Subject(s): Auditing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Accounting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: This guide was developed by leading experts from industry and public practice. It summarizes new standards, guidance, and practices and delivers “how-to” strategies for handling audit and accounting issues common to entities in the Gaming indust

Subject(s): Islam -- History | Islamic literature -- Criticism, Textual | Islam -- Relations -- Christianity | Christianity and other religions -- Islam | Islam -- Europe Subject: "Eighteen colleagues from i.a. KU Leuven, IDEO, UCL, Universite de Provence, University of Birmingham and Institut Catholique de Paris have contributed to this L

Subject(s): War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Political aspects -- United States | Terrorism -- Prevention History -- 21st century | Military history, Modern -- 21st century | World politics -- 21st century Summary: "Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President

Subject(s): Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation Summary: The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusin

Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction | Great Britain -- Fiction -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 Summary: "In this intriguing novel of romance, mystery, and clever disguise set in Victorian England, a young woman investigates the murder of her own father. After the mysterious death of her father, Miss Gillian Young takes a new job as the pr

Subject(s): Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation | Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Influence | Self in literature Summary: Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the p

Subject(s): Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century -- Middle East | Islam and state -- History -- 20th century -- Middle East | Democratization -- History -- 20th century -- Middle East | Arab Spring, 2010- | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945- | Democracy and Islam Summary: "Why and how did Islam become such a political

Subject(s): Wumingshi -- Criticism and interpretation | Xu, Xu, 1908-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation | Chinese literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century | Modernism (Literature) -- China Summary: This book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wuminghsi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)

Subject(s): Communication in organizations -- Congresses | Interpersonal relations -- Congresses | Psychology, Industrial -- Congresses | Conference proceedings, published Summary: Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of daily reality in the modern workplace. A changing employment market means frequently cross

Subject(s): Arabic language -- Grammar Theory, etc. History | Arabic language -- Discourse analysis | Arabic language -- Usage | Arabic language -- Rhetoric Summary: "This lively introduction to the linguistics of Arabic provides students with a concise overview of the language's structure and its various components: its phonology, morp