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Being at Work - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Being at Work - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What is it to be truly human at work? Why do so many people today ache to be more human at work? In this book, Lloyd E. Sandelands unites the metaphysics of Aristotle and Aquinas and the social teachings of the Catholic Church to describe how business leaders can help people in their organizations become more truly and fully human. Being at Work is a much-needed marriage of metaphysical philosophy and managerial common sense.

DKK 317.00
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The Leipzig Model - Jean Claude Garcia Zamor - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Leipzig Model - Jean Claude Garcia Zamor - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Leipzig Model describes how civil servants in Leipzig, a city in the former East Germany, cope with the challenges stemming from the uneven economic conditions that continue to exist after the reunification. The analysis reviews a series of recent successes achieved by the managerial leaders of Leipzig who have been able to compete and excel in comparison with civil servants in Western Germany and the bureaucracies of several other European Union countries. The book also investigates the local "civic culture" that is behind the driving forces of the city''s leaders. Leipzig''s "local political culture" is outlined and its key elements are defined. In addition to examining the professional strength of the city''s civil servants, the book analyzes the strategies being used by the mayor and city managers of Leipzig to achieve such successes and compares these strategies to some current organizational theories and models.

DKK 547.00
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A Socio-Political Model of Lies in Russia - Jason C. Vaughn - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A Socio-Political Model of Lies in Russia - Jason C. Vaughn - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not exclusively part of, the rule of Russia’s second (and fourth) post-Soviet President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Then, it is to assess what future there is for Russia in view of Russia’s peculiar ‘socio-political’ culture of parallel truth and untruth.Based on new research, literature and historical examination of ‘untruth’ in Russia, using political, social, cultural, media and public opinion analysis, this study develops and applies a new and novel approach, or “model(s),” to the study of lies in Russia. Further, this book seeks to provide an understanding of Russia’s socio-political environment to outsiders not versed in the ins-and-outs of the influences, causes and reasoning for the Russian government’s, and the Russian public’s, reactions to publicized events.

DKK 644.00
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Love First - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Love First - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The study of man today is divided in three ways that it should not be: between the humanities and the social sciences, between natural and metaphysical philosophy, and between faith and reason. This book bridges these three divides to build toward an integrated understanding of human being that begins with the revealed truths of Christian faith. Because its humanism draws upon diverse fields of art, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology, the book should be of interest to scholars and students of all kinds. And because its humanism is all about us, the book should interest be of interest to anyone who happens to be human.

DKK 273.00
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God and Mammon - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

God and Mammon - Lloyd E. Sandelands - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In many parts of today''s global economy, the moral foundations of society are being tested by a business culture that is given to the good of business owners, rather than the good of the human person and society. The widening gulf between business economics and ethics begs for a vigorous response informed by what is best in the human spirit. This places a responsibility upon business people that calls to faith for perspective. God and Mammon discusses the ages-old, but ever-new conflict between God and Mammon in business. These seven chapters speak of the need for God in business today. Together, the chapters of this book build toward a comprehensive ethic of business administration. God and Mammon finds that business today needs to serve the human person, who is a creative being in the image of God.

DKK 361.00
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Three Roads South - Lloyd K. Hulse - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Three Roads South - Lloyd K. Hulse - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Three Roads South: Search for a Latin American Cultural Identity, the English edition of Tres caminos hacia el sur, offers as before, but to a broader readership, three different approaches to understanding Latin American culture. The first is a concise, informative introduction that highlights the ethnic and geographical diversity of the area, before examining the causes of its socioeconomic and political divisions. The second, in contrast, is an in-depth exploration of the common values and traits that constitute the cultural mainstream of Latin America. Finally, the third approach, from the perspective of the author''s personal experience, seeks to bring the cultural values and traits of Latin America into a sharper focus through an analysis of mutual Latin and Anglo American stereotypes.

DKK 494.00
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An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences - James G. March - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences - James G. March - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

What is a model? How do you construct one? What are some common models in the social sciences? How can models be applied in new situations? What makes a model good? Focusing on answers to these and related questions, this multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences formulates interesting problems that involve students in creative model building and the process of invention. The book describes models of individual choice, exchange, adaptation, and diffusion. Throughout, student participation in analytical thinking is encouraged. Originally published in 1975 by HarperCollins Publishers.

