US History in Brief
Like its popular predecessor, the second edition of The United States: A Brief History is a basic, readable, and affordable core text for the introductory survey of United States history. The book is not intended as the only resource for students in such courses: its length, approach, and price encourage the use of supplementary books, research projects, and primary documents (many of which are now available on the Internet). Nevertheless, this innovative survey will come as a welcome relief to the average student, who may be intimidated, overwhelmed, and overextended financially by the massive texts that dominate the genre. Even many so-called brief editions can weigh in a nearly a thousand pages, leaving many student readers lost in a maze of confusing,
USA History WikiBook 2006
This textbook is based initially on the College Entrance Examination Board test in Advanced Placement United States History. This seems to be the best reference on which to build a textbook, since it is a standard on the subject and covers what most U.S. history students study in high school and college. Overall, however, the content and structure may in time vary from all other books. Besides the regular wikibook rules governing unbiased writing, the only other guideline should be that everything should be kept more or less in chronological order and divided into logical chapters.
Usul Al Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) By Abdul Hannan
Usul Al Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) By Abdul Hannan
This book on Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul Al Fiqh) was prepared as an aid to a course on this subject conducted through internet in 1999 to an International Student Population on the request of Witness-Pioneer (an internet based Islamic International Intellectual Movement). The book has been modelled on classical 'Usul' books, the chapter planning has been done on the lines of the book " Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence"
Vocabulary Builder By Judi Kesselman
The Vocabulary Builder offers entertaining crossword, fill-in-the-answer, multiple choice, and other word puzzles (with answers!) to help students learn a selection of 600 well-used but often misunderstood words. Judi Kesselman-Turkel andFranklynn Peterson write and publish the newsletter CPA Computer Report. They have written hundreds of articles and more than twenty books includingThe Author’s Handbook, Good Writing, and The Magazine Writer’s Handbook. They live in Madison, Wisconsin.
Water Sharing Dispute in Pakistan Standpoint of Provinces
River water sharing is a multidimensional problem. One aspect of the problem is share of each province in river-water and its availability at the time of need. Pakistan is hard pressed between decreasing storage and increasing water demands. The shortage of water for agriculture has become a serious problem in Pakistan and has not been resolved satisfactorily. It has caused much bitterness among the provinces and between the federal government and provinces.
