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  • av John C.S. Kim
    1 011,-

    Offers a way for each reader to find their own creative approach to resolving the riddles of life. The author examines critical issues facing individuals today, and challenges the reader to determine the nature of the complex problems which stem from the lack of a moral foundation to life.

  • - Crises in Faith and Modern Medicine
    av John T. Chirban
    870

    This book presents five controversial issues that stir conflicts about moral decisions in our time. John Chirban draws upon resources of specific faith traditions. He provides case discussion and considers numerous interdisciplinary perspectives, arguing an interdependent approach for addressing these current ethical issues.

  • av Lawrence N. Houston
    742

    This book demonstrates how the basic body of knowledge in psychology can be applied to the experiences and behavior of blacks, as differentiated from those of whites. The author begins with a brief description of African culture, discusses the slave trade, and presents a sketch of the initial experiences of other ethnic groups in the United States.

  • - Topics and Theories
    av Sutti Ortiz
    1 025,-

  • - Issues, Paradox and Solutions
    av Agyemang Attah-Poku
    516 - 1 025,-

    This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. This volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painful paradox of Africa's reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources.

  • - The Empirical Research and the Supreme Court Challenge
    av Dr. Paul Lambert
    714 - 1 478,-

    The courts have had to deal with the increasing amount of technology. Televised courtroom broadcasting especially remains an issue. Despite three Supreme Court cases on this issue, the common thread between the cases has not been highlighted. This book analyzes these cases and the effects broadcasting has on the courts.

  • - The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida
    av Blair Miller
    437 - 841,-

    Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise and fall of Jacksonville in early silent films.

  • av Ana Maria Klein
    437 - 502

    This book is written for teacher-candidates who are becoming culturally responsible and informed reflective practitioners. As readers explore the contents of the textbook and carry out the suggested teaching and learning exercises, they will find themselves equipped with a toolkit for addressing multicultural education concerns.

  • - A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
    av Anna Bennett
    516 - 940,-

    The Power Paradox reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Bennett identifies fascinating contradictions within discourses of power and relational dynamics, acknowledging the enduring quandary of power struggles: we are all implicated within them.

  • - Private Memoirs of a Former Jesuit
    av J. Richard Murray
    530 - 686,-

    This touching memoir is a very human introduction to living faith by a young man who was part of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) for nearly twelve years. The book culminates with J. Richard Murray's decision to leave the Society in 1956.

  • - Educating Multicultural College Students
    av Abul Pitre & Terence Hicks
    601 - 1 252,-

    The book provides quantitative and qualitative research studies regarding African American, first-generation, undecided, and non-traditional college students. The book includes important recommendations for university administrators, faculty, and staff in supporting the academic, personal, and social adjustment of college life of various types of students.

  • - The Adventure of a Friendship
    av Emilio Bonicelli
    502

    This book tells the story of Enzo Piccinini, a brilliant surgeon and a truly inspirational figure. Enzo was one of the most resolute proponents of contemporary Catholicism and led many to embrace Catholicism wholeheartedly. His warm spirit and devotion to Christ will inspire you to lead a life of compassion.

  • - The World of The English Patient
    av Don Meredith
    573 - 1 237,-

    Part travelogue, part literary study, Varieties of Darkness is Don Meredith's account of his exploration of Michael Ondaatje's fascinating literary masterpiece The English Patient. Meredith mines the places, the real-life counterparts of the characters, and the curious creative mind of Ondaatje to offer fresh insights into the novel .

  • - Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant
    av Thomas Janoski & Darina Lepadatu
    516 - 1 096,-

    This book reveals the dynamics of gender, race and age as American workers at a Japanese auto factory actually experience it for themselves. This methodical case study exposes the rhetoric of diversity to the realities and pressures of lean production in a blue collar environment.

  • - After the Nightmare
    av Iyorwuese H. Hagher
    502

    Nigeria After the Nightmare/I is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the countryOs thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state.

