Winner of the 2015 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award (South Africa)
'Comrade September', a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK, was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by South African security forces in August 1986 and taken across the border to South Africa, where he was interrogated an[...]
Studies the affiliation between the trend of globalization and the development of Islamic finance. This book offers thoughts on the future of Islamic finance in the wake of globalization.[...]
A* The core of an Islamic financial system is equity based and the banking system operates on risk and profit sharing basis.[...]
Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book examines many dimensions of costs incurred by warfare and proposes a private sector solution to warfare's low cost.[...]
Since the discovery of oil, the countries of the Persian Gulf have been caught in a vicious circle. With increasing oil revenues, rulers have made self-enrichment their motivation while foreign powers have exploited the region and provided support for oppressive regimes. Early exploitation of the re[...]
Focusing on early cinema's relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema's emergence was grounded in theories of picture composition, craft and arts education - from magic lantern experiments in 1890s New York through to early Hollywood feature films in the 1920s. C[...]