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  • av Graeme Snooks
    686,-

    Explores the origin, development, and role of the self-conscious mind. Displacing the mind hypothesized by psychoanalytic, Darwinian, and complexity theorists, this book provides a perspective on human nature; the reasons for its continuing breakdown in a significant minority of the population; and on the surest road to mental recovery.

  • - British Volunteers in the Wars of Independence of Latin America
    av Moises Enrique Rodriguez
    1 096,-

  • - Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950
    av Walter T. Howard
    771 - 1 110,-

    This detailed investigation of Communists and their Party in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania draws on sources such as the central archives of the Communist Party of the United States to examine the origins, growth, and decline of the relatively small but active Marxist-Leninist organization that operated there during the first half of the 20th century.

  • - Building Post-Communist Government Performance
    av Laura Brunell
    742

    Institutional Capital documents and explores the new forms of relationships developing between local governments and organized elements of civil society in post-Communist Poland.

  • av Robert P. Abele
    559 - 997,-

    A Users Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act and Beyond examines the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, passed by Congress six weeks after the horrific events of September , .

  • - Family and Community, the Victims of Isolated Poverty
    av James G. Banks & Peter S. Banks
    573 - 1 025,-

    The Unintended Consequences describes the tremendous impact of housing policy, which oftentimes discourages communities and inhibits family stability. The book traces housing history from the Victorian Era in London to the present. It gives special attention to Washington, D.C., presenting various grassroots programs that have grown to provide community support in severely impoverished areas.

  • av Samuel Gregg
    728 - 1 124,-

    Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded provides an introduction to what has been called 'the economic way of thinking,' which explains some of the critical concepts and foundational assumptions employed in economics.

  • - A Study in Slavery and Language
    av Gary C. Fouse
    827 - 1 336,-

  • av Leslie Carbone & Teresa R. Wagner
    686,-

    In 1950, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the resolve of the UN to abide by the Declaration has waned. These essays offer reflections on the UN's past performance, as well as ideas for its future role in human rights protection.

  • - Charting the Dean's Career Through the Language of His Characters
    av Gregory J. Stratman
    742 - 1 068,-

  • - A History of the Idea of Human Rights and Comparison of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States Federal and State Constitutions
    av Joseph Wronka
    827,-

  • - From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom
    av Frederick A. Johnson & Leonard L. Bethel
    1 181,-

    Through oral history and participant observation, this book attempts to unfold the story of what really occurred in the development of northeastern American towns and cities through the events that took place in Plainfield, New Jersey.

  • - The Simple Analytics of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
    av Nicholas Mercuro
    983

  • av Kenneth W. Thompson
    813,-

  • - Charting the Changing Status of African Americans, Inaugural Edition, Vol. I
    av Billy Tidwell
    601

  • av Evans Lansing Smith
    1 195,-

    This text provides an overview of the hero journey theme in literature, from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the imagery of the rites of passage in human life. Included are chapters on Greek and Roman literature, Arthurian Romance, Shakespeare, Bronte and Joyce.

  • - Harding, Denby, and the U.S. Navy's Trans-Pacific Offensive, World War II
    av Manley R. Irwin
    545 - 672,-

    This book argues that President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby exercised unusual foresight in preparing the navy for a war against Japan. This revised edition adds new evidence from original documents provides invaluable details and insights into the lasting legacy of the Harding administration.

  • - A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity
    av Tomoko Iwasawa
    545 - 1 153,-

    This book attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting an innovative interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japanese myth, the Kojiki. Iwasawa offers new insights into Japanese mythology regarding the relationship between the human and the divine.

  • - Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812
    av Stuart L. Butler
    785 - 1 690

    This book describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, looking specifically at how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. It discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance, and how the state financed the war.

  • - How Chile Became a Free and Prosperous Society
    av James Rolph Edwards
    437 - 799,-

    Painful Birth discusses how Chile escaped becoming a communist state in the late 1970s and transformed into a free and prosperous society. It narrates the events and explains the economic policies, institutional transformation, and ideological change involved, providing an invaluable case study in economics, international relations, and Latin American development.

  • av Ami R. Moore
    437 - 799,-

    This book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. During interviews with Moore, they reported that their lives in the United States had been, at best, incomplete. However, aware of the benefits of migration, they were willing to endure any challenges.

  • - The Work of Historian Mark Haller
    av Mark H. Haller
    502 - 940,-

    Representing over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller's critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy.

  • - Howard Baker Leads the Senate 1977-1984
    av Michael P. Bobic
    559,-

    This book explores Howard Baker's ability to lead the United States Senate at a time when it was divided by partisanship and ideology in an effort to inform current Senate leadership.

  • - Narrative Strategies
    av Ajit Maan
    421 - 799,-

    Counter-Terrorism makes a connection, unique to terrorism studies, between the mechanisms of colonizing narratives and psychological warfare aimed at recruitment. There is an urgent need to understand the narrative tactics of terrorist recruitment and an equal if not greater need to destabilize and exploit the weaknesses of those narratives.

  • - How Genesis Supports Darwin
    av Joseph Fitzpatrick
    573,-

    In this groundbreaking work, Joseph Fitzpatrick challenges the traditional interpretation of chapter three of Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve in Eden. Fitzpatrick claims that this story is actually a symbolic tale about the ascent of a hominid couple to full human consciousness.

  • - The Death of Global Missions
    av Chester Williams
    516 - 1 025,-

    Last Call for the African-American Church revisits the commandment Jesus left his followers to proclaim the gospel worldwide until his return, one that by all accounts is no longer a priority in the contemporary African-American church.

  • - An Appraisal of Reasoned Free Will
    av Luder Deecke & Hans Helmut Kornhuber
    502 - 856,-

    In The Will and its Brain, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Luder Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional actions. They claim that we have free will, albeit not absolutely free, but realized in degrees of freedom.

  • av Kit W. Wesler
    516 - 1 252,-

    An Archaeology of Religion challenges traditional conventions by refusing to respect the geographic and temporal boundaries with which archaeologists too often define their field. This book is an ambitious attempt to survey how scholars approach the identification of religious sites and practices in the archaeological record.

  • av Christopher E. S. Warburton
    573,-

    The Evolution of Crises and Underdevelopment in Africa, explores the impact of historical, political, economic, and international legal influences on Africa since colonialism. The study focuses on the four troubled African nations of Sierra Leone, Congo Democratic Republic, Sudan, and the Republic of Congo.

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