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Business in a Changing Society : Festschrift for Peter brabeck-Letmathe
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Subject(s): Industries -- Social aspects | Organizational change | Cooperation | Business networks | Globalization | Festschriften Summary: "On the occasion of Peter Brabeck-Letmathe's 70th birthday a group of his friends invited 31 authors to contribute to this festschrift, honoring his great achievements in providing business leadersh

Strontium Aluminate : Cement Fundamentals, Manufacturing, Hydration, Setting Behaviour and Applications
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Subject(s): Cement | Cement industries Summary: Strontium aluminate cement is special inorganic cement with the properties which make it favorable for various special applications such as refractory products, macro defect free (MDF) composites, blended cements and expansive cements for high temperature applications. There is an immense number o

Teaching Entrepreneurship : a practice-Based Approach
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Subject(s): Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching | Entrepreneurship -- Problems, exercises, etc Scope and content: This text moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimenta

Multimedia Learning
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Subject(s): Computer-assisted instruction | Interactive multimedia Summary: Richard E. Mayer examines whether people learn more deeply when ideas are expressed in words and pictures rather than in words alone. He reviews 12 principles of instructional design that are based on experimental research studies and grounded in a theory of how people

Muslim Cosmopolitanism : Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective
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Subject(s): Muslims -- Southeast Asia | Islam -- Southeast Asia | Cosmopolitanism -- Southeast Asia | Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects Islam Summary: Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the ne

Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo
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Subject(s): Islamic law -- History -- Egypt Cairo Summary: What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists' law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the

Foundations of Shari'ah Governance of Islamic Banks
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Subject(s): Banks and banking -- Islamic countries | Banks and banking, Islamic | Corporate governance -- Islamic perspectives | Shari'ah compliance Summary: "A practical guide for robust shari'ah governance of the Islamic banking industryDebate in the market on the extent of shari'ah compliance of Islamic banks, their products,

Islamic Finance and the New Financial System : an Ethical Approach to Preventing Future Financial Crises
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Subject(s): Finance -- Islamic countries | Financial institutions -- Islamic countries | Financial crises -- Prevention | Finance, Islamic | Banks and banking, Islamic | Financial crises -- Islamic perspectives Summary: "Can Islamic finance save the global system? Islamic Finance and the New Financial System describes how the adoption of I

Creativity in Language Teaching : Perspectives from Research and Practice
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Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teaching Research | Creativity (Linguistics) | Psycholinguistics Summary: Current, comprehensive, and authoritative, this text gives language teachers and researchers, both a set of conceptual tools with which to think and talk about creativity in language teaching and a wealth of practical advice

The Politics of Public Sector Performance : Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries
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Subject(s): Public administration -- Developed countries | Government business enterprises -- Developed countries | Administrative agencies -- Evaluation -- Developing countries Summary: "It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak, and the public sector especially is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. Thi

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