Folktales from Somalia


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A pioneering work in the documentation of the Somali treasure of folktales. The book contains a selection of folktales in Somali with translations into English. This publication is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of oral traditions and folklore in the Horn of Africa.




Supporting Refugee Children


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The psychosocial needs of war-affected children who migrate to other countries are difficult to identify, complicated to understand, and even more troubling to address. Supporting Refugee Children provides a holistic exploration of these challenges and offers practical advice for teachers, social workers, and counsellors, as well as suggestions for policy makers.




A World of Babies


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Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs about parenting. While celebrating that diversity, the book also explores the challenges that poverty, globalization and violence pose for parents. Fully updated for the twenty-first century, this edition features a new introduction and eight new or revised case studies that directly address contemporary parenting challenges, from China and Peru to Israel and the West Bank. Written as imagined advice manuals to parents, the creative format of this book brings alive a rich body of knowledge that highlights many models of baby-rearing - each shaped by deeply held values and widely varying cultural contexts. Parenthood may never again seem a matter of 'common sense'.




Humanities


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DIIHAAL-REEB


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Diihaal-Reeb is a fiction story which is based on authors' vision; it's written in a series way. This story is talking about street child called Sahardiid and his way of living from his childhood and the loss of his parents, the dismissal of his uncle's house, the street life in Hargeisa, the devastating and hard way of living that he met after he has been taken to rehab organisation. The humanitarian support he gets from the community, after rehabilitation the way his whole life changes and became well prominent and educated person. Diihaal-Reeb tells the reality on the ground and enlightens a significant issue which is the current situation of Somaliland street children. On the other hand the book may motivate and give encouragement in many ways for the street children which are facing the same situation that the book is talking about because the character of the novel aftermath Sahardiid become a well prominent rich man and he realized the significant achievement he made during his legacy.




Maanyo-Olol


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Waxaan u hibeeyey Afadayda Aamina M. Xassan “Gaal” iyo ilmahayga “Boqortooyada ‘Siin’”. In ay xusuustaan awoowgood, anna adeerkay, aabboo kale ii ahaa, Jaamac Salaad Takar iyo adeerkood, anna Ina Adeerkay, Maxamed Cali Salaad “Xaange” oo labadaba 1991 USC xaqdarro, reerka ay u dhasheen, ugu dishey Xamar, iyo dhammaan dadkii ku le’’day dagaalka sokeeye oo Soomaaliya ka bilowday dhammaadkii qarnigii labaatanaad. Buuggan wixii iibkiisa ka soo baxa waxaa lagu bixin waxbarasho iyadoo dalool (1/3) aan u qoondeeyey agoonta dagaalka sokeeye ee Soomaaliya, daloolna ilmahaan dhalay oo yaraanta aan ku dayriyey iyo ilmohooda.




A to Zoo


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Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.




Human Interaction with the Environment in the Red Sea


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This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region. It stimulates a new discourse on different human adaptations to, and interactions with, the environment. With contributions by Andre Antunes, K. Christopher Beard, Ahmed Hussein, Emad Khalil, Solène Marion de Procé, Abdirachid Mohamed, Ania Kotarba-Morley, Sandra Olsen, Andrew Peacock, Eleanor Scerri, Pierre Schneider, Marijke Van Der Veen and Chiara Zazzaro.




A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1


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This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.




WAX II SHEEG


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Buug yarahani waxa uu soo gudbinayaa naqdin, gorfeyn iyo faalleyn buugaag mawduucyo kala duwan ka hadlaaya. Ma jiraan arrimo ay buugaagtaasi iskaga mid yahiin, marka laga tegi waayo in qorayaal Reer Somaliland ahi dhammaantood qoreen. Waxa ay dhammaan qorayaashaasi yahiin kuwa igu dhaw oo saaxiib gaara iyo mid guudba aan nahay. Waa koox ay na mideysey aragti isku mid ah oo aan halgan ugu jirno qalinka iyo qoraalka. Buuggan waxa aad kala kulmi doontaa macluumaad badan oo uu kaa siiyo buugaagta lagu faa'qidaayo waxa ay yahiin oo dhan, aniga oo ku kalsoon in buugaagtaasi aad raadsan doonto marka aad akhrido qoraalkan