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Spirituality in College Students¿ Lives draws on data from a large-scale national survey examining the spiritual development of undergraduates and how colleges and universities can be more effective in facilitating students¿ spiritual growth.

Christian churches and groups within Anglo-American contexts have increasingly used popular music as a way to connect with young people. This book investigates the relationships between evangelical Christianity and popular music, focusing particularly on electronic dance music in the last twenty years. Author Stella Lau illustrates how electronic dance music is legitimized in evangelical activities by Christians¿ discourses, and how the discou...

This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship.

This edited collection provides a glimpse at the ways colleges and universities have integrated sustainability across the curriculum.

This edited collection provides a glimpse at the ways colleges and universities have integrated sustainability across the curriculum.

Problem: You feel shaky about being assigned to teach upper-level science and math and need to get up to speed fast. Solution: Follow this concise book's tried-and-true methods, which you can integrate into your classroom and lesson plans starting from the first day of class. You Want Me to Teach What? avoids long discussions of education theory and specific lesson plans. Instead, it concentrates on general techniques for approaching a variety...

This volume shows how nanotechnology takes on a wide range of socio-historically specific meanings in the context of globalization, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and in a variety of discussions within the public sphere itself. It explores the early origins of nanotechnologies, the social, economic, and political organization of the field, and the ...

The third and penultimate volume in the Yale Research Edition's genetic transcription of the manuscript of Boswell's biographical masterwork.

The Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) process, funded by the National Science Foundation, helps teachers improve their practice by linking standards and research on how children learn mathematics to classroom practice. Keyed to the core book Mathematics Curriculum Topic Study, this resource helps mathematics professional development leaders and teacher educators understand the CTS approach and how to design, lead, and apply CTS in a variety of sett...

This study addresses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late antiquity to its learned revival in 12th century Byzantium. The author analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels.

Explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity, from the perspectives of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, & the U.S.

This book introduces Catholic doctrine through the crucible of the women mystics' reception of the gospel.The work of the great women theologians of the Church's second millennium has too often been neglected (or relegated to the category of 'mysticism') in textbooks on Catholic doctrine.This is a shame, because their work shows the interior conjunction of liturgical experience (broadly understood), scriptural exegesis, philosophical reflectio...

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about foreign peoples, lands, and customs in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. The collection makes an important contribution to travel writing s...

In this ethnographic study, the authors examine parents' and children's experience with learning resources, not only in schools and libraries, but also in sites ranging from doctors' waiting rooms to supermarkets. They investigate the ways in which governments, corporations, and communities are transforming early childhood education and creating an early learning industry.

This text focuses on a holistic interpretation of the Second Temple period (c.550 BC - 100 AD) and its importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries. Topics examined include views on God, the temple and priesthood and messianism.

An investigatigation of the phenomenon of literal interpretation in Islam, which proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. It focuses on the tradition of Muslim legal writings, and also makes reference to Quranic exegesis (tafsir) and Arabic rhetorical works. The Muslim debates analysed in the book are described through the prism of modern Western linguistic philosophy, and a chronology of the development of Muslim conceptions o...

Ethics for Health Care, fourth edition, assists students to develop their skills in ethical reasoning, and to deal with contemporary ethical issues faced by professionals in the everyday health care setting.

The only detailed guide to the Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) regime, which is increasingly being adopted by companies for cross-border data transfers. This book is essential reading for anyone needing to get to grips with how the regime works, the debates about its relationship with other regulatory systems, and how the systems can be improved.

This volume considers the global competition to attract talents and the brain gain and brain drain associated with high-skilled migration. Part I provides an overview of immigration policies specifically aimed at selecting and attracting skilled workers. Part II looks at the consequences of brain drain for sending countries.

This volume analyses developments in East Asian capitalism since the 1980s, focussing on three main areas: business systems, financial structures, and labour markets.