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Malunga builds on the African concept of personhood and community known as ubuntu and draws on insights from the wisdom contained in African proverbs. He discusses the stages of spiritual development, ways to cultivate the human spirit, and the place of the human spirit in personal and organizational effectiveness.

This is a collection of essays that provide support for these contentions and hope to prompt citizens to demand greater responsibility by the courts and their adherence to their proper role in a system under the rule of law.

The purpose of this book is to outline new thinking on church leadership and thereby help restore the church. Authentic Pastor, Authentic Leadership aims to help lay leaders work effectively with pastors and seminarians.

In Immigration and Xenophobia Rosana Barbosa discusses Portuguese migration to Rio de Janeiro from 1822 to 1850 as a significant aspect of the city's history. During the first half of the nineteenth century, many Portuguese fled the difficult economic and social conditions in Portugal for better economic opportunities in post-independence Brazil, which was experiencing a boom that was fuelled by such commodities as coffee.

Unbinding the Binding of Isaac is an anthology of three faiths' interpretations of the Genesis 22:1-19 story.

Presents papers from the conference marking the Edwards tercentenary, which took place in October 2003 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The papers represent work being done on Edwards and reflect the diversity of approaches to his life, thought, and legacy.

Reflects upon the works of Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant - two 20th Century American writers. In style and substance, the fiction of O'Connor and Wallant highlights a convergence through their singular vision of man as deeply spiritual in nature. Both writers were preoccupied with the meaning of man's existence.

With the rapid rise in bioengineering, bio-technology, bio-scientific economics, research commercialism, and the unraveling of genetic mysteries, many clinical and laboratory situations arise that bring bio-ethical urgencies to the forefront. Based on the author's years of teaching and private and hospital practice, Bioethics' Rise, Decline, and Fall offers guiding conclusions to today's medical quandaries.

Research is, in effect, an art of applying a set of skills in solving a researchable problem. Such a stated goal often gives both student and teacher a great deal of difficulty when the development of research skills must conform to the time limitation of one semester or one or two courses in research. Critical Research and Evaluation is a "layman's" guide to understanding and conducting basic research. It is a guide to "action" research with real world applications in local settings.

Awareness to Citizenship - Environmental Literacy for the Elementary Child guides environmental educators, teachers, and parents, through the process of helping children to learn about the environment, respect living things, examine issues, make decisions, think critically, and become actively engaged as citizens within a community.

Originally published by the Paulist Press in 1978, this book attempts to elaborate a foundational theology that could interpret the experience of Christian life in all of its social complexity. Father Gelpi reflects both on his personal experience as well as the principal texts of the Christian religion.

Originally published by the Macmillan Company in 1960, this book is intended as an introduction to the history of Massachusetts law in the colonial period, 1630-1650.

Originally published by Random House in 1966, this classic work is an indepth analysis of the pioneering work of Michael Faraday. Since Faraday was the major architect of field theory, the book focuses on the evolution of his ideas and their impact on the scientific community of the nineteenth century.

This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action.

African Son records the author's many trips to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright scholar, teacher, and traveler. These personal essays range from sympathetic descriptions of village life in Senegal and Cameroon to detailed accounts of the rich physical and natural worlds in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Madagascar.

In this book, Taylor argues that the traditional dissemination of moral values is now insufficient and inadequate. This deficiency requires a dramatic shift of the burden of this activity from the religious institutions to the public schools. Thus, Taylor proposes both a curriculum and a methodology for public moral education.

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. The Synaptic Gospel will prove to be a useful theoretical tool for pastors, religious educators, youth ministers, church music professionals, and seminary students.

Silent Lives combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone's sexual orientation or gender status, be they heterosexual or gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual. More GLBTI people than ever before are moving to assistive living and other care environments, and this large-print edition is among the first to deal with these topics for low-vision readers. This work is useful as a college text, therapy supplement, or a catalyst for group discussions.

This thrilling biographical account of Babur's life and reign brings Afghanistan in the sixteenth century back to life. Babur was the first Moghul emperor of Hindustan-also known as South Asia-and is remembered for his love of beauty, justice, and joy.

In this study of the Lady Chatterley novels, Nakabayashi pays particular attention to D.H. Lawrence's language for the feelings and for the life of the unselfconscious, sexual body. Examining and analysing the novels' particular linguistic revisions reveals the textual impulse behind Lawrence's original conception and its subsequent change and development.

David R. Bradley steps through God's revealed roadmap as described in the book of Revelation one event at a time. As the roadmap continues to its final destination, what is revealed is a glorious, peaceful inheritance beyond imagination awaiting those who place their trust in Him.

Based on the original, never-before-published memoirs of Mary Marrow Stuart Smith (1889-1985), a grandchild of famed Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart, this book includes rare photographs and a foreword written by Marrow's granddaughter. It is a must-read for those interested in the Civil War, southern history, or women's studies.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods, knowledge level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools, comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness, lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African culture, African history, Black studies, class activities, educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who have earned their contemporaries' respect.Winner of the 2012 Cecil B. Currey Book Award.

This book assesses the process of democratization in Taiwan during the Chen Shui-bian Era and after. He shows that in several respects, press freedom, human rights, ethnic relations, political reform, constitutionalism, and clean governance, democratization regressed. Economic management was not good and relations with the United States were severely strained.

This book offers a frank and honest assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead for both the US and the wider world, examining the leading economic, political, and social issues in the context of the several rational choice theories and the emergence of challenges to entrenched Western interests.

This study explores the decolonization movement in Cameroon. It analyzes the reforms introduced by France in Cameroon after World War II, the circumstances surrounding the unsuccessful attempt of the UPC to seize independence by force, and the subsequent eradication of this party by an alliance of Franco-Cameroonian forces.

This book argues against neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Part I identifies scientific grounds for a real world outside consciousness and self-refutational flaws in quantum physics; Part II explores why consciousness cannot be electrical in origin, and how partibility and subjectivity evince reasons for accepting immortal consciousness.

This book narrates Kazantzakis' life -- his poverty, his life in exile, his struggle as a writer groping for a "voice," and describes the conditions under which that voice brought forth the prolific range of work that included The Odyssey, Zorba the Greek, and the controversial Last Temptation of Christ.

The first study uses the TLG computer database for a new interpretation of I Timothy 2.12, exploring the effect of the interpretation on exegesis, gender pronouncements, hermeneutics, tradition, theology, and relevance. The second insight study discusses seeing the 'suffering servant' of Isaiah 40-55 as the city of Jerusalem.

Este libro se enfoca en problemas de justicia social y sostiene que el gobierno, las organizaciones comunitarias, funcionarios electos, y lideres de la comunidad pueden contribuir a cambios positivos y oportunidades para nuestros jovenes, y asi mejorar nuestra sociedad. Envia un poderoso mensaje a los jovenes para que sigan adelante.