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Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education supplants the historical notion of higher education as an individual endeavor with pioneering perspectives that outline interventions that enhance the education of people of African descent in areas of student services, teacher preparation, career preparation, and the role of Africana Studies in HBCUs.

The Mind of the Leader provides psychosocial and communication tools for effective leadership. With case vignettes and old-world parables, filled with uncommon wisdom, it promotes the cultivation and ultimately, the embodiment of highly desirable personality traits for successful leadership.

The central mission of this book is to provide additional context to an ongoing discussion regarding Black liberation and proper allyship. This book will use the term co-conspirator as a preferred descriptor for Black/non-Black liberation-collaboration and provide a more direct ask of journeying anti-racist white Americans.

In Knowledge and Cosmos: Development and Decline of the Medieval Perspective, 2nd Edition, Robert K. DeKosky focuses on issues in astronomy, cosmology, physics, matter theory, philosophy, and theology vital to the "Copernican Revolution." This book describes efforts among individuals advocating different world views to fit new ideas compatibly into broad perspectives reflecting four traditional patterns of interpretation: teleological, mechanical, occultist, and mathematico-descriptive. These four modes had guided medieval accounts of heavenly phenomena, material process, and motion.The teleological explanation, prevalent in Aristotle's natural philosophy, posited "final causes" (ends or goals toward which objects strove or attempted to become). Ancient classical atomists had emphasized strictly mechanical explanations, invoking direct material contact and collision of moving matter as agents of physical change. Traditions of astrology, magic, and alchemy embraced an occultist pattern of interpretation-citing hidden forces opaque to both sensual detection and rational understanding as explanations of various phenomena. Finally, the mathematico-descriptive approach interpreted natural phenomena according to geometric or arithmetic relationships; unlike the other three, this did not involve causal explanation of a process.Part I discusses development of the four patterns in the ancient period and their uneasy medieval relationships with each other and with basic Judaeo-Muslim-Christian exigencies of faith. Theory of the heavens follows, including the mathematico-descriptive approach of Ptolemaic astronomy, the teleological and mechanical cosmology of Aristotle, and occultist interpretations of astrologers and magicians. Part I then turns to matter and materiality, discussing differences among the mechanical philosophy of classical atomism, teleological emphases in Aristotle's material theory, and occultist assumptions of some alchemists. Finally, Part I analyzes conceptions of motion, focusing on Aristotelian interpretations and critical commentaries thereon during the Middle Ages.Part II relates struggles of leading early-modern figures to adapt new concepts (e.g., Copernicus' heliocentric astronomy/cosmology, Galileo's inertial theories of motion, and Kepler's elliptical planetary orbit) to an allegiance to two or more of the four patterns of interpretation. By this approach, it identifies decreasing dependence on teleological explanation of physical phenomena as crucial to decline of medieval interpretations of those phenomena, followed by rejection of teleology in the natural philosophy of Descartes, and subsequent fruitful confluence of the mechanical, mathematico-descriptive, and occultist patterns in the physics and cosmology of Isaac Newton.

This book explores the life of Gad Franco (1881-1954), a prominent Sephardi journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, who worked relentlessly for the Jewish community's acceptance as part of the national Turkish polity, and for the consolidation of the rule of law.

Everything is Useful encourages readers to transform obstacles and challenges into opportunities for success and growth. It draws on the spiritual wisdom of the past as a means of living effectively in the present.

This book is written from a practitioner's perspective and is designed for practitioners. Social change is guiding theme throughout each of the chapters. The book focused on elements such as cultural relevance, multiculturalism, learner centered, authentic assessment, and diversity, each chapter will be based on theory with a focus on practice.

This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer's mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.

Budget Superpower reveals how the Kremlin has applied and refined Russia's military strength, intelligence agencies, natural resources, political influence, and much more to drastically increase its power on the cheap. Preparing for Russia's next steps will be crucial for the United States to safeguard its own future.

This gathering of autobiographical essays focuses on different experiences and periods of the author's life and hybrid identity: a childhood spent in Austria, teenage years in an American school and then a lycee in France, coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England for two years, and then settling permanently in the U.S. into an academic career. The word ';essay' in the title is meant in its original or French sense, as an attempt or trial. The twenty-four items in this gathering are a kaleidoscopic collection of such attempts at different modes of self-reflexivity. They are arranged not so much in the chronological order of their composition as by way of loosely assembled thematic clusters. ';True lies' suggests that by transforming lived experiences into language--by way of memory, imagination, and reflection--and often years and decades later, we inevitably alter them as we write them down. But we also re-experience them, and in so doing shift them into another register. These recollections cover a wide range of experiences: Stelzig's early years, his absurd encounter with a barber in Salzburg, his mysterious Buddha experience in Hong Kong, his travel misadventure in Spain, his career as an aspiring poet, his commitment to teaching Shakespeare's plays, his love of dogs and of tennis, and the death of a nineteen-year old Austrian au pair girl. True Lies is divided into three parts. ';Austrian Roots' addresses Stelzig's early years, including his relationship with his Austrian parents. ';Adult Branchings' focuses on his American adult life and identity. The final section, ';Falling Leaves,' is for the most part a set of reflections on the later stages of life and the sense of mortality and of time running outthe challenge of ';being in time' and the question of ';what remains.'

The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Rich's Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations and the first step of how to put it into place.

This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.

The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible.

This book will view the subject of silence through a religious lens while focusing primarily on what I call "holy silence." Holy Silence is both the language of God and the sacred space where we meet God. Here we meet God not so much in conversation as much as in communion. We live in a world filled with noise and chaos. In order to hear God's voice speaking in silence, we must physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually come apart from the world to listen to God, hear and discern what God is saying in silence, and then obey.

The book is about economic developments and policies in the first decade or so after the independence of the fifteen countries that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In those years, the countries were beginning the transition from the Soviet central planning system towards market economies. The book focuses on the role of the IMF in this transition. It explains what the IMF was trying to do and why. It discusses the many controversial issues that involved the IMF, including the collapse in living standards, the speed of economic reforms, the introduction of new currencies, the economic crisis in Russia in 1998 and the widespread corruption. The author had an inside seat as head of the department in the IMF responsible for its work in these countries. He knew the leaders and economic policymakers in all the countries. The style is calm and reasoned, not polemical. Personal anecdotes provide context and color.