Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city
"A unique approach to an issue that exists in the workplace---helping individuals who have been `hurt' make a re-entry. She outlines a verbiage and behavior that can be easily adopted by organizations
Lipan Apache culture was studied by Morris Opler, one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, but many questions remain. This book seeks to complete a comparative analysis of tra
Lipan Apache culture was studied by Morris Opler, one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, but many questions remain. This book seeks to complete a comparative analysis of tra
This sequel to Carl Q. Christol's International Law and U.S. Foreign Policy (2nd Revised Edition, 2006) is based on original sources, such as the Constitution, treaties, statutes including the Detaine
In this book, Alvarez-Lopez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansio
This collection of five essays and two book reviews draws on a half-year of work, from mid-2008 to early 2009, written on topics of historical theology and the canon of Rabbinic Judaism.
Current efforts in Zimbabwe supposedly to rectify injustices of the colonial period, are in fact just more of the rapacious grasping that the land and people have endured for a century, claims Laurie.
Davis (religious studies, U. of Notre Dame, Indiana) investigates how 10 verses in the Bible (Gen 9:18-27) that have nothing at all to do with Africans ended up functioning as one justification for Af
Subtitling his study Theory, Practice, and Case Studies from Florence County, South Carolina, Udogu (political science and criminal justice, Appalachian State U.) focuses on theory and political actor
Provides a thorough description of the role Jews played in the American Civil War, and proves that the contributions of these soldiers far exceeded what has been previously believed.
Refugees Without Refuge examines factors that influence the formation and implementation of U.S. asylum policy by Congress, the immigration bureaucracy, and the courts. It evaluates biases in administ
A thoughtful, clear consideration of the Christian idea of creation, placing this basic Christian tenet in the setting of recent insights from the physical sciences, metaphysical philosophy, and the s
Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philospher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examinatio
This book explores the relationship between God, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel, bringing clarity to issues of great moment - both in the past and in our time. The author's analyses are roo
The claim of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is long establisheduand long challenged. Most Jews, and non-Jew's, asked to explain their relationship with the actual physical territory of Israel
This book explores the Prince Edward County's school closings. For five years (1959-1964), African American students coped with the absence of public schooling. Their efforts led to the case Davis v.
This book provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I, by intensely scrutinizing coloni
This book explores the Prince Edward County's school closings. For five years (1959-1964), African American students coped with the absence of public schooling. Their efforts led to the case Davis v.
This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and pre
This book argues that popular repression and business domination are not the result of an authoritarian regression of U.S. politics but rather represent the continuation of an approach that came into
This book explores the transformation of western rhetoric from its Homeric Greek origins to that point where the Emperor Theodosius, in A.D. 395, divided the Roman Empire between his two sons, with th
This book about race relations tells the stories of successful African Americans as they negotiate through the turbulence of everyday life. The author conducted a national interview with over two hund
This book is a reprint of the first publication of the complete manuscript of Pesiqta Rabbati, Volumes I-III (1997-2002), a major rabbinic work from the Land of Israel from the 5th-6th century.
If Catholic social teaching embraces uncontrolled capitalism it endorses a system that leads to slavery, and if it turns to socialism, it could easily find itself supporting a system with the same sla
Paul Chandler (natural resources and environmental management, Ball State U.) has spent much of his career conducting field research in isolated rural locales. In this text for students, academics, an
This book is designed to assist students in statistics at all levels. Using a question and answer format, students are guided through the primary aspects of common statistics with emphasis on concepts
After exploring several aspects of the craft of homily, How to Listen to a Sermon explains how listening to a sermon is different from attending to other forms of public address. This view presuppose
This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-hist
This book is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature. Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound masterpiece in philosophical lit
This book is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature. Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound masterpiece in philosophical lit
In 1890-1930, the election system in American cities introduced nonpartisan ballots into the cities. Invisible Partnership evaluates this election scheme and how it disproportionately helps Republican
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is a multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this work, European fascination with and phantasma
This book takes us through the persuasive process, particularly as it is used in terrorist persuasive settings and as it has been used in some of the major propaganda battles of the twentieth and twen
The authors of this book show that the failure of public health arises, not from a failure of contemporary medicine, but from a failure of the philosophical assumptions upon which it rests. They sugge
Barbosa (history, Centro U. Metodista, Izabela Hendrix, Minas Gerais, Brazil) shines a harsh light on Protestant missionaries in the country from 1808, when the Portuguese Court fled to Brazil before
Shilaro (history, West Virginia U.) details the economic, political, socio-cultural, medical and environmental effects of the gold rush on the indigenous as well as the emerging British colonial ventu
In this study, Moulton (social sciences, Johnson & Wales U.) describes the Russian military campaigns of 1719-1721 and examines their contribution to the ending of the Great Northern War. Drawing
This work comprises new insights into two biblical passages. The first study, titled "The Anatomy of a Prohibition," uses the TLG computer database to offer a new interpretation of I Timothy 2:12. Th
"In Feeding the Five Thousand, Roger Aus not only presents the broad background of rabbinic and Hellenistic traditions in respect to this episode, he also examines its historical setting and how each
