What does it mean to belong to the Malay world in the twenty-first century?From the shores of Aceh to the cultural landscapes of Melaka and the historical memory of Patani, Of Salt and Tamarind explores the long and complex relationship between Islam, identity, and the making of the Malay world in Southeast Asia.Moving beyond narrow national boundaries, this book traces how trade, migration, religious scholarship, political authority, and cultural exchange...

Are you a Black or minority entrepreneur facing start-up or growth challenges due to limited access to funding, resources, mentorship, or guidance?Do you feel left out of the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship - like thedoors that open easily for others stay locked for you?These hurdles are real. But they are not the end of your story.This guide gives you a proven roadmap for navigating the full range of entrepren...

What does it mean to be human when the future is being engineered for us?Written from the northern tip of Sumatra rather than from Silicon Valley, The Future of the World is a bold, wide-ranging meditation on the civilization now taking shape around us—what the author calls the Planetary Civilization. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, the study of the future, and a scholar's long engagement with geopolitics, security, and intelligence, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad asks t...

This book offers practical advice for our everyday lives taken from the Qur'an and Sunnah. It shows us how to purify our hearts, since a heart that is not pure cannot find tranquillity.

What if the real secret wasn't buried in darkness, but shining right before your eyes?Hidden not by absence - but by a presence so overwhelming, you could no longer see it.This isn't a novel that begins on the first page.It begins at the first fracture in awareness.And the moment you feel that fracture…you've already begun.Each chapter is a cipher.And each cipher - a stone in an inverted pyramid,rev...

The devastating and gritty fourth novel from Miles Franklin shortlisted author, Michael Mohammed Ahmad.Some scars can never be seen, but will always be felt . . . long after the damage is done.Hamoodi may only be ten years old, but he already knows that to speak out is dangerous. Lessons from the mother-land have taught him that standing out can see you lose everything. Or disappear. In a new place, he has learned to be quiet, contained. He...

Maize (Zea mays L.) in the Cold: Journey across Latitudes presents a compelling exploration of how one of the world’s most vital crops has expanded from its tropical origins to endure and thrive in cold and temperate regions. As agriculture increasingly faces the challenges of climate variability and low-temperature extremes, this book offers a timely and comprehensive scientific account of maize’s resilience to chilling stress.Structured across seven in-depth chapters, th...

This is a critical book that examines the power of artificial intelligence to transform the health of crops. It covers the latest AI technologies being used for proactive and accurate protection of plants. The book is a detailed guide on drones and robotics that are used to monitor and spray specific areas and provide highly advanced image processing that help in detecting diseases early on in crops such as wheat, cotton, and tomato. It fills the disconnect between data science and agronom...

This book examines carbon-negative farming systems addressing science, methods, and policy mechanisms for achieving net-negative greenhouse gas outcomes. It covers soil health and carbon sequestration including biochar application, enhanced rock weathering, and plant-soil interactions for carbon capture and storage, and also:Provides comprehensive coverage of carbon-negative farming systems addressing science, methods, and policy mechanisms that enable farms to achieve net-ne...

This book examines dietary intervention and oncogenesis addressing foundational principles, epidemiological insights, and molecular mechanisms of nutritional modulators in cellular homeostasis. It covers chronic inflammation and carcinogenesis, nutritional epigenetics, and dietary influences on gene expression and genome stability. The book studies immune surveillance, metabolic reprogramming in cancer, dietary modulation of tumor bioenergetics, and the gut microbiome-host axis in cancer e...

To my earthly father, my only worth was through my death.But God saw me so differently that, at first, I could barely comprehend it.Esther Ahmad thought she knew the way to earn her Muslim father’s love. She raised her hand for the suicide mission, her martyrdom guaranteeing her family a place in heaven.But God had a different mission for Esther—a journey out of Pakistan, from despair to hope, from shame to purity, and from Allah’s wrath to a Father...

"Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?"Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes acr...