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Teaching Narratives and Reading Comprehension to African American and other Ethnic Minority Students

This book examines the Persian Gulf region in the post-Cold War international environment. Each country in the region is discussed.

This work focuses on the Black family and the patterns of socialization within it. It validates the role of "responsible" fathers and provides empirical evidence that responsible fathers will make a positive difference in the lives of Black youth.

This work commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Worcester Municipal Research Bureau, a non-profit organisation which conducts non-partisan research on issues facing Worcester's municipal government. The essays focus on the shift of power from federal and state governments to the local level.

his book shows readers the reality of polio and how it alters human lives.

This book discusses how the competitive environment of Latin America's social life has facilitated religious innovation in different regional and national settings.

The Nature and Tasks of a Personalist Psychology explores the findings and tenets of personalist psychology. This collection of essays offers philosophies of the human person, of science, and of psychological practice.

This book offers those who engage in college student research a framework, tool, or guide for understanding the role that theory plays in research. It is organized around five major questions which address the essence of theory, central tenants and concepts of prevailing theories, and insights for future research.

The Psychology Industry Under a Microscope! explores why psychology treatment efficacy rates are so poor, why psychological testing is unreliable, and why diagnosis is uncertain. This thought-provoking book is essential for any clinician or teacher.

Explores Western culture while tracing its roots back to an ancient Proto-Indo-European homeland. The book explores ancient myth, the evidence of language history and the archaeological record and shows how the origin of Western civilization lies deeper than expected.

This book is the first to investigate the effect of the biblical Holy Land on American religious institutions, from early Puritanism in 1620 to Judaism in 1948. It explores the attachment between religious America and the Land of Israel from a pluralistic perspective, tracing the history of religion in America as it relates to the spiritual and geographical identity of the Holy Land.

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This book details the tragedy of our withdrawal from Haiti and summarizes through it the failure of our entire Latin American policy. In effect, the author states the Good Neighbor Policy of the Hoover-Roosevelt administrations became the Forgotten Neighbor Policy.

Emphasizing empirical research, this handbook will serve as a reference from the initial idea through the analysis of findings. Provides examples from a wide body of religious research. Describes major research approaches, bibliographic resources, study variables, questionnaire development, relevant tests, and introduces techniques of elementary descriptive statistical analysis.

A concise, personal account of the lives and views of major Western philosophers in their cultural context. The relaxed and witty style of Professor Kreyche's writing coaches students to a solid elementary understanding of key philosophical problems and solutions offered in classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy.

A selection of twenty-two narratives reprinted from William Jones' Ojibwa Texts.

A collection of essays designed to explore the nature and causes of misconceived and often misguided western attitudes towards the people and institutions of North Africa over a period of roughly one and a half centuries.

This second edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship by demonstrating the centrality of the ancestors' stool as the ultimate religious symbol among the Akan. All chapters have been expanded and a completely new chapter has been written for this edition.

Upstate New York is in a malaise and sociologists Alexander Thomas and Polly Smith wanted to know why. They take the reader on a tour of New York in order to diagnose the problems affecting the state and what can be done to address the issues.

This book is a reprint of the first publication of the complete manuscript of Pesiqta Rabbati, Volumes I-III (1997-2002), a major rabbinic work from the Land of Israel from the 5th-6th century.

"We hold these truths to be self evident..." An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America delves into the philosophical, historical, socio/cultural and political evolution of racism and slavery in America.

Arthur Borden's A Better Country demonstrates why America was right to confront Saddam Hussein. This book analyzes the public debate over Iraq to show how partisanship has obscured the purposes of the war effort and promoted a mistaken image of American power both domestically and abroad.

This is the second volume of a set of anthologies that sets forth the statements of the formative canon of influential Rabbinic Judaism on three large topics: the calendar, the life cycle, and theology. Focusing on the seminal period of normative Judaism, the editor Jacob Neusner presents in three parts the teachings of Rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, the first six centuries of the Common Era.