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Knowledge, Truth and Service, The New York Botanical Garden, 1891 to 1980 - Harry M. Dunkak - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Knowledge, Truth and Service, The New York Botanical Garden, 1891 to 1980 - Harry M. Dunkak - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The New York Botanical Garden was established with a mission to seek knowledge about plant life, conduct research, offer courses of instruction, and provide a place for the public to learn about botany. This historical study of the New York Botanical Garden provides the first and only comprehensive social history of this vital institution. The monograph is intended for the general public as well as the scientific community. In order to familiarize the reader with the nature and historical development of the modern botanical garden, the narration begins long before 1891, and goes back as far as the Ancient Egyptians and Romans. In addition, the work discusses the interesting local history and people who inhabited the area where the great institution was established. The story continues with the foundations of The Garden, and its early history and developments through the Depression. The book also considers the growing importance of environmental issues and the growth of the conservatory, library, and herbarium. The history concludes with the major events of the late 1970s, with an overview of the garden up to the year 2000. Every institution or organization has a mission. The New York Botanical Garden provides a public service to improve human life, and has assumed a certain charisma that permeates its very foundation. Reading the institution''s story illuminates this charisma, which has characterized the Garden throughout its history.

DKK 388.00
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Knowledge, Truth and Service, The New York Botanical Garden, 1891 to 1980 - Harry M. Dunkak - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Knowledge, Truth and Service, The New York Botanical Garden, 1891 to 1980 - Harry M. Dunkak - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The New York Botanical Garden was established with a mission to seek knowledge about plant life, conduct research, offer courses of instruction, and provide a place for the public to learn about botany. This historical study of the New York Botanical Garden provides the first and only comprehensive social history of this vital institution. The monograph is intended for the general public as well as the scientific community. In order to familiarize the reader with the nature and historical development of the modern botanical garden, the narration begins long before 1891, and goes back as far as the Ancient Egyptians and Romans. In addition, the work discusses the interesting local history and people who inhabited the area where the great institution was established. The story continues with the foundations of The Garden, and its early history and developments through the Depression. The book also considers the growing importance of environmental issues and the growth of the conservatory, library, and herbarium. The history concludes with the major events of the late 1970s, with an overview of the garden up to the year 2000. Every institution or organization has a mission. The New York Botanical Garden provides a public service to improve human life, and has assumed a certain charisma that permeates its very foundation. Reading the institution''s story illuminates this charisma, which has characterized the Garden throughout its history.

DKK 689.00
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Everything Has Two Handles - Ronald Pies - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Everything Has Two Handles - Ronald Pies - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In the course of this compact and insightful work, Dr. Ronald Pies, tells us a little about what happiness is, and a lot about how to achieve it. The first chapter begins with a reminder from the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, that "things do not touch the soul." This, explains Pies, "is the keystone in the arch of Stoic philosophy." In a sense, then, the rest of the book is an extended meditation on how we might avoid letting things touch our souls too much. But, it is much more than simply a meditation. From here, Pies goes on to offer readers a well-researched, often witty explanation of how Stoic philosophy—as it resonates not only with Christian and Judaic, but also with Buddhist and Hindu worldviews—can guide and improve their lives. In the process, he draws on his own considerable clinical experience to offer composite case vignettes, both positive and negative, that illustrate the principles he is discussing.

DKK 361.00
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Conversations with the Conscience - Sarkis Joseph Khoury - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with the Conscience - Sarkis Joseph Khoury - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with the Conscience is for every individual striving to stay afloat, within a moral context, in a progressive society where most sail with humanism as their compass. It is a continuing discussion with one''s conscience about some critical issues affecting life. Author Sarkis Joseph Khoury offers a sober reflection on life and its deeper meanings from a rather unconventional perspective. Conversations with the Conscience presents the author''s perspectives as a free market thinker who believes that honest and fair competition is the best foundation for creating a prosperous and ethical society; and the various spiritual and social currents that have influenced him.

