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Mexico's Roswell

The Chihuahua UFO Crash

By: Noe Torres,Ruben Uriarte

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Mexico's Roswell

The Chihuahua UFO Crash

By: Noe Torres,Ruben Uriarte

On August 25, 1974, along the Rio Grande River near the Texas border town of Presidio, a thunderous explosion in the sky shattered the stillness of the warm summer night. An unidentified flying disc traveling at 2,000 miles per hour collided with a small airplane heading south from El Paso, Texas. The flaming wreckage of both aircraft fell to the Mexican desert below, igniting a desperate race by two governments to recover technology from beyond the stars. This book was the basis for an episode of the History Channel's "UFO Hunters" television series. REVIEWS: "Amazing! This story is wilder than the U.S. Roswell. This book is an amazing piece of work." - George Noory, Coast to Coast AM. "A very nice and thorough job." Jim Marrs, Bestselling Author. "Noe and Ruben are to be commended." - Stanton T. Friedman, UFO Researcher.

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0981759718

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9780981759715

No Go World

How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics

By: Ruben Andersson

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No Go World

How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics

By: Ruben Andersson

From the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world disorder on the global margins. With vivid detail, Ruben Andersson traverses this terrain to provide a startling new understanding of what is happening in remote "danger zones." Andersson takes aim at how Western states and international organizations conduct military, aid, and border interventions in a dangerously myopic fashion, further disconnecting the world's rich and poor. Risk-obsessed powers are helping to remap the world into zones of insecurity and danger, resulting in a vision of chaos crashing into fortified borders. Andersson contends that we must reconnect and snap out of this dangerous spiral, which affects us no matter where we are. Only by developing a new cartography of hope can we move beyond the political geography of fear that haunts us. From back cover.

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Univ of California Press

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0520379152

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9780520379152

An Environmental History of Russia

By: Paul Josephson,Nicolai Dronin,Ruben Mnatsakanian,Aleh Cherp,Dmitry Efremenko,Vladislav Larin

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An Environmental History of Russia

By: Paul Josephson,Nicolai Dronin,Ruben Mnatsakanian,Aleh Cherp,Dmitry Efremenko,Vladislav Larin

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107354641

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9781107354647

Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England

By: Ruben Espinosa

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Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England

By: Ruben Espinosa

Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization, and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity. By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters, and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on salvation and gendered identity formation.

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Routledge

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1317099877

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9781317099871

Philosophy of Psychology

By: Mario Bunge,Ruben Ardila

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Philosophy of Psychology

By: Mario Bunge,Ruben Ardila

This book is about some topical philosophical and methodological prob lems that arise in the study of behavior and mind, as well as in the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. It deals with such questions as 'What is behavior a manifestation of?', 'What is mind, and how is it related to matter?', 'Which are the positive legacies, if any, of the major psychological schools?', 'How can behavior and mind best be studied?', and 'Which are the most effective ways of modifying behavioral and mental processes?' These questions and their kin cannot be avoided in the long run because they fuel the daily search for better hypotheses, experimental designs, techniques, and treatments. They also occur in the critical examination of data and theories, as well as methods for the treatment of behavioral and mental disorders. All students of human or animal, normal or abnormal behavior and mind, whether their main concern is basic or applied, theoretical or em pirical, admit more or less tacitly to a large number of general philosophi cal and methodological principles.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461246962

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9781461246961

Yahweh, My Shepherd and My King

By: Ruben Joseph

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Yahweh, My Shepherd and My King

By: Ruben Joseph

Have you ever wondered why David chose to portray the Lord as his shepherd in Psalm 23? Is that all he is portraying Him as in the Psalm? What exactly does David mean by “I shall not want”? What is “the valley of the shadow of death”? If you crave an in-depth analysis of the deeper meaning of these expressions and wish to savor the poetic beauty of Psalm 23, this book is a must-read for you. King David is one of the most fascinating figures in the Holy Bible and He was an exceptional poet, musician, and songwriter. In Psalm 23, he captures the beauty of nature and combines it with his unshakable faith based on his relational experiences with Yahweh. From the historical context when David wrote the psalm, David was a lost sheep—on the run from king Saul, became a nomad going from town to town to survive. He was a black sheep—his was overlooked by his own father, and his brothers were angry with him for his bravery in the face of Goliath’s defiance. But he was also a safe sheep—through it all Yahweh, the Lord, was with him to keep him safe from danger, and ultimately made him king. Whichever category you fit in—whether a lost sheep, black sheep, or a safe sheep, you can still put your trust in the Lord as YOUR Shepherd to guide and protect you always. THIS IS BOOK IS A DAY’S READING FOR A LIFETIME OF FAITH—A Must Have!!!