DKK 689.00
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The Rapture of God - William Lloyd Newell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Rapture of God - William Lloyd Newell - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This is a book offering Balthasar’s theological oeuvre as a kerygma of Christ’s love proclaimed theologically as Christ’s esthetics of glory in his mission to reinvent himself, the world and us as beauty and glory. Balthasar’s hypothesis is that there is true theology and there is false theology. For him, theology is the unique science across the methods of which the decision of faith cuts, and divides it into two halves that cannot be united to each other: a genuine theology, which presupposes faith and does its thinking within the nexus of Christ and the Church; and a false theology, which rejects faith as methodologically dubious and irresponsible, and subsumes the truth of the phenomenon which discloses itself, under an anthropological truth (however this may be understood).In William Newell’s book he deeply reflects on the radical thinking being done in Catholic theology since the 1940s in Europe and now in the United States. Each chapter, each excursus, each elision, ushers the reader towards consolations without previous causes, the essence of mysticism in its first stages. The book, as with true theology, is a ‘come and see’ beckoning the reader to an endless furtherance of the archetypal experience of Christ.

DKK 574.00
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The Essential Bill of Rights - Margie Lloyd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Essential Bill of Rights - Margie Lloyd - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Essential Bill of Rights: Original Arguments and Fundamental Documents provides the convenience of an affordable and accessible compilation of the original, essential documents and arguments that eventually led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States. Beginning with its origin in British covenant and common law, the book moves into the arguments for various forms of rights by prominent writers such as John Locke and Thomas Paine, and presents the arguments from those directly involved with the American quest for rights. The process of constitutional development follows as the individual states adopt constitutions, followed by the ratification of the United States Constitution. Details that led to the creation and acceptance of the Bill of Rights, including personal letters written by major figures conclude the collection. Highly recommended for all people interested in a compact overview of the origins of the United States.

DKK 468.00
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Tres Caminos Hacia el Sur - Lloyd K. Hulse - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Tres Caminos Hacia el Sur - Lloyd K. Hulse - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Tres Caminos Hacia el Sur offers three different approaches to understanding Latin American culture. The first is a concise informative introduction that highlights the ethnic and geographical diversity of the area, before examining the causes of its socioeconomic and political divisions. The second, in contrast, is an in-depth exploration of the common values and traits that constitute the cultural mainstream of Latin America. Discussed as causes are language and religion, the search for a Latin American identity frequently opposed to that of the US, the effects of an overwhelming geography, and the inclusion of Indians in the Colonial hierarchy, starting a process of racial and cultural mixing that has continued to this day. Noted, among others, are the following traits: personalism and verbalism, the mentality of the extended family, the special role of women, aristocratic attitudes and class distinctions, people''s pride in their shrewdness, and their use of language. Finally, the third approach, from the perspective of the author''s personal experience, seeks to bring the cultural values and traits of Latin America into a sharper focus through an analysis of mutual Latin and Anglo American stereotypes. (TEXT IN SPANISH)

DKK 468.00
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Sketching a Scheme - Stuart Thomas Wilson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Sketching a Scheme - Stuart Thomas Wilson - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Today, there exists a provocative need for a model of ministry that functions as a mediating structure to provoke a Christian identity and a secular relevance. Many classical as well as modern models of ministry appear to stress either a Christian identity or secular relevance. However, both qualities are essential to a comprehensive and current model of ministry. In Sketching a Scheme, author Stuart Wilson presents a friendship model of ministry that is both traditionally faithful and worldly pertinent.

DKK 388.00
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Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture - Mei Ling Wang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture - Mei Ling Wang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. "What is wrong with our development model?" "What is the solution?" This book aims to answer these questions by providing an alternative model to conceptualize sustainable development. The Inclusive Sustainable Development Theory disputes the conventional "winnership" model that supports unlimited expansion and materialism in global development. Instead, it focuses on inclusion and sustainable peace as the cornerstone of sustainable development. The Hexagon of Partnership Model highlights the importance of inclusive dialogue, partnerships, and community capital in carrying out global sustainable development endeavors that protect global food, energy, and water security.

DKK 583.00
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Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture - Mei Ling Wang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture - Mei Ling Wang - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. ''What is wrong with our development model?'' ''What is the solution?'' This book aims to answer these questions by providing an alternative model to conceptualize sustainable development. The Inclusive Sustainable Development Theory disputes the conventional ''winnership'' model that supports unlimited expansion and materialism in global development. Instead, it focuses on inclusion and sustainable peace as the cornerstone of sustainable development. The Hexagon of Partnership Model highlights the importance of inclusive dialogue, partnerships, and community capital in carrying out global sustainable development endeavors that protect global food, energy, and water security.

