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In this story, a man coincidentally makes a tough choice on the same day that a terrible catastrophe occurs in the United States of America. The events that follow are beyond prediction and imagination and leave the average person wondering what constitutes the rules of right and wrong in society.

Beyond the Metropolis is an attempt to mend the lacuna that exists between large and small city studies in urban geography, especially in North America. It covers a wide range of topics organized around some of the most common themes that urban geographers have addressed in their study of large cities. In addition to a general introduction and conclusion, the book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the evolution and growth of small cities.

Educating for Worldview consists of an array of essays from scholars from around the world including the Fiji Islands, Hong Kong, Canada, Japan, India, Nigeria, and the United States. The essays included in this volume have been selected from papers and lectures presented at the eleventh Triennial Conference of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. These essays cover a range of topics, such as Asian and Pacific indigenous education, peace education, and the use of technology to train teachers in Nigeria. The authors share a commitment to a grassroots model of global education that challenges the traditional 'colonial' model. The new model is holistic as the essays cover topics from elementary, middle, and high school to university and non-traditional adult education.

Lena Kolberg was just one of the two million German civilians who fled from East Prussia at the end of the Second World War. This book presents an eye-witness account of the hardships and horrors experienced by her family in their desperate flight from the advancing Soviet army.

This book culls important insights into American culture from the works of Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, William Wells Brown, and Walt Whitman. López contends that many of the tensions that emerged prior to the Civil War remain unresolved; thus, the nineteenth century never ended and Americans still live in the literary framework of the 1800s.

Play and Performance broadens the understanding of what play is. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performance continuum, providing advocates, researchers, and practitioners a wealth of practical and theoretical ideas for expanding the use of performance as a tool.

Spencer unwaveringly exposes the harmful effects of hip hop as a regulated industry, music, and culture. Her careful analysis allows the reader to examine the relationship between the presentation of hip hop and the prevalence of murder, misogyny, and mayhem in the urban community.

"Direction," "Destination," and "Decisions" are the outcomes of strategic planning, a process used to formulate strategy by helping leaders and employees to define their organization's path, their desired future, and the actions required to move forward. This work presents a series of illustrations, cases, and "lessons learned" from strategy formation and strategic planning experiences in private and public organizations.Each topic begins with a concise lesson learned, followed by the rationale, and a real-life illustration in a public or private organization. The reasons for assessing current strengths and weaknesses are explained along with competitor analysis, planner roles, vision development, strategic options, and progress reviews. Over one hundred illustrations and cases are featured with links to web sites to give the reader an opportunity to understand how these concepts are put into practice. The reader-friendly design and format enables executives, managers, and students to use the materials for continuous assessment and improvement of their own organizations.

Bad Religion suggests that there are two classifications of religious people in the world: those that better the world through their faith, and those that cause harm and suffering through their religious misinterpretations. Bad Religion focuses on the latter group of individuals who practice "bad religion," by engaging in religious misconduct.

Sir Richard Blackmore (1650_1729) was deeply affected by the Protestant poetic trends in England, which favored the Sacred Scriptures as a source for what was termed 'divine poetry.' His preference also prized the religious poetic trends as a spiritual weapon against vice and atheism. His advocacy of ideas upholding virtue, morality, and Christianity in a world that was undergoing phenomenal changes in its mores served as a backbone for the renewal and strengthening of the increasing popularity of divine poetry. This work further explores the Bible's influence on Blackmore's physico-theological poems, his personal notions of a Creator, and his scientific ideas.

Through Kosinski's Lenses: Identity, Sex, and Violence is a critical examination of the literary work of Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991). Once a source of international controversy, Kosinski now deserves to be studied for his artistic products, not his biography. Kosinski's work explores a world in flux and defies theoretical labels. His books offer an intelligent yet veiled examination of moral, political, and economic systems via stories that remain popular, intriguing, and disturbing. This analysis focuses on three of Kosinski's thematic lenses: identity, sex, and violence. Also featured are materials from the author's interviews with noted Kosinski scholars and friends_ most importantly, with his widow, Mrs. Katherina von Fraunhofer-Kosinski.

Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven development and ethnic disequilibrium and was disturbed by the inability of intellectuals to share a common cause with the masses. He sought to lift the Caribbean people from the victimization of history and the poverty of material circumstance.

Comprised of fifteen essays, Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America, provides a cutting-edge examination of diversity issues against the backdrop of curriculum development and outcomes in Christian higher education. The primary focus on diversity of race, ethnicity, and disabilities is explored in comparison with institutional changes in these areas that harmonize the efforts of administration, faculty, and students. Hiring practices are analyzed, as well as recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students.This works' secondary focus is on similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam regarding international customs and norms of immigrants, primarily from Africa, Asia, and India on America's Christian academia. The work is reader-friendly and recommended for students and scholars as well as for laypersons desirous of keeping pace with current diversity trends in American culture and religion.

