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The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa is a rich and multifaceted portrayal of the Apocalypse as a sophisticated code to interpret either history or a response to God in contemporary personal life. This book brings new ways of reading for the liberation of the African continent.

This book analyzes the process of the sinicization of Buddhism. It provides a comprehensive investigation on how the perceived similarities between Buddhism and Daoism originated and how traditional Daoist terminologies were applied.

This book highlights how the foreign policy and intervention behavior of state actors are influenced by regional hegemonic interests and collective identity, drawing from empirical insights gathered from structural realism and social constructivism to explain why and how states intervene in conflicts.

The Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti: Libète ou Lanmò, Freedom or Death is an Afrocentric re-examination and interpretation around the historiography of the Haitian Revolution and provides an in-depth study that highlights several significant Afrikan epistemological and cosmological aspects that led to freedom.

This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by revealing its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. The book takes an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, reading contemporary political and legal discussions alongside Brontë, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot.

The chapters in this volume analyze the interplay between knowledge, public policy, and entrepreneurship in both theory and practice. In particular, they examine how policymakers often struggle with limited economic knowledge, which hinders their ability to intervene in the market process to achieve their desired ends.

This volume explores of the history of figures, issues, and debates in Continental philosophy to re-frame our understanding of how modern and recent philosophy has unfolded, especially through the investigation of understudied ideas and thinkers.

Democratic Education in an Armed Society provides an account of how our conceptions of democratic education affect our ability to make democracy work while holding a gun. It suggests that school gun violence is tied to how we teach children to think of themselves as democratic actors.

This book examines how Q-Anon and other right-wing beliefs use intolerant religious tropes that promote fear and violence and counter with a progressive religious frame of ethics and recent findings in social-psychology to inspire a new collective national identity.

Social Justice from Outside the Walls: Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950¿1970 by Ann Youngblood Mulhearn examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movements in twentieth-century Memphis, Tennessee. Weaving together the biographies of six Catholic women and drawing upon the activists¿ own published writing and personal interviews, this book disrupts assumptions that racial and social justice was primarily a Protestant concern. Motivated by the tenets of their Catholic faith, these women, both Black and White, used existing social, political, and religious organizations to further the causes of racial and social justice. When these structures were not available, the women created them, transforming traditional women¿s organizations into vehicles of social and political activism. As a small representation of progressive Catholics active in the South in the time period, these six Catholic women redefined their perceptions and expectations of themselves both as women and Catholics. In doing so, they challenged contemporary gender norms as well as the patriarchal hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Their intertwined stories highlight the significant contributions made by Catholics and Catholic theology to the civil rights movement on the local level and further refine our understanding of larger national movements.

Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2 contain difficult and perplexing phrasings in the Hebrew. The present study plunges deeply into what might be discovered through a series of foundation-setting analytical exegeses followed by illustrative applications to multiple hermeneutical phenomenological investigations.

This book explores the history of church camps and retreat centers to show how environmental stewardship became the dominant paradigm for Protestant environmentalism, why that is a flawed and fractious model, and why it has stalled.

This field of Black girls¿ and women¿s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH. Each contributor draws upon these knowledges and offers the reader a way to better understand how their framing and writing can create change in the health of Black girls and women.

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle.

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children ¿grow up,¿ as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally ¿grow out¿ of childhood innocence?

With the advent of print in colonial Assam, experimentation with mediums like the prose and novel became more commonplace. This book, in tracing alternative literary trends, acknowledges the simultaneous presence of premodern literary and aural practices which shaped a 'particular' modernity during this period.

This book differentiates both the objective structural elements and the subjective emotional elements in organizations and shows how psychological processes cast their influence throughout. It demonstrates the development of work, workplaces, organization, and organizations in the context of psychology and social psychology.

This CSIS report offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of Chinese political warfare activities and examines Chinäs main actions, primary goals, and options for the United States and its partners.

This book is an introduction to trauma and growth that bridges the gap between psychological and spiritual responses to suffering. Through the hopeful metaphor of night blooming, it encourages pastoral and mental health professionals¿ understandings of trauma and demonstrates how to frame growth in an integrated and ethical way.

Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.

Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.

It's easy to think that today's revolutions in communications, business, and many areas of daily life are unprecedented. The changes we experience nearly every day may be happening faster than those of the past, and on multiple fronts. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call ¿networks¿: the physical links that bind any society together.In this fascinating book, Tom Wheeler vividly describes the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and excitement most people feel about changes happening now, changes that make up the third network revolution.The first major network revolution was Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century, which created the first mass-information economy. This book, its millions of predecessors, and history-shifting trends such as the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the scientific revolutions of the past 500 years would not have been possible without that one invention.The second revolution came early in the nineteenth century with the inventions of the railroad and the telegraph. Never before had people been able to travel or communicate over long distances faster than a horse could gallop. Together, these two inventions compressed space and time, and in the process upended centuries of stability, transformed economies, and redrew the map of the world.Wheeler contrasts these past revolutions with our experience today, when rapid-fire changes in networking are disrupting the nature of work, personal privacy, education, the media, and nearly every other aspect of modern life. The principal manifestation of this revolution¿one that touches each of us directly and shapes both commerce and culture¿is how we connect with each other. Our networks have always defined who we are, both economically and sociologically. Now, technology has delivered us into history's latest network revolution, changing everything it touches.Outlining ¿what's next,¿ Wheeler describes how artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, and the need for cybersecurity will prolong the third network revolution well into the future.

Election Day, as it was once known, is no more. In 2020, with COVID-19 raging, over 60 percent of American voters cast early ballots. Even before the pandemic, more than one-third of voters routinely did so. Early voting represents a radical change in American elections. It means new options for voters, new procedures for election clerks, and new challenges for political candidates. In Tuesday's Gone, Elliott Fullmer explores the effects of this new reality. Applying new data and innovative methods, he reports that early voting is bringing new citizens to the polls. Examining four recent elections, he finds that both early in-person and absentee options increase turnout by several points when aggressively implemented by state and local officials. But early voting does come with some side effects. Fullmer cautions that early voting increases down-ballot roll-off, widens racial disparities in voting access, and alters the competitive environment in presidential nomination contests.

You think you met her by chance. You're wrong.Charlotte has it all: the successful career, the loving family. But, secretly, she is dangerously bored of her rigid and structured life. Bianka is a free spirit, always the life and soul. When she and Charlotte meet, it feels like fate - Bianka is exactly the person that Charlotte needs. When they escape to Ibiza for a girls' trip, home is soon forgotten. Charlotte dives head first into a life that is looser, wilder. But the holiday soon spirals out of control with fatal consequences - someone doesn't return home. Charlotte soon regrets ever breaking out of her carefully constructed routine. And as the aftermath of the trip ricochets disastrously through her life, she wonders whether meeting Bianka was really an accident - or something much more calculated . . . A fabulously creepy simmering 'glam-noir' thriller, perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce, Claire Douglas and TM Logan.Readers can't get enough of Alex Dahl . . .'An irresistible read' Daily Mail'Fast-paced and unsettling' Guardian'A tense thriller that felt utterly real' Jane Shemilt

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. Newspapers are significant and vital and yet also quotidian and disposable: stuffed inside walls for insulation, crumpled to wash windows or start fires, and spread across floors to protect from paint or muddy shoes. A part of our daily ritual, "the first draft of history," and a critical component of our democracy, newspapers figure in our lives and societies in many different ways, but are often central to the communities they serve. This is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object and journalist Maggie Messitt's more recent, personal journey as an advocate for its transformation and survival in the two democratic nations she calls home - the United States and South Africa. A collection of 100 vignettes, Newspaper is a reflection on the past and present, and a journey alongside those seeking to prevent its extinction.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawai'i and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.

A love story set against the background of the Russian Revolution after the murder of Rasputin. For Princess Militza, famed as one of the 'Witches of St Petersburg' and her daughter Nadezhda, life is about to become extremely dangerous. Revolution is bubbling and the court is on the run, fleeing from the mob.

A thrilling tome of the best crime and mystery tales of the year, selected by bestselling author Amor Towles. Includes sensational short stories by Jeffery Deaver, Andrew Child and Brendan Du Bois.International bestseller Amor Towles, the critically acclaimed author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility, together with award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Bookshop, Otto Penzler, has selected the crème de la crème of the year's crime and mystery stories, and presented them here in one entertaining volume perfect for crime fiction lovers. The classic mystery tale will be familiar to aficionados and casual readers alike: it was invented by Edgar Allan Poe, popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle, and perfected by Agatha Christie. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged, and its significance determined: all else is mere embellishment.Featuring stories by: Doug Allyn, Derrick Belanger, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Joslyn Chase, Andrew Child, Aaron Philip Clark, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Kerry Hammond, Victor Kreuiter, David Krugler, Tom Larsen, Avram Lavinsky, Jesse Lewis, Ashley Lister, Michael Mallory, Lou Manfredo, Sean McCluskey, Annie Reed, Anna Round, Joseph S. Walker, and a special bonus story: a vintage mystery tale from the fabled literary chronicler of the American Gilded Age, Edith Wharton.

A breathtaking contemporary YA thriller - serious questions and hot romance in an irresistible twisty mystery. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying.Jo used to be the perfect high-school girl - class president, popular, bright and successful. But when nude photos of her were leaked to the entire school, her grades plummeted, her friends fell away and now she's a reckless, difficult social outcast. The girl who 'deserved' it.Then her former best friend Maddie disappears. Everyone else assumes Maddie has just run away but that doesn't add up to Jo. To discover the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the group of classmates who have shut her out: the boys who betrayed her and the clique of girls who whisper behind her back. And she has to make it look as if she wants to be there. The only way back in is through Hudson. An old fling with his own reasons for finding Maddie, he persuades Jo to fake date him. And it works. But as the truth about Maddie's disappearance comes to light, so do long-hidden secrets from Jo's past. Who is Jo really trying to find?Maddie, or the girl she herself used to be? A gripping read, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying, We Were Liars and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.