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This collection of eight essays draws on a half-year of work, the second six months of 2009. Neusner takes up three problems in the history of Religions, four essays on fundamental issues in form-history and the documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon, and one theological essay.

This book presents an analysis of female sexuality in the literary texts of two Hispanic feminist writers: Cristina Escofet and Isabel Allende. Both writers create alternative realities and emphasize the use of subconscious knowledge to help readers understand sexuality and make changes in our unjust hierarchical world.

Capital punishment attracts strong and opposing moral positions execution by the state under any condition is wrong versus execution as just retribution for heinous killing. Using evidence from legal history, this book rejects these moral arguments as a basis for determining the social value of death penalty and considers the issue scientifically.

Can rock n' roll and politics mix? This book looks at the impact of government music policies on the Australian music scene, youth culture, and national identity. It is a study of the legacy of the Australian Labor Party's cultural policies in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the debate over the creation and preservation of a national culture.

Opposing all claims that theory has come to an end, this book presents a fresh perspective on our reading, understanding, and application of theory and its affect on our interpretation of texts. (In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists such as Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, and Vikram Seth.

Set in 2029, The Education of Sam Sanders tells the story of an 8th grader searching for meaning in his school experiences. In a public school system beset by the finality and rigidity of standardized tests and curriculums, Sam Sanders, with the help of his teacher and mother, defies the system and creates something new: a curriculum that enlightens rather than categorizes students. In this hopeful yet frightening look at an educational future not too far from our own, we encounter the high cost of inquiry-oriented learning and the even higher cost of a system that suppresses it. The Education of Sam Sanders is a valuable book for young adults in schools, students of teaching, teachers, and parents/citizens concerned by current trends in public education. This inspiring work offers a unique and in-depth analysis of the high stakes testing and standardization movements and surfaces ideas for how we might change our current direction.

This book 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 government, counter coupes, and ethical reform programs.

This book focuses on issues closely pertaining to Catholic schools to the larger questions of the Catholic imagination. The underlying thread, however, is the challenge of maintaining the richness of the Catholic imagination - of tuning the rig - in changing times and the ordinary life of the church.

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Which sins should be legally tolerated and which outlawed? Are the reasons for tolerating or outlawing biblical or merely pragmatic? This book confronts these crucial questions head-on and proposes an alternative interpretation of Scripture that views government as God's instrument to punish victimizers and expand human autonomy.

This integration of psychological and religious thinking states that the way to mental health of individuals and society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others. This thesis is supported by insightful advice from experts and commentators on social problems, and specific quotations from the Bible.

Power and Intimacy in Men's Development focuses on the struggle men face each day to meet their needs for power and intimacy. In their quest for power, many men neglect intimacy, while others manage to achieve a balance between these two forces.

This collection of essays will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT). Inclusion of several social science disciplines gives students, professionals, and government agencies an interdisciplinary perspective.

The victors of WWI created modern Middle East. This work combines research of US State Department archives with official British sources to create a history of Iraq from 1910 to 1918 that promotes a better understanding of subsequent Iraqi and Middle Eastern history.

Through a series of readings, this book explores the dominance of Creolization, the hybrid of African and European culture, in the Caribbean. This book explores how Creolization endangers national unity, good governance, and political stability in the region by ignoring the Caribbean's multiethnic mosaic.

In this work, the author presents the work of Allama M.T. Jafari, an Iranian, contemporary social thinker who worked within the parameters of Primordial School of Social Theory. This work is an attempt to enrich the existing literature on comparative sociology and social philosophy.

Demonstrates how the theory of stochastic processes and techniques of stochastic modeling can be used to model arranged marriage settings and to help explain various aspects of the nature of decision-making in arranged marriages. This book is suitable for conducting empirical and theoretical research on a subject of considerable importance.

The way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us. Huer discusses this alien part of America in American Paradise.

