Upa imprint: 654 books
by Hongping Annie Nie
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Despite the implementation of numerous reform policies, moral education in China remains problematic. This study presents a student perspective on the dilemma of the moral education curriculum in a Chinese secondary school. Dr. Hongping Annie Nie finds that the school system does not provide a favorable...
by Charles Thomas Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In Ignes Fatui, Charles Thomas Taylor examines various misapprehensions and misconceptions that interfere with clear rational thought. The title of the book, a loanword from Medieval Latin, means “foolish fires”—lights that occasionally appear in the nighttime over marshy ground and are frequently...
Postmodern Racial Dialectics
Philosophy Beyond the Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Postmodern Racial Dialectics is a collection of ten essays on African American philosophy.
Addressing issues as disparate as why there are no graduate programs in philosophy at the more than one hundred traditionally black colleges and universities in the U.S.—to conceptions of Black utopianism—to...
by Kit W. Wesler
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Archaeologists have been increasingly turning their attention to the study of religion, but the field so far has lacked a cross-cultural overview. This text challenges archaeological conventions by refusing to respect the geographic and temporal boundaries with which archaeologists too often define...
Technology-Rich Teaching
Classrooms in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors....
by Ko-wu Huang, Philip Yuen-sang Leung, Wang Ke-wen
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals.
Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice
Glimpsing the Poor and Oppressed in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
What kinds of experiences do we have with the poor and the oppressed around the world? What do we really know about the ins and outs of the lives of those who exist in a world of extreme poverty or oppression? Global Scenes of Biblical Injustice simplifies and synthesizes the bewildering array of...
It's Not Because You're Black
Addressing Issues of Racism and Underrepresentation of African Americans in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book takes a realistic look at the effects of underrepresentation of African Americans in colleges and universities. It highlights local, state, and national consequences facing America’s educational future as the country becomes more diverse. It also examines the challenges that face Blacks...
How to Listen to a Sermon
With 'Honoring the Gospel' and Other Homilies for the Sake of Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
After exploring several aspects of the craft of homily, How to Listen to a Sermon explains how listening to a sermon is different from attending to other forms of public address. This view presupposes a distinctive understanding of the sermonic or preaching event and this is illustrated by two homiletical...
Play Intelligence
From IQ to PIQ
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy. Play Intelligence: From IQ to PIQ challenges the very heart of our modern science with a radical, if...
For the Glory of God
The Role of Christianity in the Rise and Development of Modern Science, The History of Christian Ideas and Control Beliefs in Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
For the Glory of God addresses key questions regarding the connection between religion and science. Richard H. Jones investigates whether ideas from the Bible and Christian theology have played a significant role in the development of modern scientific theories. If so, has the role always been positive...
The Natural History of Creation
Biblical Evolutionism and the Return of Natural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1995
The Natural History of Creation is the third and final installment in M.A. Corey's natural theology series. This remarkable trilogy—the first of its kind in this century—has worked in tandem with the findings of modern science to help spearhead the rebirth of the natural theology movement around...
Insight into Two Biblical Passages
Anatomy of a Prohibition I Timothy 2:12, the TLG Computer, and the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This work comprises new insights into two Biblical passages. The first study, titled 'The Anatomy of a Prohibition,' uses the TLG computer database to offer a new interpretation of I Timothy 2:12. The author provides insight that the TLG computer, with its data selections from 200 BC/BCE to 200 AD/CE,...
Ecce Educatrix Tua
The Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary for a Pedagogy of Holiness in the Thought of John Paul II and Father Joseph Kentenich
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Ecce Educatrix Tua discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium. The necessity 'to rediscover the full practical significance of Chapter 5 of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium,...