DKK 423.00
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The Monk and the Warrior in the Garden of Renewal - Richard Brower - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Monk and the Warrior in the Garden of Renewal - Richard Brower - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is a structural analysis of creativity. It proposes that there are five essential, recursive, confluent macrosystems that require interconnectedness and intentional evolution for the fruition of creativity, of mastery, of self-efficacy, and of spiritual self-growth. The five systems are: (1) knowledge, (2) mental operations, (3) rich emotional worlds, (4) a sense of purpose, and (5) connecting with others. This text includes an overview of previous research on creativity, while proposing a new theory based on confluence theory, the belief that creativity is best understood as an intersection and recursive interaction among confluencing systems.

DKK 786.00
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Living with Parkinson's Disease - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Living with Parkinson's Disease - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Living with Parkinson''s Disease explores the disease from a professional point of view and includes short pieces, written primarily by Parkinson''s patients, about what it is like to experience the disease. Some of these short pieces are poems and short essays, but all are poignant and of extraordinary use to doctors, patients, researchers, and coping family members. This work also includes more general articles ("Trust/Distrust" and the "The Meaning of Suffering"), which relate to a wider perspective than the description of Parkinson''s. The two introductory articles are written by doctors and cover the basic description of Parkinson''s Disease. This book is a practical reference for all who come in contact with this debilitating and tragic condition.

DKK 361.00
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Fierce with Reality - Margaret Cruikshank - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Fierce with Reality - Margaret Cruikshank - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktales from Asia and Iraq. Fierce with Reality highlights writings by women, from late 19th century American literature to the present. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individual and social/cultural. Fierce with Reality, aimed at a general audience as well as students and professors, would be ideal for book groups.

DKK 317.00
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With the People’s Consent - Michael P. Bobic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

With the People’s Consent - Michael P. Bobic - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

With the People’s Consent explores Howard Baker’s ability to lead the United States Senate at a time when it was divided by partisanship and ideology. This book features a quantitative analysis of Senate leadership through roll call analysis, an evaluation of the advantages and difficulties in roll call data, and a discussion of data used to evaluate Baker’s leadership in the 95th to 98th Congress. With the People’s Consent addresses how the current instability of the Senate could be improved by looking toward Baker’s own success during a tumultuous time.

DKK 397.00
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Dance with Death - Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Dance with Death - Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

More than seventy-five years have passed since the Holocaust and the terrors visited by German Nazis on occupied Europe. Yet this history continues to be the subject of research, debate, and controversy. One particularly delicate issue is the question of whether non-Jews did all they could to help Jews during the war. In this book, Jarosław Piekałkiewicz examines this issue in detail as it relates to Poland—the country that experienced the harshest German occupation and was slated for permanent incorporation into the German Reich. He examines all the different factors influencing the capacity and willingness of Poles to save Jews and documents the efforts made to save them despite these impediments. Unlike other books on the subject, Piekałkiewicz chooses to start with a chapter on the thousand-year-long history of Jews in Poland. This allows readers to understand why one-third of the world’s Jews lived in Poland before WWII and to learn about their rich and diverse culture. Equally clear are the dark clouds that gathered before the war in the form of fascism and antisemitism expanding in Poland and elsewhere in Europe. Piekałkiewicz is a political scientist who participated in the Polish Resistance as a teenager along with other members of his family. This combination of academic rigor and personal experience gives readers a more realistic understanding than usually available of resistance under German occupation and amid the Holocaust. He provides a detailed understanding of German occupation of Poland and the operations of the Polish Underground and goes on to describe efforts by Poles from many walks of life to save Jews. The text is interspersed with his vivid personal testimonies of surviving and fighting in occupied Poland. At the same time, the author does not shrink from revealing the dark side of the German occupation: fear, envy, greed, demoralization, and collaboration with the Germans to betray Jews, the Poles who hid them, resistance members, and even personal enemies. This book provides readers with the basic elements to understand Polish-Jewish relations during WWII as well as what is probably the last testimony that will ever be published of a former resistance fighter.

