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The Possibility of Anthropological Fideism - D. Z. Zhong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Possibility of Anthropological Fideism - D. Z. Zhong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this book, D. Z. Zhong establishes a methodological principle for cross-cultural research, called anthropological fideism. While anthropologists take for granted that natives don''t really believe the unintelligible or inexplicable things they say, and what they say should express a deeper social meaning, Zhong contends that if we have a translation manual that can interpret a foreign language, and if natives are asserting honestly, then what natives say still express natives'' belief, no matter how absurd it seems. His anthropological fideism entails that in fact we can, and indeed we should, happily live with others'' differences while taking them literal.

DKK 556.00
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A Modest Certainty - Frank D. Schubert - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Modest Certainty - Frank D. Schubert - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The central problem of philosophy is the problem of certainty. What does it mean to be sure? Are there ideas beyond the possibility of error or refutation? What does it mean for a notion to be incorrigible? In this book, Frank D. Schubert squarely addresses the question of whether there is a single standard of certainty that can be applied to such disparate areas as logic, mathematics, politics, religion, familial/tribal commitments, and science. Schubert proposes a common standard for assessing certainty — the certainty of knowing one’s own personal proper name — as a standard that can establish common ground within each widely disparate area. The result is a new “philosophy in a grand manner” and a powerful ethical proposal for our time.

DKK 689.00
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Making Rapid Response Real - Jason D. Park - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Making Rapid Response Real - Jason D. Park - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are a recent innovation in hospitals that makes critical care teams available to a nurse within seconds. When these teams function properly, studies have shown that they can reduce a hospital''s mortality rate by almost forty percent. Yet, in spite of the possible benefits, doctors and nurses at hospitals that have committed to adopt RRTs can be reluctant to do so. Making Rapid Response Real discusses a study that identifies several reasons why people in organizations resist this kind of change, and offers recommendations for how leaders can fuel successful adoption of an innovative practice. Applying ideas from sociology and psychology to a management context, Jason D. Park offers research-driven insights for managers in a variety of implementation situations.

DKK 361.00
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Some Thoughts on Social Responsibility - William D. Eldridge - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Some Thoughts on Social Responsibility - William D. Eldridge - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is a comprehensive analysis of major social problems affecting the world today. William D. Eldridge provides a developmental description of human maturation and dysfunctional social processes. The chapters outline the causes and results of significant dilemmas of poverty, cognitive ideology, education, morality, and human creativity with which progressive thinkers struggle in attempting solutions to our major social problems. The analyses are in-depth and systematically involved to include thorough coverage of all primary psycho-social energies that produce functional and dysfunctional ways of living. Contents: Understanding the ''Basics'' of Human Growth and Development; Poverty, Crime and Drug Abuse; The Role of Education in Society Today; Peace and International Conflict; Morality and Religion; The Future and Human Creativity.

DKK 494.00
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The Synaptic Gospel - Christopher D. Rodkey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Synaptic Gospel - Christopher D. Rodkey - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Christopher D. Rodkey asks how the brain worships and responds by engaging ideas from neurological science, philosophy, ritual theory, and religious education. From this exploration, two new paradigms for pastoral ministry emerge. First, Rodkey proposes a “pan-generational” principle, advocating an empathy-based approach for fostering faith communities, a principle that is radically inclusive to all generations. Second, Rodkey argues that worship and religious education should converge to include a shared goal of teaching individuals to “live liturgically.” In The Synaptic Gospel, Rodkey argues that living and thinking liturgically are learned behaviors that may be promoted through pan-generational worship. The book concludes with a special emphasis on practical suggestions for youth ministry. The Synaptic Gospel will prove to be a useful theoretical tool for pastors, religious educators, youth ministers, church music professionals, and seminary students.

