Edited by Gregory Barnes and including content by John Graham, Patricia McCarty, David Avshalomov, Roland Vamos, Jeffrey Irvine, and many more outstanding contributors! 232 pages.
Combines original survey experiments from Argentina and Mexico with national surveys from 18 Latin American countries to examine how the near exclusion of working-class citizens from legislatures affects citizens' evaluations of government. The book's findings demonstrate that voters want more workers in office"--
Philadelphia's historic Quaker meeting house on Arch Street has seen dramatic developments in the history of the city and the Quaker community that uses it as a place of worship, decision making, and service. This book tells the story of the people connected with the building, from the time William Penn deeded the land to Quakers in 1688 for use as a burial ground to the present day.
-> Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte (USA 1999, 92 Min., FSK 6):
Bob Cratchit hat es nicht leicht. Er ist Angestellter des misanthropen und geizigen Ebenezer Scrooge, der für Menschlichkeit nichts übrig hat. Auch in der Vorweihnachtszeit schikaniert er seine Mitmenschen, wo es nur geht. Auch Scrooges pfiffigem Neffen Fred Bowley gelingt es nicht,
weihnachtliche Stimmung zu verbreiten. In der Weihnachtsnacht bekommt Scrooge in seinem Haus unerwartete...
Academic Advising: Why do tertiary students need to be advised? What role does academic advising play in student retention? Who should advise students? Which model of advising is best suited for which institution? How should faculty advisors be compensated for the advising that they are engaged in? Central to the learning environment, academic advising is not confined to course selection done at registration periods or on sporadic unscheduled ...
This book, entitled Conversations on Fethullah Gulen and the Hizment Movement: Dreaming for a Better World, is intended to represent an open perspective on the influence of the Hizmet Movement, including Fethullah Gulen in particular, on the theme of dreaming for a better world, based on a variety of Christian and Muslim world views. This theme is approached from three specific perspectives: education and an emphasis on interfaith and intercul...