  • - A Pastor Rethinks the Age-Old Problem
    av Rev Jill Mcnish
    516,-

  • - Learning on the Front Lines as a Peace Corps Volunteer
    av Michael L. Buckler
    573 - 1 153,-

    This book recounts Buckler's life in the Peace Corps after a heartbreaking divorce and demanding career prompt him to make a change. Assigned to a village school in Malawi, Buckler opens his home to three boys, embarking with them on a journey of cross-cultural discovery, personal sacrifice, and transformative growth.

  • - How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States
    av Emeka Aniagolu
    785 - 1 252,-

    Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the history of the United States, concluding that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States.

  • - Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
    av Kim Richardson
    545 - 1 025,-

    This book explores the complicated, multi-faceted uprising by analyzing its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of foodstuffs, the forced implementation of this new metric system, fear of being drafted into the military and, finally, the imprisonment of two of the leading bishops in Brazil, known as the Religious Question.

  • - Fifty Resilient Students Speak
    av Erik E. Morales & Frances K. Trotman
    437 - 856,-

    This extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon, detailing the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. The book chronicles specific protective factors and processes in the students' lives and several symbiotic relationships between groups of protective factors.

  • - A Revolutionary Quest for Unity and Security
    av Juan Romero
    629 - 1 174,-

    This book advances the argument that the events of July 14, 1958, when Iraqi military officers overthrew the British-installed Iraqi monarchy, constituted simultaneously as a coup and a revolution for a number of reasons, including military involvement, popular participation, and policies that radically departed from those of the previous regime.

  • - The Secret Destiny of the American Empire
    av Patrick Mendis
    601 - 1 252,-

    Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's "Universal Empire" through Hamilton's "Federalism" realizes Jefferson's "Empire of Liberty." The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum.

  • - A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics
    av Marn Jai Cha
    629 - 1 252,-

    This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in the early 20th century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).

  • - The Story of Twentieth-Century American Ambassadors to France
    av Craig Roberts Stapleton & Louise French McCready
    587 - 1 082,-

    This collection of biographies of twentieth-century U.S. ambassadors to France explores their personal and professional lives, highlighting accomplishments and challenges in Franco-American relations and world history. These men demonstrated courage, intelligence, and character in their attempts to encourage French cooperation in furthering joint diplomatic goals and ideals of peace.

  • - Multinational Corporations and the Pressure to Disinvest from South Africa
    av Mzamo P. Mangaliso
    601 - 1 167,-

    This book provides an inside perspective of how multinational corporations dealt with the pressure to withdraw from South Africa in the 1980s. By providing a robust conceptual scaffolding of environmental uncertainty, the book empirically demonstrates how extra-organizational environmental forces can affect strategic choices and, therefore, performance outcomes.

  • - Its Theological Dimensions
    av Jack Shechter
    629 - 1 252,-

    This book explores the relationship between God, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel, bringing clarity to issues of great moment - both in the past and in our time. The author's analyses are rooted in Biblical and rabbinic texts themselves, in addition to other scholarly disciplines that relate.

  • - Explaining the Myth of Rapid Economic Growth in China
    av Yangsheng Zhong
    644,-

    This book is about the economics of developing countries' rise, based on the case of China and focuses on economic growth theory. It features traditional political economics and Chinese characteristics of socialism to examine the great economic development achievements of China within such a short period of time.

  • - An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture
    av Carmine Gorga
    856,-

    This book transports the reader from the world of mainstream economics, in which the object of observation is The Market (exchange), to a world in which the object of observation is the economic process. Both producer and consumer must, respectively, be legitimate owners of real wealth and monetary wealth.

  • - A Biography
    av David W. Messer
    516 - 997,-

    This book tells the story of Henry Roe Cloud, the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His contributions to theological inquiry, the education of Native Americans, and the formulation of government policies contribute to his inclusion in any list of the most prominent Native Americans in history.

  • av Jack Child
    601 - 748,-

    This text, designed for a third or fourth year college Spanish course, presents the history, theory and practice of Spanish-to-English translation. The emphasis is on general material to be found in current journals and newspapers, with some specialized material from the fields of business, the social sciences, and literature.

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