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This book 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 made while serving as an ambassador from Guyana.

Letters to Virginia Woolf is both a lyrical memoir and meditation on Woolf's life and writing. In six concise parts, Lisa Williams writes letters to Virginia Woolf that reflect on Woolf's ideas about war, memory, and childhood as well as her own experiences with these very issues.

Murder Most Merciful is a collection of insightful essays that consider Sigi Ziering''s play, The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff. In the play, Ziering tells the story of a loving father and his decision during the Holocaust to take the life of his beloved daughter to avoid her deportation. Scholars who have thought long and hard about the ethical implications of the Holocaust continue to grapple with the poignant questions Ziering raised. Commentary from the book''s diverse contributors, including Holocaust survivors, scholars, rabbis, philosophers, and historians, results in an insightful and provocative moral and theological exchange. Murder Most Merciful will stimulate further debate on the crucial issues of martyrdom, euthanasia, and the guilt of the innocent. Ultimately, the judgment of Herbert Bierhoff is for the reader to make. The book appears in the Studies in the Shoah series as volume 28.

This book explores the transformation of western rhetoric from its Homeric Greek origins to that point where the Emperor Theodosius, in A.D. 395, divided the Roman Empire between his two sons, with the 'official' fall of the Roman Empire occurring in A.D. 476.

In Constructics: A Methodology of Theory Construction, author Shokichi Uto introduces a systematic methodology called "Constructics." By utilizing this theory, individuals can create, construct, and effectively establish their own philosophical theory.

September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and pervasive media coverage of our time. The need for information is the instinctive human reaction to crisis.

In The Insect-Populated Mind, author David Spooner proposes a close connection between aspects of insect evolution and the human intellect.

This book develops a theoretical framework to account for the sequence of industrial adjustment policy actions in Canada between the early 1970s and first decade of the twenty-first century and explains why liberal continentalism has emerged as the dominant policy framework.

African American artists during the Harlem Renaissance were social activists, making a significant contribution to black culture and aesthetics. This book engages the philosophical discourse of Kenneth Burke and examines these artists as activists, and their works as symbols of social protest.

This book asks the questions: if Nullification was constitutional and an American not Southern or sectional principle of republican and federal government, what happened to it? How did it come to be viewed as something unconstitutional, sinister, and even disunionist?

In 1820, liberal revolutions broke out in the Iberian Peninsula and these conflicts led to the Portuguese War of the Two Brothers (1831-1834) and the Spanish First Carlist War (1833-1840). During this period, the Greeks fought their War of Independence (1821-1832) against Turkey. British mercenaries fought in these three wars.

This book investigates the impact of culture-based learning among secondary school children in India and reflects that students have the potential to adapt and develop their learning styles according to society, family, religion, and cultural demands.

Existo examines the tripod of meaning that guides how we intuitively apprehend and interpret the universe. Through this view, we interact with the world to create personal meaning. It is a poetic experience where our existence and its meaning emerges out of a relationship between our source, our work, and our mortality.

Examining temporal clusters of statements and actions attributed to authority figures in the Tannaitic and Amoraic periods, this work also reviews the geographic distribution of these words and their divergent usages in documents edited in Roman Palestine and Babylonia.

This book chronicles a writer's journey to find faith, hope, and meaning following the country's worst national disaster- Hurricane Katrina. Acknowledging that everyone experiences catastrophic events in their life, the author eloquently unveils the seasons of recovery after one of the most sensational and historical subjects of the decade.

Richard Krooth has much practical experience in issues invoked in this book, having worked for environmental preservation his entire adult life. This volume illustrates his concerns for humanity and all living things, as well as his commitment to put the current planetary crisis into the context of its historical setting. He is also the author, editor, and contributor to numerous books.

Education service agencies (ESAs), the middle echelon in the P-12 education structure, serve local school districts and their children in 42 states. Since these agencies work directly with local school districts and their students, they are largely invisible to the general public and, incredibly, not a small number of legislators.

It is a universal truth that in times of political or social uncertainties the poet usually takes on the mantle of prophet, priest or seer. He becomes not just the custodian of justice, but also the symbolic voice of the unified society. And if he becomes the voice of the masses, it is also true that vox populi vox dei. It is in these unique and peculiar roles that Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Claude Mckay (USA), and Jean Toomer (USA) used poetry as a medium to enunciate their anxieties, frustrations, doubts, hopes, and desires about the repressive systems in their respective countries. So, the poetics of rage is like the ''Voice of one Crying in the Wilderness.''

