Comparative category: 2220 books
by Robert R. Prechter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Suppose you had a single framework that allowed you to understand why certain candidates win elections and why nations go to war. And why a country's internal politics can be peaceful one minute and beset with strikes, protests and terrorism the next. Such is the value of Socionomic Causality in Politics....
Dream Catchers
How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality,...
Why can't they get along?
A conversation between a Muslim, a Jew and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Christians, Muslims and Jews all stem from one man, Abraham, and yet relations between them are so often strained. Three men of faith: one Jew, one Muslim and one Christian debate the differences between them. The result is a compelling discussion: What do their faiths teach on the big issues of life?...
People of the Book
An Interfaith Dialogue about How Jews, Christians and Muslims Understand Their Sacred Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today? In this book, three experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam respectively discuss and debate this question, by exploring the core messages of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran. Taking a deeper look at the wide range of theological,...
Fictions of Conversion
Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the...
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Why did I leave the Jewish religion to follow Jesus? What are the strange traditions of the Jews? How do you witness to Jews about Jesus? Let the mysteries be unveiled and the truth be told!
by Bernard Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This is a brand new book with information which has never been published before.
For all those who love the Jewish people and have been yearning to find out more about their religion and way of life, for every Christian who loves Jesus and would like to learn more about His Jewish roots….
the...
Corporate Purpose
Why It Matters More Than Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ultimately...
Reason and Restitution
A Theory of Unjust Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall. That there exists a body of law dealing with liability for gains is now settled and the circumstances in which the law requires defendants to give up their gains are well documented in the work of unjust enrichment lawyers. The same cannot...
by Wlodzimierz Brus
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The volume focuses on the socio-political aspects of economic transformations in the Eastern European Socialist countries. Particular emphasis is laid on the problem of interrelations between the plan and the market and between economic incentives and social consumption. The volume also examines economic...
by Lung-chu Chen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
For a country of its size, Taiwan has a tremendous influence on world affairs and U.S. policy. The U.S.-Taiwan-China Relationship in International Law and Policy describes the central issues animating the dynamic U.S.-Taiwan-China relationship and the salient international and domestic legal issues...
by Jonathan Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Intellectual property law faces the challenge of balancing the interests of right holders and users in the face of technological change and inequalities in information access. Concepts of Property in Intellectual Property Law offers a collection of essays which reflect on the interaction between intellectual...
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
A Sociology of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles...
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe
The Paradox of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are aimed primarily at the long-term unemployed, unemployed youth, lone parents, immigrants and other vulnerable groups often referred to collectively as the 'socially excluded'. The Europeans...