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Designed for middle and high school students, this work offers answers to 94 student-generated questions about the Holocaust and WWII and develops key themes to help students and educators understand both the content and the overall timeframe of events.

This book argues that human beings do indeed have the fundamental, unalienable rights to their lives, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and so forth -- indeed, to do whatever they will that does not violate the rights of others (even if the exercise of their rights isn't wise, prudent, or civil).

The Comedy of War is an overview of military politics, strategy, and the causes of war utilizing books and films as source texts:The Art of War by Sun Tzu, on War by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, and The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss; (the films) Antz and A Bug's Life. This work offers systematic interpretations of what goes on before and after war, and the political and strategic implications of warfare. It provides interesting and plausible explanations for the contentious relationship of military officers and civilian leaders, ultimately questioning what happens when the definitions of military and civilian activities become blurred.

Addresses one of the most urgent problems in the US educational system - Latino under-achievement. This work gives a solution to this problem: Selective Cultural Adoption (SCA), a method that enables Latinos to retain meaningful characteristics of their culture while adopting key aspects of the Anglo-American culture that will help them succeed.

Presents a comprehensive survey and assessment of the field of social and political philosophy. This book explores the basic arguments of the most important historical and contemporary figures including Ancient Greek, modern theories of communitarianism, social contract, feminism, postmodernsim, Marxism, and theories of communicative actions.

Examines the level and quality of the international community's response to extreme poverty. This work traces the ethical and religious underpinnings of social welfare policy; describes income support systems in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere; and proposes a fresh strategy for reducing global poverty.

This work provides clear answers to difficult moral and social issues that we face in our personal lives-that governments need to address when balancing the interests of the community. By demystifying moral discourse, How to Live provides a clear moral pathway for students of philosophy, medicine, and law, as well as the general reader. The moral framework of How to Live is developed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The culmination presents a forward-thinking theory that will maximize the success and happiness of the individual and the community within a society.

Unwanted and Not Included is a critical response to the social, political, and racial concerns that affect Mexican Americans. In a series of essays, Julian Camacho examines who the Mexican Americans are, and more importantly, what differentiates them from Whites, Blacks, Asians, and other immigrants from Latin America.

This book is instrumental for anyone learning Japanese who seeks to gain a firm grasp of the most important aspect of the language: verb usage. Dr. Nomura's book will help readers conjugate verbs into a variety of formats, construct sentences systematically, and hold intelligible conversation in Japanese.

16th Century Netherlands was the site of some of the earliest instances of pre-reformation religious dissent. During the 1520s, no figure head led the movement in the Netherlands; instead six theological tracts by six individual scholars voiced religious dissent. This book studies the role of the Netherlands in the Protestant Reformation.

A guide for high school teachers who want to use writing as a teaching tool in any discipline. It provides instructional materials for generating and structuring writing, guidance for developing writing assignments and for evaluating writing, and sample syllabi and assignments.

Contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. This book challenges the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, antiquity, and the medieval era.

This book states the great need to sit down face to face and attentively listen to stories, experiences, and feelings of patients. These bedside encounters with patients can well inform the preacher and can result in more effective liturgical preaching in hospitals, hospice, prison, and nursing home settings.

Societal Suicide is a cultural-racial analysis of the enduring legacy called Animus Americana, which affects the psyche of Mexicans in the United States, specifically Los Angeles. This work is a compilation of factors, experiences, and realities that make a person suicidal both from a societal and familial perspective. This timely and deeply personal exploration into the roots of suicidal tendencies in Mexicans living in the United States is a revealing study of culture, assimilation, social pressures, and identity.

The Mystical Theology of the Catholic Reformation offers a comprehensive overview and panorama of the Baroque achievement in Scholastic philosophy, systematics, positive theology, scriptural exegesis, and sacred oratory. The principal theme focuses on the spirituality of the religious orders (with special attention on their Baroque representatives), in particular to the 'major orders of the Baroque age-the Jesuits, Oratorians, and Carmelites.

Empirical evidence shows that cooperation works better than competition and that cooperatives succeed more often than standard corporations. Poverty is actually eliminated through a combination of microfinance and cooperation. This book provides a vision of true globalization and a just and sustainable world. The 'how-to' is right here.

