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Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures
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Subject(s): Animals -- Religious aspects Islam Review: "From references to animals in the Qur'an to modern-day websites on Islamic vegetarianism, Richard C. Foltz presents the first comprehensive study of the role of animals in the Islamic tradition. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including classic texts in philosophy, literature a

Storytelling : Bewitching the Modern Mind
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Review: "Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived. This is the subject of Christian Salmon's Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in the twenty-first ce

Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
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Summary: Describes proven mechanisms and mechanical devices. Each illustration represents a design concept that can be recycled for use in new or modified mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic products. It contains chapters on mechanisms for converting renewable energy into electrical power, 3D digital prototyping and simulation, progr

Wayfinding Leadership : ground-Breaking Wisdom for Developing Leaders
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Summary: "This book presents a new way of leading by looking to traditional waka navigators or wayfinders for the skills and behaviours needed in modern leaders. It takes readers on a journey into wayfinding and leading, discussing principles of wayfinding philosophy, giving examples of how these have been applied in businesses and communi

Payoff : the Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
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Summary: "Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation--how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own live

Atlas of Islamic History
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Subject(s): Islam -- Maps -- History | Islamic countries -- Maps -- History Scope and content: "This Atlas gives the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediately pre-Islamic period until the First World War, that is, before most parts of the Muslim world became sovereign nation states. Each map is accompanied by a text that context

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: Volume I Editors vii Contributors ix Lexicon xxxvii Introduction and acknowledgments xlix Gender and sexuality studies volume II Gender and sexuality studies volume III Gender and sexuality studies volume IV Gender and sexuality studies volume V Gender and sexuality studies Index 000. Holding

The Greatest Sultan of Ottoman Muhammad al-Fatih : Penakluk Konstantinopel & Rom
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Subject(s): Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 Holdings: ,Book - Reference,Gombak Campus Library,Dzulkifli Abdul Razak Collection,Rector's Collection Shelf,sdr BPD 562 M4 S25165 2016,Not for loan,11100408959

Political Trials in Theory and History
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Subject(s): Trials (Political crimes and offenses) Summary: "From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates polit

Freedom : the End of the Human Condition
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Summary: The culmination of 40 years of studying and writing about our species psychosis, Freedom delivers nothing less than the holy grail of insight we have needed to free ourselves from the human condition. It is, in short, as Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, asserts in his Introduction, th

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