Upa: 654 books
Partners in Wisdom and Grace
Catechesis and Religious Education in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Creative tension calls for a dialogical conversation in order to find mutual ground that can be beneficial for both partners. Partners in Wisdom and Grace explores the possibility of such tension created by the absence of religious education as a dialogical partner in the National Directory for Catechesis...
by Odeen Ishmael
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
The Democracy Perspective in the Americas presents the author's views on the evolution of democracy in the American hemisphere and the challenges confronting this form of governance. It comprises a collection of his statements and published commentaries on the perspective of democracy from 1993 to...
by Peter Eglin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
“Who has the right to know?” asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. “Who has the right to eat?” asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: “what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a ‘northern’ university given the incarnate connections between the university’s operations and death and...
by Takao Sebata
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
It is a well known fact that Japan spends only a small percentage of her gross national product on defense. What is not well known, however, is the fact that Japan's defense budget ranks among the top in the world and that her self-defense forces are considered to be amongst the best conventional...
Economic Crisis
Explanation and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book examines the U.S economy from 1967 to 2011 and utilizes a new method to predict the future of the economy as far ahead as 2030. This new method uses population subgroup data. Variables used in the cross-sectional matrix include ethnicity, sex, age, and average personal income of those having...
Export Controls
A Contemporary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
International trade plays an enormous role in economic growth and prosperity. This activity can also be used to transfer military equipment, knowledge, and technology to hostile governments and transnational terrorist and criminal organizations seeking to attack and destroy their enemies. The U.S....
Clinical Social Work Practice and Regulation
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Clinical Social Work Practice and Regulation: An Overview offers a description of the mental health treatment being provided by over 200,000 licensed clinical social workers in the United States and a summary of the fifty-one licensure laws and regulations which govern licensed clinical social work...
Behavior Management
Traditional and Expanded Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Behavior Management: Traditional and Expanded Approaches serves as a reference guide on the implementation of basic and more advanced behavior management strategies. It covers the principles and application of basic learning theories as well as those that integrate cognitions and emotions in treatment...
Coordinating the Criminal Justice System
A Guide to Improve the Effective Administration of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
This guide was developed to assist students, professors, executives of local criminal justice systems, and appointed and elected officials of general government to have a better understanding on how the criminal justice system should function. It may also be of special interest to citizens and public...
by Norris M. Haynes, Sousan Arafeh, Cynthia McDaniels
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Educational Leadership: Perspectives on Preparation and Practice identifies core knowledge and skills that educational leaders should be exposed to during pre-service preparation and throughout in-service professional development. The contributors discuss established pedagogical and experiential learning...
by Daryl J. Wennemann
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama’s work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we facein a posthuman age. He draws upon Wilfrid Sellars’ treatment...
Globalization
The Paradox of Organizational Behavior: Terrorism, Foreign Policy, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Globalization: The Paradox of Organizational Behavior is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate students, professors, policy makers, and the intelligentsia worldwide. Sagini explores the text's major themes using historical, materialistic, and imperialistic factors. The globalization...
Surrogate Terrorists
Iran's Formula for Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Today, National Security is embroiled in the unknown, the uncertain, the unseen, and the unexpected. In the twenty-first century, failed states, rogue states, ethnic militias, and radical extremists produce transnational actors involved in global conflicts. During the 1980s, Iran used Hizballah as...
OK, I’ve Signed Up For Statistics. Now What?
A Student’s Guide to Navigation and Success in Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
OK, I’ve signed up for statistics. Now What? A Student’s Guide to Navigation and Success in Statistics is the book your students have been searching for. Courses in statistics are often approached with emotions ranging from mild anxiety to outright fear. The book is designed to be a valuable,...