B Kaplan: 22 books
The Beta Israel
Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1992
...balanced and well informed...a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha.
-Foreign AffairsKaplan's definitive treatment will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish history, African history, and comparative religion, as well as anyone...
Sodom on the Thames
Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious...
by Professor Stephen B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades deepens tensions between politics and markets. Notwithstanding the rise of left-leaning governments in regions like...
Sexual Justice
Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central...
Theory and Practice of Writing
An Applied Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book undertakes a general framework within which to consider the complex nature of the writing task in English, both as a first, and as a second language. The volume explores varieties of writing, different purposes for learning to write extended text, and cross-cultural variation among second-language...
by R.B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It provides...
by H. Werner, B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Organizational Innovation
Studies of Program Change in Community Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the result of a three-year study that investigated the factors associated with the implementation of program changes in a nonprofit community welfare agency. It addresses factors such as administration behavior and perception, its effect on board members, mobility orientation, job satisfaction,...
by Howard B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book is about human behavior and, more particularly, about a class of human behaviors-those behaviors by people that have themselves as the object of their behaviors. These self-referent behaviors are social in nature in the sense that in large measure, they are the outcomes of pervasive social...
Social Deviance
Testing a General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Robert B. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains 39 original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and...
Politics in the Hebrew Bible
God, Man, and Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
We live in an age when it is not uncommon for politicians to invoke religious doctrine to explain their beliefs and positions on everything from domestic to foreign policy. And yet, many of us would be hard pressed to pinpoint the exact source of these political beliefs in the religious texts that...
Fear Your Strengths
What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on...
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
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