John W : 1005 books
by J.W. Rogerson, John Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The city is an ambiguous symbol in the Bible. The founder of the first city is the murderer, Cain. The city of Jerusalem is the place chosen by God, yet is also a place of wrong-doing and injustice. Jesus seems to have largely avoided cities except Jerusalem, where he was crucified. 'The City in Biblical...
by Joseph I. Goldstein, Dale E. Newbury, Joseph R. Michael
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) for elemental microanalysis, electron backscatter diffraction analysis (EBSD)...
by Susan Blackmore, Thomas W. Clark, Mark Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers,...
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
Transmissions of Memory
Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian...
Indonesia
The Great Transition
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Indonesia is in the midst of an epic transition as it moves from decades of authoritarian government to a new era of democratic opening, from years of secular government to a time of struggle over the role of Islam in public life, and from the breakdown of a 'miracle' economy to a search for resilience...
by John F. W. Herschel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The situation of man on the globe he inhabits, and over which he has obtained the control, is in many respects exceedingly remarkable. Compared with its other denizens, he seems, if we regard only his physical constitution, in almost every respect their inferior, and equally unprovided for the supply...
Teaching Peace
Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
The Leader's Window
Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
"A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 habits at work." - Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Do you know how to lead people? This is the toughest act required of every supervisor, manager, executive, and CEO. In the face of leadership challenges and increasing pressure to produce...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
by Norbert W. Dunkel, John H. Schuh, Nancy E. Chrystal-Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The only manual for faculty and staff who work directly with student organizations
Advising Student Groups and Organizations is a one-of-a-kind book that equips faculty members and administrators to competently and confidently serve as advisers to clubs and other student groups. The second...
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century
The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...
by John Hughson, David Inglis, Marcus W. Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic...
Comparing Special Education
Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In today's schools the number of students who receive additional resources to access the curriculum is growing rapidly, and the ongoing expansion of special education is among the most significant worldwide educational developments of the past century. Yet even among developed democracies the range...