This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a playground for the global elite while skillfully downplaying its systemic ...

In the summer heat of 1990 Karachi, a 15-year-old boy’s ordinary school life takes an unexpected turn when he notices a mysterious woman watching him from a nearby building. Her name is **Hina** — a woman with a haunting smile and a past filled with pain.Driven by curiosity and compassion, the boy discovers Hina’s heartbreaking truth: a childhood shattered by her parents’ separation, abuse from a cruel stepmother, and a life forced into darkness no child should ever know.Th...

Sallie was an exceptionally talented individual whose diverse skills spanned various aspects of the performing arts, including scriptwriting, stage directing, and performing. His remarkable journey in the world of performing arts commenced on December 16, 1973, when he showcased his extraordinary flair for storytelling and performance by winning a prestigious monologue contest. This early victory not only highlighted his innate talent but also set the stage for a career that would embrace ...

The genius of leadership is its humanness. This book has discussed heavily on the human side of leadership such as people involvement, leadership, ethics, honesty, integrity, trust, diversity, and ego. If we don't recognize the importance of human engagement, human communication, and human development, we will not have a business. Humanity is in a period of great upheaval. For people and organizations attempting to thrive in this tumultuous time, old mindsets and approaches no longer work....

This book exposes how universities—once engines of opportunity—now entrench inequality through hollow diplomas and degrees, thereby Monetizing knowledge, perpetuating academic feudalism. A call to dismantle this obsolete creaking edifice. This book arms students, educators, and rebels with the tools to bring something new.

What began as an obscure digital experiment in 2009 has now become a global financial revolution—one that threatens to topple banks, challenge governments, and redefine the very meaning of money.

Artificial Intelligence and Food Science examines a range of applications from pre- and post-harvest management to food packaging and the dairy industry, providing a thorough overview of how AI is revolutionizing these industries. The initial chapters introduce the fundamentals of AI and its recent advancements, covering key areas such as Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Adversarial Search, and Statistical Learning Theory. The book then moves on to explore AI applications in pre- and post...

This book highlights the collection of research papers presented at the 6th Yogyakarta International Seminar on Health, Physical Education, and Sports Science (YISHPESS) 2024, an annual conference dedicated to address current issues and challenges in health, physical education, and sports sciences. YISHPESS 2024 facilitates academic discourse for discussing these current issues. YISHPESS is organized by Faculty of Sports Sciences of Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. The topics of interest inc...

I did not grow up with stability, I grew up with survival.My childhood was shaped by movement between homes, schools, and versions of myself. Addiction, foster care, violence, and silence were part of my normal life long before I understood what any of it meant.For years, I thought this was just how life worked.This book is not written for sympathy, it is written in truth. These are the memories that shaped me. The...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles are essential for organizations to embrace, but what impact does digital technology have on ESG and corporate social responsibility?The research presented in the book examines how this intersection is transforming corporate governance practices and sustainability programs, with an in-depth exploration of the digital tools and technologies that are contributing to beneficial impacts on ESG performance, accountability, and stakeho...

A comprehensive guide for integrating pathology into a clinical setting.Pathological Basis of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases presents the basic principles involved in disease mechanisms in an easy-to-understand way. By integrating recent advances in molecular, immunologic, and genetic understanding of oral disease, the book helps readers enhance their knowledge and its application in a clinical setting.This book is divided into nine sections, cove...

Recent events have shown how uncivil communication by political elites on social media can spread through networked publics and contribute to real-world disruption. To explain the upstream dynamics of these processes, this book introduces the Spiral of Political Incivility on Social Media (SPIN), a model that conceptualizes incivility as a dynamic, three-stage process: the production of norm violations by political actors, their perception shaped by platform affordances and national contex...