Authors:Abdi Roble, Doug Rutledge, Somali Documentary Projec
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: journey, diaspora, somali
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-09-12
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0816654573
ISBN-13: 9780816654574

Book DescriptionSince 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989, and Rutledge trace the journey of a family from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, home to more than 150,000 Somalis, to new lives in the United States. The Somali Diaspora follows the family of Abdisalem, his wife Ijabo, and their t

Authors:Ali A. Abdi, Dip Kapoor,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: education, adult, perspectives, global
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-11-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230607950
ISBN-13: 9780230607958

This collection brings together adult education theorists and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (and diaspora from these regions) in an attempt to foreground issues, concepts, theories and practices of adult education in Southern locations.  Key contributions include contemporary theoretical implications of the works of Nyerere, Freire, Confucious, Mao, Buddhism and African indigenous conceptions along with current discussion pertaining to globalization, citizenship and adult education and learning in subaltern social movements.  Case studies from all regions a

Author: Abdi Ismail Samatar
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: transform, rural, amp, state
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1989-06-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0299119947
ISBN-13: 9780299119942

Authors:Dr. Hervé Abdi, Dominique Valentin, Dr. Betty Edel
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: social, sciences, applications, quantitative, networks, neural
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-12-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0761914404
ISBN-13: 9780761914402

This book provides the first accessible introduction to neural network analysis as a methodological strategy for social scientists. The author details numerous studies and examples which illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and modeling methods in widespread use. Methods are presented in an accessible style for readers who do not have a background in computer science. The book provides a history of neural network methods, a substantial review of the literature, detailed applications, coverage of the most common alternative models and examples of two lead

Authors:Abdi Ismail Samatar, Ahmed I. Samatar,
Publisher: Heinema
Keywords: reconsiderations, state, african
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0325070989
ISBN-13: 9780325070988

This volume captures the diversity of African states and leadership by examining eight states from northern, western, eastern, and southern Africa.