DKK 361.00
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Helping Hurting People - Argile A. Smith - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Helping Hurting People - Argile A. Smith - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

This book provides a working solution to the challenge of helping hurting people. A theological foundation for a Reconciliation-Focused Counseling (RFC) model is followed by a description of the procedure for facilitating corrective relational experiences in the lives of clients. Accompanying the model are applications of reconciliation-focused interactions in counseling and preaching situations in which ministers are typically engaged.

DKK 547.00
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Back to Revelation-Inspiration - Fernando L. Canale - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Back to Revelation-Inspiration - Fernando L. Canale - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

In Back to Revelation-Inspiration, Fernando L. Canale, analyzes the two main ways in which Christianity has understood the origin of biblical knowledge. Canale proposes a way to overcome them by suggesting a new model of understanding that maximizes their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. By allowing us to see and use biblical knowledge in a new light, the new model uncovers a new foundation for theological knowledge.

DKK 565.00
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Educating for a Worldview - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Educating for a Worldview - - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

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.

DKK 459.00
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Cooperative Classroom Testing - Larry G. Hanshaw - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Cooperative Classroom Testing - Larry G. Hanshaw - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Cooperative Classroom Testing discusses the application of cooperative learning principles in a classroom-testing environment. Using the ''Cooperative Testing Environment Model,'' this book demonstrates the role of the teacher and students in both K-12 and higher education classrooms. The book features an in-depth analysis of test scores from 1999 to 2001, reflections and observations of groups implementing the model, and a brief literature review of key cooperative learning principles and factors used in a variety of cooperative testing arrangements. All of this material helps to illustrate how this model enhances the test performance of small teacher-selected groups and leads to rewarding academic and social experiences. Cooperative Classroom Testing is a hands-on, accessible guide for implementing cooperative learning principles during general instruction or testing situations.

DKK 361.00
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The Beauty of Balance - Young Woon Ko - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Beauty of Balance - Young Woon Ko - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

These essays examine the significance of balance between the opposites in order to understand God and the world. The author argues that opposites-the subject and object, mind and nature, good and evil, truth and falsehood-are not separated from each other but interdependent in the relational paradigm. Each cannot exist without the other. Creative advancement is achieved by their dynamic tensions. The paradoxical relationship between the opposites is not posited in the mechanistic model in which opposites are recognized as separate entities and thereby antagonists; rather, they are dialectical and creative in the organic model. Based on this organic model, the relationship between God and the world is not hierarchical but interdependent. In the organic model, God is not described simply as a transcendent reality in a dualistic structure of God and the world. God reveals God-self in harmonious order and pattern as the ultimate principle formed in the world. In other words, God reveals God-self in the relative contexts of the opposites good and evil, true and false. Unlike Aristotle''s Law of Contrast, God is both A (transcendent) and -A (immanent), which is the basic logic of the organic model. In this context, God is different from eternal reality such as Plato''s Idea or the transcendent God developed in the Western tradition. In this text, the author explores how the complex of divine reality entails the dialogue of differences in a constructive way, using inter-religious dialogue and religion-nature dialogue as examples. The author also brings the theme of paradox into his discussion to connect the West with the East and explore how it can be a positive method of understanding God and the world in the organic model, which can in turn be a key to the understanding of the common good.

DKK 361.00
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The Polarized Congress - Charles Tiefer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Polarized Congress - Charles Tiefer - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles argues that the rise of the polarized Congress means a totally different Congressional procedure, especially after 2007, compared to the accustomed "traditional" one. Polarized Congress explores a host of lesser-known, even sometimes below the radar, aspects of the post-traditional or polarized model. These range from "ping-ponging" of major measures between chambers (without conferencing), to the Senate Majority Leader''s new "toolkit". They go from the now-crucial "Hastert Rule" in the House, to the astonishment of legislating the Affordable Care Act by singular procedures including budget reconciliation. The book challenges the easy assumption, especially by the non-specialist press, that Congressional procedure is descending into nothing more than chaotic brutishness or eternal stalemate. Instead, it explains the transformation of the traditional model about "how a bill becomes a law" before 2000, into the new current model in which Congress acts very differently.

