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Social Enterprise
Empowering Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The future demands an entrepreneurial approach to business if organizations wish to survive. Social enterprise is the heart of much of that activity. This important and timely book describes the special legal considerations lawyers must know when advising for-profit or not-for-profit entities that engage...
Put Your Science to Work
The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
Whether you are a science undergraduate or graduate student, post-doc or senior scientist, you need practical career development advice. Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists...
by John H. Minan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The game of baseball has often resulted in brawls, both on the field and in the courtroom, and from the 1890's on, much of what baseball is today has been shaped by the law. In eighteen chapters, this eye-opening book discusses cases that involved rules of the game, new stadium construction, ownership of baseball memorabilia, injured spectators, television contracts, and much more.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Entrepreneurship and innovation have emerged globally as significant drivers for inclusive economic growth, contributing to both job and wealth creation. Especially since Egypt's 2011 revolution, the need has become pressing for novel models that capitalize on the country's human resources. Half of...
God Willing
How to survive expat life in Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
By 2012 Qatar was riding the crest of a huge and powerful wave. Rich beyond its wildest dreams, the country was leveraging its oil and gas reserves to drag itself into the 21st century. And just like Dubai before it, the country was moving at breakneck speed, trying to cram a century worth of social...
by Edward William Lane
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations...
by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The Other Place portrays the shallowness of the petrodollar culture and the price one pays for quick money. The protagonist of this prize-winning novel, an educated middle-class Egyptian from Alexandria, describes his experiences and those of migrant workers and professionals in one of the Gulf states,...
Building Your Ladder
An Associate's Guide to Success Beyond Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Chart your course and build your ladder to ultimate success with this essential career resource! Law firms are promoting fewer associates to partnership and looking more closely at the performance of existing partners. This book will set you apart from the crowd and help you:• prove you can produce...
Sexual Harassment
Psychiatric Assessment in Employment Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
This comprehensive text stands alone in addressing sexual harassment from a forensic psychiatric perspective. Sexual Harassment: Psychiatric Assessment in Employment Litigation reviews the law, social science research, clinical experience, and principles of forensic evaluation relevant to the highly...
The New Handshake
Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The New Handshake focuses on resolving disputes arising from online transactions. This groundbreaking book proposes a design to provide fast and fair resolutions for low-dollar claims, such as those in most B2C transactions. This revolutionary system is designed to operate independently of the courts,...
Colors of Enchantment
Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
In this companion volume to the successful Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998), historian and ethnomusicologist Sherifa Zuhur has once again commissioned and edited authoritative essays from noteworthy scholars from around the globe that explore the...
Western Imaginings
The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. Western Imaginings: The Intellectual Contest to Define Wahhabism is an inquiry into how Wahhabism has been understood and represented by Western intellectuals, particularly those...
Transforming Loss into Beauty
Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda al-Nowaihi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to...
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...