Upa: 654 books
Awareness in Action
Self-Awareness and Group Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Awareness in Action is a user-friendly text/workbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing mental health degrees (e.g., counseling, psychology, and social work) and other human relations professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, public administration, and business). It has been used...
China's Outward Foreign Investment
A Political Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution in order to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. Merchant-state dualism is a...
by Patrick B. Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The citizens of the United States love to hate their own government, and much of the disdain is particularly directed at the bureaucrats. Part of the problem is contained within the idea of bureaucracy itself. Most government agencies operate under a rational system which results in the 'victory of...
Retiring Men
Manhood, Labor, and Growing Old in America, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
As life spans expanded dramatically in the United States after 1900, and employers increasingly demanded the speed and stamina of youth in the workplace, men struggled to sustain identities as workers, breadwinners, and patriarchs—the core ideals of twentieth-century masculinity. Longer life threatened...
by Antonio García-Trevijano
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
'This is not a democracy,' Antonio Garc'a-Trevijano denounces in the first pages of this book. To confront the great lie that Europe does have democratic regimes, a lie rooted in people's confounding of the liberties they enjoy with the political freedom that they lack, the author builds a realistic...
Common Misconceptions in Mathematics
Strategies to Correct Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book should be a handy tool for teachers of mathematics as they develop plans to confront the problem of misconceptions, which are common with students that often have their own notion of certain mathematical concepts, right or not. The onus is on the teacher to detect those misconceptions and...
Aligning Values and Politics
Empowerment Versus Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights...
Co-Whites
How and Why White Women 'Betrayed' the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction,...
by Jacques L. Koko, Essoh J. M. C. Essis
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This book examines forty-six UN peacekeeping operations, initiated from 1956 through 2006 to manage cases of intrastate and interstate conflicts, to identify the most significant factors that could help to explain the success or lack of success of such operations. Factor analysis is used to exploit...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
An Introduction to Political Science in Nigeria attempts to fill the void in the literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third World, particularly Nigeria, that are studying the arts, humanities, social sciences, education, and law. Primarily intended for introductory courses in...
Child Labor and the Urban Third World
Toward a New Understanding of the Problem
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living....
Sex, Discrimination, and Violence
Surprising and Unpopular Results in Applied Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Sex, Discrimination, and Violence is about how the systematic application of some basic principles of applied ethics yields some surprising and very unpopular results. In particular, Stephen Kershnar investigates three areas: sex, discrimination, and violence. In his discussion of sex, he concludes...
Assessing Barack Obama’s Africa Policy
Suggestions for Him and African Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This book contains critical analyses of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy instruments toward Africa and suggests how to continue, strengthen, and modify these policy instruments. The examination begins with the theme of policy continuity and change, followed by those on military intervention,...
Xi Jinping
Red China, The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
With the rise to power of the fifth generation in 2012, Xi Jinping became the undisputed leader of China. For the first time, the descendant of a Communist hero, a “red princeling,” has reached the highest rungs of power in the Middle Kingdom. His personality a study in contrasts, Xi is the archetypal...