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  • - Search for Global Justice
    av Wilfred L. David
    983 - 1 407,-

    Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional development discourse, moving toward an emancipatory conversation focusing on human well-being or people-centred liberation.

  • - Essays on History, Politics and Community
    av Robert Johnson
    658,-

    Presents a study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. This anthology examines the relationships between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along racial lines.

  • - The Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier
    av Kirk R. MacGregor
    771,-

    Challenging the widespread classification of evangelical theologian Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) as a Schleitheim-adhering Anabaptist, this book argues that Hubmaier should instead be understood as a bridge between the Radical and Magisterial branches of the Reformation.

  • - Continuity and Change after a Decade of Majority Rule
    av Dan Henk
    591 - 1 039,-

    In 1994, with the advent of majority rule, the new South African government faced the hopeful, yet sobering task of negotiating the country's past while crafting its future. This book explores the significant historical and ideological obstacles overcome, and the rehabilitation of the arms industry to contribute to the country's redevelopment.

  • - James K. Polk and the Patronage
    av John Devoti
    502 - 926,-

    James K Polk is described as a spoilsman who appointed officers based upon their party affiliation rather than their qualifications. This book asserts that Polk followed an existing pattern of nomination that dated back to the beginning of the republic, in which the chief executives looked to qualifications first and loyalty to the party second.

  • - McArabism, al-Jazeera, and Transnational Media in the Arab World
    av Khalil Rinnawi
    573 - 997,-

    Discusses the role of Arab transnational media in the emergence of pan-Arabism. This book explores the emergence of McArabism, a pan-Arab identity representing the convergence of local tribal identities with globalization and McArabism's impact on Arab society, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and various representations of the West and the Arab World.

  • av Svetlana Magayeva & Albert Pleysier
    530 - 997,-

    In 1941, German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. During the 900 days of the siege, Leningrad was beset with aerial bombings, fuel shortages, and extreme starvation. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old in 1941, witnessed these raids and endured the cold and hunger. This is her story.

  • av Louay M. Safi
    785,-

    Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World provides an alternative reading of Middle Eastern politics and political culture by focusing on the dynamics of change, and examining the role of Islam in the emerging modern Middle East.

  • - Congress and the Erosion of Local Governance in the District of Columbia
    av Michael K. Fauntroy
    771 - 1 308,-

    This book presents a political analysis of the relationship between Congress and the local government of Washington, D.C. It examines the influence of suburban members of Congress on District affairs, the fiscal crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, governmental inefficiency, and the Control Board.

  • - Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry During the Nonunion Era
    av Jonathan Rees
    969

    Managing the Mills reconstructs the management culture of this industry and shows how it interacted with the economics of steelmaking to shape particular labor policies like the twelve-hour day, welfare capitalism and the use of spies in the workplace.

  • - A Reflection on Hannah Arendt and Evil
    av Cornelis Van Hattem
    686 - 1 110,-

  • - A Friendship Model of Ministry as a Mediating Structure
    av Stuart Thomas Wilson
    545,-

    Many classical as well as modern models of ministry appear to stress either a Christian identity or secular relevance. However, both qualities are essential to a comprehensive model of ministry. The author presents a friendship model of ministry that is both traditionally faithful and worldly pertinent.

  • - A Literary and Theological Commentary on Mark 8:22-9:13
    av Kevin W. Larsen
    757 - 1 181,-

    This book is a verse-by-verse commentary that examines Mark 8:22-9:13, and concludes that these three episodes form the transition point-from dealing with Jesus' identity to his mission.

  • - A Study of the Kantian and Pragmatic Background of Niebuhr's Thought
    av Joseph S. Pagano
    728 - 1 110,-

    Previous studies of H. Richard Niebuhr's intellectual background have fallen into two groups: those that stress the German and especially Kantian sources of Niebuhr's thought, and those that emphasize the American and especially pragmatic sources of his thought.

  • - A Meta-Ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos
    av William W. Stein
    1 308,-

  • - The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh
    av Jackson K. Putnam
    969 - 1 407,-

    Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation.

  • av Edward C. Sembor
    785,-

    An Introduction to Connecticut State and Local Government is a timely, comprehensive, and well-referenced college level text for political science courses focused on state and local government. Author Edward Sembor covers the major governmental institutions and actors found at the state and local levels in Connecticut.

  • - Introduction to the Mathematics of Interest, Annuities, and Insurance
    av Kenneth Kaminsky
    785 - 1 082,-

  • - Matthew Ajuoga's Johera Narrative
    av George F. Pickens
    827 - 1 167,-

  • av Carl Q. Christol
    827 - 912,-

  • - Essays on the Black South, 1733-1990
    av Alton & Jr. Hornsby
    785 - 1 308,-

    Southerners, Too? challenges the view that 'southern heritage' refers to white southerners only by revealing that, historically and culturally, African-Americans have been integral to southern life and history.

  • av Robert A. Schneider
    516 - 714,-

    Basic Statistics for Social Workers covers descriptive and inferential statistics at an introductory level. Using examples from social work, the text covers single-subject analysis, as well as multiple regression. The mathematics is presented in a simple user-friendly manner.

  • av Ruth N. Sandberg
    870

    In Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, Ruth Sandberg analyzes ten biblical commandments and their interpretations in classical and medieval rabbinic sources. These texts reveal that the process of Jewish law is one of both development and discontinuity, in which biblical law can be enlarged upon and expanded, or conversely, be contracted, restricted, or even eliminated entirely.

  • - Pope John Paul II, Lonergan and Japanese Buddhism
    av John Raymaker
    728,-

    In "Empowering the Lonely Crowd", John Raymaker explores and compares John Paul II and Lonergan's thought in relation to (Japanese) Buddhism, concluding that while all life has a coded genome, all humans have a free, uncoded spiritual genome that is a viable alternative to postmodern skepticism.

  • - A Case Study of Role Orientations of Legislators, the President, and Interest Groups
    av La Trice M. Washington
    813 - 1 252,-

    This book chronicles the evolution of veteran's entitlement programs from 1636 through the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999. The primary purpose of the book is to identify and explain role orientations of legislators in Congress, the President and Interest Groups in the formulation and enactment of the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999.

  • - Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries
    av Rocco Coronato
    728 - 1 181,-

  • - A History of Catholicism in North Carolina
    av William F. Powers
    742 - 1 407,-

  • - At the Expense of Spain and the Hispanic-American Countries
    av Ramiro Guerra y Sanchez
    1 209,-

  • - The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, and China
    av John J. Metzler
    799,-

    Presenting a review of the unification policies of separated nations, this study relates a brief historical capsule of each part of the divided country, presents the socio/economic dynamic of the divide, and offers a political synthesis of future unification options.

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