A translation of "Beowulf", which aims at rendering it closely from Anglo-Saxon (Old English) verse while maintaining its poetic qualities. The work also features chapters that present the basic facts, findings, and theories concerning "Beowulf", genealogies of relevant royal families, a map of the geography of Beowulf, and a list of readings.

This book explores 2,000 years of Latin American history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer. The interdisciplinary approach to Latin America focuses on the way the region has related to the United States.

What is racism? How and why did it happen? How can we be rid of racism? This book is a journey into the roots of racism. It reviews some of the historical milestones related to racism such as, the slave trade, American slavery, pseudo-scientific racism, and cultural divide, through a Christian evangelical lens.

Considers the mother-daughter bond through maternal storytelling or narrative and the Motherline. Using counter-narratives to patriarchal framings of family, this co-edited volume talks about the power of women educators telling and reading their stories as a means of self-discovery, empowerment, and, ultimately, cultural transformation.

Explores the changing relationship between African Americans and whites on US College and University campuses. This book investigates and chronicles the tension and social distance felt between African Americans and whites in higher-education community. It is for undergraduate and graduate students, and experts in this field.

On Organizational Citizenship is a unique application of classic political philosophy and metaphysics to organizational theory. Using this new and highly integrative approach to organizations and organizational behavior, this book proposes that organizations have a constitutional structure rather than a culture, and that much of the traditional role of government in society has shifted from the state to the corporation. On Organizational Citizenship examines the implications of organizational citizenship and how this shift might redefine the role of national government.

This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. It thus concludes that merchant-state dualism is the most suitable model for explaining contemporary Chinese government-business relations.

Based on a three-year ethnographic study, this book traces the operations of three high-school newspaper programs in Southern California: one serving a working-class Latino population and two serving primarily Caucasian and upper-middle class students. Seeds of Cynicism explores the differences in educators'' approaches toward young journalists in each school, including their use of professional standards to explain issues of newspaper ethics, fair play, and sensationalism. The success or failure of school newspapers is based on a multiplicity of factors that influence student motivationΓÇöfrom each teacher''s level of interest in journalism to financial issues to the top school officials'' attitudes about journalism. This timely study finds that two of the three schools actually may increase student disinterest in news and politics in an era when political interest and newspaper readership is waning.

This book applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. This work focuses on one aspect - Francis' imagination - and an analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of Object Relations Theory.

Collects how Israelite Scripture was received and recast in the language community that produced the dual Torah of Judaism. This book uses the case of Jeremiah in the Rabbinic canon of the formative age to examine the Rabbinic documents response to the prophetic ones in terms of how they select, explain, and utilize the language of Scripture.

Enemies of the Bay Colony offers a narrative history of Puritan New England from its beginnings through the Great Awakening of the mid-18th Century. This newly expanded and revised edition features two new chapters on the Salem Witchcraft frenzy of 1692 and an account of the Pequot War and the death of Narragansett sachem, Miantonomo. In addition to the two new chapters, Enemies of the Bay Colony has been updated to include recent scholarship.

Tracing the inner-depths of the short fiction of Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty, Beyond and Alone addresses the common theme of isolation in their works and the authors' treatment of universal human and social problems.

In recent years, the phenomenon of allusion has attracted increasing attention in scholarly study of the Hebrew Bible. The Mouth of the Lord Has Spoken is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of allusions in Isaiah 40-66. Author Risto Nurmela explores how allusions are identified through verbal similarities in biblical passages and how this information is used to prove that the similarities are the result of literary dependence. This work independently scrutinizes the verbal similarities between Isaiah 40-55 and the rest of the Hebrew Bible and Isaiah 56-66 and the rest of the Hebrew Bible. The Mouth of the Lord Has Spoken is an important contribution to the ongoing discussion of allusions in the Hebrew Bible.

Presents a comprehensive historical narrative and economic statistical analysis of France's import trade with the Far East during the 17th and 18th centuries. This work is supplemented with an appendix that includes a glossary of textile terms and 77 pages of statistical data, which have been collected from French archives.