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by C. M. Vasey
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
What was the Nationalist Socialist Party (Nazi's)? What did they believe? Where did these beliefs originate? What led them to commit such atrocities and war crimes? In this new work, author C.M. Vasey questions the nature of the Nazi Party and Third Reich's ideology, which fuelled the Second World...
Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels
Sarufi ya Kiswahili cha Ngazi ya Kwanza na Kati
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
This book is intended for university students and anyone interested in learning Standard Swahili grammar as spoken in the East African Community of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The most comprehensive grammar book currently available, some of the concepts covered in this book are greetings, numerals,...
Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's...
Go Get Mother's Picket Sign
Crossing Spheres With the Material Culture of Suffrage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Go Get Mother's Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers. American suffragists battled an intense fight against the idea that women in America could not engage in politics without also creating a great...
Judaism Defined
Mattathias and the Destiny of His People
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Scholars have questioned every aspect of the story of Mattathias in 1 Maccabees; the revisionist narrative turns Mattathias and his Maccabees from the heroes of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and idealistic fighters for religious freedom, into merely ambitious men who ruthlessly strove for power and...
Continuity and Change
A Festschrift in Honor of Irving Greenberg's 75th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This collection of essays was inspired by the desire to create a suitable tribute to Dr. Irving Greenberg. Dr. Greenberg has been one of the truly major figures in the American Jewish community for the past forty years. A community activist and a theologian of distinction, he has influenced not only...
The Triadic Structure of the Mind
Outlines of a Philosophical System
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish or moral activity. Based...
Beyond Naïveté
Ethics, Economics and Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This book discusses theories in economics and ethics to help the reader understand all points of view regarding the crossroads between economic systems and individual and social values. Covering microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, as well as many topics discussed in a university-level ethics course,...
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career...
by Lois E. Bueler, Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
J. W. von Archenholtz’s England is a political and sociological description of Great Britain during the second half of the 18th century. Based primarily on Archenholtz’s firsthand observations from 1769 to 1779, England looks with precision and anecdotal detail at the behavior of Britons of all...
Visionaries In Our Midst
Ordinary People who are Changing our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This well-researched and theoretically informed book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. Earl Fitz argues that Machado had a particular interest in female characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly sophisticated...
The Economic Theory of Developing Countries' Rise
Explaining the Myth of Rapid Economic Growth in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The Economic Theory of Developing Countries' Rise examines the great economic development achievements of China within such a short period of time, which have surprised the world and have also raised other developing countries' hopes for catching up with developed countries. Featuring traditional...
Natural Novelty
The Newness Manifest in Existence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Novelty is real. Cause-effect relationships come into existence that cannot be attributed to repetition of the relationships that came before them. This idea is relevant to everything from historical sciences, philosophy, religion, to our own subjective experience. But why, in the most general possible...
Spheres of Awareness
A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Spheres of Awareness: Wilberian Integral Approaches to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber unites the best of both western and eastern thought...