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Pearl of Great Price - David Gould - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Pearl of Great Price - David Gould - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through instruction in Christian theology. The mourning father’s faith in God has been shaken by his daughter’s death. Having fainted away on his daughter’s grave, he is transported in a dream vision to an earthy paradise where he sees his daughter across a stream, transfigured and clothed in garments set with pearls. She explains to him her exalted status as a bride of Christ and shows him a vision of the New Jerusalem. Ravished with his vision, he attempts to cross the stream to join his Pearl, only to be woken from his dream of paradise. This translation of the poem is accompanied by a preface on the translation, a reproduction of the poem in its original orthography, a transcription of the manuscript, a glossary, and instructions on how to read the manuscript hand.

DKK 423.00
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Environment, Development and Human Security - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Environment, Development and Human Security - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The purpose of this collected volume of essays is to build on and contribute to the larger conceptual literature on environment and security. In particular, the book seeks to fill one of the glaring gaps within this stream of scholarship— the inadequate number of existing case studies for South Asia and its component territories. Written entirely by the leading scholars from South Asia, the book examines a region that is the setting for some of the most important environmental security challenges of our time.

DKK 662.00
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Reforming the Morality of Usury - David W. Jones - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Reforming the Morality of Usury - David W. Jones - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In the early years of the sixteenth century, the Church experienced a dramatic shift in its moral perception of the practice of usury. Leaders of the continental Protestant Reformation (Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist) all grappled with the Roman Catholic Church''s moral teaching on the practice of lending money at interest. Although these three theological streams addressed the same moral problem, at relatively the same time, they each responded differently. Reforming the Morality of Usury examines how the leaders of each major stream in the continental Protestant Reformation adopted a different approach to reforming moral teaching on the practice of usury.

DKK 512.00
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The Rhetorical Short Story - William M. Purcell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Rhetorical Short Story - William M. Purcell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In The Rhetorical Short Story, Purcell examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history. The words of over seventy-five authors present a pastiche of American voices, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of the stories features a type of rhetorical depiction that enables its audience to connect vicariously with the experience presented by the author. This account sees the transformation of the American perspective from an insular one, which emphasizes the purpose driven actions of strong individual agents, to ones in which individuals are caught up in the inevitable consequences of an all-determining stream of events.

DKK 636.00
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The Rhetorical Short Story - William M. Purcell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Rhetorical Short Story - William M. Purcell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In The Rhetorical Short Story, Purcell examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history. The words of over seventy-five authors present a pastiche of American voices, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of the stories features a type of rhetorical depiction that enables its audience to connect vicariously with the experience presented by the author. This account sees the transformation of the American perspective from an insular one, which emphasizes the purpose driven actions of strong individual agents, to ones in which individuals are caught up in the inevitable consequences of an all-determining stream of events.

DKK 370.00
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Aggressive Capitalism - Claude V. Chang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Aggressive Capitalism - Claude V. Chang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The collapse of the American financial system in 2008 has brought the weaknesses of the edifice of financial risk management, upon which the Anglo-American economic model has been premised since the 1980s, into sharper focus. It has also given rise to the larger question regarding the certainty and, thus, the viability of free-market capitalism as a universal economic system; however, while there are several erudite accounts of the collapse of the financial system and its immediate aftermath, very little space has been given to addressing the larger question. As such, Aggressive Capitalism offers a frank and honest assessment of the opportunities and challenges ahead for both the US and the wider world. This book examines the leading economic, political, and social issues not only in the context of the several rational choice theories that have come to inform behavior since the late 1960s, but also in context of the emergence of the BRIC countries, primarily China, as a challenge to entrenched Western interests.

DKK 388.00
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Memory's Stories - Thomas V. Mcgovern - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Memory's Stories - Thomas V. Mcgovern - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Memory''s Stories is an interdisciplinary analysis of multicultural life narratives. The author created an innovative schema to evaluate classic and contemporary texts, synthesizing theoretical perspectives from psychology, literary theory, feminist and multicultural studies. The schema is based on his fifteen years of teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, such as ''Multicultural Autobiographies'' and ''Psychology, Multicultural Narratives, and Religion.'' Chapter One introduces the author''s schema and explores Saint Augustine''s The Confessions. Chapter Two uses Erik Erikson''s psychosocial development theory to examine Thomas Merton''s The Seven Storey Mountain. In Chapter Three, the author evaluates Black Elk Speaks and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, using William James''s psychology of religion framework. Feminist literary theorists, like Sidonie Smith, provide the critical tools for Chapter Four and Maxine Hong Kingston''s The Woman Warrior. In Chapter Five, with Dan McAdams''s life story model of identity, the author analyzes three serial autobiographies by Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory; Days of Obligation; and Brown. Chapter Six synthesizes recent interdisciplinary scholarship on redemption stories, innovative composition strategies, and cognitive science research on autobiographical memory, evaluating James McBride''s auto/biography, The Color of Water.

DKK 459.00
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Place Meant - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Place Meant - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the history of ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who has traveled the earth and pondered their relationship to home, away, and the world at large.

