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Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse

Emotions, Empathy, and Engagement with God

by David Seal
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God? What role do specific bodily actions or emotions play in the cultivation of a divine experience? Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse: Emotion, Empathy, and Engagement with God explores these questions...
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by Leon D. Pamphile
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

Change is one of the passwords that describes the moving reality of our lives. It is obvious in our physical, mental, and social development. A human life is analogous in many ways to the cyclical seasons of nature. Whether in time or space, we are subject to novel experiences and circumstances. Since...
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Rooster in the Rice

An Ecological View of Life, Study, and Citizenship along Culture's Edges

by George Holmes Honadle
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013

Rooster in the Rice captures the excitement of living, studying, and working in a foreign culture. Based on the view that there is a nether world between the edges of interacting cultures where the rules of neither culture dominate, it presents over sixty incidents where cross-cultural collisions...
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by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish. Three times an Oscar recipient, especially known for Casablanca, Murder on the Orient Express, Gaslight, Notorious, and Anastasia, she is considered one of the greatest...
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Rethinking Khayyaamism

His Controversial Poems and Vision

by Khodadad Kaviani
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014

This book contains poetry attributed to Omar Khayyaam (1048-1131), a popular Iranian poet whose philosophies provoke strong reactions from those who agree or disagree with his ideas. Khayyaamism is a particular worldview that challenges established religious beliefs and practices that are contrary...
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The Bible

The Greatest Marketing Tool Ever Written

by Bernard Beck
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010

The Bible: The Greatest Marketing Tool Ever Written explores the question: 'Why was the Bible written?' Beck concludes that the Bible's authors wanted to enable the nascent Hebrew tribes to coalesce into a nation, and compares their efforts to the recommendations of top modern-day marketing authorities,...
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Drugs, Crime and Violence

From Trafficking to Treatment

by Howard Rahtz
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” Since that time, the country has incarcerated thousands of citizens and spent billions of dollars, and yet the drug problem rolls on. Today, the illegal drug market funds international terrorism, the horrific drug war on the Mexican...
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The Boasians

Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Anthropology

by William Y. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today. The book begins...
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From Exclusion to Reciprocity

"Learning from Success"

by Jona M. Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016

Prof. Jona Rosenfeld is one of Israel's pioneering social workers. This, his autobiography, is a vivid testimony to his long life dedicated to social work, sociology, psychotherapy and social action. Born in Germany, in 1933 he immigrated with his family to Palestine. In the nascent state of Israel,...
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Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching

The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex

by Emily P. Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The book aims to contribute to the limited literature base in this area in...
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by Ding Guomin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017

“Three Agriculture-related problems” is a social problem of public concern in China since its reform and opening up program. Nowadays, people from all walks of life have realized the seriousness of the problem, the urgency of solving the problem and the great significance of solving the problem...
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Start With the Future and Work Back

A Heritage Management Manifesto

by Bruce Weindruch
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016

Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory’s role in creating and shaping the global heritage management industry, drawing...
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by Ebenezer O. Aka
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general. It addresses various socioeconomic determinants of ecological footprints in different world’s nations, regions, and cultures. Major socioeconomic determinants of ecological footprints are fleshed out using Comparative Model Analysis and...
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Drawing Life

Narratives and the Sense of Self

by Thomas J. Cottle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

In Drawing Life, Thomas J. Cottle examines the ways people interpret their life experiences and construct meanings for the events they have encountered. In this manner, they discover their various identities and the essence of what we call the self. In reading the sixteen life studies contained in...
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