Subject(s): Financial services industry -- Technological innovations | Financial services industry -- Planning | Strategic planning Summary: "Lessons in innovation from key FinTech trends and successes Creating Strategic Value through Financial Technology explores the growing Financial Technology (FinTech) industry to provide insight on ho

Subject(s): Retail trade -- Management | Retail trade -- Statistical methods Summary: "A non-technical guide to leveraging retail analytics for personal and competitive advantage Style & Statistics is a real-world guide to analytics in retail. Written specifically for the non-IT crowd, this book explains analytics in an approachabl

Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Presidents -- Biography -- United States | Revolutionaries -- Biography -- United States | Diplomats -- Biography -- United States | Legislators -- Biography -- Virginia | Governors -- Biography -- Virginia | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 | United Stat

Subject(s): Debt | Loans, Personal | Finance, Personal Summary: "The book of financial wisdom that your future self will thank you for reading For many adults under 40, "debt" is a four-letter word--something that should be avoided but is all too often unavoidable. In The Value of Debt in Building Wealth, bestselling author Thomas

Subject(s): Suyuṭi, 1445-1505 | Mamelukes -- History | Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 Summary: This volume is a collection of several papers devoted to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭi (d. 911/1505), presented on the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies (held at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, from June 23 to June 25, 2014). It aims

Subject(s): Islamic law -- History -- Egypt | Law -- History -- Egypt Summary: In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law. 'Islamic Legal Revival: Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1879-1952' brings

Subject(s): Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects | Law and economics Summary: Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no." Policies that follow from this para

Subject(s): Finance, Personal | Investments | Finance -- Religious aspects Summary: "Is it possible to be a conscientious citizen of the world and grow wealth? The author, a Buddhist and a financial planner, says yes and explains exactly how. Jonathan DeYoe shows how money drives so many of our decisions. But while we worry about earning it

Subject(s): Male friendship -- Fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Boy Scouts -- Fiction | Camps -- Fiction Summary: A scarred Vietnam veteran and successful businessman reflects on his teen years as a social outcast and friend to a popular youth during a summer camp reunion marked by selflessness and an unthinkable event involving his friend's

Subject(s): Risk management | Information technology -- Management | Strategic planning Summary: "Risk management strategy for the pioneering technological sector Enterprise Risk and Opportunity Management provides much-needed guidance tailored specifically to the technological sector. While most enterprise risk management guides are writt