DKK 742.00
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The Bungle Book - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Bungle Book - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the “senses” of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to “unexpect the expected” and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.

DKK 93.00
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Three Apodeictic Dialogues - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Three Apodeictic Dialogues - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The concept of certainty may be approached contextually through the use of dialogue. In three creative dialogues involving characters that are often seen as representing each other''s antipodes —- "a theist" and an "atheist," a "therapist" and "the rapist," and two multi-voiced group personae, ''casual ties'' and ''casualties'' —- this text negotiates the overlapping aspects of consciousness that each must have in its alter. Coming to know the other in oneself while at the same time othering ourselves is one process of knowing more fully the truth of the human condition. The dialogues are bookended by a meditative and philosophical introduction concerning human finitude and the role of the otherness of death, and a scholarly conclusion about the vicissitudes within the use of human language. Drawing on sources from anthropology, archaeology, socio-linguistics, and critical philosophy, and using both conversation and academic exposition, Three Apodeictic Dialogues offers a unique perspective on some of the disconcerting questions that animate belief, desire, and communication.

DKK 388.00
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Steaming as Before - Richard V. Bovbjerg - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Steaming as Before - Richard V. Bovbjerg - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Thrust into the position of captain by the necessity of war, Richard Bovbjerg, a young biologist, chronicles a fascinating look at the lives of men aboard a minesweeper, the YMS 353. Bovbjerg guides his crew from Miami, Florida through the South Pacific to the Philippines in the closing year of World War II. From their small wooden hulled boat, Bovbjerg and his crew experience the boredom of endless days at sea punctuated by kamikaze attacks, meetings with a Stone Age tribe in the South Pacific, shore leaves in pre-revolutionary Cuba, the creativity necessary to survive Navy bureaucracy, the terror of tropical typhoons among uncharted reefs, the endless terror of mines, and finally, miraculously, their survival without casualty. An intimate, gritty testimony to be shared by the captains and sailors of the Pacific minesweepers with their children and with all those interested in the daily realities of war, Steaming as Before provides a compelling account of war from life at the base in Miami to the liberation of Palau.

DKK 441.00
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Adventures in the Aporetic - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Adventures in the Aporetic - G. V. Loewen - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Life presents us, intimately and immanently, with a series of diverse and puzzling aporia. One event and its interpretation, occurring in the simultaneous context of another and differing event, leads us to reflect on the limits of language in order to adequately negotiate the limits of human experience. The process of perplexity in the face of disjunctive similitudes we may call aporesis. There are many examples of what can henceforth be called aporia_concepts mutually necessary but paradoxical, contradictory expectations of the human condition. The mutual imbrications of nature and culture, the presence of the past in the present, or the contradictions of the modern-self concept are all fundamental examples of aporetic structures. This book attempts, through a series of interpretive discussions, to confront a number of well-known perplexities in their structural form of disjunctive moments, of interpretive contexts of ''this is'' and ''this is not.''

DKK 538.00
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Religiousness in Yoga - T. K. V. Desikachar - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Religiousness in Yoga - T. K. V. Desikachar - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The value of the book lies in the author's expertise in yogic theory and practice, the questions and responses of the students attending the course, and the many figures designed to facilitate understanding of yogic concepts and practice... both teachers and students will find the book useful as a supplemental text. The questions by the course participants are invaluable to instructors since they reflect the understanding and difficulties of beginning students...

DKK 600.00
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The Babylonian Talmud - Judith Z. Abrams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Babylonian Talmud - Judith Z. Abrams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Babylonian Talmud is often cited as the bedrock upon which Judaism stands. And yet, it remains a closed book for the majority of Jews. Since the Talmud''s composition does not follow the rules of Western writing, beginning learners are often thwarted in their first attempts to "swim in the sea of Talmud." These modern learners often experience rabbinic literature as a sort of stream-of-consciousness writing that seems to wobble off-track quite frequently. Frustrated, these learners often give up. To understand the Babylonian Talmud (also called the Bavli) readers need to understand its process of composition and the fundamental differences between Western and rabbinic writing styles. Judith Abrams''s The Babylonian Talmud: A Topical Guide is a teaching tool and a reference book for those who teach and learn Talmud. It explains the Babylonian Talmud''s literary nature and metaphorical meanings.

DKK 751.00
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Handbook of Spanish-English Translation - Lucia V. Aranda - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Handbook of Spanish-English Translation - Lucia V. Aranda - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Handbook of Spanish-English Translation is a lively and accessible book for students interested in translation studies and Spanish. This book details the growth of translation studies from Cicero to postcolonial interpretations of translation as rewriting. It examines through examples the main issues involved in translation and interpretation, such as text types, register, interference, equivalence and untranslatability. The chapters on interpretation and audiovisual translation and the comparative analysis of Spanish and English are especially significant. The second part of the book offers a rich compilation of diverse Spanish and English texts (academic, literary, and government writings, comic strips, brochures, movie scripts and newspapers) and their published translations, each with a brief introduction by Professor Aranda.

