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Siraj Al-Tavarikh, Fayz Muhammad Katib

Books in Dari and Pashto

Covers the history of Afghanistan from, 17th-20th century. It includes historical events and biographical descriptions of Afghan kings and rulers. The book is in Persian language, in two volumes.

Published in Kabul: Matbaah-i Hurufi-i Dal al-Saltanah, 1331 (1952)

A Study Of Personality And Interest Traits Of Successful And Unsuccessful Group Work Leaders Using Six Standardized Tests, Mary E. Flannigan

Student Work

No recreational or leisure-time program can rise above the level of its leadership. No matter how fine the objectives of the Board of Directors and the Executive, if they are not matched by competence of those who actually provide leadership, they fail.

From the standpoint of objectives and policies, nothing so directly determines the value and outcome of a Social Group Work Agency as the leaders in program activities. It is the Group Leaders, whether paid or volunteer, within an agency that reduce to a minimum the gap between the possible and actual effectiveness of the program.

A Study Of The Relationship Between Self-Evaluations, Test Results And The Opinions Of Experts, Arthur L. Belknap

Student Work

As a part of his address “Addressing Men’s Minds” delivered to the assembled members of the National Office Management Association, Omaha Chapter, Claude E. Thompson – Professor of Psychology and Business and the Director of the Bureau of Adult Testing at the University of Omaha – conducted an experiment designed to examine the ability of the group to adequately evaluate others. It was with his kind permission that this investigator was able to collect, analyze, and report on the resulting data.

Correlations Between The Johnson Temperament Analysis And The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Based Upon 100 Male Counselees, F. Alec Phillips

Student Work

The field of personality is one of the most popular, challenging, important, and confused in present-day psychological studies.

During the psychology’s infancy, the study was neglected by the psychologists and left to the uncontrolled clinical methods of the psychiatrists and psychoanalysis. Finally, study in this field has been undertaken by psychologists possessing scientific method, but too often lacking the orientation to persons as such, which characterizes the clinically trained psychiatrists. It should, therefore, he no surprise to find chaotic conditions ruling the study of the psychology of personality.

Correlations Between The Bernreuter Personality Inventory And The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory At The College Level, William Walter Farquhar

Student Work

The basic problem of the study was to determine the extent of relationship between the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory at the college level. Primarily this is a problem of method.

Five Year Post-War Development Plan For The North-West Frontier Province And Tribal Areas, North-West Frontier Province (Pakistan). Department Of Post-War Planning.

Books in English

364 pages : illustrations, maps (some folded) ; 34 cm. 3rd edition.

A Study Of Religious Drama As A Resource Of The Church, Illustrated By An Original Biblical Drama, Marien E. Griffith

Student Work

The main purpose of this study is to determine the place of religious drama in the church. Data of information were secured from personal letters and interviews with pastors and lay-people in Omaha, Nebraska; Council Bluffs, Sioux City and Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Idaho Falls, Iowa; and Monrovia, California. A questionnaire was used as a guiding basis for the interviews. The case method and survey method were used. An original Biblical drama is presented to illustrate what the possibilities are in this field of activity.

Drama is one of the most interesting of …

Alexandre En Afghanistan : Piece En Quatre Actes, AḥMad ʻAlī KuhzāD

Books in English

No abstract provided.

Civilian Conservation Corps Program Of The United States Department Of The Interior (March 1933 To June 30, 1943), Conrad L. Wirth

Service Learning, General

I submit herewith my final report as the Department of the Interior Representative on the Advisory Council of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The report consists of two main parts, "Observations" and "Summary and Recommendations," which are summarized below for your convenience.

Nebraska Folklore: Pamphlet 19,  Reminiscences Of Dad Streeter, Nebraska Department Of Public Instruction, Federal Writers' Project Of The Works Progress Administration For The State Of Nebraska, Nebraska Writers' Project

Digitized Books

These reminiscences of George W. Streeter, who prefers to be known as Dad Streeter, relate experiences and events in which he participated while living in Nebraska during the 1880's The manuscript was first submitted to the Federal Writers' Project in Utah (where Mr. Streeter now resides in Ogden), and then, through the National Office in Washington, D.C., to the Nebraska Federal Writers' Project. In order to preserve the flavor and flow of the rough narrative, editing was reduced to a minimum.

During the years covered by the reminiscences, "Dad" lived the life of a roving cowboy-constantly moving from Nebraska to …

Nebraska Folklore: Pamphlet 3, Children's Singing Games, Federal Writers' Project

Digitized Books

These games are all suitable for children in the grades. Some of them are also played by high school pupils and adults. Many of them can be adapted for dances or drills. They are all traditional, coming; to us for the most part from England or by way of England. The many versions indicate the local adaptations made during their travels to us from the Eastern Seaboard States.

The Arab Conquests In Central Asia, H.A. R. Gibb

Books in English

The Arab expedition in Central Asia in 642. Herat and Badghis submitted without a blow, and the first serious check to their advance was met in the Murghab valley. A second expedition occupied Juzjan, Faryab, Talaqan, and Balkh, territories of Afghanistan.

Phonology Of The Bakhtiari, Badakhshani, And Madaglashti Dialects Of Modern Persian, D.L.R. Lorimer (Major)

Books in English

The Bakhtiari language is considered Persian language, which belongs to the Indo-European language family. Bakhtiaries talk ordinary Persian, and those who want to learn Bakhtiari do so in ordinary Persian. Bakhtiari has no literature and is seldom or never written.

