Khalid: 100 books

Ein Schuhverkäufer, zwei Frauen und ein Paar Schuhe bilden den Ausgangspunkt eines Kammerspiels voller Leben, Enttäuschungen und unbewusster Hoffnungen. Es geht um die Essenz menschlicher Charakterschwäche, die sich in den kleinen Dingen des Lebens zeigt und die eigene Gegenwart mit Wunden durchzieht....

“If one is forced into a hell, one shall act as a devil.” Welcome to Riverstones City. A sprawling squalor. A grim tangle rife with violence, drug trafficking, larceny, prostitution, corruption. The rich reside in apathy above the poor. The police and the politicians make their fortunes...

The election for the American president garners a global interest but many feel bored to go through turbid and turgid details. The American presidential race is a year-long marathon. The book will take a look at the would-be 45th President of America. The first time in 227 years of American...

It’s Between What they Say is very timely, because increasingly the gulf between secularism and religion gets wider. Unlike the days of old, when there were tremendous conflicts between different religions, today atheism is perhaps a larger threat to the notion of religion or God than another belief....

What comes to mind when you think of stocks? The chicken stock your mom uses to make soup? The medieval device used to punish people publicly (try saying that three times real fast)? Okay, those are types of stocks, but what we’re focused on here is shares of stocks that publicly-traded corporations...

Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variety of perspectives and debates on how Islamic societies deal with the ethical dilemmas raised by biomedicine and new technologies. The book is a "constructive dialogue" between contributors selected from a multidisciplinary group of Muslim and...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have reached a transitional moment. Created as a way to direct excess wealth toward economic development and long-term financial returns, some countries are now seeing a decline in revenue from sources such as oil. Many SWFs are now facing a new challenge—how to spend...

Interviews with former Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers along with previously unpublished analysis by the World Bank, IMF and USAID provide entertaining and interesting insights into Egypt's economic development policy during 1952 to 2000. Areas addressed include: * the performance of...

What are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy? What are the factors that have facilitated or inhibited its performance? This crucial and timely work answers these questions and more by examining the most important economic decisions to have impacted the Egyptian economy since...

Introduction to Data Compression, Fifth Edition, builds on the success of what is widely considered the best introduction and reference text on the art and science of data compression. Data compression techniques and technology are ever-evolving with new applications in image, speech, text,...

Preserving the pulse of Eastern poetry, translator and interpreter, Khalid Hameed Shaida offers readers romance in this fourth English translation. Changing gears to tacle a relatively modern Indian poet, Shaida helps Ghalib again show the world what it is to love fully, completely and arguably, eternally.

The human world had never been devoid of civilization! Even long before the begining of the known history, there were civilizations existing side by side, and involved in deadly conflicts with each other. In those prehistoric times a race succeeded in organizing itself on a war footing and enslaved...

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’, based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered...

According to industry experts, a typical one billion dollar company spends approximately $27 million on unnecessary working capital and inefficient processing functions because they lack visibility into the financial supply chain. Optimizing Back Office Operations: Best Practices to Maximize Profitability...