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Airy Nothings

Religion and the Flight from Time

by Peter Heinegg
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

Even as the number of unbelievers continues to rise, religion in America still gets unwarrantably good press. The tenets and teachings, however nonsensical, of each and every “community of faith” may not be attacked. Secular academics who would never be caught in a synagogue, church, or mosque...
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Journey of a Rabbi

Vision and Strategies for the Revitalization of Jewish Life

by Jack Shechter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator. What threads its way throughout these writings is a persistent search for ways and means to revitalize Jewish life...
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Where Credit is Due

Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown

by John Powell, Christy Rogers, Vanessa Carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color;...
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Objective Economics

How Ayn Rand's Philosophy Changes Everything about Economics

by M. Northrup Buechner
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011

Every price is set by someone; this is where economics begins. Building on that fundamental idea and on Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, Objective Economics transforms economics. The thesis of this book is that Ayn Rand’s concept of “objective” is the indispensible base of valid economic...
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Effective Planning Strategies and Proposal Writing

A Workbook for Helping Professionals

by Salene J. Cowher, Larry S. Dickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009

Effective Planning Strategies and Proposal Writing: A Workbook for Helping Professionals provides a comprehensive review of planning strategies and related concepts, including leadership and the role of the helping professional as 'change agent.' The text intends to de-mystify planning processes and...
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by Douglas Clouatre
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012

Presidents and their Justices offers an innovative look at the relationship between a president and the Supreme Court justices they appoint. Based on a 2005 survey of historians, lawyers, and political scientists that ranked presidents according to their Supreme Court appointments, the ratings offer...
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Management by Ethics

Innovative Discoveries for Corporate Ethical and Market Moral Reform

by Richard H. Guerrette
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014

Management by Ethics (MBE) is a reformation studyof the renowned paradigm, management by objectives (MBO), by Peter Drucker. This book re-focuses on how to manage companies by ethical principles with a morally developed workforce. The benefit of this ethically practical paradigm, MBE, is that all...
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Rwanda

History and Hope

by Margee M. Ensign, William E. Bertrand
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009

Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to...
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Beyond Global Governance

Prospects for Global Government

by James A. Yunker
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

In these ground-breaking essays, James A. Yunker issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking on world government. Based on an innovative plan for a limited world government tentatively designated the “Federal Union of Democratic Nations,” this book envisions a legitimate world government...
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Capitalism Unbound

The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights

by Andrew Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009

Capitalism Unbound: An Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights is a concise explanation of capitalism's moral and economic superiority to all forms of socialism, including America's current mixed-economy welfare state. Bernstein shows that the current crisis is essentially similar to the Great...
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Group Dynamics

Basics and Pragmatics for Practitioners

by Norris M. Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012

This book provides a clear and engaging description of group dynamic processes. Vignettes, case examples, and activities provide an experiential flavor to the book that will deepen the reader’s understanding of key concepts. Activities are also useful experiential teaching and learning tools for...
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Americanizing Japanese Firms

The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities

by Yukio Yotsumoto
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010

Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States. The study compares the corporate philanthropy of Japanese companies against American and British companies. Specifically, the study investigates characteristics...
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Human Resource Management Study Games

Certification Prep and Refresher

by Gundars Kaupins
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management. The games focus on learning terms and laws, brainstorming human resource concepts,...
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Test Anxiety

Applied Research, Assessment, and Treatment Interventions

by Marty Sapp
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013

This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety. Marty Sapp presents the various cognitive and behavioral theories of test anxiety along with instruments for measuring test anxiety. He integrates statistical methodology,...
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