With Nigeria populated nearly half-and-half by Muslims and Christians, it serves as an important test case for the possibilities of interreligious harmony and cooperation, and sometimes as an illustra
Squires (journalism, Northwestern U.) presents a brief introduction to bell hooks. Hooks is known for flaunting scholarly and academic convention to make several different points about the production
bell hooks’ writings have been touchstones for major debates in the «culture wars», fostering insight into many central questions in communication studies. Her work is vital to students and scholars w
Alterity dynamics are fundamental to terrorism both on the side of those who would employ terrorist tactics and on the side of those who foster the conditions for terrorism, argues Underwood (philosop
Most writings on the gendered social and cultural construction of the body, Armengol (English, U. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) notes, have focused on the female body, leaving the male body as largely
We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its ear
In a revision of his doctoral dissertation at Golden Gate Baptist Seminary, Mill Valley, California, Chen (biblical studies, Union U., Jackson, Tennessee) demurs from the widespread view that the dwel
The Apollo Research Institute interviewed 200 female leaders across many sectors, from education and healthcare to finance and technology. This book for general readers, students, and professionals dr
Women are taking the lead in today’s workforce. They hold half of America’s jobs, 51% of supervisory and managerial positions, and nearly 60% of all college degrees. A woman starts a business in the U
Elementary social studies, which seeks to instill in children the principles of democratic citizenship and the core values of social responsibility, has an important responsibility in U.S. classrooms.
Determining risk-adequate insurance premiums is a core issue in actuarial mathematics. This study is specifically concerned with identifying convenient partitions of (general) insurance collectives su
Contributors identified only by name, but presumably scholars of English language and literature, examine instances of English interacting with the larger world. Their topics include cultural influenc
Written as the author's doctoral thesis in corporate finance at the Technische U. Darmstadt, Germany, this volume investigates the capital market effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for mana
We are haunted by the brief time after the demise of the Soviet Union and before 9/11. There was no enemy, life seemed to be on track with liberal capitalism, and there seemed to be not only utopian b
Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional
The issue of divisions has been continuing through the centuries to date; it has broken the community of the people of God and caused separations among Christians. The point of view is that brokenness
This book was the winner of the 2011 PeterLang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. The post-war landscape of Europe is unthinkable without the voices of the Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachma
This second volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry continues the project set out in the Preface to the first volume, discussing the three golden poets of the Golden Age of Engl
Rina Arya explains how the artist redeployed religious iconography both to show Christianity's untenability in the modern age and to convey an experience of the human condition, specifically animalism