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1664154795

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9781664154797

Children of Lucifer

The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism

By: Ruben van Luijk

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Children of Lucifer

The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism

By: Ruben van Luijk

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil incarnate and engage in violent and perverse secret rituals, the details of which mainstream society imagines with a fascination verging on the obscene. Children of Lucifer debunks these facile characterizations by exploring the historical origins of modern Satanism. Ruben van Luijk traces the movement's development from a concept invented by a Christian church eager to demonize its internal and external competitors to a positive (anti-)religious identity embraced by various groups in the modern West. Van Luijk offers a comprehensive intellectual history of this long and unpredictable trajectory. This story involves Romantic poets, radical anarchists, eccentric esotericists, Decadent writers, and schismatic exorcists, among others, and culminates in the establishment of the Church of Satan by carnival entertainer Anton Szandor LaVey. Yet it is more than a collection of colorful characters and unlikely historical episodes. The emergence of new attitudes toward Satan proves to be intimately linked to the ideological struggle for emancipation that transformed the West and is epitomized by the American and French Revolutions. It is also closely connected to secularization, that other exceptional historical process which saw Western culture spontaneously renounce its traditional gods and enter into a self-imposed state of religious indecision. Children of Lucifer makes the case that the emergence of Satanism presents a shadow history of the evolution of modern civilization as we know it. Offering the most comprehensive account of this history yet written, van Luijk proves that, in the case of Satanism, the facts are much more interesting than the fiction.

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Oxford University Press

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019027512X

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9780190275129

Engaging Early Christian History

Reading Acts in the Second Century

By: Ruben R. Dupertuis,Todd Penner

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Engaging Early Christian History

Reading Acts in the Second Century

By: Ruben R. Dupertuis,Todd Penner

This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews.

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1317544374

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9781317544371

Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul

By: Ruben Soto

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Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul

By: Ruben Soto

Ruben Soto shares some of his personal stories, poems, and tales that will touch your heart. Soto offers you hope, encouragement, peace for your soul, and taking pride in being Hispanic in today's America. Latinos are now America's largest minority group, and they come from different and diverse backgrounds. They have a unique culture, and the extended family plays a very important role in their daily lives. This book will make you see Hispanics in a totally different way, and show you how they are changing our nation. It celebrates the Hispanic culture of today. It celebrates the America of today. It's fiesta time in America! So get ready to take your heart to places it's never been before!

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iUniverse

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0595299407

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9780595299409

Quality in Higher Education

By: Brent D. Ruben

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Quality in Higher Education

By: Brent D. Ruben

The concept of quality in higher education is by no means a new one. By one set of definitions or another, colleges and universities throughout the world have always held the pursuit of excellence as their primary goal. Why then has the quality approach, developed and popularized in industry, and how increasingly applied in health care and government, receiving so much attention in higher education at this moment? What does this perspective add to the approaches to excellence with which they have long embraced?These are the two primary questions that this book seeks to address. Chapters and contributors include: "The New Productivity" by Peter F. Drucker; "World War n and the Quality Movement" by J. M. Juran; "The Quality Approach to Higher Education: Context of Concepts for Change" by Brent Ruben; "The Big Questions in Higher Education Today" by L. Edwin Coate; "An American Approach to Quality" by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala; "Quality hi Higher Education: Critical Issues in Definition and Assessment" by Brent Ruben; and "Ten Areas for Future Research in Total Quality Management" by A. Blanton Godfrey. The volume is graced with an opening essay by Francis L. Lawrence, president of Rutgers University.Higher education is in the public spotlight today due to the many challenges it now faces: rising tuition costs; frustration about a tight job market for graduates; calls for increased faculty productivity; concerns about political correctness; and criticisms regarding the use of grant and research funds, among others. Quality in Higher Education is a particularly timely book that will greatly benefit educators, university administrators, students, and sociologists, and all those who are interested in higher education today.

