Upa: 654 books
East and West
Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is an analysis of an Iranian philosopher’s engagement with a British philosopher. The author compares the ideas of these philosophers within the context of European and Iranian intellectual traditions. This is the first book of its kind, as no one has yet looked at Allama Jafari’s thought...
China's International Relations in the 21st Century
Dynamics of Paradigm Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2000
Most people believe China's foreign behavior is driven by its growing power status in world politics. Chinese leaders still firmly uphold some traditional values in foreign policy such as sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unification. However, it is often neglected that China's behavior...
On Exploring Craft
Writers as Architects
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative’s arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect. For it not only positions, but also reinforces the significance...
by Edward H. Strauch
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Humankind evolved through three psychological stages - subconscience, conscience, and supraconscience. Ritual and myth, cosmology and theism marked phases of psychic integration, initiating our supraconscience evolution. Four archetypes: temperance, 'the great chain of being,' Biblical interpretation,...
Maintaining Strategic Relevance
Career and Technical Education Program Discontinuance in Community and Technical Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The community and technical college mission requires offering relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Board policies are plentiful for creating new programs in alignment with workforce needs. However, few districts have robust policies in place to appropriately discontinue or replace...
Sefer Yetzira
Chronicles of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sefer Yetzira is a sacred book of great antiquity and power, and one of Judaism's oldest texts after the Bible. In this new translation and commentary, Rabbi Worch leads us step-by-step through innermost chambers of Jewish mysticism. We are allowed to listen in to the arguments between Moses and God,...
An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education
Essential Topics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe. An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education aims to provide the reader with an introduction to this subject and explore three of its most fundamental aspects; namely,...
A Letter from Christ
Apologetics in Cultural Transition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Our nation is politically, ideologically, and socially polarized to the point of breaking; confusion dominates every layer of our culture. The church in America is “a letter from Christ” (2 Cor. 3:3), written to our politically cynical, socially insecure, and spiritually skeptical culture. Before...
Truth in Translation
Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Written with the student and interested public in mind, Truth in Translation aims to explain what is involved and what is at stake in Bible translation. It begins with brief treatments of the background to the Bible and its translation, the various approaches to translation, and the specific origins...
Turkey and the West
From Neutrality to Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Turkey and the West: From Neutrality to Commitment considers the formulation of Turkish foreign policy in the post-Atatürk period of 1938 to 1958 and discusses Turkey’s uneasy shift from neutrality to become a member of the Western Alliance. Turkey’s decision to ally itself with the Western grouping...
by Robert Geis
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Life of Christ bridges the gap between commentaries and devotional accounts of Christ’s ministry. Applying the requisite analytical tools, it addresses the question, is His life worth studying? The Resurrection event would confirm it is, as would the Gospel miracle accounts—neither of which, Geis...
A Life in Balance
Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Are you working more but enjoying it less? Are you searching for greater fulfillment, significance, and meaning? Are you simply looking for a better sense of balance in your life? If you have identified with any of these statements you are not alone. Many of us experience an absence of personal significance...
The Desert Experience in Israel
Communities, Arts, Science, and Education in the Negev
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The Desert Experience in Israel shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, 'What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?' The book begins with...
Global Connectivity and Local Transformation
A Micro Approach to Studying the Effect of Globalization on Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Increasing overseas traveling, booming Internet and electronic communication, and expanding global social ties are primary features of intensifying global connectivity and integration. Global Connectivity and Local Transformation conceptualizes global connectivity as a powerful but varied mechanism...