J Walter: 249 books
Faces of Resistance
Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power.
In the sixteenth century, Q’eqchi’ Maya leader Aj Poop B’atz’ changed the course of Q’eqchi’ history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community...
Disrupting Savagism
Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. While postcolonial studies of the past few decades have focused on how these ethnicities have...
by Douglas J. Moo, Craig L. Blomberg, Scott J. Hafemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This NIVAC Bundle includes the nine books of the NIV Application Commentary series that cover the Pauline epistles.
by Erland Walter, J Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Erland Waltner explains how 1 Peter applies Jesus' teaching on loving the enemy to the life situation of scattered Christians in Asia Minor. Peter empowers believers to be communities of hope, not retaliating for the abuse they suffer, but bearing witness of their Lord by word, lifestyle, and doing...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Philosophy of Childhood Today
Exploring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in the mid-twentiethcentury Philipe Aries’s seminal...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
by J. Scott Rutan, PhD, Walter N. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses how to set up therapy groups and make them work. A wealth of clinical material illustrates the components of effective group therapy and the mechanisms and processes of change. Practical topics discussed include...
by Walter Demel, Andreas Rose, Susanne Lachenicht
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische...
Coffins of the Brave
Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812, archaeologist Kevin J. Crisman and his fellow contributors examine sixteen different examples of 1812-era naval and commercial shipbuilding. They range from four small prewar vessels to four 16- or 20-gun brigs, three warships of much greater...
by Andrea Bolte, Heike Breitenstein, Robert Erkenberg
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Jugendliche zum Glauben einladen - das ist das Ziel vieler christlicher Organisationen und Kirchen. Das Handbuch missionarische Jugendarbeit setzt sich mit wichtigen Grundfragen von Mission unter Jugendlichen auseinander, reflektiert aktuelle Herausforderungen und zeigt auf, wie missionarische Jugendarbeit...
Die Welt der Hebräischen Bibel
Umfeld - Inhalte - Grundthemen
Language: German
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Eine umfassende, zuverlässige und wissenschaftlich aktuelle Einführung in die Welt der Hebräischen Bibel: ihr kulturelles Umfeld, ihre literarische Gestalt, ihre gesellschaftlichen Hintergründe, ihre kultische Prägung, ihre Bilder vom Menschen und von Gott. Die 32 Paragraphen sind von ausgesuchten...