Hess: 433 books
The Afghan War in 2013: Meeting the Challenges of Transition
The Challenges of Leadership and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security,...
by Charley Roberts, Charles P. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Charles Sweeny (1882–1963) was the heir to a fortune. Renouncing a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed in. Twice kicked out of West Point, he fought in revolts against three Latin American dictators. He was a decorated officer in the French Foreign Legion and in the U.S....
by Monica Sawyer-Hess
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The Truth About International Adoption, Same Sex Adoption, Adoption Records, Tran Racial Adoption, Closed Adoption, Typical Open Adoption and Putting Your Child Up For Adoption Plus Much More!
Literary Hybrids
Indeterminacy in Medieval & Modern French Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Participatory Critical Rhetoric
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors argue that participatory critical rhetoric, as...
Authority and Leadership
Values, Religion, Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book wrestles with questions of authority and leadership in the digital age, questions that hold particular relevance for religious communication and Church authority. The essays come out of a series of conferences that gathered acadèmic researchers, theologians, and communication scholars together...
Revue des Deux Mondes mars 2015
Michel Onfray. Pour une sagesse sans Dieu
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Pour se revivifier « Cosmos est mon premier livre », écrit Michel Onfray dans l’introduction de cette somme de mille pages, sous-titrée « Vers une sagesse sans morale ». « J’ai publié à ce jour quatre-vingts livres sur bon nombre de sujets : l’éthique, l’esthétique, la bioéthique,...
Tocqueville and Beaumont
Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical...
by Steve Hess, Richard Aidoo
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This book investigates China’s emergence as an outside player in SSA over the last several decades and the current understanding of the impact of Beijing’s growing presence on the continent, including several case studies focused on specific SSA countries. China’s accelerating economic and political...
Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Services in Schools and Communities
A Public Health Problem-Solving Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Despite the growing emphasis on a population-based training and service delivery model for school psychology, few resources exist to provide guidance concerning how such services might be conceptualized and put into place. In this book, the authors propose a public health model for comprehensive children’s...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
Israelite Religions
An Archaeological and Biblical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelite...
by Richard Hess, Daniel I. Block, Dale W. Manor
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. Furthermore, without knowledge of the ancient culture we can easily impose our own culture on the text, potentially distorting it. This series invites you...
Women and the Family
Two Decades of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Despite the pervasive changes that have taken place in women’s lives in the past twenty-five years--increased participation in the labor force, the attainment of higher levels of education, and higher salaries--comparable changes in the division of family labor and in the roles of men have lagged...