DKK 361.00
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Presidential Legislative Activity - Carl D. Cavalli - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Presidential Legislative Activity - Carl D. Cavalli - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Presidential Legislative Activity explores the presidency and develops a typology that examines presidential activities. Author Carl D. Cavalli uses samples from the Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to explore questions about presidential behavior. The data confirms much of the heretofore descriptive and anecdotal evidence on such things as levels of presidential activity and travel, but dispute the popular conception of presidents being legislators. One advantage to this approach is the ability to explore commonalities across presidencies, instead of uniquely labeling each administration. Another advantage is the ability to empirically explore the president''s relationship with Congress. A regression analysis of activity determines that contact with individual members of Congress is driven by their status within the hierarchy and secondarily by partisan concerns. Finally, there is also some evidence that contact with Congress varies directly with a president''s legislative success.

DKK 361.00
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Sustaining the Regime - Robert D. Wallace - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Sustaining the Regime - Robert D. Wallace - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Robert D. Wallace combines his research and experiences while working in South Korea as an intelligence officer and analyst to further enhance understanding regarding the types of illicit and questionable methods North Korea employs to raise funds overseas. Wallace provides analysis of illicit activities, such as: - drug smuggling - counterfeiting - aid diversion - North Korea's weapons and technology transfers - support from Koreans in Japan and, overall coordinating efforts of Bureau 39, the organization that controls North Korea's overseas fundraising operations. Wallace proposes that North Korea's actions post a low to medium risk to the U.S., but they are a critical measure used by Kim Jong-Il to retain his control over the country. This work presents suggested roles for each of the key players in the region to engage North Korea, and discusses the risks involved in attempting to stop these money raising efforts, which could lead to increased tensions or war on the Korean peninsula.

DKK 388.00
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Who's the New Kid in Chemistry? - John D. Butler - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Who's the New Kid in Chemistry? - John D. Butler - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Who’s the New Kid in Chemistry? offers an unprecedented look at student engagement and teacher best practices through the eyes of an educational researcher enrolled as a public high school student. Over the course of seventy-nine consecutive days, John D. Butler participates in and observes Rhode Island 2013 Teacher of the Year Jessica M. Waters’s high school chemistry class, documenting his experiences as they unfold. Who’s the New Kid in Chemistry? is a compelling example of what can be accomplished when an educational researcher and teacher collaborate in the classroom. This work includes a discussion on flexible homework assignments, data-driven instruction, and thirty teacher best practices. This book is an invaluable resource for teachers across all content areas, masters and doctoral research method classes, and future Teachers of the Year.

DKK 885.00
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The Geography of Genocide - Allan D. Cooper - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Geography of Genocide - Allan D. Cooper - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Geography of Genocide offers a unique analysis of over sixty genocides in world history, explaining why genocides only occur in territorial interiors and never originate from cosmopolitan urban centers. This study explores why genocides tend to result from emasculating political defeats experienced by perpetrator groups and examines whether such extreme political violence is the product of a masculine identity crisis. Author Allan D. Cooper notes that genocides are most often organized and implemented by individuals who have experienced traumatic childhood events involving the abandonment or abuse by their father. Although genocides target religious groups, nations, races or ethnic groups, these identity structures are rarely at the heart of the war crimes that ensue. Cooper integrates research derived from the study of serial killing and rape to show certain commonalities with the phenomenon of genocide. The Geography of Genocide presents various strategies for responding to genocide and introduces Cooper''s groundbreaking alternatives for ultimately inhibiting the occurrence of genocide.

DKK 512.00
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Beyond Secularism and Jihad? - Peter D. Beaulieu - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Secularism and Jihad? - Peter D. Beaulieu - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as potentially influencing long-term events in both arenas. Beaulieu’s research is comprehensive and richly documented, yet offers an accessible triangular inquiry into the mosque, the manger, and modernity. By restoring a place at the table for Trinitarian Christianity alongside the engulfing monotheism of Islam and the alternative skepticism of Western rationalism, this inquiry broadens the pallet of inter-religious and intercultural contact points. Beyond Secularism and Jihad? provides balanced attention to the differences as well as the similarities between Christianity, Islam, and modernity. An emerging theme is natural law, which is universal and intrinsic to all mankind and not confined to competing theologies. Neglected in the West that it helped create, natural law might contribute to the needed “grammar” for dialogue between the citizens in the West and the followers of Islam.