The book could be of interests to philologists and linguists

The Story Of The Frontier Province, J.M.E.

Books in English

The history of North-west Frontier is closely connected to Afghanistan. During the 18th century the area was ruled by Afghans. Between 1818 and 1834 the Sikhs occupied Peshawar with the help of the British government in India. The book covers the history of the North-West Frontier from the mid-nineteenth century of early 20th century.

A Text Book Of The Balochi Language : Consisting Of Miscellaneous Stories, Legends, Poems And Balochi-English Vocabulary, Mansel Longworth Dames

Books in English

No abstract provided.

The Pathan Borderland : A Consecutive Account Of The Country And People On And Beyond The Indian Frontier From Chitral To Dera Ismail Khan (1921), Colin Metcalf Enriquez

Books in English

A consecutive account of the country and people on and beyond the Indian frontier from Chitral to Dera Ismail Khan.

In this second edition considerable additions have been made, and chapters IV and VIII to XIV have been entirely re-written.

Contents: Chitral, Yusufzai, Peshawar, Jalozai, Kohat, Samana, Kurram, A tale from Tirah, Bannu, Fronteir Field Firing, Shahbash Ilam Dim, Sheikh Budin, Derajat and Waziristan.

Operations In Waziristan, 1919-1920, Army, General Staff Branch, India,

Books in English

Operation in Waziristan, 1919-1920, compiled by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.

Frontier Folk Of The Afghan Border And Beyond, Lilian A. Starr

Books in English

The book gives a detailed description of the Frontier history and its people. Some twenty different tribes, their lives and customs are covered by the author. The author lived in a mission hospital on the Frontier was providing medical services to people of various backgrounds.

The Hero Of Herat: A Frontier Biography In Romantic Form (1914), Maud Diver

Books in English

Herat, Afghanistan, fiction by Maud Diver.

The Judgment Of The Sword : The Tale Of The Kabul Tragedy, And Of The Part Played Therein By Major Eldred Pottinger, The Hero Of Herat, Maud Diver

Books in English

It is the tale of the Kabul tragedy during the First Anglo-Afghan War, and of the part played therein by Major Eldred Pottinger, the hero of Herat.

The Kingdom Of Afghanistan: A Historical Sketch, George Passman Tate

Books in English

An account of Afghanistan, the races, tribe and their relationship with their neighboring countries. The map of Afghanistan included in this book is intended as a key to the positions of the more important localities mentioned in the text and the country situation with its neighbors.

Gun-Running And The Indian North-West Frontier, Arnold Keppel

Books in English

Gun-running and the Indian north-west frontier, written by the Hon. Arnold Keppel, includes 20 illustrations and 2 maps. The tribes and the tribal areas of the north-west frontier and the relationship between Afghanistan and Great Britain is covered by the author.

Frontier Warfare: A Series Of Ten Lectures, Frontier

Books in English

The book is a series of the following ten tecture:

General Principles; Frontier warfare camp; Measures for the security of a camp; Picquests protecting a camp; Marches; Protection on the march; Attack - defence - storming a fort; Pursuits and retreats, Base and line of communications - convoys; orders

A Dictionary Of The Pathan Tribes On The North-West Frontier Of India, General Staff Army Headquarters, India

Books in English

A dictionary of the the Pashtun tribes prepare by the General Staff Army Headquarters, India.

Publisher - Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India

Bactria From The Earliest Times To The Extinction Of Bactrio-Greek Rule In The Punjab, Hugh George Rawlinson

Books in English

No abstract provided.

Letters On The Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission Of 1896 (1909), A. H. Mcmahon, Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission

Books in English

Written to the English (Calcutta) and Times of India (Bombay) by their special correspondent with the Mission.

Around Afghanistan, Henri Bouillane De Lacoste

Books in English

Around Afghanistan is written by Major de Bouillane de Lacoste; with a preface by Georges Leygues; translated from the French by J. G. Anderson.

The Frontiers Of Baluchistan: Travels On The Borders Of Persia And Afghanistan, George Passman Tate

Books in English

The author furnishes us with many choice sketches of the desert and desert life painted in life-like colors. While one portion of the work deals with the vast desert which lies between Quetta and Persia, the other and larger portion describes that strangely interesting country of Seistan, which nature has bounteously endowed with every gift of water and soil.

Upon the many interesting incidents which marked the history of the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission, 1895-96, and the Seistan Arbitration Mission, 1903-5, with which Mr. Tate, as Survey Officer, traversed the various portions of the country dealt with in this book, he …

With The Afghans, Claud Herbert Alwyn Field

Books in English

Contents: The Afghans -- Afghan customs and characteristics -- Peshawar city and cantonment -- The religion of the Pathans -- Mission work -- Preaching across the Frontier -- An Afghan heretic -- Two soldiers of the guides -- The Frontier rising of 1897 -- Converts and enquirers -- Persian influences on the Afghans -- Afghan poets -- Afghan fables

Under The Absolute Amir, Frank A. Martin

Books in English

Contents:

On the road.--Kabul.--Manners and customs.--Amir Abdur Rahman.--Prisons and prisoners.--Tortures and methods of execution.--Life of Europeans in Kabul.--Soldiers and arms.--Trades and commerce.--Geological conditions of the country.--Religion.--Political situation.--Road from Kabul to Peshawar.

Illustrated by the author's drawings and photographs, and by other photographs