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Intended as the first popular study of Islamic finance for a non-specialist readership that might have enjoyed Freakonomics.

Deals with taboo subjects like religion and sexuality and expresses an urgently felt need for change. This book covers the topic of repression: of the individual by the institutions of state and religion and of individuals by each other, particularly women by men.

A t first glance, Jamilla and Ameena couldn't be more different. Both are Yorkshire-born teenage girls of South Asian descent; but whereas Jamilla lives with her conservative Muslim family and is quiet, religious and academically bright, the more worldly Ameena masks her insecurity behind a brassy, bawdy persona and lives with her divorced mum.

In the aftermath of Bangladesh's bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the stirrings of disillusionment.

In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will bring peace to the souls of the dead.

Two young people from foreign lands meet in a shop in Cambridge: Brani Tawo, a Kurdish political refugee from Turkey, and Feruzeh, who had fled to the UK from revolutionary Iran. Slowly, their love begins to grow, fed by stories, a shared love of literature and a subtle recognition of their mutual displacement.

This important book is a biographical account of Prophet Muhammad's life, written in narrative style.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

This beautifully written and compelling novel is a tale of two brothers, one full of anger and hate, the other trying to build a bridge through scientific endeavour.

Kitab al-Amwal (The Book of Revenue) is the work of a brilliant legal mind. Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam provides an accurate record of legal precedents laid down in the first two centuries of Islam, in particular those pertaining to the sources of revenue and the avenues of public expenditure.

A course for professionals who do potentially unsafe or dangerous jobs in industry.

A university preparation course published in collaboration with the University of Reading.

This collection of essays by leading academics offers an alternative approach to the study of today's Arab states by focusing on their participation in neo-liberal globalization rather than on authoritarianism or Islam.

Nabati poetry, though composed in an artistic variant of ordinary Bedouin speech, historically descends from the pre-Islamic Classical Arabic poetry of antiquity, and its modern exponents still compose in the traditional genres of boasting, praise, satire, elegy, advice and guidance, love and lyric poetry.

An academic writing course for students preparing for English-medium higher education study.

A course for professionals who do potentially unsafe or dangerous jobs in industry.

A faculty-specific series for students in higher education.

A faculty-specific series for students in higher education.

A study book with audio DVD for building students' English pronunciation skills.

A faculty-specific series for students in higher education.

In humorous, lively and highly informative prose, Schatzker pursues his obsession with admirable thoroughness. This illuminating study of steak and its discontents as well as its many delights will resonate with avid and casual meat-eaters alike, and will even make vegetarians go 'hmm'.