | Families | Fathers and sons Summary: Gotham Chopra considers himself a pretty average guy, but his childhood wasn't quite so average. Growing up, he was exposed to the deepest reservoirs of knowledge that his famous father, Deepak, could find; his childhood was part spiritual, part scientific, and to

Subject(s): Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- -- Travel -- Pacific Crest Trail | Authors, American -- Biography -- 21st century | Pacific Crest Trail -- Description and travel Summary: A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Subject(s): Composite construction | Building materials | Industrial fabrics | Synthetic fabrics in building | Architecture -- Details | Textile fabrics in interior decoration Summary: "This book deals with technical textiles in three sections: in the first chapter, the material is introduced together with its specific properties; the secon

Subject(s): Biomass energy Summary: "Providing a state of the art in the field of available and future biomass resources, energy systems using biomass and optimization and control of systems and processes. The book covers biomass resources globally, but also complex systems such as biorefineries, polygeneration and pulp and paper industry,

Subject(s): Economics, Islamic | Islam -- Economic aspects Contents:Vol. I. Exploring the essence of Islamic economics. Holdings: ,Book - General,Gombak Campus Library,General Collection,Open Shelf,HB72.2 H236A 2011,Available,00011294337