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Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand

Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani

At the heart of the on-going armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom "since time immemorial," Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when the Sultanate of Patani was an independent, prosperous trading state and a renowned center for Islamic education and scholarship in Southeast Asia — a time before it was defeated, broken up, and brought under the control of the Thai state. While still influential, in recent years these diametrically opposed views of the past have begun to make way for more nuanced and varied interpretations. Patani scholars, intellectuals and students now explore their history more freely and confidently than in the past, while the once-rigid Thai nationalist narrative is open to more pluralistic interpretations. There is growing interaction and dialogue between historians writing in Thai, Malay and English, and engagement with sources and scholarship in other languages, including Chinese and Arabic. In The Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, 13 scholars who have worked on this sensitive region evaluate the current state of current historical writing about the Patani Malays of southern Thailand. The essays in this book demonstrate that an understanding of the conflict must take into account the historical dimensions of relations between Patani and the Thai kingdom, and the ongoing influence of these perceptions on Thai state officials, militants, and the local population.

Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani Anthony Reid, Barbara
Watson Andaya, Geoff Wade, Azyumardi Azra, Numan Hayimasae, Christopher
Joll, Francis R. Bradley, Philip King, Dennis Walker, Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian,
Iik A. Mansurnoor, Duncan McCargo Patrick Jory ...

Designing and programming personal expert systems

Discusses the nature of artificial intelligence and expert systems, describes the components of a knowledge system, and examines the use of list functions, logic programming, and pattern recognition

Discusses the nature of artificial intelligence and expert systems, describes the components of a knowledge system, and examines the use of list functions, logic programming, and pattern recognition

Trauma

Aiming for Beat One

Trauma....more than just an emotion...The effect of trauma can grip anybody, but the nature of trauma holds everybody to the effect. Trauma is a true story based on spiritual and personal experiences the author had between 1996 and 2001. Trauma will show the reader that the misery from the effects of trauma won't happen if the person has his or her focus of life based in, on, and around the points of truth given to man through God's gift of life in Christ, and through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. Trauma will show the reader that relying on carnal selfishness is the true source of traumatic circumstances, and that living without the guidance of God's truth and love will result in a most devastating traumatic effect!

Trauma....more than just an emotion...The effect of trauma can grip anybody, but the nature of trauma holds everybody to the effect. Trauma is a true story based on spiritual and personal experiences the author had between 1996 and 2001.

Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML, 5th Edition

Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML, 5th Edition by Dennis, Wixom, and Tegarden captures the dynamic aspects of the field by keeping students focused on doing SAD while presenting the core set of skills that every systems analyst needs to know today and in the future. The text enables students to do SAD—not just read about it, but understand the issues so they can actually analyze and design systems. The text introduces each major technique, explains what it is, explains how to do it, presents an example, and provides opportunities for students to practice before they do it for real in a project. After reading each chapter, the student will be able to perform that step in the system development process.

Beyond Myself

The Farm Girl and the African Chief

When author Anita Katherine Dennis walked into the anthropology class during her sophomore year at Ohio University in 1964, she was sure the class would prove interesting. She had no idea how right she would be. In Beyond Myself, she narrates the love story that developed between her and her anthropology professor, Dr. Ben Dennis, an African tribal chief. In this memoir, she shares how God sustained her during her interracial, cross-cultural marriage—especially as she played the role of chief’s wife in a remote village in Liberia, West Africa. Her life was full of extremes. She met the president of Liberia in the Executive Mansion—and slept in a mud hut. She visited European capitals—and lived in a remote African village. She flew on transatlantic flights—and was carried through the high forest in a chief’s hammock. Anita shares her struggles as she is accepted into the Mende tribe and lived in Vahun with an off and on kerosene fridge, swarming termites on the screens, a cyclone barely missing the house, and pungent elephant meat delivered in the middle of the night. Beyond Myself offers an example of West meets Africa personified. Anita tells how life with Ben was more than a marriage. It was an education and adventure wrapped into one. Ben allowed Anita to escape her narrow cultural confines and embark on a journey from farm girl to global citizen, with plenty of missteps throughout. For more information visit: www.anitakdennis.com. From the Kirkus Review: "....Dennis led a life filled with remarkable events and translated them into an entertaining memoir....overall she proves to be a storyteller with a keen eye for detail and fully re-creates the complexities of her marriage and the exciting challenges she faced in Africa. A cleareyed memoir about navigating fraught relationships and other cultures."

Our guest room featured a king-size bed with plenty of room for Bengie to lie
between us. The dark brown floor-to-ceiling drapes and droning window air
conditioner were conducive for sleeping. On our way to dinner, Sandy spotted a
tiny brown lizard on the hallway floor and let out a scream. The cook from the
Bassa tribe walked over, took a look, and said with a grin, “That's a sign of good
luck.” We ate Liberian dishes in the formal dining room: Jollof rice, a
cucumberand-avocado ...

Systems Analysis and Design with UML, 4th Edition

You can't truly understand Systems Analysis and Design by only reading about it; you have to do it. In Systems Analysis and Design, 4th Edition, Dennis, Wixom, and Tegarden offer a hands-on approach to actually doing SAD. Building on their experience as professional systems analysts and award-winning teachers, these three authors capture the experience of actually developing and analyzing systems. They focus on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess--from gathering requirements and modeling business needs, to creating blueprints for how the system should be built.

Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior with Concept Maps and Reviews

Co-written by an author who garners more accolades and rave reviews from instructors and students with each succeeding edition, INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: GATEWAYS TO MIND AND BEHAVIOR, THIRTEENTH EDITION attracts and holds the attention of even difficult-to-reach students. The Thirteenth Edition's hallmark continues to be its pioneering integration of the proven-effective SQ4R learning system (Survey, Question, Read, Reflect, Review, Recite), which promotes critical thinking as it guides students step-by-step to an understanding of psychology's broad concepts and diversity of topics. Throughout every chapter, these active learning tools, together with the book's example-laced writing style, discussions of positive psychology, cutting-edge coverage of the field's new research findings, and excellent media resources, ensure that students find the study of psychology fascinating, relevant, and above all, accessible. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Is Erikson's description, then, an exact map of Samantha's past and her future—
or your own? Probably not. Still, psychosocial dilemmas are major events in
many lives. Knowing about them may allow you to anticipate typical trouble spots
in ...

Action Research as a Living Practice

"This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research. Drawing from complexity theory, deep ecology, Eastern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary theory, the essays in this collection show how participation in educational action research practices requires more of the researcher than the application of research methods. Each essay demonstrates how action research is a lived practice that asks the researcher to not only investigate the subject at hand but, as well, to provide some account of the way in which the investigation both shapes and is shaped by the investigator."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research.