Upa: 654 books
Last Call for the African-American Church
The Death of Global Missions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Last Call for the African-American Church revisits the commandment Jesus left his followers to proclaim the gospel worldwide until his return, one that by all accounts is no longer a priority in the contemporary African-American church. Despite the presence of euphoric praise-and-worship celebrations...
Staying Alive
The Varieties of Immortality
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Staying Alive explores the desire to live forever, which manifests itself in many forms and forums. Many throughout history have measured their self worth by the metric of how they will stay alive: one wants fame, another needs children. One wants to leave behind a personalized legacy, another wants...
Hidden Threads
A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world. Heddendorf finds in sociological theories some 'hidden threads' - Christian principles woven into the fabric of society. Early Christian thought was radical in its approach to social...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The...
Memory, Invention, and Delivery
Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and...
Substance, Judgment, and Evaluation
Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Substance, Judgment and Evaluation: Seeking the Worth of a Liberal Arts, Core Text Education selectively presents the thoughts of scholars and teachers of liberal arts, core text education on how their programs formulate and advance a "value-centered" education. What emerges from this selection...
Internarrative Identity
Placing the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
A tour de force of scholarship and major contribution to the history of thought concerning the nature of personal identity, Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self asks how identity is created and examines the history of conceptions of the self, from Aristotle to Postmodernism, to find the answers....
From Plato To Piaget
The Greatest Educational Theorists From Across the Centuries and Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1993
The authors of this book consult fifteen thinkers, from various fields, who have a profound understanding of the important role that education plays in our world. Each chapter opens with an Introduction and concludes with a discussion and questions.
The Power Paradox
A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
The Power Paradox: A Toolkit for Analyzing Conflict and Extremism reveals how mainstream views of power restrict the conceptual insights needed to resolve conflict. Anna Bennett insightfully explores Michel Foucault’s work on power and discourse in order to advance conceptual and contextual tools...
Early Buddhist Narrative Art
Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition...
I'd Rather Be Dead Than Be a Girl
Implications of Whitehead, Whorf, and Piaget for Inclusive Language in Religious Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
In I'd Rather Be Dead Than Be a Girl, the author explains a threefold thesis of a study that language influences how human beings perceive reality, that the development of theoretical constructs can help explain resistances to and possibilities for inclusive language, and that the implementation of...
Corruption in Nigeria
The Fight and Movement to Cure the Malady
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Corruption in Nigeria addresses the effects of corruption in Nigeria and provides a concise overview for a lasting solution. Offering insight from the authors' original thinking and experiences, the book traces corruption from colonial rule through nearly fifty years of successive civilian and military...
Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process
A Political Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process analyzes the effect of mass media on African elections. Featuring contributions by leading African scholars and professionals, this book covers a wide array of social science disciplines, political discourses, and political communication issues. In...
by Francesco Belfiore
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The revised edition of The Ontological Foundation of Ethics, Politics, and Law adds new concepts and discusses the views of additional thinkers. The author refers to his basic ontological conception of the human “mind” or “spirit” as an evolving, conscious, triadic entity composed of intellect,...