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Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood
This book links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and nationhood in the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and emphasizes their roots within the English attachments that were central to his political and spiritual persona. It further connects Chesterton to the vibrant debate about English national identity in the early years of the twentieth century, which was instrumental in shaping...
2009
1 novo
R$ 443,84
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Educa
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education. Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation pr...
2011
1 novo
R$ 846,79
Contemporary Africas Growth and Development
This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. After discussing and weighing the schools of thought that have attempted to explain the paradox of Africas reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources, this volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painfu...
2013
1 novo
R$ 725,44
The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohns Paulus
Felix Mendelssohn is one of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. As a composer of sacred texts, he is chiefly remembered today for the oratorios Paulus (1836) and Elijah (1846). In this groundbreaking study, Siegwart Reichwald offers a meticulous analysis of Paulus, beginning with a general overview of the oratorio traditions of the early nineteenth century. He details the pha...
2001
1 novo
R$ 928,22
Contemporary Africas Growth and Development
This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa. After discussing and weighing the schools of thought that have attempted to explain the paradox of Africas reduced growth and development in the midst of abundant resources, this volume comes up with comprehensive and detailed suggestions and recommendations to address this painfu...
2013
1 novo
R$ 725,44
Transforming NATO
Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATOs transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and the development of new capabilities to implement these missions. The book explains these processes throu...
2011
1 novo
R$ 976,58
Before, In and After Hollywood
In 1914, a young midwesterner quit his railroad job to crack the Hollywood motion picture boom. Impressed by his energy and honesty in his role as Lincoln, D.W. Griffith made him his assistant for Intolerance. Griffith then made Joe a director. He swiftly progressed to a preeminent position in the industry, directing some of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1920s including Douglas Fairbanks, Fat...
1997
1 novo
R$ 653,69
Before, In and After Hollywood
In 1914, a young midwesterner quit his railroad job to crack the Hollywood motion picture boom. Impressed by his energy and honesty in his role as Lincoln, D.W. Griffith made him his assistant for Intolerance. Griffith then made Joe a director. He swiftly progressed to a preeminent position in the industry, directing some of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1920s including Douglas Fairbanks, Fat...
1997
1 novo
R$ 653,69
Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood
This book links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and nationhood in the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and emphasizes their roots within the English attachments that were central to his political and spiritual persona. It further connects Chesterton to the vibrant debate about English national identity in the early years of the twentieth century, which was instrumental in shaping...
2009
1 novo
R$ 443,84
Interpreting a Continent
This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico...
2009
1 novo
R$ 440,86
The Party and the Arty in China
In this original exploration of the dynamic and potent interface between Chinese culture and politics, Richard Kraus examines the impact of the market on the once-comprehensive system of state patronage of the arts in the PRC. The author uses all genres of art to explore the changing nature of politics, seen through such phenomena as ideology, propaganda, censorship, and the relationship of artist...
2004
1 novo
R$ 1.241,04
The Party and the Arty in China
In this original exploration of the dynamic and potent interface between Chinese culture and politics, Richard Kraus examines the impact of the market on the once-comprehensive system of state patronage of the arts in the PRC. The author uses all genres of art to explore the changing nature of politics, seen through such phenomena as ideology, propaganda, censorship, and the relationship of artist...
2004
1 novo
R$ 1.241,04
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Latin America has long been strongly identified with the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the face of religion is changing in the region, as is evidenced by new landmarks that now appear on the social and geographic landscape. To date, most books on major religions in Latin America are specific to one religion only, and do not offer a comparative analysis. On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Religion in Modern...
1999
1 novo
R$ 420,86
Interpreting a Continent
This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico...
2009
1 novo
R$ 440,86
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Latin America has long been strongly identified with the Roman Catholic Church. Yet the face of religion is changing in the region, as is evidenced by new landmarks that now appear on the social and geographic landscape. To date, most books on major religions in Latin America are specific to one religion only, and do not offer a comparative analysis. On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Religion in Modern...
1999
1 novo
R$ 420,86
The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohns Paulus
Felix Mendelssohn is one of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. As a composer of sacred texts, he is chiefly remembered today for the oratorios Paulus (1836) and Elijah (1846). In this groundbreaking study, Siegwart Reichwald offers a meticulous analysis of Paulus, beginning with a general overview of the oratorio traditions of the early nineteenth century. He details the pha...
2001
1 novo
R$ 928,22
Transforming NATO
Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities, by Ivan Dinev Ivanov, examines the three dimensions of NATOs transformation since the end of the Cold War: the addition of a dozen new allies; the undertaking of new missions such as peacekeeping, crisis response, and stabilization; and the development of new capabilities to implement these missions. The book explains these processes throu...
2011
1 novo
R$ 976,58
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Educa
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education. Section I presents unique preservice teacher preparation pr...
2011
1 novo
R$ 846,79
Intercultural Student Teaching
In response to the changing global climate and the growing recognition of the professional associations in the teacher education community, universities around the country are beginning to recognize the need to add a global dimension to their education programs. One way to prepare teachers to address the challenges associated with teaching children in a global age is through carefully structured, ...