DKK 406.00
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Starting with Whitehead - Lynn Sargent De Jonghe - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Starting with Whitehead - Lynn Sargent De Jonghe - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Parents and teachers want to give children the best opportunities for success in life. But opinions may vary vehemently about the methods for accomplishing these aims. Starting with Whitehead begins with the premise that today’s children will need skills and values to live in a world of fast-paced, turbulent change: creativity, problem solving ability, attitudes of life-long learning, emotional resilience, and appreciation of different perspectives. As we seek guidance on these issues, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to our existence, how we experience ourselves and others, and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work, The Aims of Education, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning, involving romance, precision and generalization. His vision of education calls for exploring real experiences rather than packing scraps of information into passive students. This book offers examples of learning events at each stage that illustrate how adults can help children thrive in a world of change, based on the author’s experience working with children as a parent, teacher, principal and policy maker. Drawing on seminal psychological and educational research, De Jonghe sets these events in the context of a vigorous theoretical foundation and proposes specific strategies for success. Her recommendations have relevance for parents, teachers, principals, and policy makers.

DKK 747.00
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Supported Education for People with Psychiatric Disabilities - Deanne Gilmur - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Supported Education for People with Psychiatric Disabilities - Deanne Gilmur - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book provides practical guidance for the development and operation of supported education for people with psychiatric disabilities. It''s step-by-step program, planning inclusion of generic policies and procedures and descriptions of program management by coordinators who have psychiatric disabilities themselves, make the book particularly unique. Supported Education for People with Psychiatric Disabilities is intended for colleges, mental health agencies, state and regional mental health departments, consumers of mental health services who are activists and other stakeholders in mental health systems.

DKK 476.00
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Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest - Mark A. Mcdonald - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest - Mark A. Mcdonald - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Although he is considered to be the world''s greatest dramatist, Shakespeare seems to have escaped the detection of thinkers on politics and the philosophic tradition of thought on man. Shakespeare''s ''King Lear'' with ''The Tempest'' is Mark McDonald''s inquiry into the political philosophy of William Shakespeare through a reading of King Lear with reference to The Tempest. McDonald follows an argument connecting King Lear to the question of natural right and to changes in the orders of the western world at the beginnings of modernity.

DKK 521.00
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Constructing a New World Map - Steven Strong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Constructing a New World Map - Steven Strong - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Nearly 50,000 years ago Australian Aboriginals set sail seeking new horizons. As they arrived on distant shores, they brought with them beliefs and a lifestyle unknown elsewhere. Their legacy was a mixed blessing. Although founding the basis of modern culture and cooperative living, they also exported knowledge of one errant practice. These mariners did not volunteer to leave Australia, they were banished for selecting an agricultural practice that offended the Ancestral Spirits and the land. Living in the first Garden of Eden, as it was with Cain and Abel who chose to farm the land and animals, they were exiled for breaking a sacred covenant with the Dreaming. Common sense would dismiss these radical claims, but findings made at Aboriginal sites, ancient graves, and cave walls, along with new advances in genetics, have created circumstances that require the construction of a new world map. Recent discovery of Gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi, particularly scriptures devoted to Mary and Jesus, reveal the ancient mystical tradition that began in the Dreaming was the inspiration behind their teachings. The message, preached by both the Dreaming, and Mary and Jesus is as relevant and important today as it was 50,000 years ago.

DKK 432.00
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Working With High Risk Youth - Alex A.g. Taub - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Working With High Risk Youth - Alex A.g. Taub - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Working with High Risk Youth: The Case of Curtis Jones is a work that allows high risk youths to tell their own stories from their point of view. These vignettes are discussed to give students insights into their future work environments and the mental tools they will need to adapt their personalities to their future work realities. Readers are encouraged to imagine themselves in these situations and ask how they would deal with the various characters. This work was reviewed by numerous youths and professionals within their fields to allow for their perspectives to be expressed. By using this approach, past clients have a voice in how future professionals will approach them as people.

DKK 370.00
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Playing with Fire - John W. Sutherlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Playing with Fire - John W. Sutherlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed. However, the story presented here is relevant wherever low-income, disenfranchised people are not included in decisions about their health and environment. This book examines the tale of Marine Shale Processors, the world’s largest hazardous waste company, and the women who fought to protect their community and their children. The lesson here is that a dedicated group of people fighting for what is right can win and it serves as an example for any community that wants to determine what their own environmental future. Playing with Fire is a well-documented account that provides lessons for communities, government agencies, and corporations. It dispels the narrative that low-income communities must settle for jobs at the expense of clean air and water and politicians and demonstrates that corporations that further trample on the rights of people will ultimately pay the price.

