Upa: 654 books
Staten Island
Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Staten Island is New York City’s smallest yet fastest growing borough: a conservative, suburban community of nearly a half a million on the fringe of the nation’s most liberal, global city. Staten Island: Conservative Bastion in a Liberal City chronicles how this “forgotten borough” has grappled...
Within These Gates
Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Christine Callender
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal) globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly becoming “African-Americanized”. They are integrated and embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the material and ideological influences of...
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems
The Sub-Saharan African Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare...
Taiwan's Democracy on Trial
Political Change During the Chen Shui-bian Era and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In Taiwan's Democracy on Trial, Professor Copper assesses the process of democratization in Taiwan during the Chen Shui-bian Era (2000 to 2008) and after. He shows that in several respects, most important being press freedom, human rights, ethnic relations, political reform, constitutionalism, and...
Toward a More Amicable Asia-Pacific Region
Japan’s Roles
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The Asia-Pacific region has been enjoying fast growing economy. As President Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” strategy indicates, this region is an engine for the world economic growth. However, the Asia-Pacific has also been an unstable region suffering from many sources of conflicts such as...
Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Africana Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies. Correlating this book to research and writing in Africana Studies, helps to extend the perplexity, paradox, and parley of social science and humanistic research. This book attempts to answer, what is Africana Studies...
Tales Worth Telling
Stories of Selected Heroes/ Heroines Who Define Us as American
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
In a set of stories about 17 American heroes and heroines, this book analyzes the hero concept in the nation’s history. This book unmasks and reveals some of the United States’ most beloved historical figures, reflecting their strengths, values, and flaws as no conventional history textbook can....
The Wounds that Heal
Heroism and Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Theories of human development characteristically include a series of stages through which individuals are expected to pass if they are to achieve wholeness and happiness. Whether explicitly or not, such theories privilege 'normalcy.' Heroes, on the other hand, are commonly wounded individuals whose...
Black and Green
Black Insights for the Green Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Black and Green is a call to action for the Black community to join the green movement. The book offers insights, ideas, and strategies that demonstrate how Black people can benefit from this movement and also fuel the go-green effort. Ali builds on the premise that the call to 'go green' has not...
Women in Traditional Chinese Theater
The Heroine's Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction...
Embracing Envy
Finding the Spiritual Treasure in Our Most Shameful Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Envy is a universal emotion, yet people are very reluctant to confess their envy of another. In Embracing Envy, Josh Gressel suggests it is our shame at admitting we feel inferior to another person that keeps envy so hidden. Through interviews with everyday people, reviews of mainstream psychological...
The Andragogic Learning Center
A Field Study in Social Work Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This publication was made possible by the Rector's Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel. The Andragogic Learning Center examines an eight-year study at the Bar Ilan School of Social Work, Israel (1989-1997). The study tested the efficacy of an innovative community-based...
by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist...