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This text discusses the position of women in American Education. The authors offer examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourse. It also goes beyond the classroom to look at the context of American higher education.

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Focusing on pastoral and lay leadership in the African-American church, this books deals with internal and external issues - such as the tendency towards bifurcated mentality and practices, and the social issue of race and affirmative action.

This text highlights "mundane" practices that increasingly influence our schools, homes, and communities. The author examines the justice system and the everyday life of the postmodern to show how the lines between these spheres of social life are blurred by the use of surveillance technologies.

In this work, the author develops a global life systems perspective that delineates how biological forces mutually reinforce one another - and what their globalization has meant for both human society and the biosphere.

This work provides a statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. The essays offer arguments and information on how local experience interacts with the world at large. The places disccused include Los Angeles and New York.

Reflects on the central mystery of faith: how new life springs from death. Invites readers to contemplate the central mysteries of Christ's incarnation, passion, death, and new life.

This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.

A collection of 15 essays which discuss the nature and limits of moral reasoning. It argues that moral philosophy can subvert received opinion and replace it with something better. Issues such as euthanasia, the rights of animals, privacy and affirmative action are discussed.

Blending theory and case studies, this book looks at community-building in rural America, and how civic-minded people come together through a variety of ways, such as hosting and attending festivals, addressing conflict, planning the community, and maintaining heritage museums.

This work aims to reach out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. It covers God's message, and how spreading it has changed through the generations.

Charting the rise of the faith-based movement for global human rights, the author tells the story of the personalities and forces, clashes and compromises, strategies and protests that shape it. In doing so, she shows that by raising issues such as global religious persecution and others, the movement is impacting foreign policy around the world.

Presenting a concise history of the Napoleonic Wars, this title argues that Napoleon was the master of the broken play, so confident of his ability to improvise, cover his own mistakes, and capitalize on those of the enemy that he plunged his armies into uncertain, seemingly desperate situations, only to emerge victorious as he blundered to glory.

In defending just war against Christian pacifism by arguing that decisions regarding war must be governed by "political prudence", the author joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

In this book, teachers discover the power of uncommon sense that this author shares with respect to pedagogy, politics, and the personal health of professionals.

In Tough Choices for Teachers: Ethical Challenges in Today's Schools and Classrooms, Infantino and Wilke help student teachers, new teachers, and experienced teachers think more deeply about ethical concerns. The case studies included by the authors involve ethical dilemmas dealing with honesty, integrity, and proper professional behavior.

From the 'Five Things Teens Need from Grown-Ups' to the 'Seven Grown-Up Skills,' this book covers all aspects of the adult-teenager relationship and provides educators with guidance and practical tips on how to increase their effectiveness in their work with teenagers in schools.

This book offers experiences and important lessons about teaching and classroom life at all grade levels, illuminating the perspective of both teachers and students. Knitting teacher and student voices together, this book inspires practicing teachers and those who are learning to teach, with universal insights drawn from elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.

Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia, this work explores systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, it focuses especially on the nature of Japanese and American wars and crimes of war.

This work applies the functional theory of political campaign discourse - analyzing how messages acclaim, attack, or defend - to several different forms of campaign communication in the 2000 US presidential primary and general election. These forms include TV talk show appearances.

In this text, two historians offer competing interpretations of the past, present, and future of American immigration policy and American attitudes towards immigration. Through essays and supporting primary documents, the authors provide recommendations for future policies and legal remedies.

In this first sustained, single-authored assessment of China's expanding influence in Asia in the post-Cold War period, respected analyst Robert Sutter draws on his extensive experience to explore the current debate on China's military and economic rise and its meaning for U.S. interests.