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1351293540

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9781351293549

Skills of the Unskilled

Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants

By: Jacqueline Hagan,Ruben Hernandez-Leon,Jean-Luc Demonsant

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Skills of the Unskilled

Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants

By: Jacqueline Hagan,Ruben Hernandez-Leon,Jean-Luc Demonsant

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as 'unskilled.' Despite the value of their work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, their labor market contributions are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the Unskilled reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on binational research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover their lifelong human capital and identify mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, occupational mobility, job jumping, and entrepreneurship."--Provided by publisher.

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0520283732

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9780520283732

Shakespeare and Immigration

By: Ruben Espinosa

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Shakespeare and Immigration

By: Ruben Espinosa

Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the other, they shed light on how our current concerns surrounding immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in Shakespeare's work and expand the texts in new and relevant directions for a contemporary audience. The essays consider the immigrant experience; strangers and strangeness; values of hospitality in relationship to the foreigner; the idea of a host society; religious refuge and refugees; legal views of inclusion and exclusion; structures of xenophobia; and early modern homeland security. In doing so, this volume offers a variety of perspectives on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama and how the influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of community and identity; and, collection questions what is at stake in staging the anxieties and opportunities associated with foreigners. Ultimately, Shakespeare and Immigration offers the first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work. By presenting a compilation of views that address Shakespeare's attention to the role of the foreigner, the volume constitutes a timely and relevant addition to studies of race, ethics, and identity in Shakespeare.

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1317056612

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The Matter of Piety

Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (c. 1450-1620)

By: Ruben Suykerbuyk

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The Matter of Piety

Zoutleeuw's Church of Saint Leonard and Religious Material Culture in the Low Countries (c. 1450-1620)

By: Ruben Suykerbuyk

The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to Catholic restoration. Analyzing the changing functions, outlooks, and meanings of devotional objects – monumental sacrament houses, cult statues and altarpieces, and small votive offerings or relics – Ruben Suykerbuyk revises dominant narratives about Catholic culture and patronage in the Low Countries. Rather than being a paralyzing force, the Reformation incited engaged counterinitiatives, and the vitality of late medieval devotion served as the fertile ground from which the Counter-Reformation organically grew under Protestant impulses.

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9004433104

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9789004433106

Alex and Cassie

By: Ruben Elizardo

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Alex and Cassie

By: Ruben Elizardo

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1984550926

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9781984550927

The Logic of Love

Discovering Paul’s “Implicit Ethics” through 1 Corinthians

By: Ruben Zimmermann

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The Logic of Love

Discovering Paul’s “Implicit Ethics” through 1 Corinthians

By: Ruben Zimmermann

The goal of the present study unfolds in the following four ways. First, in analyzing Pauline writings (primarily Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians) it can be demonstrated that the Apostle can be described as an ethicist. The hypothesis operative here is that in the sources, despite their occasional and situational character and their epistolary form, one can recognize a coherent system of grounds for behavior (i.e., ethics). I call this recognizable ethics “implicit ethics.” Secondly, this work pursues an explicit ethical interpretation of Paul’s writings. What does it mean to read these texts through an ethical lens? I here offer an approach with which one can decipher the ethical content of a historical text. This methodology for ethical analysis (so called ‘organon’) is not only applicable to Paul’s writings, but can also provide an impetus for the ethical interpretation of other NT texts and even for the literature of early Christianity and the Bible more generally. The variety of forms and the complexity of the reflection in Paul’s letters can, in a third point, enrich the discourse of theological ethics. It will be seen, that the rationale for his ethics is pluralistic and simply cannot be described in a one-sided manner as simply being a “deontological ethics of norms.” Along these lines, a fourth element is found in stimulating interdisciplinary debates concerning ethics. If one is able to examine and describe the norms and grounds of justification in Biblical ethics using the language and forms of description utilized in modern ethical theory, biblical ethics could once again gain a voice that can be taken seriously in the modern discussion of values. The point is not to have Scripture per se join the discussion but for these texts to function as a “laboratory” (Paul Ricoeur) in which ethical speech and thought relevant for contemporary concerns can be inspired and encouraged. In a concluding chapter this dialogue is already started by describing specific aspects of Pauline ethics against the background or moral philosophical debate, e.g. “bodily ethics – beyond hedonism”, “ethics of relinquishing – beyond contractual ethics” or “ethics of love beyond Eudaimonian ethics”.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978703287