2007
1 novo
R$ 1.048,52
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are loca...
2002
1 novo
R$ 503,45
Evolution of Power
Evolution of Power: Chinas Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at Chinas rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civi...
2013
1 novo
R$ 1.303,58
Intercultural Student Teaching
In response to the changing global climate and the growing recognition of the professional associations in the teacher education community, universities around the country are beginning to recognize the need to add a global dimension to their education programs. One way to prepare teachers to address the challenges associated with teaching children in a global age is through carefully structured, ...
2007
1 novo
R$ 1.048,52
The Essential Herman Kahn
By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as one of the worlds most creative and best minds. The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahns ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn...
2009
1 novo
R$ 992,22
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and oppression. For postmodernists, the world is fragmented, history is ended, and all struggles are loca...
2002
1 novo
R$ 503,45
Evolution of Power
Evolution of Power: Chinas Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at Chinas rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civi...
2013
1 novo
R$ 1.303,58
Hollywood Intellect
Hollywood Intellect takes off from the wide-spread hand-wringing over the fate or disappearance of so-called public intellectuals. An account of the title phenomenon, Hollywood Intellect challenges assumptions on which such discussions have rested. James D. Bloom argues that such assumptions are the result of misleading inattention to the intellectual work that mass culture performs. Much of Ameri...
2009
1 novo
R$ 964,70
The Essential Herman Kahn
By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as one of the worlds most creative and best minds. The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahns ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn...
2009
1 novo
R$ 992,22
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Womens Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African womens cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarchi...
2013
1 novo
R$ 890,69
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Womens Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African womens cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarchi...
2013
1 novo
R$ 890,69
Hollywood Intellect
Hollywood Intellect takes off from the wide-spread hand-wringing over the fate or disappearance of so-called public intellectuals. An account of the title phenomenon, Hollywood Intellect challenges assumptions on which such discussions have rested. James D. Bloom argues that such assumptions are the result of misleading inattention to the intellectual work that mass culture performs. Much of Ameri...
2009
1 novo
R$ 964,70
Marxism and Urban Culture
Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities-Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna-the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and hi...
2014
1 novo
R$ 1.043,79
Marxism and Urban Culture
Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities-Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna-the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and hi...
2014
1 novo
R$ 1.043,79
So Many Christians, So Few Lions
So Many Christians, So Few Lions is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research, authors George Yancey and David A. Williamson show that even though (or perhaps because) Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States, bias against Christians also exists-particularly against conservative Christians-and that this bias ...
2014
1 novo
R$ 403,33
So Many Christians, So Few Lions
So Many Christians, So Few Lions is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research, authors George Yancey and David A. Williamson show that even though (or perhaps because) Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States, bias against Christians also exists-particularly against conservative Christians-and that this bias ...
2014
1 novo
R$ 403,33
David in the Muslim Tradition
In Chapter 38:21-25, the Quran relates a very short narrative about the biblical King Davids seeking and receiving Gods forgiveness. The earliest Muslim exegetes interpreted the quranic verses as referring to the Hebrew Bibles story of Davids adultery with Bathsheba, as related in 2 Samuel 12:1-13. Later Muslims, however, having developed the concept of prophetic impeccability, radically reinterpr...
2014
1 novo
R$ 995,67
Americas Growing Inequality
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such book PRRAC has published over the years, each with a high-visibility foreword writer: Rep. John Lewis, Rep...
2014
1 novo
R$ 1.441,92
David in the Muslim Tradition
In Chapter 38:21-25, the Quran relates a very short narrative about the biblical King Davids seeking and receiving Gods forgiveness. The earliest Muslim exegetes interpreted the quranic verses as referring to the Hebrew Bibles story of Davids adultery with Bathsheba, as related in 2 Samuel 12:1-13. Later Muslims, however, having developed the concept of prophetic impeccability, radically reinterpr...
2014
1 novo
R$ 995,67
Americas Growing Inequality
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a range of activities around these themes. It is the fourth such book PRRAC has published over the years, each with a high-visibility foreword writer: Rep. John Lewis, Rep...
2014
1 novo
R$ 1.441,92
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of childrens and youths agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gende...
2018
1 novo
R$ 1.099,14
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of childrens and youths agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in childrens lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gende...
2018
1 novo
R$ 1.099,14
Great American Baseball Stories
Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about Americas favorite pastime. Collected here are the writings of Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, the Giants immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland...
2019
1 novo
R$ 123,90
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and womens agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to food, demonstrating t...
2016
1 novo
R$ 511,89
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and womens agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to food, demonstrating t...
2016
1 novo
R$ 511,89
Livro Liberalism and Social Action
In this, one of Deweys most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for todays world. While liberals of all stripes have held to some very basic values-liberty, individuality, and the critical use of intelligence-earlier forms of liberalism restricted the state function to protecting its citizens ...
1999
1 novo
R$ 140,44