Dari is the most used language in Afghanistan. This book is designed to cover one year of instruction, offers beginning learners a communicative approach to the Dari language that emphasizes task-oriented, communicative activities for developing the four language skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
A guide to reading a translation of the Quran that shows how the Quran is experienced by Muslims, describing the rhythmic and rhyme scheme structures, the context in which it is heard, the part played by learning by heart, and the importance of calligraphy. It is also about the Quran and its relationship to Muhammed.
As in the ever-changing English language, Brazilian Portuguese is colorful and ever-changing in its giria or slang (from the simply conversational to the vulgar). This dictionary, containing over 7500 Brazilian expressions, is suitable for travelers, businesspeople, translators and others.
Offers an interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. This title argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally oriented.
A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in Morocco For decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They fought against their erasure under an exclusivist Arab nationalist regime. Ultimately, they were ......
How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities
A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropy Institutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do their staff members make decisions? What impact do these decisions have on nonprofits, civil society, and democracy more broadly? One practice ......
Network-based collaboration between public and private stakeholders may bring about a renaissance in creative governance. The author draws on extensive research to analyze and promote the emerging field of collaborative innovation. His exploration of processes and the roles of specific systems combine the analytical and theoretical.
Assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. This book includes chapters that highlight advances in the intelligence community in structured analytic techniques, training, expertise-building, and professional development.