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9781978703285

Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry

By: Ruben Moi

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Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry

By: Ruben Moi

Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form give shape and significance to his poetry, and how his linguistic panache and technical verve keep language forever surprising, new and alive.

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9004355111

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9789004355118

Explaining Explanation

By: David-Hillel Ruben

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Explaining Explanation

By: David-Hillel Ruben

This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received. Ruben's views on the place of laws in explanation has been refined and clarified. What is perhaps the central thesis of the book, his realist view of explanation, describing the way in which explanation depends on metaphysics, has been updated and extended and engages with some of the work in this area published since the book's first edition.

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1317259912

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9781317259916

Small Scale Modeling and Simulation of Incompressible Turbulent Multi-Phase Flow

By: Stéphane Vincent,Jean-Luc Estivalèzes,Ruben Scardovelli

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Small Scale Modeling and Simulation of Incompressible Turbulent Multi-Phase Flow

By: Stéphane Vincent,Jean-Luc Estivalèzes,Ruben Scardovelli

The book provides basic and recent research insights concerning the small scale modeling and simulation of turbulent multi-phase flows. By small scale, it has to be understood that the grid size for the simulation is smaller than most of the physical time and space scales of the problem. Small scale modeling of multi-phase flows is a very popular topic since the capabilities of massively parallel computers allows to go deeper into the comprehension and characterization of realistic flow configurations and at the same time, many environmental and industrial applications are concerned such as nuclear industry, material processing, chemical reactors, engine design, ocean dynamics, pollution and erosion in rivers or on beaches. The work proposes a complete and exhaustive presentation of models and numerical methods devoted to small scale simulation of incompressible turbulent multi-phase flows from specialists of the research community. Attention has also been paid to promote illustrations and applications, multi-phase flows and collaborations with industry. The idea is also to bring together developers and users of different numerical approaches and codes to share their experience in the development and validation of the algorithms and discuss the difficulties and limitations of the different methods and their pros and cons. The focus will be mainly on fixed-grid methods, however adaptive grids will be also partly broached, with the aim to compare and validate the different approaches and models.

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Springer Nature

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3031092651

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9783031092657

Healing Breath

Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World

By: Ruben L. F. Habito

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Healing Breath

Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World

By: Ruben L. F. Habito

Healing our wounded Earth is not unrelated to healing our own personal wounds. The pains of the Earth and those of the individuals making up our Earth community cannot be separated. Thus the healing of our individual lives can become the basis of the healing of Earth. This book sheds light on Zen as a spiritual path that leads to healing - in the personal, social, and ecological dimensions of our being. If you are seeking a form of spiritual practice that addresses all three of these dimensions or simply seeking to deepen your understanding of the Zen path, it is written for you. If instead of fragmentation, disorientation, and vacuity, you seek wholeness, groundedness, and integrity in your life, it is written for you. Perhaps you, too, have come to realize that our global community is in a sad state of affairs, that we need to radically change how we live and relate to one another and to the Earth. You may already be engaged in some form of social or ecological action addressing these issues-and you may feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task. If you've been tempted to pessimism or have thrown up your hands in despair when your best efforts don't seem to make a dent, this book is for you, Healing Breath offers a way to integrate a spiritual path with active, socio-ecological engagement as the ground. This book also addresses another set of questions: can a Christian genuinely practice Zen? How is Zen practice compatible with a Christian faith commitment? To fully engage in a Zen practice, what kind of belief system is presupposed or required? How can spiritual practice in an Eastern tradition inform Christian life and understanding? In the process of describing the Zen way of life, Healing Breath will consider various Christian expressions, symbols, and practices - not as an apologetic for that belief system, but to show how they, too, point to the transformative and healing perspectives and experiences provided by Zen.

