Stephen Charles: 89 books
Catching Stories
A Practical Guide to Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and...
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Man in America
The Antiquity of Man in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
"When the Europeans came to this continent at the end of the fifteenth century they found it already inhabited by races of men very different from themselves. These people, whom they took to calling 'Indians,' were spread out, though very thinly, from one end of the continent to the other. Who...
Labor and Global Justice
Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Labor and Global Justice: Essays on the Ethics of Labor Practices under Globalization combines conceptual and theoretical perspectives across a multiplicity of relevant differences, both geographical and disciplinary, to develop a transnational perspective on labor and justice. Through its multidisciplinary,...
Necessary Travel
New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new...
Revue des Deux Mondes mars 2015
Michel Onfray. Pour une sagesse sans Dieu
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Pour se revivifier « Cosmos est mon premier livre », écrit Michel Onfray dans l’introduction de cette somme de mille pages, sous-titrée « Vers une sagesse sans morale ». « J’ai publié à ce jour quatre-vingts livres sur bon nombre de sujets : l’éthique, l’esthétique, la bioéthique,...
Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The common images of Korea view the peninsula as a long-standing battleground for outside powers and the Cold War's last divided state. But, Korea's location at the very center of Northeast Asia gives it a pivotal role in the economic integration of the region and the dynamic development of its more...
Nature's Services
Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
The British Arboretum
Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the British...
by Charles E. Phelps, Stephen T. Parente
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform. They trace the foundations of today’s system, and show how distortions in the incentives facing participants in the health care market could be corrected in order to achieve lower costs, a higher...
by J. Larry Jameson, Anthony S. Fauci, Dennis L. Kasper
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
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