DKK 269.00
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Daily Conversations with my Interloper - G. A. Powell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Daily Conversations with my Interloper - G. A. Powell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In this unique work, Professor G.A. Powell Jr. writes: "Thinkers are different from writers—writers are prostitutes. Thinkers desire to be prostitutes." Daily Conversations with My Interloper is first and foremost a celebration of the narrative paradigm, its evolution, latitude of expression, and radical subjectivity in the forms of aphorisms and feuilletons. Following in the literary tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Camus, John Cage, Emile Cioran, and Susan Sontag, et al., the text chronicles Professor Powell''s reflections about the ongoing metamorphoses of cultures, influential literary figures, travel, film, history, ennui, quotidian, and the mundane day-to-day existence in which all people participate. Daily Conversations with my Interloper, is a provocative read for the public and private intellectual interested in a panoply of ideas.

DKK 361.00
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Helping Professional Practice with Indigenous Peoples - Alean Al Krenawi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Helping Professional Practice with Indigenous Peoples - Alean Al Krenawi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses issues helping professionals must confront when working with indigenous peoples, particularly the Bedouin Arab. Northern-based helping professional theory and methods have historically been aloof to the concerns within such societies as the Bedouin-Arab, particularly regarding their culture and religion, family structure and group orientation, and cultural and religious strategies for dealing with psychosocial problems. The literature has made some strides in making its myriad epistemologies less culturally oppressive but much remains to be done. According to the authors, it is essential for social welfare practitioners, structures, and Bedouin-Arab communities to integrate paradigms, which the helping professional carries out in practice methods and which could lead to the ongoing emergence of a newer social work epistemology, better anchored to the needs and realities of the Bedouin-Arab world.

DKK 450.00
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Negotiating with the Russians on Nuclear Arms - John H. Downs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Negotiating with the Russians on Nuclear Arms - John H. Downs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is a fascinating story about private lawyers successfully negotiating with Russian professionals about critical nuclear arms problems during the Cold War from 1983 to 1991. The lawyers demonstrated that committed citizen diplomats could have an influence on official policies when governments were unable or unwilling to negotiate. These delegates produced and distributed scholarly, technically accurate joint papers recommending approaches and solutions to nuclear arms problems which the governments had not resolved because of relations poisoned by fear and distrust. The book describes the extensive efforts of these Track II citizen-diplomats to offset anti-American propaganda permeating Soviet society. It is a ''how to'' manual for non-governmental organizations concerned with funding, organizing and managing international conferences on complicated, urgent problems.

DKK 919.00
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Negotiating with the Russians on Nuclear Arms - John H. Downs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Negotiating with the Russians on Nuclear Arms - John H. Downs - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is a fascinating story about private lawyers successfully negotiating with Russian professionals about critical nuclear arms problems during the Cold War from 1983 to 1991. The lawyers demonstrated that committed citizen diplomats could have an influence on official policies when governments were unable or unwilling to negotiate. These delegates produced and distributed scholarly, technically accurate joint papers recommending approaches and solutions to nuclear arms problems which the governments had not resolved because of relations poisoned by fear and distrust. The book describes the extensive efforts of these Track II citizen-diplomats to offset anti-American propaganda permeating Soviet society. It is a ''how to'' manual for non-governmental organizations concerned with funding, organizing and managing international conferences on complicated, urgent problems.

DKK 689.00
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Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories - Olabisi Gwamna - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories - Olabisi Gwamna - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The stories in this work are an assortment of bildungsroman, most of them recalling childhood experiences in Nigeria. They have been written bearing in mind the generation of young Africans born to Africans in the United States. Most of these individuals have spent little or no time on the continent, and are therefore unaware of the experiences and backgrounds from which their parents come. This collection regales the reader with tales of intrigue, fun and good humor as some of their parents knew them, at the same time providing them with another source of cultural entertainment. The stories narrated by the women reveal many cultural dilemmas encountered by some African women in America, who find themselves crushed by the cumbersome burden of their gender in a country that has no use for their complicated lifestyle. Although African Studies is far entrenched in the curricular of many universities, very few books are available to cover all the cultural aspects of such a large study area. Hopefully, this collection would serve as another perspective for enhancing multicultural understanding.