Chinese Culture and Christianity traces the origin, development, and growth of Chinese culture in relationship to Christianity. This comprehensive work will be of interest to students of sociology, philosophy, religion, political science, and anthropology.

This book is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process. It examines a family therapy program being run by a major public university, tied to the criminal justice system and the educational establishment.

The philosophy of symbiosism designates the rational, and therefore universal, principles of human behavior for living together in peace, security, and happiness. The name has been coined by the author from the combination of three common terms: a prefix, "sym-," meaning "together"; a root and combining form, "bios," meaning "mode of life"; and a suffix, "-ism," meaning doctrine or adherence to a system of principles. The need for a common morality arises from the present ubiquitous condition and rapidly increasing awareness of mutual dependency among human beings. Symbiosism is synthesized from moral traditions of various religions and philosophies of both the West and the East and comprises four moral philosophies: the ethics of noninjury, utilitarianism, the ethics of magnanimity, and a new ethics fully developed from the ancient model of the Golden Rule that the author calls "reciprocitarianism." The author intends for symbiosism to serve as the moral foundation for the cultural and political unification of democratic societies throughout the world. Rather than attempting to introduce a new religious dogma or political platform, symbiosism represents a fresh and wholly rational approach to cultivating one''s personal ethics.

This book is an introductory narrative of the foundational educational history and philosophy of the American system. The author presents the history of education as a part of the larger picture of the development of civilization. Therefore, the historic and philosophical antecedents of our current education system are explained.

Multicultural business ethics is an invisible aspect of business, but understanding it in a global context is crucial for every manager who leads within a multinational organization. This makes Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning essential reading for today''s multinational business professionals. Dr. Kamal Dean Parhizgar, respected author of Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments, and co-author Robert Reza Parhizgar bring you an informative textbook and reference source on ethics and morality in multinational business. The book also includes an instructor''s manual with helpful teaching tips and overviews on chapter content, questions, and case studies used in the text. Multicultural Business Ethics and Global Managerial Moral Reasoning explores: ΓÇöManagerial decision-making processes and ethical relativism ΓÇöMicro-level approach to moral theories ΓÇöMacro-level social approaches to ethical theories ΓÇöThe comparison of issues between home and host countries ΓÇöThe paradigm of multicultural ethics and business knowledge management ΓÇöMoral virtues, ethical values, and corporate stakeholders'' convictions ΓÇöManagerial trust, right, and duties ΓÇöEthical issues concerning econo-political ideologies ΓÇöMajor ethical and moral issues concerning Global Social Business Darwinism ΓÇöThe main theories of justice, law, and social contracts between businesses and society

This book explores some of the analytic methodology used to understand terrorism, insurgency, asymmetric warfare, and state practice of denial and deception. It closes with examples of state-sponsored surrogate terrorist groups' centers of gravity that can be exploited.

Authority in the Church: An Ecumenical Reflection on Hermeneutic Boundaries and Their Implications for Inter-Church Relations examines the nature of authority in the Christian Church through analysis of major reform movements of the 16th Century and major ecumenical documents of the 20th Century.

Across the span of his 35-year career reporting on local, state, and national politics, Richard Benedetto has interviewed and closely watched a variety of politicians and public servants. This memoir considers the coverage and treatment of politics and politicians by media and offers suggestions for improvement.

Intended as a tool for students of Spanish linguistics or general linguistics, this dictionary offers concise definitions and examples of linguistics terminology and its branches in both Spanish and English.

Presents an account of the years of social and political upheaval during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The author shares recollections from her childhood in Berlin, her fears of war and air raids, and her family's flight from the advancing Soviet Army, and attacks by American fighter planes.

Shows the readers what daily life in China, and Beijing is like. This book provides the author's personal reminiscences from his thoughts about leaving home alone and arriving in Beijing for the first time, to his daily experiences in teaching and interacting with students and faculty at China Youth University for Political Sciences.

Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack's great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Furrow and Us serves as a clarion call to steward the natural and familial heritage of the soil.