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Adventure in Human Knowledges and Beliefs - Andrew Ralls Woodward - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Adventure in Human Knowledges and Beliefs - Andrew Ralls Woodward - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What are scientific theories? Do they provide knowledge of reality? What does it mean to call ourselves atheist, theist, or agnostic? Do these words describe the complexity of belief? In Adventure in Human Knowledges and Beliefs, readers are adjudicators who “measure” the acceptability of knowledges and beliefs. Andrew Ralls Woodward leads readers through an adventure which includes the philosophy of science, religious studies, and theology. Chapters are concise, but thorough, including introductions to the works of pertinent scholars. Woodward presents readers with philosophical and theological tools used to create a mental “knowledge bar,” a measuring bar for knowledge, as well as a science and religion compatibility system between knowledge and belief communities. The conflict of science and religion is approached in a neutral fashion from the “outside” making Adventure in Human Knowledges and Beliefs a valuable resource for teenagers, adults, and working professionals from diverse ages and career backgrounds.

DKK 361.00
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The Andragogic Learning Center - Shlomit Lehman - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Andragogic Learning Center - Shlomit Lehman - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This publication was made possible by the Rector''s Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel. The Andragogic Learning Center examines an eight-year study at the Bar Ilan School of Social Work, Israel (1989-1997). The study tested the efficacy of an innovative community-based teaching approach, combining field and class instruction. The efficacy of interaction between teaching and learning style in learning process and context was also examined. More than 400 B.S.W. students participated, divided each year into an experimental group of twelve students learning all three social work methods, and two control groups learning two social work methods. A number of hypotheses were tested, utilizing a detailed before/after questionnaire, which included a learning style questionnaire (TABS) and Middleman''s Study Guide for ACSW Certification Exam. Role, Learning, and Andragogy Theories provided a framework for interpreting and understanding the process and results.

DKK 361.00
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Wiretaps - Anthony Alberti - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Wiretaps - Anthony Alberti - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is a major addition to the field: a complete guide for the investigator and prosecutor in criminal cases as well as an in depth tool for defense attorneys. The practical and procedural nature of this law enforcement tool makes its use often subject to legal error and misapplication. This situation makes the guide particularly useful to the criminal defense bar. Contained in the book are over 29 sample documents associated with wiretaps as well as all content requirements demanded by law. Minimization procedures are also included.

DKK 653.00
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America -

How Important Was the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism? - Jacob Neusner - Bog - University Press of America -

The destruction of the First Temple (586 B.C.E.), destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), and the defeat of the Bar Kokhba (132-135 C.E.) are discussed in great detail in the covenantal theology of the Torah and Scripture. In this new work, Jacob Neusner uses extensive textual evidence to explore the importance of the second temple''s destruction and the aforementioned events in the creation of Rabbinic Judaism. Neusner ultimately proposes that the destruction of the second temple merely reinforced the existing theological system, which posed the following choice: keep the Torah and prosper, or rebel against the Torah and suffer God''s wrath. This detailed analysis is an important new exploration into the foundations of Rabbinic Judaism.

DKK 627.00
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Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights - James V. Parker - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights - James V. Parker - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The book presents Bernard Lonergan''s theory about consciousness and the operations of the mind-a theory about two types of knowing and desiring: one shared by humans and animals, and the other, which depends on the activity of asking questions, possessed by humans alone. The author tests this theory against present-day research with apes, and examines religious claims, historical and current, about animals. Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights concludes by laying a philosophical and theological foundation for a contemporary ethic in which humans are obligated to exercise intelligent stewardship and ensure the compassionate treatment of animals.

DKK 370.00
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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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War as an Instrument of Policy - David V. Nowlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

War as an Instrument of Policy - David V. Nowlin - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

War as an Instrument of Policy examines the principles of war and how they may apply to the method of decision making in the higher realms of government when military and civilian leaders meet. It begins with an exploration of the emergence of a new kind of limited war beginning with the Vietnam conflict and discusses the principles of war along with typical military theory and strategy to clearly provide an understanding of the thought processes and actions behind the conducting of a war. Two contemporary examples, the Gulf War in 1990 and the South African invasion of Angola in 1987, provide the opportunity to examine the process of military decision-making on every level in these conflicts. Finally, methods of successfully and carefully employing a military methodology of decision making to capitalize on the success of war are suggested.

DKK 547.00
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We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun - Hettie V. Williams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun - Hettie V. Williams - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun uses the metaphor of a nervous breakdown to critique the collapse of the American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective. Focusing on the years 1962 to 1968, using a topical chronological approach, this work seeks to discuss the major organizations and personalities central to the African American freedom struggle in the 1960s with an emphasis on the debate over the meaning, the means, and the attainment of ''black power.'' The five major national groups that made up the civil rights coalition ultimately divided and "broke-down" as concerns of strategy and methodology were compounded by questions of black identity. A nuanced interpretive psycho-intellectual history such as this seeks to redefine our understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement altogether.

DKK 361.00
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