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The Economic System of the Early Islamic Period
This book provides an economic analysis of the earliest Islamic society, focusing on the policies of the Messenger of Islam (Sawa) and his successors during the first four formative decades of Islam. Two institutions of great importance – the market and the public treasury (Baitul Mal) – and their roles in the development of the private and public sectors are particularly emphasized in this…
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- 978-1-137-50733-4
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- XXI, 311
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- Political Economy of Islam
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Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation:A Controversial…
Historian Ramses Delafontaine presents an engaging examination of a controversial legal practice: the historian as an expert judicial witness. This book focuses on tobacco litigation in the U.S. wherein 50 historians have witnessed in 314 court cases from 1986 to 2014. The author examines the use of historical arguments in court and investigates how a legal context influences historical narrati…
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- 978-3-319-14291-3
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- XXV, 453
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- 340 DEL h
History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Achievements, Problems, Prospects
This work examines the main directions of research conducted on the history of mathematics education. It devotes substantial attention to research methodologies and the connections between this field and other scholarly fields. The results of a survey about academic literature on this subject are accompanied by a discussion of what has yet to be done and problems that remain unsolved. The m…
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- 978-3-319-31615-4
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- X, 40
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- 510 KAR h
Holistic Simulation of Geotechnical Installation Processes:Numerical and Phys…
The book provides suitable methods for the simulations of boundary value problems of geotechnical installation processes with reliable prediction for the deformation behavior of structures in static or dynamic interaction with the soil. It summarizes the basic research of a research group from scientists dealing with constitutive relations of soils and their implementations as well as contac…
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- 978-3-319-18169-1
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- VIII, 250
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Holistic Active Management of Non-Performing Loans
This book discusses the most critical issues relating to the recovery of bad loans – a major problem that European banks urgently need to address and resolve. The book describes, in an innovative but also pragmatic way, the new approaches, techniques, and models for optimal management of non-performing loans (NPLs) and the maximization of their recovery value. Drawing on a rigorous academic b…
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- 978-3-319-25362-6
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- IX, 153
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- 330 SCA h
Historic Preservation:Caring for Our Expanding Legacy
This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging…
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- 978-3-319-04974-8
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- XXXVII, 383
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- 300 TOM h
EU sports law and breakaway leagues in Football
Katarina Pijetlovic is the first author to address the issue of breakaway leagues in football and their treatment under EU law. In this book she guides the reader through EU sports law, the specificities of the sporting industry and the problems and power struggles in European football governance in the context of the breakaway threats by elite clubs. In order to analyse the legality of UEFA cl…
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- 9789462650480
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- 940
Ear biometrics in 2D and 3D : localization and recognition
This book presents the state-of-the-art techniques and recent research progress on Ear Biometrics. Among the various physiological traits, the reasons for the ear to gain much attention in recent years are many folds. It has been found to be a reliable biometrics for human verification and identification. Ears are remarkably consistent and unlike face, it does not change shape with different ex…
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- 9789812873750
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- xvi, 116 pages
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- 570.15195
Regime of Obstruction
Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous collection presents research findings from the first three years of the seven-year, SSHRC-funded partnership, the Corporate Mapping Project. Anchored in sociological and political theory, this comprehensive volume provid…
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- 9781771992893.01
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- 6 x 9, 528 pages
College ESL Writers Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic …
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- 400 HAL c
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