This book explains how managers and co-workers can help foster-and not hinder-the process of emotional recovery for employees who have been traumatized and are returning to work.
This book follows Chinese leader, Xi Jingping's rise to power and the chaotic path of his succession to the head of the Party. As he begins his first term, Xi Jinping knows that many challenges lie ahead, with the absolute imperative to keep China "as stable as Mount Taishan.
WARNING: This book WILL change you and everything you know as it is. Big Claim? Not really! I asked you to read each page, each chapter, each section...and reflect. You will learn about the loopholes in human brain (yours and mine) that can be hacked by brain hackers...similar to how computer hackers can hack your computer and make the computer do whatever they want it to do. You will learn who hacked your brain, and how they did it, you will ...
In the Spring of 1994 teacher-educators from representative institutions within the Christian College Coalition met to consider the question: Just what is it that Christian colleges of education should do in preparing teachers for the nation's schools? This well-constructed volume begins to answer that question.
With the translations of these articles, original GDR essays are made available to the English-speaking public. The editors achieved their aim to present material 'essential for an understanding of the German Democratic Republic.' The introductions to each chapter, the footnotes, and the questions for discussion attest to their dedication.'-GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
Although this work is written from a Christian viewpoint, it also presents the symbolic visions of the non-believer. The symbolic examination of God helps us to uncover what it means to be human, and where we are heading as a species. Symbols aid in conveying the abstract ideas that human languages are too limited to express. In the broadest sense, God symbolizes all the mysteries of existence. Any thinking person must ask the question, 'what ...
This book provides a contemporary approach to counseling and psychotherapy theories. Many of the chapters are brief, and experiential exercises are presented that help bring the theories to life. Each chapter has an overview and summary, key terms are in boldface type, and many chapters have glossaries. Also, examination questions are provided toward the end of each chapter. This book also provides coverage of the DSM-IV and the new ethical pr...
This book is an analysis of the negotiating and analytical failures that were a result of decontrolling a wide variety of strategic technology-- technology that was capable of directly enhancing the military power of potential adversaries. The author goes on to argue that U.S. power projection technologies will be compromised and will result in higher defense spending and enhanced danger to U.S. forces.
This study examines William Dean Howells's intense interest in language, particularly literary language, and it illustrates how his use of language can be studied to indicate the evolution of his career. Since his views on language were so extensive and his canon of works so large, this study focuses on Howells's use of literary dialect in a representative number of works to support the following thesis: Howells's career charted a circular pat...
In this second edition, twenty-four college professors, with roots in the working class, discuss the experience of significant upward mobility and the problems of adjustment to life in the academy. This collection of stories provides revelations about the social class system and academic life in the United States.
Symbolic process, myth, science, postmodernism and the environment are skillfully woven together in 13 essays that reflect the timbre of the times in terms of current issues in anthropology, philosophy and religion. The spectre of consciousness transformation provides a common underlying theme and Prattis provides a novel perspective on "who we are, where did we come from, where are we going". The current furor over the nature of science, post...
Stewart presents the only complete biography ever written on Morgan Edwards. In this exhaustively researched book, the author provides an innovative portrait of the most influential and perplexing man in American Baptist history.
Real Power to the People describes a unique experiment in democracy that took place during 2004-2005. In this experiment, the government of British Columbia gave its citizens the power to take control of its electoral reform process and make a final decision. This new approach to electoral reform was implemented through a citizens' assembly of 160 randomly selected, nonpartisan British Columbians and a referendum. The citizens' assembly first ...
Shakespeare's Neighbors focuses on what lay next door to Shakespeare- the theoretical context that, while partially lost on us, was quite likely to inform the perception that Shakespeare's contemporaries (his 'neighbors') had of his works. In this series of alternative readings, the primacy of the literary text is set against the backdrop of unexpected or largely ignored theories whose enormous diffusion renders them inescapable terms of compa...
This book discusses theories in economics and ethics to help the reader understand all points of view regarding the crossroads between economic systems and individual and social values. Covering microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, as well as many topics discussed in a university-level ethics course, Beyond Naïveté demonstrates how ethics and philosophy speak to economic questions and how economics addresses philosophical and ethical questi...
Malawi's First Republic combines archival materials, government publications, newspapers and personal accounts to illustrate the problems of economic development and party politics in post colonial Africa. Malawi's economic development stands in stark contrast to its political reality.