Is the Bible true? Was the Garden of Eden a real place that can be found on a map? Was there a Flood? Did a Hebrew man rise to great power in Egypt? Were the Israelites slaves in Egypt? Did they escape from bondage and were they saved from the pursuing Egyptians? Did the prophets correctly predict many of the major events in Israelite history? Were Elijah and Elisha agents in a great assassination plot? Did Amos become famous because of an accurate forecast? In thinking about the questions of biblical factuality, some embrace a rigid skepticism and are quick to dismiss the accuracy of the biblical narratives without weighing the evidence. They are content to read the Bible for its metaphorical and literary truths, forgetting that the Bible is based on the history of an ancient people. Fundamentalists, on the other hand, have the strong desire to find hard proof that the biblical facts are facts, only to be disappointed and frustrated. But is it reasonable to expect such proof? Archaeology and comparative texts must be examined for what they realistically can be asked to provide. In a series of readable essays written in an engaging manner and a positive mode, author Benjamin Edidin Scolnic evaluates the biblical texts in the light of all the information we possess at this time. Scolnic asks the reader to join the ongoing dialogue between faith and history by carefully reviewing the textual and material evidence with an open mind. He does not so much seek to prove or disprove the Bible, but rather attempts to find middle ground through the exploration of its historical dimension.

This book proposes a resolution to the paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's sexual politics-that he is the philosopher of freedom for men yet philosopher of servitude for women. Using Simone de Beauvoir's notions of liberty, the author proposes a way to use Rousseau's philosophies to overcome psychological oppression.

Anne Yero has worked intimately with battered women for over a decade. She learned a great deal, not only about the women she's encountered, but also about her own past history. This is a story about her personal journey as well as the stories of those she's encountered professionally.

Chronicles the author, Robert Estabrook's expansive journalistic career.

Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria is concerned with the problematic nature of religion and politics in Nigerian history. The book provides a lively and straightforward treatment of the relationship among religion, politics, and history in Nigeria, and how it affects public life today.

This book provides an understanding of the role that Latino communities play in American politics. In a country marked by exclusionary electoral practices, minority political participation is central to remedying the inequity of the electoral process. The author explains the unique role that Latinos occupy in the modern electoral process.

This book introduces the first sustained analysis of the idea that the Holocaust constitutes a tension between moral complexity and moral enormity. The author examines those tensions and suggests novel ways for how we may come to understand the moral landscape of the Holocaust.

This book is a comprehensive historiographical survey on Christian penance and confession from the early sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The author charts the change from medieval practices of penance to the modern rites of penance.

Hijas olvidadas is a textbook written in Spanish primarily for college students of Spanish. Only the preface is written in English. It has a Spanish/English glossary.

Josef Fuchs, S.J. is one of the most respected Moral Theologians in the Roman Catholic Church today. He has spent a lifetime of teaching future priests and laity at the Gregorian University in Rome and throughout the world. This study of his writings on the human person and morality is meant as an introduction to a new generation of people. Fuchs'' perspective on human nature allows one to discover the rich history of moral theology in the Roman Catholic Church, past and present. The first part of the book shows Fuchs'' understanding and dynamic view of human nature. In order to understand his view of morality, one needs to clearly see his view of human nature and the underlying issues of basic freedom and basic conscience. The second part of the book shows the type of morality Fuchs offers within his understanding of human nature. Issues that are addressed are: God''s salvation in Jesus the Christ as the foundation for a genuine morality; natural law and moral norms; human acts and their values; and fundamental option.

This book, a continuation of the concepts explored in Truth Eternal and the Adversity of Diversity Law, is all about the truth which underlies everything. This volume, Truth is "The Word", takes its name from the phrase: truth is simply that which is true.

Co-published with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, this book offers a critical assessment of European Union developments since 1994. It combines the texts of the five Paul-Henri Spaak lectures given at Harvard University in the 1994-2000 period, and a cogent analysis of the successes and failures of the EU by Professor Andrew Moravcsik, entitled "Europe without Illusions." The European Union is the most successful voluntary international organization in world history. Europe without Illusions explores the paradox that the EU recently completed perhaps the most successful decade of integration in its history, yet it continues to be widely perceived as unstable and undemocratic. The Center for International Affairs was founded in 1958 and was renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1998 in gratitude for the endowment established by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The Center was created as a means of confronting global problems. The Center is the largest international research center within Harvard University''s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is distinctive in its recognition that knowledge is a product not only of individual academic research, but also of vigorous, sustained intellectual dialogue among scholars and nonacademic experts. To stimulate this dialogue, the Center sponsors a wide array of seminars, research programs, workshops, and conferences.