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This book explains why and how individuals (of all ages and levels of intelligence) and organizations act in ways that undermine their interests and even continued existence. A novel four-factor explanatory theory sheds light on a topic of universal interest: the everyday foolishness of humans.

This inspirational memoir will keep you chuckling, cheering, and biting your fingernails as you armchair-travel with a book-devouring, museum-hogging, food-savoring, fun-loving globe-trotter whose huge doses of optimism and humor helped her cope with several crises as she spent one academic year conducting field research in London.

New Lives of the Saints presents for the first time the works and work of many environmental apostles. It delights and inspires the reader to begin or continue to lead a life of environmental action for conservation and contemplation of nature for spiritual succor in the age of climate change.

The premise of Catastrophe and Hope is that every person connects the "dots" of his/her life with subjective significance. Similarly, connecting the "dots" of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, and Ruth, in this sequence, forges a pattern of "seeing" that moves gradually from catastrophe to resilience and hope.

In this book Philip Ranlet restores the truth of Cadwallader Colden's maligned career after more than two centuries of misrepresentations. Based upon extensive research from eighteenth century sources this book also serves as a complete re-evaluation of New York during this time.

This biography of Mayer Matalon traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his family's conglomerate. It is a story of race, class, and power in postcolonial Jamaica and of the island's political and economic trajectory over the sixty years before and after independence.

The history of Finland's Jews, from their origin as conscripts in the Russian army to their survival as cobelligerents with Nazi troops in WWII, is unique. This novel tells their unusual story and that of their adopted country through the experiences of three generations of one family.

In Donald J. Trump and China John F. Copper assesses the relationship between two paramount world powers-the United States and China. Copper examines how Donald Trump views China's importance as a rising world power and as a country that Trump could forge a balanced trade policy alongside.

In this important book a reasonable, biblically based epistemology is used to discuss the limits of argument and the role of religious knowing based on spirit. The book covers all major areas of apologetics, evaluating, critiquing, and reapplying the cultural apologetics of Schaeffer, Rookmaaker, and others.

A collection of short essays and stories, this book primarily focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Accompanied by the brilliant art of Salomon Huerta, the book re-frames, defends, and humanizes los de abajo (those on the bottom).

This book contends that the evolution of modern literary stage drama was an important aspect of the Chinese intellectual movement, transforming stage shows into messengers of social change, and instigated renovation of Chinese drama.

In this book, Irene Levin Berman tells the story of her father's heroic attempts to save the Jews of Norway, as well as hundreds of stateless refugees who escaped to Norway in the 1930s, from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. In 1962 Marcus Levin was awarded a Medal of Honor by King Olav of Norway for his efforts.

As part of the group that leads the consumer world, the global female consumer's perspective and complaints to Western corporations through computer-mediated communication tools is inefficient. This elevation of online communication conflict brings with it multiple intimidations and tests the global female's confidence.

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years reveals how a mother's loving fidelity to her son throughout his incarceration and after his release makes her an unintended victim of crime and punishment. Millions have lived this story, but Williams is the first to present it in print.

This book traces the revival of Chinese literature after China's reform in the 1980s, examining the literature and language portion of the College Entrance Examination (CEE) from 1954-2007 in order to show how the restoration of Classical literature in its original meaning has replaced literature that served Communist political ideology.

Plato's Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Plato's corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.

On Human Conflict excavates the philosophical foundations of war and peace in order to determine whether wars can ever be ended. It ranges over relevant mathematical models, Hobbes's natural philosophy, theories of causality, biological and cultural evolution, general systems theory, Buddhism, globalization, and futurology.

We cannot use language without having context in place. But context is not a single thing. Instead, typically, each use of language presupposes a complex set of beliefs, habits, behaviors, and moral commitments.

This collection of British diplomatic documents, Royal Navy reports of proceedings, and US naval intelligence weekly reports enhances our knowledge and understanding of the scope and depth of the Nanjing Massacre. This updated edition includes new annotations, six maps, new photos, and the USS Oahu December 1937 log book.

First-Generation College Student Research Studies offers uniquely designed chapters that are drawn from both quantitative and qualitative theoretical frameworks found in higher education. This edited volume is a must-read that contributes greatly to the research literature surrounding this student population.

In Spatializing Social Justice: Literary Critiques Maryann DiEdwardo uses seven literary critiques and seven reflections to share her newest research about the healing power of literature. DiEdwardo argues that literacy is the lifelong intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of written or printed text.

This book contains eight real-life accounts from Latinas in leadership positions in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture's expectations for them, and they describe the complexity of life choices for working Latinas, including their struggles in challenging such social assumptions.

Few scholars have taken an interest in how Israel has rationalized and defended its settlement policies through its use of Ottoman land laws combined with the Hague Regulations. This book provides a descriptive study of Israel's land policies.

In this book, Norman Kagan explores of the nature of comedy and helps readers discover why they are laughing, new reasons to laugh, and new films to that will offer a source of laughter.

This study of the parables of Jesus grasps the character and person of the Jesus of history. Readers will experience him as a flesh and blood person intimately immersed in and engaged with his world and the people of his world.

This book is a revelation and warning to the public and the healthcare community of the hidden impact and consequences of improperly confronting substance abuse within the nursing profession. It allows nurses to express in their own voices the risks and devastation of addiction and their journeys into recovery.

A biography of Francis I, the last Holy Roman Emperor and first Emperor of Austria, as well as a history of his times. The first biography in English of this mysterious, complex, and powerful personality whom Metternich and Radetzky called their master.

Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance acknowledges the fictional character of Nancy Drew as a role model for young women of the twenty-first century; an independent young woman, willing to take on injustices in her world. She is a sister of contemporary female detectives Veronica Mars and Jessica Jones.

Written for students, specialists, and a general audience, Claudia Moscovici's Holocaust Memories offers a series of more than sixty brief and informative reviews of Holocaust memoirs, fiction, histories and films.

Aspects of Playwork reflects the diversity of interpretations of what playwork is, from the historical to the almost sci-fi, from ghostly traces to the hard realities of working with children today. It is a commentary on the beauty and wonder of what play is, and what it is to play.