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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465440203321

Titolo

Conducting terrorism field research : a guide / / edited by Adam Dolnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-56380-8

1-299-28038-2

1-136-75100-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Contemporary terrorism studies

Altri autori (Persone)

DolnikAdam

Disciplina

363.325072

Soggetti

Terrorism - Research - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONDUCTING TERRORISM FIELD RESEARCH; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction - The need for field research on terrorism; PART I; 2 Interviewing government and official sources - An introductory guide; 3 Learning from the "Dark Side" - Identifying, accessing and interviewing illicit non-state actors; 4 Research challenges involved in field study on terrorism in the Middle East; PART II; 5 Field research - Argentina in comparative perspective

6 Conversing with the adversary - Interviewing Palestinian suicide bombers and their dispatchers in Israeli prisons7 Face to face with my case study; 8 Conducting field research on terrorism in Iraq; 9 A practical guide to research on terrorism in the North Caucasus; 10 Conducting terrorism fieldwork on a shoestring budget - Researching suicide terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; 11 Researching militant groups in Southeast Asia; 12 Conducting field research on terrorism in Northern Ireland; PART III

13 Interviewing the terrorists - Reflections on fieldwork and implications for psychological research14 Professionalizing high- risk field research in academia; 15 Up close and personal - Conducting field research on terrorism in conflict zones; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork.The past decade has seen



an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from ""necessary"" and ""crucial"" to ""dangerous"", ""unethical"" and ""impossible"". While there is an increasing interest among terrorism specialists in conducting such research, there is no single volume providing prospective field researchers with a guideline to such work.Conducting

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778268203321

Autore

Barker Andrew <1943-2021, >

Titolo

The science of harmonics in classical Greece / / Andrew Barker [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-18386-3

1-281-14636-6

9786611146368

1-139-13328-4

0-511-36713-9

0-511-48246-9

0-511-36650-7

0-511-36587-X

0-511-36772-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

781.2/30938

Soggetti

Music - Acoustics and physics

Musical intervals and scales - Greece - History - To 500

Music theory - Greece - History - To 500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Beginnings, and the problem of measurement -- Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus -- The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts -- Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and



its methods -- Aristoxenus--the composition of the Elementa harmonica -- Aristoxenus--concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book 1 -- Elementa harmonica books 2-3 -- Elementa harmonica book 3 and its missing sequel -- Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics -- Pythagorean harmonics in the Fifth Century -- Developments in Pythagorean harmonics -- Plato -- Aristotle on the harmonic sciences -- Systematising mathematical harmonics -- Quantification under attack -- Postscript--the later centuries.

Sommario/riassunto

The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. It also seeks to locate the discipline within the broader cultural environment of the period; and it investigates, sometimes with surprising results, the ways in which the theorists' work draws on and in some cases influences that of philosophers and other intellectuals.