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Non-Western Educational Traditions: Indigenous Approaches to Educational Throught and Practice

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This text provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children--as well as what counts for them as "education"--may help us think more clearly about some of our own assumptions and values,...

Islam: A Brief History (CourseSmart)

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Reflecting recent global developments, the second edition of this illuminating introduction to Islamic history expands its coverage of the Qur’an, Sufism, and Muslim views on human rights, including the rights of women.

An expanded new edition of this concise, illuminating introduction to Islam, written by one of the...

Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War

ABC Clio, 1995

Because the 1991 War for Kuwait (erroneously dubbed the Gulf War) ended too quickly, it will probably never receive the scholarly attention that other conflicts garner. The politics of the Gulf is too complex, perhaps even too foreign, for most observers, and the reasons for our intervention too pragmatic to deserve the kind of attention that...