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Social Status and Bureaucratic Contacts and the Public ...

Social Status and Bureaucratic Contacts and the Public ...

Riaz Hassan

Among the latter category of papers, the one by Dr. Riaz Hassan drew widespread attention and discussion. Dr. Hassan's research ... Dr. Riaz Hassan is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Singapore. This is one of ...
Teaching Writing to Second Language Learners

Teaching Writing to Second Language Learners

Riaz Hassan

Riaz Hassan, Dr Riaz Hassan. Teaching Writing to Second Language Learners Dr Riaz Hassan Copyright © 2009 by Dr. Riaz Hassan All rights reserved. iUniverse, Inc. New York Blooming'ron.
Suicide Explained: The Australian Experience

Suicide Explained: The Australian Experience

Riaz Hassan

It is shaped by the same forces which influence and regulate the patterns of social life. This is a book written specifically to be accessible to the general reader.
The Unchosen

The Unchosen

Riaz Hassan

There was a clash of perspectives in the nineteenth century when the British tried repeatedly to establish themselves in Afghanistan across the tribal belt between the Sikh Kingdom (later absorbed into British India) and Afghanistan.
Suicide Bombings

Suicide Bombings

Riaz Hassan

Suicide Bombings provides a short but incisive insight into this much publicized form of terrorism, and as such is an informative and engaging resource for students, academics, and indeed anyone with an interest in this topic.
Islam and Society: Sociological Explorations

Islam and Society: Sociological Explorations

Riaz Hassan

The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Islam and social and cultural milieus with the aim of reconceptualising the sacred as a socially constructed reality and not a transcendental ...
Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society

Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society

Riaz Hassan

This innovative study of 4500 Muslims from Indonesia, Kazakstan, Pakistan, and Egypt explores the nature of Muslim religious consciousness, the concept of Ummah, and the self images of Islam held by the believers.
Suicide Bombings

Suicide Bombings

Professor of Sociology Riaz Hassan

Through analysis of data from The Suicide Terrorism Database, Suicide Bombings seeks to explain the motivation of these attackers, and uncovers a cocktail of forces that drive suicide bombers.
Life as a Weapon: The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings

Life as a Weapon: The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings

Riaz Hassan

Instead, the book presents a cocktail of motivations that drive suicide bombers, and explains how their actions achieve multiple purposes – community approval, political success, liberation of the homeland, personal redemption or honour, ...
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia

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Brian Galligan has been a professor of political science at the University of Melbourne since 1 99S, and previously was a professor in the Research School of ... Riaz Hassan is professor of sociology at the Flinders University of South Australia.
Inside Muslim Minds

Inside Muslim Minds

Riaz Hassan

Inside Muslim Minds argues for a new intellectual commitment that honours Islamic heritage yet simultaneously confronts Islamic reassertion and the sense of powerlessness felt by Muslims as they strive to reaffirm their faith in the twenty ...
ISS 22 Indian Muslims: Struggling for Equality of Citizenship

ISS 22 Indian Muslims: Struggling for Equality of Citizenship

Riaz Hassan

This book examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious ...
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its ...

The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its ...

James Jupp

Dr Ian Har.MSTORF was born in Adelaide and is a visiting research fellow in the graduate school of education, University of Adelaide. PROFESSOR Riaz Hassan, fassa, was born in India and is professor of sociology at the Flinders University ...
The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in ...

The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in ...

Stephen Mosley

Hassan, J.A., aThe Impact and Development of the Water Supply in Manchester, 1568¥1882«, Transactions of the Historic Societyof Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol.133, 1984, pp.25¥45. Hassan, J.A.,aThe Growth and Impact of the British ...
American Book Publishing Record

American Book Publishing Record

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FARHAT, Hassan A. 004.2'2 Digital design and computer organization / Hassan A. Farhat. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2004. p. cm. Includes index. [TK7868. D5F37 2004] 22 2003- 055805 ISBN 0-8493-1191-8 Box or Slipcased 99.95 /.
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our ...

The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our ...

Zaid Hassan

C. Otto Scharmer and Joseph Jaworski, “Leadership in the Digital Economy: Sensing and Actualizing Emerging Futures.” 3. C. Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (BerrettKoehler Publishers, 2009). Zaid Hassan ...
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our ...

The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our ...

Zaid Hassan

They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response.
Power Plant Transients

Power Plant Transients

Richard R. Schultz

Richard R. Schultz, Robert W. Tsai, Y. A. Hassan ... Richard R. Schultz Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Robert W. Tsai Commonwealth Edison Company Yassin Hassan Texas A&M University CONTENTS Large-Break Loss- of-Coolant ...
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)

Michael Weiss

In this fully revised and updated edition of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into ...
Murder in the Name of Honour: The True Story of One Woman''s ...

Murder in the Name of Honour: The True Story of One Woman''s ...

Rana Husseini

... Samer Naber, Nadia Hashem Aloul, Emily Naffa, Laila Hamarneh, Toujan Faisal, Samar Haj Hassan, Salwa Nasser, Ethar Khasawneh, Lina Kutob, Reem Abu Hassan, Afaf Jabiri, Eva Abu Halaweh, Nadia Bushnaq, Basma Abdul Jaber, Shirin Mired, Mahasen Imam, Muna Mufti, Salma and Simon Issa, Rihab Malhas, Susan Phillips, Jeanette Jounblat, Myassar Saadi, Suhaila Khouri, Captain Amin and Nadia Husseini, Captain Nasri and Randa Jumeian, Ghada and Abed Husseini, ...
Pakistan: Literature and Society

Pakistan: Literature and Society

Fahmida A. Riaz

His popularity made the authorities wake up to the "rising threat" of secular thinking among Sindhis, and they wasted no time in filing a law suit against Amar Jaleel and Tariq Ashraf, the editor and publisher of Sohni. The journal was banned, ...
MSDN Magazine

MSDN Magazine

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James Spibey, Michael Dunn. Nick Hodapp, Paul Selomiey, Russell Morris, Lhve Keim, David Cunningham, Richard Melton, D Pitman. Davide Pizzolalo, James T. Johnson, Paul Watson, Umar Riaz, Brian Delahunty, PJ Naughter, Joseph M ...
The Color of Home

The Color of Home

Mary Hoffman

Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.
The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The ...

The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English: The ...

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Special thanks go to the panelists—Hamid Bahri, Shaden M. Tageldin and Waïl S . Hassan—for presenting their work in that crucial panel. I would like to take this oppor- tunity as well to thank all the members of the then MLA Discussion Group  ...

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