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Charitable Choices
Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic...
by John P. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by John P. Nasou
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Following his retirement after twenty-five years of medical practice, he proceeded to writing the Sunday bulletins of the cathedral and essays on a variety of topics of interest to his fellow Orthodox parishioners. He was urged by the protopresbyter Steven Zorzos, the current dean of the cathedral,...
by George M. Woodwell, John P. Abraham, Michael C. MacCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
"This marvelously accessible book highlights a full color presentation of climate science with solutions. On the most highly-charged environmental policy issue of the 21st Century, top climate scientists join forces with 2013 Common Ground Student Essayists to expand public awareness and activism...
Isaiah 1-33, Volume 24
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
Just Go! a Global Guide to Budget Travel
Enhanced and Enlarged Edition. 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Most people set their sights on a trip to Disney World , John Cross goes to Churchill Manitoba to watch Polar Bears. This is an adventure book full of historical and personal anecdotes rather than your usual travel guide.
A great read for the daring traveler.
Frank Hyland, former AJC...
by Julius P. Kreier, John R. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Updated and much expanded, the Second Edition of Parasitic Protozoa is designed to be useful to physicians, veterinarians, and research scientists concerned with diseases caused by protozoa in man, and in domestic and wild animals including fish, mollusks and insects, as well as the more commonly...
Second Helping
Newfoundland Labrador Nunavut and Travels Beyond . . . . a Memoir..
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
The authors travels take us again back to Newfoundland Labrador and Nunavut after an absence of almost fifty years where he critically surveys the decaying remains of European influences of Moravian missionaries in that area during their two hundredyear stay. The remnants of the hundred-year-long...
by John P. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Attempting to tell the whole truth of the matter in a fair way, Davis studies the politics, history, and economics of the Union Pacific Railway in this 1894 volume. He discusses the early unachieved projects, issues which kept the railway from being built, the national push for construction, and the...
by John P. Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1994
This book provides simple physical models to represent the unbounded soil in time and frequency domain analysis. They do not supplant the more generally applicable rigorous methods, but rather supplement them. The physical models used consists of the following representations: cones based one-dimensional...
by Peter M. Anderson, John P. Hirth, Jens Lothe
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Theory of Dislocations provides unparalleled coverage of the fundamentals of dislocation theory, with applications to specific metal and ionic crystals. Rather than citing final results, step-by-step developments are provided to offer an in-depth understanding of the topic. The text provides the solid...