Upa: 654 books
by Aubrey W. Bonnett, Calvin B. Holder, Fitzroy André Baptiste
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and...
Memories of Carolinian Immigrants
Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries...
Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles
Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choir
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician’s journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression. Despite its importance, high performance expectations pose a challenge for choir directors to allocate...
Velvet Totalitarianism
Post-Stalinist Romania
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.
Unbolting the Dark, A Memoir
On Turning Inward in Search of God
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Unbolting the Dark, A Memoir traces the author's psychological and spiritual journey at midlife to understand the profound impact of her mother's death. This inward search becomes an actual journey that includes nine months in England at the University of Cambridge, six months at a monastery in Switzerland,...
Re-Vision
A New Look at the Relationship between Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Re-Vision addresses four issues that lie at the crux of the relationship between science and religion—the origin of the cosmos and creation in Genesis; evolutionary theory and God’s action in the world; genes and human freedom; and whether intelligent design is good science and/or good theology....
by Jesse Hong Xiong
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
This is a work of 'systematic parapsychology.' The book aims to construct a framework and system of parapsychology, taking a comprehensive approach to the field. The Outline of Parapsychology states that parapsychology has a different philosophical background from the existing science and religions,...
A Primer in Theatre History
From the Greeks to the Spanish Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange discusses theatre from 534 BC in Athens to 1681 AD in Madrid. The book contains highly informative chapters on theatre culture in the ancient classical...
La Citadelle
Layle Lane and Social Activism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order in 1941. Lane also played...
Acting Bodies and Social Networks
A Bridge between Technology and Working Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Acting Bodies and Social Networks analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies. Internationally renowned scholars look into the nature of the mind - a combination of thought, perception, emotion, will and imagination - as well as the ever-increasing impact and complexity...
Politics, Agricultural Development, and Conflict Resolution
An In-Depth Analysis of the Moyen Bani Programme in Mali
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Using the Moyen Bani Programme as an example, External Assistance or External Interference gives an analysis of a grassroots conflict which, not foreseen at project design, lasted six years in Mali. This book provides the historical, economic, and political backgrounds that influenced the design and...
The Dismantling of Brazil's Old Republic
Early Twentieth Century Cultural Change, Intergenerational Cleavages, and the October 1930 Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In the years 1922–1930 Brazil's political and cultural arenas were bestirred by distinct movements of protest and demand for change, forcing a great shift in the manner Brazilians perceived themselves and their country, and shaping a national climate of opinion which led to a revolution and substantial...
Get to the End
A Catholic's View of the End Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Get to the End is written about the end times, i.e. the end of the world and history as we know it. But it is written from a Catholic perspective. There are many books on the market that speak to the end times, however they are all written from a Protestant perspective and for the most part they are...
Jonathan Edwards on Justification
Reform Development of the Doctrine in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans. This book deals with Jonathan Edwards’ doctrine of justification and its continuity with Reformed tradition. In his Reformed Theology, Edwards interprets the doctrine with scholastic as well as forensic...