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Contemplative Nation repudiates the tendentious claim that theology is alien to Judaism with an account of Jewish theology that affirms the diverse forms and functions of Jewish theological language and that highlights the interdependence of reflection and practice in Judaism.

Milton and the Post-Secular Present defines and critiques the term 'post-secular' as it appears in current thought, bringing its implications into sharp relief by comparison to the pre-secular works of John Milton.

Telling Images is a study of Chaucer's narrative art and its use of symbolic images in the visual arts of his time.

This book uncovers and makes visible grassroots leadership and change on college campuses.

This book is an ethnographic journey into the literary-political field of Palestinian poetry in a secular age.

The book shows how men's militarization has been both challenged and reinforced in the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars.

A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War.

This book helps readers to better understand, emulate, enable, support, and manage serial innovators-individuals who create multiple breakthrough products that result in large revenue and profit streams, primarily for existing organizations.

This book describes what Intelligence Community (IC) analysts do, how they do it, and how they are affected by the political context that shapes, uses, and sometimes abuses their output. It is written by a 25-year intelligence professional.

This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them.

Focusing on the capital cities of Beijing and Taipei, this book provides a detailed discussion of state-sponsored neighborhood organizations in China and Taiwan. It is grounded in the comparative scholarship on neighborhood organizations, civil society, and state-society relations, particularly in East Asia.

An impassioned plea for democratic societies to take the future seriously at a time when all our energies seem focused on the present.

Grow to Greatness provides entrepreneurs with a roadmap for planning, prioritizing, pacing, and managing business growth. It is the one book an entrepreneur needs to intelligently overcome the challenges of growth by using best practices from over 50 successful firms.

This book tells the tale of how international inspectors beat incredible odds to unveil Iraq's covert bioweapons program, draws lessons from this experience that should be applied to help arrest future bioweapons programs, places the Iraq bioweapons saga in the context of other manmade biological risks, and makes recommendations to reduce those perils.

This work examines how Indian and Vietnamese immigrants in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area of Texas learn and practice civic engagement.

A new translation and literary interpretation of the first 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis.

On Flexibility presents a force planning concept that will enable armies to cope with the growing diversity of battlefield requirements, and especially with technological and doctrinal surprises, through applied adaptability and flexibility, minimizing the over dependence on intelligence and prediction involved in this process today.

This book examines how private security contractors or analogous historical forces affect democracies' military effectiveness and likelihood of success in warfare across different deployment scenarios, and, in doing so, illustrates both theoretical and policy-relevant implications of the increasing use of private security forces by modern democracies.

Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning explores why and how action learning groups have been so successful and creative in solving complex problems.

This book provides a new perspective on the origins of the three most important New Deal policies-the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act-while examining the strengths and weaknesses of historical institutionalism, Marxism, protest-disruption theory, and non-Marxian class-dominance theory.

Beyond Expulsion is the history of Jewish-Christian relations during the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg, a city from which Jews had been expelled and banned.

Race Decoded explores the world of elite genomic science, investigating how the world's leading scientists grapple with questions of identity and social change in their efforts to understand a new science of race.

This book explores the malaise present in post-colonial Tonga, analyzing the way in which segments of this small-scale society hold on to different understandings of what modernity is, how it should be made relevant to local contexts, and how it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition.

The first comprehensive history of a major Muslim rebellion and the rise and fall of an independent Islamic state within China during the second half of the nineteenth century-in Xinjiang, where potentially separatist Islamic movements still worry the Chinese state.

The book argues that an intelligent use of widely available Internet technologies could strengthen reputational mechanisms and significantly improve public governance.

A Rising Tide: Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms is a "must read" for current and aspiring women entrepreneurs who want to learn more about the financial tools and techniques that will help them to launch, develop, and grow their firms.

Straightjacket Sexualities is the first full-length study of the racialization of Asian American men in Hollywood and independent films from 1959-2009. It argues that the attribution of asexual, effeminate, and queer labels-indicating what these men lack-inadequately captures how Asian American men both wield power and experience its disciplining force.