Comparative category: 2220 books
Crafting Courts in New Democracies
The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Brazil and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The role of Latin American courts in facilitating democracy and economic liberalization is considerable. But while national 'high courts' have been closely studied, the form, function, and empowerment of local courts are still not well understood. In Crafting Courts in New Democracies, Matthew C....
by Matt Owens Rees
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
How a Thai Christian considered the work of the early missionaries in Thailand and how its limited success was caused by a failure to fully understandThai culture and the Thai people
References to a doctoral thesis
Awkward Embrace
The United States and China in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
In AN AWKWARD EMBRACE, Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America’s economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and details what needs to happen for this trend to continue. But Blumenthal, a former official specializing in Asia at the Department...
Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development
A Case Study of Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This study is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of fiscal adjustment between a province or a state and its municipalities–a pressing problem throughout Canada and the United States and in many other countries in view of the great disparities in the revenue-raising capacity of municipalities,...
by Tibor Scitovsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This general introduction to the theory of money and of balance of payments adjustment was originally published in 1969. It was the first book to pay full attention to the theory of assets: the relation of the supply of assets to the demand for holding them and the significance of asset movements...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational...
Grand Central Question
Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
All religions and worldviews seek to answer the fundamental questions of human existence: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil in the world and how do we deal with it? But not every worldview places equal emphasis on each issue. The main worldviews each tend to stress a...
Do We Worship the Same God?
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Often the differences between the three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- seem more obvious than their commonalities, leading to the question "Do we worship the same God?" Can the answer be "yes" without denying our differences?
This volume brings...
An Introduction to Christian Worldview
Pursuing God's Perspective in a Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Everyone has a worldview. A worldview is the lens through which we interpret the cosmos and our lives in it. A worldview answers the big questions of life: What is our nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our End? As Anderson, Clark, and Naugle point out, our worldview cannot simply...
The Quest for God and the Good
World Philosophy as a Living Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre Hadot, The Quest...
Formations of the Secular
Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend...
What Do The Religions Say About Each Other?
Christian Attitudes Towards Islam Islamic Attitudes Towards Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
As a result of Islamic terrorism many people—including some in high places—have quickly come to the conclusion that Islam is a religion of violence and, as such, is the sworn enemy of Christianity and the Western way of life. This may be understandable, but the matter is not quite so simple. This...
by Christian A. Van Gorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian Van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to the experience of Christians and other non-Muslims in Iran throughout history and into the present day. Van Gorder gives a fascinating account of the...