The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree

The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree
Author: Mitsuo Nakamura
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 981431191X

Previous ed.: Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1983.

The Charioteer of Delphi

The Charioteer of Delphi
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444003623

September AD 80. Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix's town house. When a famous racehorse goes missing, Nubia sets out to recover it. The four friends find themselves caught up in a plot against one of the rival factions, the Greens. Who is trying to sabotage the charioteers? Could it be an inside job, or someone with a grudge from long ago? And how many men and horses will die before the killer is caught?

Islamic Monetary Economics

Islamic Monetary Economics
Author: Taha Eğri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-08
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN: 9780367654306

The editors argue that an Islamic monetary system, with its specific money concepts, interest free financial institutions and a monetary policy embedded in real growth, provides a solution to challenges currently facing contemporary economies.

The Ethnographic Interview

The Ethnographic Interview
Author: James P. Spradley
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478633212

A must-read classic for anyone—academic ethnographers to market researchers—involved with data collection from individual human beings. The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook that guides readers step-by-step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also shows how to analyze collected data and how to write an ethnography. Appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

Discipleship Counseling

Discipleship Counseling
Author: Dr. Neil T. Anderson
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441265538

Building on the concepts found in Victory over the Darkness and The Bondage Breaker, Neil Anderson's counseling ministry guide provides clear information and excellent models to help you understand what discipleship counseling is all about. If you're a pastor, counselor, or lay leader, this resource will make you more comfortable, confident, and competent in your role as encourager. In turn, this will help you free people from their emotional pain and spiritual conflicts, as you guide them to a more complete understanding of who they are in Christ.

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design
Author: John W. Creswell
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506330215

Winner of the 2018 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The McGuffey Longevity Award In the revised Fourth Edition of the best-selling text, John W. Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N. Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Preserving Creswell′s signature writing style, the authors compare the approaches and relate research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry in a highly accessible manner. Featuring new content, articles, pedagogy, references, and expanded coverage of ethics throughout, the Fourth Edition is an ideal introduction to the theories, strategies, and practices of qualitative inquiry.

Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation

Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation
Author: David Colton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119177979

Written in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. This book can be used by both those who are developing instruments for the first time and those who want to hone their skills, including students, agency personnel, program managers, and researchers. This book provides a thorough presentation of instrument construction, from conception to development and pre-testing of items, formatting the instrument, administration, and, finally, data management and presentation of the findings. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize how to create an instrument that will produce trustworthy and accurate data. To that end they have included guidelines for reviewing and revising the questionnaire to enhance validity and reliability. They also show how to work effectively with stakeholders such as instruments designers, decision-makers, agency personnel, clients, and raters or respondents.

Islamic Activism

Islamic Activism
Author: Quintan Wiktorowicz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253216214

Foreword /Charles Tilly.-Introduction: Islamic Activism and Social Movement Theory/ Quintan Wiktorowicz. - 1. From Marginalization to Massacres: A Political Process Explanation of GIA Violence in Algeria / Mohammed M. Hafez. - 2. Violence as Contention in the Egyptian Islamic Movement Mohammed / M. Hafez and Quintan Wiktorowicz. - 3. Repertoires of Contention in Contemporary Bahrain / Fred H. Lawson. - 4. Hamas as Social Movement / Glenn E. Robinson. - 5. The Networked World of Islamist Social Movements / Diane Singerman. - 6. Islamist Women in Yemen: Informal Nodes of Activism / Janine A. Clark. - 7. Collective Action with and without Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaar in Iran/ Benjamin Smith. - 8. The Islah Party in Yemen: Political Opportunities and Coalition Building in a Transitional Polity / Jillian Schwedler. -9. Interests, Ideas, and Islamist Outreach in Egypt / Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. - 10. Making Conversation Permissible: Islamism and Reform in Saudi Arabia/ Gwenn Okruhlik. - 11. Opportunity Spaces, Identity, and Islamic Meaning in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz. - Conclusion: Social Movement Theory and Islamic Studies / Charles Kurzman