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This work takes a critical look at the adjustment problems as experienced by African students at public universities in America and provides these students with information to assist in the smooth transition into the American academic community.

In Analysis of Experience Muhiuddin Haider and Ahila Subramanian examine the landscape and benchmarks of HIV/AIDS PPP programs. Haider and Subramanian's study provides effective protocols that will ensure quality service in these programs, while giving insight to global health and business professionals engaged in mutually beneficial enterprises.

In Nation-States, Richard Lee Hough interprets the role of the nation-state, analyzing the factors that impinge on its viability and correcting the present tilt in numerous commentaries positing, or prophesying, its decline. Hough seeks to balance, or refute those, who in various ways, see the degeneration of the modern nation-state.

The brilliant Hegelian philosopher Alexandre Kojève remains among the most enigmatic figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Although a highly systematic thinker, he left no systematic presentation of his thought. His most important book deceptively appears to be a mere secondary work on Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit; most of his nine books and many essays have not even appeared in English. This brief, lucid study takes the reader to the heart of Kojève's philosophical project.

In this book, Jing Luo provides a comprehensive and insightful introduction to Chinese life and culture. Designed for use as a college text, Luo's examination combines traditional culture, contemporary culture, and communicative protocols in daily life and business to provide a broad context that helps the reader gain a theoretical and practical understanding of the Chinese world.

In this account of his struggle with manic depressive disorder, Corrington presents an arguement for rethinking the nature of this malady. He represents one person's triumph over a potentially crippling disease and shows that the quest for wholeness can support the struggle with manic-depression.

The purpose of this valuable book is to consider recent cultural trends in bioethics from a Catholic perspective. Bioethics is intended for a lay audience interested in understanding bioethical issues from a Catholic perspective.

This work explores the conflicts within colonial American Presbyterianism, providing a new explanation for the schism of the Presbyterian Church in 1741.

This edition of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Politische Ideale (1915) reveals the historical significance of Chamberlain in German conservative political philosophy. Contrasting the vital nationalistic state with the sterile commercialism of liberal democracies, moral freedom with the unruly selfishness of democratic parties, and the decaying culture of the Anglo-Saxon peoples with the relatively pure Teutonic, Chamberlain evokes in this work, with the deftest of strokes, the principal elements of a genuinely conservative state. Apart from studying the salient points of Chamberlain's political doctrine of state-formation, the Introduction to this translation surveys the Prussian intellectual antecedents of Chamberlain, Paul de Lagarde and Heinrich von Treitschke. The works also examines the legacy of Chamberlain's political thought in the Neoconservatism and Prussianism of the Weimar conservatives, Oswald Spengler, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Edgar Julius Jung, as well as in the work of the National Socialist ideologue, Alfred Rosenberg.

This book is designed to provide true democratic management practices as a viable alternative for establishing sustainable total quality with liberty and equality and to become competitive.

Big city mayors rank among the most powerful and colorful politicians in America. Yet few books focus on the leadership challenges the occupants of the office face. Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership examines twelve case studies of mayoral leadership in seven cities, from the New Deal era to the beginning of the 21st century.

Deals with the life of Henry Wilson, one of the important figures of the middle third of the 19th Century, till the time of the Civil War. Among this biography's concerns are the antislavery movement, economic development, the rise of a working class politcian in an aristocratic-controlled state, prohibition, and Massachusetts state history.

This book is designed to show how the integration of social learning can improve social skills of young African American males. The importance of early intervention is also stressed.

The Cambridge Platonists is written with students and novice theologians in mind. It provides context as well as description, while outlining the most representative ideas of the school with clarity and brevity. This introduction will meet the needs of many readers, but for those beginning a study of the works of the Cambridge Platonists, the Eight Letters of Dr. Antony Tuckney and Dr. Benjamin Whichcote not only provide a logical starting point, in that they present the most characteristic ideas of Whichcote-arguably, the Cambridge Platonists' founding member-but also help to clarify what sets this school of religious thought apart from contemporary Puritan theology, as represented by Tuckney. This is the first complete edition of the Eight Letters since their original publication in 1753, now rendered accessible to readers without knowledge of classical languages.

Here for the first time a reader can understand The Great Gatsby as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote it.

The first part of this study explores the roots of the land tenure system in Iran. The second part of the book examines the period from 1961, when the land reform program began, to 1981, when Iran saw the beginning of the Islamic system.

In Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media, Charles Ess collects contemporary scholarship to address the question, what does critical thinking about the Bible mean as the Bible is "transmediated" from print to electronic formats?

China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals.

This book holds that trauma and affects of child trauma can be countered by positive reinforcement as described in the SAI Educare Programs. The book also assesses the internal Body-Mind-Spirit connection, critical phases of child development, and parental skills development.

This volume is a collection of essays written over the last ten years within the framework of a post-Shoah Christian theology, outlined in Christian Theology After the Shoah (University Press of America, 1993). The essays take seriously the impact of the Shoah and the Jewish-Christian dialogue, covering fresh approaches to sacred texts, new visions for Jewish-Christian relations, and giving insight into significant global issues. Through this, a vision for the future with a theology rooted in dialogue is shaped. Author James F. Moore contends such a theology, with a unique sense of relationships and ethical vision, will produce a new, unified dialogical community, professing its own theology and moral vision.

Notebook of a Native Washingtonian is Gilbert Hahn's follow-up to The Notebook of an Amateur Politician (and How He Began the D.C. Subway) (Lexington Books, 2002). A Washington lawyer for over fifty years, Hahn has had a lifetime interest in the welfare of the District of Columbia and his fellow Washingtonians. This book chronicles Hahn's social and political life as a native Washingtonian.

This book explores the classroom climate for female graduate teaching assistants and discusses the hostility and devaluation that they experience by their students.

Sisters Around the World, based on author Trudie M. Eklund's extensive travels, is a diverse compilation of the gender-specific struggles of women among the many diverse cultures around the world. Through providing an in-depth examination of both the triumphs and tribulations of women around the globe, this book brings new awareness to gender inequality and promotes greater understanding of ethnic diversity.

This insightful study offers the first comprehensive overview of the theology and praxis of Roman Catholic theologian Heribert Muhlen.

This thought-provoking work examines American Catholic theologian John Courtney Murray, whose beliefs featured an enthusiastic endorsement of America and thorough condemnation of communism, in the context of the Cold War debates of the 1950s.

First, Do No Unjust Harm provides a practical framework for identifying evil and other forms of immorality. In response to the common observation that so much wrong seems to be perpetrated in the name of doing good, Pletz has taken on the task of clarifying the manner in which careful judgments and decisions about evil should be made.

This study examines the acquisition of phonological duration contrast in Japanese, and aims to contribute to second language acquisition theory from the viewpoint of interlanguage phonology. Acoustic techniques are used to investigate the mechanisms of English-speaking learners' speech perception and production.

As a means of documenting teacher growth and development, Primer to Developing a Successful Pre-Service Teacher Portfolio serves as an invitation to pre-service teachers, to the portfolio world. Authors James Takona and Roberta Wilburn provide a foundational understanding of the principles and practice of developing and using a portfolio in teacher education.

Refining of civilization over the centuries has not diminished the rages and ravages of evil. In this book, Dr. Ficarra presents like a legal citation, evil versus good. The message of the book is the best way to combat evil is to understand its perilous side effects, painful complications, and degrading aftermaths.

This book is designed for educated laity and students of psychology interested in how Christian beliefs relate to findings in psychological research. Each chapter covers an important component of psychological research, followed by at least one response/critique from another scholar.