This work features a collection of essays regarding patterns of conflict, settlement, and political reconstruction in Palestine, Israel, and Iraq. The case studies in this volume represent the individual efforts of scholars to address issues underlying conflict in these troubled nations. The scholars debate that these issues constitute structural barriers to peace building, and their resolution is fundamental to a furtherance of social justice in the Middle East.

Engineering for Business features teaching materials and case studies developed for senior undergraduate courses in engineering and business and graduate-level classes in Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Technology Management.

This textbook's easy-to-read format gives students a comprehensive guide to basic college research and writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the rudimentary level, it provides tips for reading texts; listening; and developing studying and writing skills.

No other field is as simultaneously important and misunderstood as sales. Managers and salespeople search for success in sales myths that do not improve sales performance. Rainmaker, Closers & Other Sales Myths provides a clear-cut path to successful selling by debunking mythology and replacing the myths with a proven sales system of strategy, structure and people. Like war, a winning sales strategy is coordinated and waged at four levels: shareholders (sovereigns); CEOs and presidents (generals); sales management (officers); and salespeople (soldiers). Strategy defines the system and solution, yet without a sound structure managed by the right people all strategies will fall short. This book provides the tools sales leaders need to set a strategy for success, construct structure that supports it, and build a winning sales team that possess the natural abilities to learn the skills to succeed.

This book focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The discussions in the book center on the ideals of culturally responsive teaching (CRT), and seek to build understanding of this concept in the context of mathematics.

The origin, basic texts, central affirmations, and life-policy proposals of the Christian tradition are more ambiguous than either Christianity's critics or advocates often acknowledge. Through a Glass Darkly considers how one might grant authority to the biblical texts without regarding them as inerrant or infallibly true.

This work examines the confusion and myth of life balance, offers a new paradigm of balance, and illuminates a path for busy professionals and managers to follow to achieve real balance and deeper meaning in their lives. Drawing from business theory, existing and original research, and the authors' own consulting experiences, A Life in Balance is an engaging, thoughtful, and readable guide that will help readers unfold and create their own balance experience.

Although Marx was the last great utopian, his work has inspired Western utopian writers like Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Ernst Bloch. This book explores what remains of the Marxist and Utopian Left after the death of totalitarian utopianism and authoritarian state socialism and how Marxism provides a provides a critique of globalization.

This is an in-depth analysis of the dramatic influence of the Great Depression upon the geography, politics, economics, and demography of the Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest. The author references evidence from local histories, on-site visits and interviews, scholarly research, government documents, and local newspapers.

On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded, and the debate began about the number of snipers. Waksler traces the course of this event and analyzes claims and counterclaims made in the search to explain it.

The emerging global economy and increasing diversity of the workforce continue to influence the way organizations manage their human resources. This work reviews twelve critical diversity issues students must learn thoroughly and implement resolutely in their careers to become effective leaders in a diverse workplace, such as: Equal Opportunity Employment, Affirmative Action, stereotypes, disabilities, cultural values, dispute resolution, sexual orientation, and implementing a successful diversity program in the workplace. This work is easily adopted into any business or communications course for burgeoning business professionals, or to be read alone as a thorough review for graduates.

This book places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context. This book is about our culture's recovery and transformation.

This book systematically outlines specific strategies to guide the student in designing and conducting empirical research. The quality and usefulness of all research is only as good as the skills of the researcher and the clarity of the research study.

This book argues that human beings do indeed have the fundamental, unalienable rights to their lives, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and so forth -- indeed, to do whatever they will that does not violate the rights of others (even if the exercise of their rights isn't wise, prudent, or civil).

The Comedy of War is an overview of military politics, strategy, and the causes of war utilizing books and films as source texts:The Art of War by Sun Tzu, on War by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, and The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss; (the films) Antz and A Bug's Life. This work offers systematic interpretations of what goes on before and after war, and the political and strategic implications of warfare. It provides interesting and plausible explanations for the contentious relationship of military officers and civilian leaders, ultimately questioning what happens when the definitions of military and civilian activities become blurred.

Addresses one of the most urgent problems in the US educational system - Latino under-achievement. This work gives a solution to this problem: Selective Cultural Adoption (SCA), a method that enables Latinos to retain meaningful characteristics of their culture while adopting key aspects of the Anglo-American culture that will help them succeed.

Examines the level and quality of the international community's response to extreme poverty. This work traces the ethical and religious underpinnings of social welfare policy; describes income support systems in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere; and proposes a fresh strategy for reducing global poverty.