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

Subject(s): Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects Summary: The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist

Subject(s): Americans -- Fiction -- China | Art -- Fiction | Courtesans -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Shanghai (China) -- Fiction | San Francisco (California) -- Fiction Summary: Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who dea

Subject(s): Business ethics Summary: Business Ethics: An Ethical Decision-Making Approach presents a practical decision-making framework to aid in the identification, understanding, and resolution of complex ethical dilemmas in the workplace. -Focuses exclusively on three basic aspects of ethical decision making and behavior-how it actually tak

Subject(s): Neuromorphics | Artificial intelligence | Human-computer interaction | Cognitive science Summary: "It is well known that every animal species obeys Darwin's law of evolution, which requires permanent adaptation of animals to their environment. To be precise, every species except man, who behaves exactly contrariwise, adaptin

Subject(s): Philosophy, Ancient | Philosophy -- History | Christianity -- Philosophy History Summary: Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and