DKK 388.00
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Moses' Staff and Aeneas' Shield - Patrick V. Reid - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Moses' Staff and Aeneas' Shield - Patrick V. Reid - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Moses'' Staff and Aeneas'' Shield uses two emblems to symbolize the important differences between the tragic but triumphant heroism of Virgil''s Aeneid and the kenotic heroism of Moses in the Exodus story of Aeneas'' shield and Moses'' staff. The shield of Aeneas represents Rome''s imperial destiny to rule the earth''s peoples by strength, and Aeneas'' personal destiny to end in triumph as a warrior. In contrast, the staff of Moses represents the saving wonders the Lord works through him to save the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt and bind them to himself in covenant, and his mission to go beyond being simply a wonder worker to "a man of words" who preaches the Lord''s Torah.

DKK 388.00
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Territoriality and the Westernization Imperative - Claude V. Chang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Territoriality and the Westernization Imperative - Claude V. Chang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Coexistence in an atmosphere of mutual respect in a pluralist world order has become an even greater challenge in the practice of international relations since the murderous acts committed by al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001 (9/11) that demanded justice. This book looks beyond today''s popular narratives. Dr. Chang explores the extent to which the tragedy of 9/11 has been exploited by the neoconservative-controlled U.S. administration as opportunity to launch its grand strategy for creating an American-centric order, necessary for the continuation of U.S. hegemony in the twenty-first century. Specific controversial concerns are extensively examined within the historical and theoretical context of territoriality and power. The state of the American economy; the Arab-Israel conflict; and the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath are treated as interrelated issues and examined in terms of the Westernization imperative inherent in the grand strategy that principally requires the containment of an emerging China.

DKK 459.00
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The Elements of Great Speechmaking - Robert V. Smith - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Elements of Great Speechmaking - Robert V. Smith - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Elements of Great Speechmaking provides professionals with the tools necessary to communicate effectively and successfully in the 21st century. This is the only book available that teaches the reader how to innovatively infuse speeches and presentations with the crucial components of drama and intrigue. Because of its balance of philosophy, pragmatism, and substance, The Elements of Great Speechmaking will appeal greatly to professionals in educational, governmental, and corporate organizations.

DKK 476.00
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A Collective Biography of Twelve World-Class Leaders - John R. Shoup - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Collective Biography of Twelve World-Class Leaders - John R. Shoup - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This collective biography on twelve world-class leaders provides timeless principles on how families, as well as educational, civic, religious, and military organizations, can facilitate the development of exemplary leaders. The biographies and autobiographies of great leaders reveal the importance of an involved parent, happy childhood, plethora of "apprenticeships," rich formal and informal education, a steady stream of prodigious patrons, gracious critics, and a favorable fate. In addition to biographical data, this study synthesizes the various trends in leadership studies to develop a comprehensive model. A coherent theory on leadership has been elusive because scholars have focused on specific parts of leadership without recognition of the whole. The biographical data and synthesis of various leadership theories demonstrates that leaders share similar story lines in their development. The seven identified influences and the three stages of leadership development outlined in the book illustrate themes necessary for true leadership qualities to emerge within an individual. This book is intended for anyone interested in developing exceptional leaders.

DKK 379.00
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Nature, Properties and Laws of Wealth - B. V. Gopinath - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Nature, Properties and Laws of Wealth - B. V. Gopinath - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Nature, Properties and Laws of Wealth is a maiden attempt to study wealth the same way a chemist studies matter. The book discusses in detail the general laws of wealth: the Law of Conservation, the Law of Equilibrium and the Law of Mass Action. The general property that wealth moves from higher concentration to lower concentration is explained with many real-world examples. Like matter and energy, wealth can neither be created nor be destroyed but can be changed from one form to another. Reactions involving this change in wealth are termed "economic reactions." All economic reactions are reversible in nature, which is why there ought to be a credit of equal amount for every debit. By adopting the methods of chemists to speed up chemical reactions, one can speed up economic reactions.

DKK 361.00
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Black Liberation through Action and Resistance - Frederick V Engram - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Black Liberation through Action and Resistance - Frederick V Engram - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Black Liberation through Action and Resistance: MOVE serves as a call to action for Black millennials as well as [white] co-conspirators who are either immersed in the work of Black liberation or have an interest in beginning their own journey toward anti-racism. This book acknowledges and highlights past social justice movements as well as offers critiques for where they might have missed the mark. The theory behind MOVE challenges anti-Blackness, patriarchy, white supremacy, and misogynoir ideologies that are aimed at the continued oppression of the descendants of the enslaved. This book is unique in that it provides a Black liberation soundtrack via the chapter titles which can be used to inspire its readers.

DKK 185.00
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Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant - John V. Mcdermott - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Flannery O'Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant - John V. Mcdermott - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Flannery O''Connor and Edward Lewis Wallant: Two of a Kind reflects upon the works of these two 20th Century American writers. In style and substance, the fiction of O''Connor and Wallant highlights a convergence seldom seen in literature through their singular vision of man as deeply spiritual in nature. Both writers were preoccupied with the meaning of man''s existence—his understanding of himself, his relationship with his fellow man, and his relationship to God—and their writings provide a unique examination of their philosophical views.

DKK 361.00
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