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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
Unlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compact theory. Social compact theory, the idea that government must be based on an agreement between those...
Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women
Guilt Is for Mothers with Good Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Conflict between work and family life is an all too familiar experience for many Americans. The difficult choices facing women who combine paid work with childcare are the subject of a deluge of books and articles in addition to an ongoing public debate about how women and men should balance their...
Madness Triumphant
A Reading of Lucan's Pharsalia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Madness Triumphant: A Reading of Lucan’s Pharsalia offers the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of Lucan’s epic poem of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey to have appeared in English. In the manner of his previous books on Virgil and Ovid, Professor Fratantuono considers the Pharsalia...
Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a women's studies course created and taught by the author called The Goddess in World Religions....
Jewish Feminism
Framed and Reframed
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is currently constrained by multiple frames...
A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue
Living Within the Abrahamic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith...
Gender and Peacebuilding
All Hands Required
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects...
Taking the Fight to the Enemy
Neoconservatism and the Age of Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Taking the Fight to the Enemy: Neoconservatism and the Age of Ideology looks at six "neoconservative" intellectuals and the influences on their thinking about the defects of communism, fascism, progressivism, the dominant American culture, and even capitalism itself. Adam L. Fuller examines...
Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues
Humility, Patience, Prudence
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Dr. Jacob L. Goodson will be doing a book signing for Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence at Eighth Day Books in Wichita, KS, on Saturday March 21, 2015, at 4:00pm.
In Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence,...
The Common Sense behind Basic Economics
A Guide for Budding Economists, Students, and Voters
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Although it may sometimes seem like studying trigonometry in Latin, basic economics really is just plain common sense. But, it’s become so complicated in its presentation that very few are able to learn the basics. Whether academics, researchers, pundits, or legislators, few seem to have the skills...
The Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Evolution of an Alleged Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Kennedy assassination has produced a number of conspiracy theories based largely upon intriguing questions, speculation, and inference. Thousands of books and articles have been written about the assassination with a large majority of the published material arguing for a conspiracy of one kind...
by Simon, Ahn-redding
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the 10th in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries....
Japan in a Dynamic Asia
Coping with the New Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Japan in a Dynamic Asia examines a new phenomenon in Japanese foreign policy: Japan's increasing activism under the Koizumi administration. Behind this policy shift are the end of the Cold War, drastic growth of China, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and new transnational security threats....
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...