Upa imprint: 654 books
Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model
An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories. This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, politically organized groups,...
The Inside Man
Evaluating Security Communication Failures at a United States Commercial Airport
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Organizational communication impacts service efficiency and productivity. An increase in federal funding to strengthen communication within the airport stakeholders has failed to deliver expected results. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore whether miscommunication among the TSA...
Labyrinth 2
Plays by Don Nigro: 2001-2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Labyrinth 2 provides a taxonomy of the plays Don Nigro has written over the past ten years. For those interested in producing Nigro’s work, this book provides a summary of the action of each script, characters required, costume, set, lighting, and sound requirements. Producers and directors of professional,...
Challenging the Absolute
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe’s Struggle Against Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern technology has visibly overcome the physical barriers that had long condemned the majority of men to relative...
by Gert H. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller’s argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it. This book analyzes...
Extraordinary, Ordinary Women
Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris. Pulling back the veil of idealism and romanticism shrouding the women’s migrant lives, the book examines the very real pitfalls and triumphs of life after the “happily ever...
by Bridget Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Brain and Educational Connections is based on current studies from neuroscientists and research in the field of psychology and education. This book also presents sound educational theories and practices as they relate to important research findings. This book is written for teachers, administrators,...
The Making of an African King
Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the ?wutu (Effutu) of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Kingship (chieftaincy) disputes are commonplace in Ghana. These disputes may begin as rivalries among eligible candidates, or when ineligible candidates are elected caretaker kings due to their invaluable services to a royal family. However, upon the demise of the caretaker rulers, sometimes their...
by Lucía V. Aranda
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Introducción a los estudios de traducción presenta nociones clave relativas a los estudios de traducción tales como autoría, intraducibilidad, cuestiones de género, paratextualidad o invisibilidad, así como el papel de la traducción en la colonización y formación de literaturas. Aunque en...
This Way Out
A Narrative of Therapy with Psychotic and Sexual Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
This Way Out, a report of work done six decades ago in Howard Hall, the maximum security section of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., is immediately pertinent to today's forensic and mental health crises. The two volumes of this work help fill a need for specific data on what transpires...