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Simon and Schuster

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0861718674

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9780861718672

Pinball Wizards

Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball

By: Adam Ruben

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Pinball Wizards

Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball

By: Adam Ruben

Pinball's history is America's history, from gambling and war-themed machines to the arcade revolution and, ultimately, the decline of the need to leave your house. The strangest thing about pinball is that it persists, and not just as nostalgia. Pinball didn't just stick around—it grew and continues to evolve with the times. Somehow, in today's iPhone world, a three-hundred-pound monstrosity of wood and cables has survived to enjoy yet another renaissance. Pinball is more to humor writer Adam Ruben than a fascinating book topic—it's a lifelong obsession. Ruben played competitive pinball for years, rising as high as the 80th-ranked player in the world. Then he had children. Now, mired in 9,938th place—darn kids—Ruben tries to stage a comeback, visiting pinball museums, gaming conventions, pinball machine designers, and even pinball factories in his attempt to discover what makes the world's best players, the real wizards, so good. Along the way, Ruben examines the bigger story of pinball's invention, ascent, near defeat, resurgence, near defeat again, and struggle to find its niche in modern society.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613735936

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9781613735930

A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions

Political Groups at Early Modern Centres of Power (1550-1700)

By: Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva,Alexander Koller

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A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions

Political Groups at Early Modern Centres of Power (1550-1700)

By: Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva,Alexander Koller

In A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions the contributors offer an analysis of the political groups of the most representative European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Transcending individual cases, this collection presents the first comparative overview of the phenomenon of court factionalism. Through original research and a critical approach, González Cuerva and Koller explore in depth the emergence, coexistence and image of court factions. This contribution to the debate on the nature of early modern policy-making is enriched with a European-wide focus, which allows comparison of the circumstantial and micropolitical factors accounting for the spread of factions and the conditions in which they functioned. It also allows partisan sources to be examined with the necessary caution. Contributors are Stefano Andretta, Janet Dickinson, Luc Duerloo, Pavel Marek, José Martínez Millán, Toby Osborne, David Potter, Jonathan Spangler, Evrim Türkçelik, and Maria Antonietta Visceglia.

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9004350586

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9789004350588

Marginal Workers

How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection

By: Ruben J. Garcia

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Marginal Workers

How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection

By: Ruben J. Garcia

Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor wages, bad working conditions, and unfair dismissal. Yet as members of individual groups with minority status, the rights of many of these individuals are often dictated by other types of law, such as constitutional and immigration laws. Worse still, the groups who fall into these cracks in the legal system often do not have the political power necessary to change the laws for better protection. In Marginal Workers, Ruben J. Garcia demonstrates that when it comes to these marginal workers, the sum of the law is less than its parts, and, despite what appears to be a plethora of applicable statutes, marginal workers are frequently lacking in protection. To ameliorate the status of marginal workers, he argues for a new paradigm in worker protection, one based on human freedom and rights.

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NYU Press

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1479823589

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9781479823581

Piperidine-Based Drug Discovery

By: Ruben Vardanyan

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Piperidine-Based Drug Discovery

By: Ruben Vardanyan

Piperidine-Based Drug Discovery outlines the complexities of Piperidine scaffold use in drug discovery, including derivative chemistry, structural properties, methods of synthesis and practical implementations. Piperidine scaffolds are the cornerstones of over 70 commercialized drugs (including multiple blockbusters). Designed as a guide for both experts and students working in this and related areas, it is hoped that this volume will encourage and inspire the continued design and development of novel pharmaceuticals based on Piperidine and its derivatives. Heterocyclic compounds are of central importance to medicinal chemistry, as demonstrated by the high percentage of marketable drugs that feature heterocyclic fragments in their structures. As starting points for drug discovery they offer a broad range of attractive properties, and a detailed understanding of the particular characteristics of each is of great benefit to researchers. The most commonly used heterocycle among US FDA approved pharmaceuticals, Piperidine is an extremely important building block in the synthesis of medicinal agents. This heterocycle and its derivatives exhibit a number of important functionalities and have been employed variously as CNS modulators, antiaggregants, anticoagulants, antihistamines, anti-cancer drugs and analgesics. - Explores this extremely important heterocycle to a high level of detail - Describes synthesis methods for 70 current drugs based on Piperidine scaffolds - Gives drug designers all the key knowledge required to develop new drugs utilizing Piperidine - Provides pharmacologists a solid overview of the chemical background of existing Piperidine-based drugs

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Illegality, Inc.

Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

By: Ruben Andersson

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Illegality, Inc.

Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe

By: Ruben Andersson

In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how Europe’s increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target–the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements. This fascinating and accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of international migration and the changing texture of global culture.

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Dogmatics after Babel

Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture

By: Ruben Rosario Rodriguez

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Dogmatics after Babel

Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture

By: Ruben Rosario Rodriguez

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez addresses the long-standing division between Christian theologies that take revelation as their starting point and focus and those that take human culture as theirs. After introducing these two theological streams that originate with Karl Barth and Paul Tillich, respectively, Rosario asserts that they both seek to respond to the Enlightenment's critique and rejection of Christianity. In so doing, they have bought into Enlightenment understandings of human reality and the transcendent. Rosario argues that in order to get beyond the impasse between theologies of the Word and culture, we need a different starting point. He discovers that starting point in two sources: (1) through the work of liberation and contextual theologians on the role of the Holy Spirit, and (2) through a comparative analysis of the teachings on the hiddenness of God from the three “Abrahamicâ€ religions â€"Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Rosario offers a strong argument for why this third theological starting point represents not just a marginal or niche position but a genuine alternative to the two traditional theological streams. His work will shift readers' understanding of the options in theological discourse beyond the false alternatives of theologies of the Word and culture.

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Leadership localisation

Comparative studies on leadership styles across 16 nations

By: Aynur Doǧan,Alwin van der Blom ; امل المنوتي (Amal El Mannouti) ; Анастасия Сафонова (Anastasiya Safonava) ; Aryan Ghanizadeh ; Bas Aartsma ; Bibi Kor ; Boaz Kuijer ; Bram de Kloet ; Bram Verburg ; Bùi Ngọc Diệu Thảo ; Celeste Dorigo ; Charlotte Boakye ; Daan van der Schot ; Daley Claassen ; Dennis Mosch ; Erik Kaal ; Fleur Leijtens ; Inge Trakzel ; Jary Nijssen ; Jasper van Beek ; Jeroen van Duin ; Jesse Buiter ; 彭竞雨 (Jingyu Peng) ; Jorrit van den Berg ; Julian van Arkel ; Juno Bäckman ; Kassandre Maginot ; Kevin van Balen ; Койна Стоянова (Koina Stoyanova) ; Kristy Bruijn ; Lisa Straalman ; Luciano Tetelepta ; मनीषा रसियावन (Manisha Rasiawan) ; Margot Amouroux-Prince ; Maria Simões Fortini Sidney de Souza ; Marije Hollestelle ; Marissa Bank ; Mark Grasmayer ; Mark Hoogenraat ; Martijn Smeets ; Maurice Backer Dirks ; Maxime Requin ; Megena Tesfamariam ; Michelle Vet ; Myrtill Dongen Natalia Kempny ; نورهان الخفاجي (Norhan Al Khafaji) ; Omar Fye ; Patricia Okarimia ; Patrick Kat ; Patrick Peute ; Raphael Gounod-Rondepierre ; Rens Geertse ; Ruben den Bak ; Rudmer Lieshout ; Rynk Poelsma ; Sam van Diest ; Sammie Reijnders ; Sem van Amersfoort ; Sil Visser ; Sophie Klijn ; Stefanie Ozuna Castillo ; Susanne Koelman ; Sven Spiegelenberg ; Teun Hoogland ; Tibor Lundberg ; Tim Eliasson ; Titta Pennanen ; Tjeerd Phaff ; Victoria Ricknell ; Vlada Sacara and 张洋帆 (Yvonne, Yangfan Zhang).

