Taken together, since vocabulary is a momentous hurdle to the majority of students at different levels of instruction, a prima facie case for the development of intervention programs that boost vocabulary in students seems to be inevitable....

Islamic Finance: Progress and Challenges provides a review of the main issues and challenges facing Islamic finance. The application of Islamic finance is currently limited to banking. This book starts with an overview of the factors and motives behind the development of Islamic finance....

In this, the first of three related, empirically based studies, Askari, Forrer, Teegen, and Yang examine the broad philosophy behind economic sanctions: why they are used and what they are meant to achieve. In addition they examine whether or not sanctions can be successful and offer an analysis of the implications of sanctions....