DKK 361.00
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Getting Away with Murder - Vanessa A. Holloway - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Getting Away with Murder - Vanessa A. Holloway - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.S. Congress engaged in bitter debates on whether to enact a federal law that would prosecute private citizens who lynched black Americans. In Getting Away with Murder, the fundamental question under scrutiny is whether Southern Democrats’ racist attitudes toward black Americans pardoned the atrocities of lynching. The book investigates underlying motives of opposition to Senate filibustering and invites an intellectual discussion on why Southern Democrats thought states’ rights were the remedy to lynching, when, in fact, the phenomenon was a baffling national crisis. A rebuttal to this query may include notions that congressional investigations into state-protected rights were deemed unconstitutional. In a unifying theme, the appeal ties into questions of the federalism-civil rights debate by noting intervals that warrant research and advancing new perspectives intended to accentuate the matrices of race-based politics. To examine the federalism-civil rights debate, this book asks three practical questions: (1) Would Southern Democrats suspend their friendships with private citizens and enact a federal law that would prosecute them for lynching? (2) Was the national government limited in its constitutional power to protect black Americans from private citizens who organized themselves as lynch mobs? (3) Were concerns for states’ rights the core reasons for Senate filibustering, or did Southern Democrats’ argument for states’ rights support the lie of racism?

DKK 361.00
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Start With the Future and Work Back - Bruce Weindruch - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Start With the Future and Work Back - Bruce Weindruch - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory’s role in creating and shaping the global heritage management industry, drawing on its work with a broad array of corporations and the original business characters the firm has served since its founding in 1979.At its heart, the book is a 21st century survey of innovative business leadership that builds on the stories of courageous leaders at corporations willing to dig deeply into their inventory of experiences to support authentic communications, establish credible brand positioning, and improve employee retention and recruitment.Iconic examples of inside-out business positioning using heritage range from the sartorial remake of Brooks Brothers to stories of innovation told by company employees at Subaru; from New Balance’s immersive global headquarters exhibit that aptly conveys its dynamic culture to the creation and maintenance of the Wrigley archive.The book makes a powerful case for the brand value of applying corporate heritage for companies seeking to grow and remain relevant in a competitive, global economy.

DKK 269.00
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Toward Globalization with a Human Face - Edgar Krau - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Toward Globalization with a Human Face - Edgar Krau - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The author of this book asserts that the phenomenon of the economic meltdown in 2008 isn''t an accidental occurrence; rather, it is a result of the entire social system which is driven by contemporary culture as crystallized around the internet. This book examines the personal damage done to lives, aspirations, and social and physical security due to the globalization of economic processes. The author assesses the chances for an improved globalization with a human face, by shifting the value emphasis and priorities, to bring forth a new culture that proclaims the priority of human happiness over the exclusive accumulation of economic wealth.

DKK 423.00
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Dancing with the Gods - Marion Kilson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Dancing with the Gods - Marion Kilson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual 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. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas pertinent to a particular rite, non-verbal ritual actions express more general concepts. Kilson’s analyses show how the same motifs of non-verbal ritual action recur in sacred and secular Ga rites. Whenever and wherever such motifs occur, they convey the same basic underlying Ga concepts, thereby creating a unified conceptual network of belief that is the foundation of the Ga ritual system. The essays in this collection previously appeared in Anthropos, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Parabola, and Sextant.

DKK 636.00
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Teaching with the Wind - Michael Dallaire - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Teaching with the Wind - Michael Dallaire - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Teaching with the Wind tackles the question, "Can education for a Canadian civic spirituality bridge the sometimes incommensurable worldviews of faith-based schools and secular public schools?" An affirmative answer is offered based on two foundations. First, that a national soul can be identified and thus serve as the content of spiritual education in Canada schools. Second, that a reconstructed approach to the contemplation-in-action method found in world religions and philosophy can provide an appropriate pedagogy for Canadian spiritual education. This book argues that education for civic spirituality is of paramount importance as Canada continues its transition from a Judeo-Christian and bicultural nation to a multi-faith and multicultural nation within a secular democracy. It offers a direction that would enrich religious and secular education systems as well as Canada as a whole.

DKK 361.00
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