This is a concise and practical manual of instruction for the guidance and training of interviewers gathering data for all types of surveys. It clearly presents specific principles and techniques f...
Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over...
Intimate Spaces: A Conversation about Discovery and Connection provides readers the opportunity to discuss, muse, ponder, and explore an essential part of the human experience&mdas...
The German occupation of France put an end to Maurice Blanchot's career as a political journalist. In April 1941, he began to publish a weekly column of literary criticism in the Journal des...
Gloria loves Willem Spelt, a Dutch soldier stationed in Canada during World War II. When they have to marry before the War’s end, Gloria worries that Willem has regrets, especially as he h...
If life is an adventure, no one will ever live it more fully than Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Today's leadership adventures unfold in the rugged terrain of business, and who better than Lew...
The second edition of this engaging text reflects a welcome new paradigm for aging-that of aging as a positive stage of life. Written for undergraduate and masters-level students, it provides an...
This book is addressed at students or researchers who want to deepen their understanding of the peculiar physical aspects of the various measurement modes in AFM that are often not discussed extens...
Informed, accessible textbook on law collections in the Pentateuch In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus-Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled t...
In this comprehensive introduction to Messianic Judaism, David Rudolph and Joel Willitts present a collection of articles by both Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians. Introduction to Messianic Ju...
Introduction to Sociology provides students with a carefully curated selection of readings that demonstrate how everyday human interactions construct our global social world. The c...
Many current Bible "intro" volumes focus more on theories about the biblical text than on the text itself. They lack the simplicity that has become increasingly crucial as basic biblical literacy h...
"Philosophy," says Hierocles, "is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body; but the perfection, in consequence...
This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals. Defending the bas...
A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in i...
Despite the World Bank's profound impact on economic, political, and social conditions during the post-World War II era, cultural critics who rigorously theorize other institutions o...
Understanding the impacts of the emergence of hereditary social inequality in human societies is one of the fundamental questions in archaeology. This book is one case study examining the transi...
Investigating the American Union explores the historical roots of the United States by examining the events that critically affected the country and continue to do so today. The an...
Fisher asserts that more native-born women and underrepresented minorities need to obtain advanced degrees in the United States. Drawing on rich data from a sample of approximately 1,30...
Over the last decade, the worldwide church has seen a reawakening around prayer and fasting, but how does an individual believer or a local church engage with this in such a way that is full of ...