Upa: 654 books
by Warren Frederick Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Understanding Ideology enables the reader to recognize public expressions of an ideology,thereby avoiding gullibility and the consequences of ignorance. Of Karl Mannheim's classic dual conception of ideology, a Marxist-Freudian orientation is adopted. Supporting this is a critical conception of social...
Pearl of Great Price
A Literary Translation of the Middle English Pearl
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through instruction in Christian theology. The mourning father’s faith in God has been shaken by his daughter’s death. Having fainted away on his daughter’s grave, he...
by Nakabayashi, Masami
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In this study of the Lady Chatterley novels, Masami Nakabayashi pays particular attention to D.H. Lawrence's language for the feelings and for the life of the unselfconscious, sexual body. The novels constantly find ways of verbalising the characters' internalised experiences as they occur in states...
The Jews' Beech Tree
A Moral Portrait from Mountainous Westphalia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany’s greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews’ Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original...
Cinemulacrum
A Secret History of Film / Video, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Cinemulacrum, a conflation of “cinema,” the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This period is distinguished by the advent of digital film/video, an ideology of fantasy as the central narrative of movies and television,...
Organic Literacy
The Keywords Approach to Owning Words in Print
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Organic vocabulary is a term that describes a child’s inner source of thoughts. Based on the early work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in New Zealand with Maori children, organic vocabulary can help promote early literacy among children who have little connection and prior experiences with print. This...
School Social Work Services in Federally Funded Programs
An African American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This book identifies the barriers between social work intervention in education and government-funded programs that impact African American students. The chapters approach these issues from a child-centered perspective, which has proven critical in developing positive and sustainable relationships...
School Administrators and Technology
Meeting the Standards
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
As institutions of higher learning strive to develop strong 21st century educational leaders, they must meet the needs of administrators in light of the role technology plays in teaching and learning. School Administrators and Technology prepares prospective school administrators to embrace opportunities...
It’s All about Nutrition
Saving the Health of Americans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
It’s All about Nutrition is an introductory textbook designed specifically to capture the interest of general education students in nutrition. Students will want to read this textbook in its entirety, as David Bissonnette draws them into a more thoughtful study of the field of nutrition. He paints...
Mothers and Daughters
Complicated Connections Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Family stories of the ties between mothers and daughters form the foundation of Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures. Nationally and internationally known feminist scholars frame, analyze, and explore mother-daughter bonds in this collection of essays. Cultures from around...
Job, Jonah, and the Unconscious
A Psychological Interpretation of Evil and Spiritual Growth in the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1994
Job, Jonah, and the Unconscious is the latest work by natural theologian M.A. Corey. It is a ground-breaking synthetic work utilizing the unique perspective of modern depth psychology to interpret the underlying meaning of two of the most fascinating books of the Old Testament, Job and Jonah. In the...
by Terrell Lamont Strayhorn
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research was written to offer those who engage in college student research a framework, tool, or guide for understanding the role that theory plays in research. Each of the seven chapters in the volume are organized around five major questions which address...
Why Millions Died
Before the War on Infectious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Why Millions Died reviews the painfully slow development of research by isolated investigators who believed that diseases could be caused by infectious organisms. The brutally contentious and vivid arguments that raged between the proponents of the germ theory of disease and those who condemned it...
The Iraqi Revolution of 1958
A Revolutionary Quest for Unity and Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
In the early hours of July 14, 1958, Iraqi military officers overthrew the British-installed Iraqi monarchy. The Free Officers coup initiated an era of military and subsequently Ba'thist rule that only ended with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Historians are at variance over the nature of...