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Leadership localisation

Comparative studies on leadership styles across 16 nations

This new issue in our leadership series provides you with a comprehensive analysis of management practices in Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Dominican Republic , Finland, France, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Romania, Suriname, Sweden and Vietnam. This book shows how domestic leadership conventions often differ significantly from those in other countries. Comparative desk research, focus interviews with, and online polling of thousands of C-level professionals in the aforementioned countries, made us realise how much cultural factors can affect leadership strategies across the globe. A book providing a reference for those aiming at a cross-border career, or interested in international management issues. Alwin van der Blom ; امل المنوتي (Amal El Mannouti) ; Анастасия Сафонова (Anastasiya Safonava) ; Aryan Ghanizadeh ; Bas Aartsma ; Bibi Kor ; Boaz Kuijer ; Bram de Kloet ; Bram Verburg ; Bùi Ngọc Diệu Thảo ; Celeste Dorigo ; Charlotte Boakye ; Daan van der Schot ; Daley Claassen ; Dennis Mosch ; Erik Kaal ; Fleur Leijtens ; Inge Trakzel ; Jary Nijssen ; Jasper van Beek ; Jeroen van Duin ; Jesse Buiter ; 彭竞雨 (Jingyu Peng) ; Jorrit van den Berg ; Julian van Arkel ; Juno Bäckman ; Kassandre Maginot ; Kevin van Balen ; Койна Стоянова (Koina Stoyanova) ; Kristy Bruijn ; Lisa Straalman ; Luciano Tetelepta ; मनीषा रसियावन (Manisha Rasiawan) ; Margot Amouroux-Prince ; Maria Simões Fortini Sidney de Souza ; Marije Hollestelle ; Marissa Bank ; Mark Grasmayer ; Mark Hoogenraat ; Martijn Smeets ; Maurice Backer Dirks ; Maxime Requin ; Megena Tesfamariam ; Michelle Vet ; Myrtill Dongen Natalia Kempny ; نورهان الخفاجي (Norhan Al Khafaji) ; Omar Fye ; Patricia Okarimia ; Patrick Kat ; Patrick Peute ; Raphael Gounod-Rondepierre ; Rens Geertse ; Ruben den Bak ; Rudmer Lieshout ; Rynk Poelsma ; Sam van Diest ; Sammie Reijnders ; Sem van Amersfoort ; Sil Visser ; Sophie Klijn ; Stefanie Ozuna Castillo ; Susanne Koelman ; Sven Spiegelenberg ; Teun Hoogland ; Tibor Lundberg ; Tim Eliasson ; Titta Pennanen ; Tjeerd Phaff ; Victoria Ricknell ; Vlada Sacara and 张洋帆 (Yvonne, Yangfan Zhang).

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9079646342

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Computational Economics

By: David A. Kendrick,P. Ruben Mercado,Hans M. Amman

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Computational Economics

By: David A. Kendrick,P. Ruben Mercado,Hans M. Amman

The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics in software so that the model can be solved on a computer is a crucial skill for economists. Computational Economics contains well-known models--and some brand-new ones--designed to help students move from verbal to mathematical to computational representations in economic modeling. The authors' focus, however, is not just on solving the models, but also on developing the ability to modify them to reflect one's interest and point of view. The result is a book that enables students to be creative in developing models that are relevant to the economic problems of their times. Unlike other computational economics textbooks, this book is organized around economic topics, among them macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance. The authors employ various software systems--including MATLAB, Mathematica, GAMS, the nonlinear programming solver in Excel, and the database systems in Access--to enable students to use the most advantageous system. The book progresses from relatively simple models to more complex ones, and includes appendices on the ins and outs of running each program. The book is intended for use by advanced undergraduates and professional economists and even, as a first exposure to computational economics, by graduate students. Organized by economic topics Progresses from simple to more complex models Includes instructions on numerous software systems Encourages customization and creativity

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Princeton University Press

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1400841348

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Public Infrastructure in the Western Balkans

Opportunities and Challenges

By: Mr.Ruben V Atoyan,Ms.Dora Benedek,Ezequiel Cabezon,Mr.Jacques A Miniane,Nguyen Ngoc Duy,Mr.James Roaf