DKK 1007.00
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Cornucopia - D. Patrick Johnson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Cornucopia - D. Patrick Johnson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Cornucopia explores the health and economic implications of U.S. farm policy. Using a corn farm in rural South Dakota as his starting point, Johnson reviews the history of agricultural policies in America to understand how large-scale, industrial agriculture came to play such a large role in U.S. and world food production. He also discusses the role of agricultural policies in the on-going "food for fuel" debate, as well as the linkages between agricultural outputs and health outcomes. As the U.S. battles with a burgeoning epidemic of dietary disease - including some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in the developed world - it is especially important to understand where our food comes from and its relation to health, nutrition, and economic mobility. Ensuring America''s health and well-being requires us to first return to the farm.

DKK 372.00
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Governors Speak - Jack D. Fleer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Governors Speak - Jack D. Fleer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Governors in the United States are becoming prime policy makers in state and national politics. They preside over vast and increasingly important administrative structures through numerous appointments of key personnel and the management of growing budgets. Governors provide leadership for state legislatures by advocating their policy agendas, and by mobilizing public opinion and political resources. Through these roles, governors have far reaching influence in citizen''s daily lives. This work examines these major political leaders by closely examining the careers of five recent governors (1960D2001): - Terry Sanford (1961D1965) - Robert (Bob) W. Scott (1969D1973) - James E. (Jim) Holshouser Jr. (1973D1977) - James G. (Jim) Martin (1985D1993) - James B. (Jim) Hunt Jr. (1977D1985; 1993D2001) ...and compares their performances in office with governors in other states. No other book has looked as closely at the persons who serve as governors during this time period.

DKK 655.00
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Remember This - D. E. Mungello - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Remember This - D. E. Mungello - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Mungellos (pronounced mun-JEL-os) were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Raffaele was a builder, Marianna was a businesswoman, Filippo died in a gang murder in Pittsburgh. They fled the threats of the Black Hand, going to a booming coal-mining town and opening movie theaters. Dominic graduated from college during the Great Depression. The shadow of the gang pursued them, leading to labor disputes and arson which destroyed their new theater. On the East and West coasts, Evelyn and Marianne had simultaneous backstreet affairs with powerful and wealthy men. There was a murder trial for the questionable death of an adopted son from El Salvador. At Berkeley, David had an adulterous same-sex love affair with Carl Wittman, a national leader in SDS and Gay Liberation. Their love affairs projected them up the ladder of American success as they damned one another to their deaths. This is a true story.

DKK 229.00
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Emotional Addictions - Peter D. Ladd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Emotional Addictions - Peter D. Ladd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The reference book Emotional Addictions proposes that some people may actually be "addicted" in an unhealthy manner to specific emotions. The emotion could be anger, anxiety, apathy, egotism, envy, guilt, jealousy, resentment, revenge, or self-hatred. Historically, one of the greatest challenges to both mental health and substance abuse counselors has been the addict who has been clean and sober for some time, yet still has substantial difficulties coping with life. Ladd contends that emotional addiction operates under similar criteria to a physical addiction, with both forms of addiction showing characteristics of denial, compulsive behavior, dependency, tolerance, addictive thinking, and withdrawal symptoms. By combining emotions with addictions, Ladd has written a cutting-edge approach to helping people with addictions and mental health problems.

DKK 468.00
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Emotional Regulation - Peter D. Ladd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Emotional Regulation - Peter D. Ladd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is an interactive workbook where clients, students, and everyday people can understand and find step by step solutions for regulating of their emotions. Each chapter allows the reader to find out for themselves how they would personally regulate emotions ranging from anger, resentment and jealousy to other emotions such as depression, anxiety and self-hatred. Twelve different emotions are covered in the workbook giving the reader those emotions most commonly needing regulation in everyday living. The workbook takes a holistic approach where not only one’s behavior or feelings are considered. Behavior, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, identity and the emotional climate where emotions are experienced, make up this well-rounded approach to understanding emotional regulation in your personal life. The workbook also includes strategies for professional counselors to successfully deal with client emotions, with the goal of helping to improve the client/counselor relationship. This is the perfect book for one on one conversation or used in groups for a more interactive approach to emotional regulation.

