Joel Michael: 42 books
Rethinking Intuition
The Psychology of Intuition and its Role in Philosophical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1998
Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide,...
Aspects of Playwork
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using...
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south.
William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
My People's Prayer Book Vol 7
Shabbat at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book as a spiritual resource....This groundbreaking new series involves us in a personal dialogue with God, history and tradition, through the heritage of prayer. "The prayer book is our Jewish diary of the centuries, a collection of prayers composed by...
The Cultural Career of Coolness
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term...
Fight Back
Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
G. Gordon Liddy has never shrunk from a fight, and in this book he offers individuals and businesses a clear-eyed, proactive, and deeply informed approach to combating criminal and terrorist threats.
Backed by advice from three seasoned professionals who offer military, medical, and personal...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Atone
Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The relationship between religion and conflict has generated considerable academic and political debate. Although the majority of religions and spiritual traditions are replete with wisdom that propagates a broader unity among human beings, these same examples have been used to legitimize hatred and...
by Abdul-Rehman Malik, Michel Kocher, Botros Danial
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book is the result of the 1st International Seminar of Film and Values organized by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) and Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture, in Barcelona the 23rd November 2016. The cinema, through its...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
by John E. Niederhuber, MD, James O. Armitage
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Practical and clinically focused, Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology Review is designed to help you master the latest scientific discoveries and their implications for cancer diagnosis and management in the most accessible manner possible: on your favorite eReader! This new eBook, ideal for fast access...
by John C. Callaway, Stephen Faulkner, Mary A. Hague
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
The purpose of the Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach series is to publish a collection of short texts that each explore a specific environmental issue and describe the methodologies, theories, and findings pertaining to that issue from both natural and social science...
by Blaze Ward, Knotted Road Press, Leah Cutter
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
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Right here.
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