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Public Infrastructure in the Western Balkans

Opportunities and Challenges

By: Mr.Ruben V Atoyan,Ms.Dora Benedek,Ezequiel Cabezon,Mr.Jacques A Miniane,Nguyen Ngoc Duy,Mr.James Roaf

An assessment of public infrastructure development in the Western Balkans. The paper quantifies the large gaps across various sectors/dimensions, evaluates current infrastructure plans, and discusses funding options available to countries in the region. The paper also identifies important bottlenecks for increased infrastructure investment. Finally, the paper quantifies potential growth benefits from addressing infrastructure gaps, concluding that boosting the quantity and quality of infrastructure is vital for raising economic growth and accelerating income convergence with the EU. The paper concludes with country-specific policy recommendations.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484341511

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Selected Writings

By: Ruben Dario

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Selected Writings

By: Ruben Dario

Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío’s writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world—an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Darío’s most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way Darío himself envisioned them. The second part is devoted to Darío’s prose, including short stories, fables, profiles, travel writing, reportage, opinion pieces, and letters. A sweeping biographical introduction by distinguished critic Ilan Stavans places Darío in historical and artistic context, not only in Latin America but in world literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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144062691X

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Haemostasis in Surgery

By: Canelo Ruben Hakim Nadey S,Ruben Canelo,Nadey S. Hakim

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Haemostasis in Surgery

By: Canelo Ruben Hakim Nadey S,Ruben Canelo,Nadey S. Hakim

This unique volume presents the cutting edge of haemostasis in surgery and includes the advances in the science pertaining to related important medical and surgical problems. It is the only book that includes all the surgical subspecialties focusing specifically on the problems of haemostasis in each field. State-of-the-art laboratory and clinical reviews are included and modern devices used in the different specialties are also covered. The contributors are well-known authorities in their special fields and haematological area. Each is covered comprehensively with special emphasis on unanswered questions. The book is addressed to all surgeons and physicians with an interest in this exciting field.

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Imperial College Press

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1860948332

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The Metaphysics of Action

Trying, Doing, Causing

By: David-Hillel Ruben

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The Metaphysics of Action

Trying, Doing, Causing

By: David-Hillel Ruben

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.

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Springer

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3319903470

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Cultures of Border Control

Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

By: Ruben Zaiotti

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Cultures of Border Control

Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

By: Ruben Zaiotti

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe’s external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Setting forth a new analytic framework informed by constructivism and pragmatism, Ruben Zaiotti traces the transformation of underlying assumptions and cultural practices guiding European policymakers and postnational Europe, shedding light on current trends characterizing its politics and relations with others. The book also includes a fascinating comparison to developments in North America, where the United States has pursued more restrictive border control strategies since 9/11. As a broad survey of the origins, evolution, and implications of this remarkable development in European integration, Cultures of Border Control will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations and political geography.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226977870

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Racism and God-talk

A Latino/a Perspective

By: Ruben Rosario Rodriguez

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Racism and God-talk

A Latino/a Perspective

By: Ruben Rosario Rodriguez

2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu The apostle Paul wrote that "All of you are one in Christ Jesus." Given Paul’s vision of God’s kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination—no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church’s theological formulations? Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the problematic of race from a primarily theological perspective. This volume undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming North American racism. Rosario Rodriguez offers insights from Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions concerning racism, borders, and immigration. The first to analyze race and racism from a Latino/a theological perspective, the volume makes use of a broadened conceptualization of "mestizaje," or mutual cultural exchange, to challenge the church to recognize the effects of racial and ethnic particularity in all theological construction.

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0814776108

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Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence

A Theory of Resonance, Activation, and Cultivation

By: Brent D. Ruben,Ralph A. Gigliotti

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Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence

A Theory of Resonance, Activation, and Cultivation

By: Brent D. Ruben,Ralph A. Gigliotti

Designed for leadership and communication students, scholars, and practitioners, this book offers a timely exploration into the evolution of leadership, communication, and social influence, and sheds light on how we can all become more responsible leaders, followers, and citizens.

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