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Despite what some scholarship has suggested, Shint does exhibit a unifying cognitive integrity. Spirit Tree offers a unique social psychological interpretation of Shint ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan and situates the cosmological organization of this practice within the larger context of ritual in East Asia. Employing a comparative approach, this study blends two theoretical orientations: cultural anthropology and Jun...

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing--describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.

Tips and techniques for teachers to use for teaching in small group situations.

This widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout, attention is placed on the interplay of threats and vulnerabilities, the policy consequences of overemphasising one or the other, and the existence of contradictions within and between ideas about secu...

Formerly a publication of The Brain StoreThis easy-to-follow brain fitness program for children ages 4-8 includes ways to stimulate neurons and grow intelligence through problem-solving, nutrition, exercise, enriching environments, and positive feedback.Based on research showing that the brain changes, grows, and adapts to stimulus and input, this resource provides activities known as neural activators, or learning readiness stimulators, that ...

Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. He anchored the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s and provided in-depth reporting on "60 Minutes", and hosted numerous special programs covering civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War, and Watergate.

The 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel was the first multilateral convention to deal specifically with the protection of personnel engaged in peace operations. Effective protection for specific challenges surrounding such operations needs to be addressed. This study looks at some of these challenges.

Broadly conceived and accessibly written." - Marcia L. Colish, Visiting Fellow, Yale University

Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a 'long revolution' in Irish history. The origins of the long revolution lie in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its legacy is still being played out in the first years of the twenty-first century. Acknowledged experts on specific topics seek to explore the layered domestic and international, political, ...

Methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. This book charts a ground between postmodernism and positivism. It argues that realism can combine a definition of social reality with an anti-foundational approach to knowledge. It develops the realist anti-foundationalism.

Provides an account of the nature and functioning of the non-verbal self, rooted in nature of affect and functioning of an 'affective appraisal mechanism', located in brainstem and right hemisphere of brain. This book draws on theory of narcissism.

This book, a project of Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the whole of Malaysia since its formation in 1963, using statistics collected in the four pan-Malaysia Population Censuses held in 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000, and data from other sources up to 2005 wherever possible. The book is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of the multiracial population of the country, with painstaking effort and skill of the author in inte...

This book, a reprint project of the Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the duration from the time when data are available up to the early eighties. The book presents a comprehensive study of the multiracial population of the region for the period under consideration. The strength of the book lies in the author's deep familiarity with the country where he was educated up to secondary level, and even taught for some years in the Universit...

Maiden Voyages is a fascinating, unusual study of the centrality, impact and place of sea travel on the lives of women in Eastern Indonesia. It shows how women there travel constantly by sea, to move between islands, to urban centres and even overseas. In doing so, they negotiate and cross and re-make their social boundaries. In contrast to the dominant economic approach to migration, this book uses Eastern Indonesian women's own travel accoun...

There have been major developments in the field of statistics over the last quarter century, spurred by the rapid advances in computing and data-measurement technologies. These developments have revolutionized the field and have greatly influenced research directions in theory and methodology. Increased computing power has spawned entirely new areas of research in computationally-intensive methods, allowing us to move away from narrowly applic...

This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of contributions address such issues as the work of Derrida and deconstruction, discourse theory, Eurocentrism and poststructuralism. What unites all of the contributions is a sense that it is essential to provide a realist alternative to the hitherto dominance of social constructionism, hermeneutics ...

Der Beratermarkt ist in Bewegung. Obwohl die Umsätze seit 2004 erstmals wieder leicht gestiegen sind und auch die Prognosen für 2007 optimistisch sind, bleibt die Lage angespannt: Die Zahlungsbereitschaft der Kunden sinkt, gleichzeitig drängen - begünstigt durch niedrige Markteintrittsbarrieren - viele neue, auch branchenfremde Unternehmen in den Beratermarkt. Banken, Versicherungen, Wirtschaftsprüfer und Steuerberater sorgen für Überkapazität...

This collection is to present the earliest textbooks that grew out of the original development of automatic control, and the many others that followed very soon, in various countries, and in various languages. We set out to collect information on one to four books from each country, including a brief description of the background, history and contents of the book, a picture of the front page, and copies of one to a few "typical" pages. With th...

One of America's most prominent worship leaders allows us to go on a liturgical journey with him. Out of his experience, Bishop Frederick Hilborn Talbot provides an exciting and useful guide for church leaders who understand that revitalizing worship is central to revitalizing the church itself. In African American Worship: New Eyes for Seeing, Talbot balances the cultural setting of African American churches and the wider experience of the ch...

This is just what we need in our congregations and classrooms -- a truly inclusive collection of resources for children. . . . This creative collection offers some hope that the next generation will grow up convinced that God is a God for girls as well as boys and will act accordingly. -- Miriam Therese Winter, Professor of Liturgy, Worship, Spirituality, and Feminist Studies, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT [A] terrific collection of inclusiv...