DKK 355.00
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A Generation Abandoned - Peter D. Beaulieu - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Generation Abandoned - Peter D. Beaulieu - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between this sense of abandonment and our inborn and neglected orientation toward personal worth and the common good (the natural law). Much of what is peddled as “social evolution” today is shown to be a throwback to darker times. The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the “perfect storm” of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering “arc of history” and a more grounded arc of relations—our rationalized “culture of death” versus a flourishing “human ecology.”

DKK 370.00
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Celebrate Your Seasons - Gabriella D. Filippi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Celebrate Your Seasons - Gabriella D. Filippi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Go. Grow. Through the seasons you are seasoned, attentive to God''s inherent timing and intended purpose for you at every stage and episode in life. Obstacles give way to opportunities and hindrances to heights, as you surrender your ways to a life of completion with a realization that it is the journey that matters at the finish. Experience life fully as it unfolds. Add depth to life. Value giving over getting, humbleness over pride, and being over doing. Celebrate Your Seasons. There is a season for everything. This is your time.

DKK 273.00
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Clash of Cultures - Leon D. Pamphile - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Clash of Cultures - Leon D. Pamphile - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Clash of Cultures retraces the United States intervention and occupation of Haiti for two decades, 1915–1934. Though the treaty of 1916, which legalized the occupation, did not place educational matters under American control, the Marines used their unlimited authority to interfere with the operation of Haitian schools. Their interference led to a clash between Haitian and American cultures over educational policy for Haiti. American officials proceeded to develop a scheme aiming at a complete take-over of the Haitian school system, which was sternly opposed by the Haitians. As the obstacles in the way of a take-over proved to be insurmountable, the Americans moved to bypass the Haitian school system by creating a system of their own through the Service Technique de l''Agriculture et de l''Enseignement Professionnel, an American controlled agency. Clash of Cultures highlights the patterns of racism which permeated educational aims and objectives pursued by American bureaucrats. It demonstrates that in the background of the cultural conflicts between Haiti and the United States lies a wider collision of cultural imperialism, between the Breton clergy who safeguarded the French culture in Haiti and the Anglo-Saxon Americans.

DKK 441.00
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The Integral Ego - D. B. Sleeth - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Integral Ego - D. B. Sleeth - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Integral Ego is the first truly comprehensive account of psychic structure since the pioneering work of Freud and Jung nearly a century ago. This book reflects the culmination of their lives'' work and is an integration made possible by the tenets of an ancient spiritual tradition known as non-dualism; in particular, the "radical" non-dualism of an unsurpassed non-dual spiritual master living today: the Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj. The essence of The Integral Ego can be summarized thus: the integration of the ego is the elimination of the ego, which leaves in its wake what is our own true nature all along: God.

DKK 459.00
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Questioning Martin Heidegger - Eric D. Meyer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Questioning Martin Heidegger - Eric D. Meyer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger’s “Overcoming Metaphysics” provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western metaphysics from the Pre-Socratics and Sophists to Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Besides questioning Martin Heidegger’s controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, Questioning Martin Heidegger also takes off onto diverse topics like the question of being and the problem of nothingness, the birth of subjectivity and the death of God, and the Kehre and the emergence of a global ecological consciousness. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, Questioning Martin Heidegger will be stimulating and exciting reading for professional scholars and enthusiastic laypersons, philosophy students and the general public.

DKK 786.00
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Anglo-Scandinavian England - John D. Niles - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Anglo-Scandinavian England - John D. Niles - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry. Contents: Introduction: The Vikings and England; The Viking Policy of Ethelred the Unready; The Viking Policy of Ethelred: A Response; Ethelred II, Olaf Tryggvason, and the Conversion of Norway; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: Methodological Notes; Norse Mythology and Northumbria: A Response; Did Anglo-Saxon Audiences Have a Skaldic Tooth?; Skaldic Technique in Brunanburh; and Maldon As It Really Was. Co-published with the Old English Colloquium.

DKK 450.00
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