DKK 591.00
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Criminal Justice and the Policy Process - William W. Parsons - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Criminal Justice and the Policy Process - William W. Parsons - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Criminal Justice and the Policy Process develops a synthesized policy making model that explains how complex justice policy is developed, implemented, and evaluated. Unlike other texts, this study weaves together important aspects of several competing explanations of policy choice into a single model. Further, this text emphasizes the importance of implementing policy as an important component in the ultimate outcome of policy decisions. The book fills a void in introducing students to the policy making process coupled with the importance of justice administration as a component. Important themes throughout the book include the role of the media, special interests, elite policy makers, and discretion.

DKK 388.00
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Depression as a Psychoanalytic Problem - Paolo Azzone - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Depression as a Psychoanalytic Problem - Paolo Azzone - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders. This book investigates the basis for such retreat by delving into the history of medicine, philosophy, religion, and literature. It unveils the social motives for the overwhelming consensus currently gathered by the biomedical model of depression. The book then moves on to discuss at depth psychoanalytic literature on depression and reveals how it possesses an enormous explanatory power for depression symptoms. This approach allows the author to offer readers a comprehensive, dynamically-oriented model of symptom formation in depression.

DKK 388.00
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A User's Guide to Path Analysis - Moses E. Olobatuyi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

A User's Guide to Path Analysis - Moses E. Olobatuyi - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Written for graduate level students in advanced statistics, this handbook offers a comprehensive and practical overview of path analysis. A User's Guide to Path Analysis contains: • Definition and graphical illustrations of basic terms and concepts • Illustration of causal diagrams with emphasis on variable positioning, path symbols, error terms, missing arrows, and feedback loops • In-depth discussion of assumptions underlying path analysis • Discussion of causal model estimation with illustrations • Practical research questions for interpreting a path model • Instructions on how to read a path diagram, and how to use the SPSS computer program and interpret the results • Suggestions for what to include when writing up or interpreting findings

DKK 698.00
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From Custodialism to Community - Howard W. Polsky - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

From Custodialism to Community - Howard W. Polsky - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

From Custodialism to Community offers a critique of current residential care and a rationale and strategies for its transformation. The authors discuss challenges presented to residential settings by developmental characteristics of adolescence, specifically the power of the peer group as it encourages challenging authority. The response to these challenges by a custodial model that dominates today''s residential institutions are described and illustrated. The shortcomings of the model are analyzed, specifically the interlocking of a them-us struggle between staff and residents, and the violent and manipulative control of peer youth leaders over their peer followers. An alternative model of building each institution as a community in which residents, caregivers, professionals and administrators are all fellow community members is discussed. Strategies and techniques to achieve the desirable transformation are presented. Implications for additional types of total institutions are also suggested. The book is organized around thirty-seven full-page diagrams, each conveying a central theme, which is then elaborated in the text, making the book reader friendly and appealing to a wide and diverse readership.

DKK 503.00
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Minority Invisibility - Wei Sun - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Minority Invisibility - Wei Sun - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Minority invisibility has gone unnoticed in the communication discipline. It denies the existence of racial problems by consciously or unconsciously downplaying, ignoring, or over-simplifying the issues. This is evidenced from the claims of color-blindness and reverse discrimination, the belief in model minorities, and exaggerated, negative, or purposeful racial displays that permeate American culture. Using in-depth interviews with Asian-American professionals from various metropolitan areas, this study investigates these professionals'' perceptions on minority invisibility and model minority status. It explores Asian Americans'' ethnic consciousness on four levels, discussing how the group perceives their individual invisibility, their group members'' invisibility, the invisibility of other American co-cultural groups, and finally their expectations in changing minority invisibility in the United States. The work considers diverse viewpoints on minority invisibility, model minority, satisfaction and dissatisfaction with mainstream American culture, and co-cultural ethnic relations. This study is useful to graduate and undergraduate students and researchers with an interest in race relations, Asian-American studies, co-cultural theory, and intercultural communication studies.

DKK 370.00
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Sustaining Teacher Leadership - Linda Dawson Gonzales - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Sustaining Teacher Leadership - Linda Dawson Gonzales - Bog - University Press of America - Plusbog.dk

Sustaining Teacher Leadership describes a model for linking leadership and learning and identifies six components necessary for enabling a culture for teacher leadership: learning, valuing, nurturing, supporting, sharing, and coaching. The model is based on an historical review of artifacts from earlier qualitative studies, which report on eight years of a middle school''s restructuring and restructuring experiences. The book also describes the development of a learning culture and five teachers'' identification with a democratic teacher-leadership style. Five teacher-leader participants with full time teaching responsibilities were selected from teachers who had participated for four or more years in the enabling school culture and transferred together to a newly opening school.

DKK 468.00
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