Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies

GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites. GLOBAL STUDIES titles are supported with study tools and links to related websites at our student website www.mhcls.com/online/.

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.com.

The Global Studies series is designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of... the world. This edition of Global Studies: Islam and the Muslim World is a mini-encyclopedia on the subject. The Preface maintains that we are living in a globally interdependent world in which it is imperative for the non-Muslim world to understand the faith of 1.3 billion Muslims who live all over the world. Part I comprises two chapters: Chapter 1 is a timeline of the “Momentous Events And Influential Muslims That Have Shaped Islamic Civilization (570-1605 CE);” Chapter 2, “Understanding Islam, Muslims, Islamism, and Anti-Americanism,” comprises sections on the “Fundamentals of Islam,” “Islamism,” “Myths and Misconceptions About Islam and Muslims,” as well as “Islamophobia in the West and Anti-Westernism/Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World.” Chapter 2 also has several informative boxes and tables that present vitally important matters pertaining to Islam and Islamism at a glance. The two boxes are “The Ninety-Nine Names of God” and “Sensational Events in the Media about Islam and Muslims.” The six tables in the chapter are “Sunnis and Shi`as: A Comparison of Islam’s Two Major Sects,” “A Comparison of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity,” “Jesus and Muhammad: Founders of the World’s Two Largest Religions,” “Islam and the Nation of Islam: A Comparative Overview,” “Revolutionary Islamists and Muslim Secularists: A Succinct Comparison,” and “A Comparison of Revolutionary Islamists and Progressive Islamists.” Part II comprises informative “Country Reports” for the fifty-seven member states that represent the Muslim world’s interests through the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC). Part III provides readers with world press articles on various aspects of the World of Islam. This book also provides readers with a list of annotated Internet sites on Islam. In addition, a list of articles and books on Islam and the Muslim world, a selected glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive and easy to access index are provided.

GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mchls.com.

GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.

From McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, the GLOBAL STUDIES volumes are designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected... world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. This Thirteenth Edition of GLOBAL STUDIES: LATIN AMERICA includes introductory essays on Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean region, with concise reports and current statistics for each of the countries within these regions. This background information is complemented by a selection of articles from the world press.

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.com.

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies

Our Global Studies Series provides students with comprehensive background and current information shaping regional cultures and countries of the world... today. Each volume features country report essays and maps as well as relevant articles from world-wide publications. Visit www.mhcls.com/globalstudies/ for more information.

Our GLOBAL STUDIES Series provides students with comprehensive background and current information shaping regional cultures and countries of the world... today. Each volume features country report essays and maps as well as relevant articles from world-wide publications. Visit our website for more information and a complete listing of titles: www.mhcls.com/globalstudies/

Global Studies is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and... countries of the world. Each Global Studies volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites and is now supported by an online Instructor's Resource Guide. Visit our website for more information: www.mhhe.com/globalstudies.com.

This book features a compilation of up-to-date data and accurate information on some of the important facts about the world we live in. While it is... close to impossible to be an expert in all areas such as a nation's capital, type of government, currency, major languages, population, religions, political structure, climate, economics, etc., this book is intended to assist in the process of attempting to retain an understanding of some of these essential facts in order to make useful applications.

Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a... supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart

This book develops and employs a new methodologyGlobal Technographyto investigate wireless mobility from a sociological and cultural perspective. It... illustrates that technologies are created to perform rolesto actin everyday life, and this demands an ethnography that can track the social performativity of technology in addition to that of human beings. The book is suitable for graduate and upper level undergraduate courses in methodology, communications, and cultural work dealing with globalization and new digital communications media.