Subject(s): Sharing | Sharing -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Social aspects Summary: "Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behavior; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing always comes with a warm glow around it, embodying positive values such as empathy, communication, f

Subject(s): Fundamentalism and Islam | Islam -- 21st century | Islam -- 21st century | Islamic civilization Summary: "Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other c

Subject(s): Middle East -- Study and teaching -- United States Summary: Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies

Subject(s): Arabs -- Sources -- History -- To 622 | Arabian Peninsula -- Sources -- History -- To 622 | Middle East -- Sources -- History -- To 622 | Arabian Peninsula -- Antiquities | Middle East -- Antiquities Summary: "Illuminates the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly two hundred and fifty translated ex

Subject(s): Derivative securities | Python (Computer program language) Summary: "Leverage Python for expert-level volatility and variance derivative trading Listed volatility and variance derivatives is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of these increasingly popular derivatives products, and has the distinction of being both the fir

Subject(s): Single mothers -- Fiction | Journalists -- Fiction | Children -- Fiction -- Crimes against | Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Summary: "A phenomenal achievement."---Jeffery Deaver "A gem of a whodunit."---Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl It's 1965 in a tight-knit

Subject(s): Orphans -- Fiction -- Turkey | Civil-military relations -- Fiction -- Turkey | Turkish fiction -- 21st century | Turkey -- Fiction -- History -- Coup d'état, 1980 Summary: An orphan child who constantly carries the pain of the coup mentality that separates his father from himself before he has survived childhood will have to ta

Subject(s): Environmental policy | International relations Summary: "The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used to analyse and address global environmental problems. Kate O'Neill develops an innovati

Subject(s): Dawlah Islamiyah -- Comparative studies | Islam | Islam and state | Conversion -- Islam | Globalization -- Religious aspects Islam Summary: "The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the 25 chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative

Subject(s): Islam -- History | Muslims -- History | Islamic civilization | Salafīyah | Islamic modernism | Islamic renewal | Islamic fundamentalism Summary: "This work features an introduction and three main sections: The first section addresses orthodox tradition (salafism) from the time of Prophet Mohammed to the 18th century. The second