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  • av Ashleigh Dean Ikemoto
    947,-

    This book examines the career of Pedro de Alfaro, a Spanish Franciscan whose 1579 mission to China collapsed amid accusations of illegal entry and espionage. The author analyzes his remarkable assessment of China's military and civil infrastructure, which had the effect of permanently changing Spanish plans for a conquest of China.

  • av Greg McCreery
    947,-

    McCreery descriptively analyzes distinctions between kinds of violence, including nonviolence, as outlined by numerous philosophical theorists, arguing that a commonsense view of violence and nonviolence is based on paradigmatic cases. Beyond these what counts as kinds of violence and nonviolence is essentially contested due to political, ideological disagreements.

  • av Randolph Hohle
    427 - 1 146,-

  • av Brandon Absher
    399 - 1 011,-

  • av Earnest N. Bracey
    396 - 1 153,-

  • av Michele Kueter Petersen
    427 - 1 365,-

  • av T.K. Rogers & J. Furman Daniel III
    427 - 1 280,-

  • av Jennifer M. Hernandez & Jessica S. Krim
    427 - 1 032,-

  • av George A. Gonzalez
    427 - 1 138,-

    Reality is made up of absolute and casualty ideals. This book analyzes the lower aspects of absolute ideals that result in personal and social dysfunction and the ultimate end of civilization. Conversely, a society based on casualty and justice is stable and vibrant. It is a classless society, free of gender and ethnic biases.

  • - Love and Transformation
    av Kusumita P. Pedersen
    427 - 1 150,-

    This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) and his teaching of a dynamic spirituality of integral transformation. A straightforward and unembroidered account of his philosophy, it allows Sri Chinmoy to speak for himself in his own words, in poetry as much as in prose.

  • av Loretta E. Kim & Chengyi Zhou
    487 - 1 634

  • av Chris Berg, Darcy W E Allen & Aaron M Lane
    427

  • av Luis Diaz-Santana Garza
    427 - 1 150,-

  • - Zionism and American Interests
    av Adam L. Fuller
    463 - 1 082,-

    The neoconservatives are known for supporting Israel, but why do they believe Israel's interests align so firmly with America's? This book delves into that question and considers the future of the neoconservatives' pro-Israel stance in the Republican Party as their influence in the party has waned with the Trump ascendency.

  • - The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism
    av Christine Sixta Rinehart
    463 - 1 280,-

    This book explains what the role of Islam in female terrorism is. Through the analysis of eight Jihadist terrorist group case studies, the book argues that the three roles of women can be defined as: the disposable, the domestic, and the secretary.

  • - Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture
    av David Crawford
    463 - 1 209,-

    In Dealing with Privilege, David Crawford argues that white, middle-class dealers are unlikely to suffer the enforcement of drug laws and that, contrary to media portrayals, suburban drug sales are not oriented primarily toward making money but at making friends and having fun.

  • - Integrated Marketing Communication
    av Jennifer Brubaker
    463 - 1 153,-

    This book uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements.

  • - Presidential Politics, Late-Night Comedy, and the Public Sphere
    av Nickie Michaud Wild
    463,-

    This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, and newspaper commentary about them.

  • av Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
    463,-

  • - Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life
    av Donileen R. Loseke
    463,-

    Narrative Productions of Meaning explores how stories, ranging from self-stories to those told by media, social activists, politicians, social policy makers, and social service providers, shape the meaning of self, others, objects, events, and experiences and how these meanings have material consequences.

  • av James C. Roberts
    463,-

    This book brings a constructivist approach to analyzing public goods by recognizing that preferences are socially constructed from the actors' identities. This synthesis of constructivism and rational choice provides a deeper understanding of the decision to provide goods such as protecting human rights and collective security.

  • av Jennifer Y. Pomeroy & Vandana Wadhwa
    463,-

  • av Ezekiel Ette
    463,-

    This book traces the Annang people of Nigeria's history and struggle for ethnic identity. Ette demonstrates how, after colonialism, the indigenous elites who threw off colonial power adopted methods of governance closely resembling the structures put in place by the colonizers and the effect that had on ethnic groups within the country.

  • - Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World
    av Sergio Gonzalez Varela
    463,-

    In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio Gonzalez Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices.

  • av Ahmet Atay & Deanna L. Fassett
    463,-

  • av Marcel H. Van Herpen
    463 - 1 106,-

  • av Marilyn D. Lovett
    850

    The purpose of this book is to explore variables related to health promoting behaviors, using a culturally grounded perspective. The author argues that discussing health and wellness among African-descended people with resilience in mind sets the stage for solution-focused interventions.

  • av Tunde Adeleke
    995,-

    Through different disciplinary perspectives, the authors shed light on the rich and complex Africa-Black Diaspora world; revealing historical transformation and transmutations that continue to define and reshape what is undoubtedly a landscape of dizzying expansion, transformations, and complexities, if not contradictions.

  • - A Grand Strategic Approach
    av Ryan Opsal
    463 - 1 351,-

    This book analyzes the complexities of energy security by studying how the United States and China approached their own supply security over a twenty-year period. Exploring these two countries and understanding how their respective grand strategies influence their approaches to energy security allows a deeper understanding of the topic.

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