Algora Publishing: 206 books
Tapestry
The History and Consequences of America's Complex Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
American culture is a rich and complex tapestry of colorful threads from at least five continents, and in recent decades increased immigration has meant that the pace of change is accelerating. It's time for us to get to know ourselves and really appreciate this rich, vast, and rapidly expanding culture....
by Andrej Kreutz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Prof. Kreutz presents a concise geopolitical and historical background of Russia and the major predicaments that currently hamper its full international integration and acceptance. He outlines the negative and potentially dangerous aspects of the existing situation. In the author's view the Russian Federation,...
Religion and Social Change
The Influence of Religion on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Despite America's famous "separation of Church and State," religion obviously holds an enormous influence on nearly all aspects of society. Prof. Falk looks at major traditional religious groupings in the US and discusses how they influence the family, education, government, the economy,...
by Nathan Isaacs
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
THE GREAT IMPORTANCE of the work of Professor Jean Piaget for child psychology, and thus for education, has only in recent years been fully recognized. This work has gone on for some thirty-five years, but the sequence of books translated between 1927 and 1932, though very stimulating, seemed open to...
by Yuriy Nikshych
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
What will everyone think once they find out that you're an atheist? How will you find happiness now that you no longer believe? This handbook for the newly-deconverted offers support and helps readers learn to find meaning, shed the emotional baggage, defend your position in debates, and become awesome!...
Exorcising Devils from the Throne:
Sao Tome and Principe in the Chaos of Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very real practical problems face the islands, starting with the corruption, despotism and illegal activities of Presidents Pinto da Costa, Miguel Trovoada and Fradique de Menezes, and including the failure to properly exploit the islands' natural resources; issues of insularity in every sense); economic...
Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare
A Critical Observation of Neighboring Continents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In an incisive view of the relationship between Africa and the West, the author, who holds diplomas from the London School of Economics and the London School of Journalism, suggests that the aid machinery hurts Africa more than it assists and that Westerners (and successful Africans) perpetuate the negative...
Vitality
A Psychiatrist's Answer to Life's Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Notes from the Other China
Adventures in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Parfitt takes a look at Korea's fever-pitch nationalism and gives an assessment of the worldÂs only Chinese democracy, has a run-in with a Nepalese rhinoceros and one or two equally volatile Vietnamese tour guides and ponders the actions and reactions of the people he meets. In these pages...
by Tom Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In their Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno set out to "explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism." Philosophy teacher Tom Donovan (PhD UCRiverside) offers a fresh reading of that classic text showing that it is first and foremost...
Kairological Economics
An Anthropocentric and Creative Theory of Political Economy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Economic analysis underpins and informs economic decision-making, even if there is a lengthy lag between economic analysis and its gradual absorption into economic debate. Once established as common sense, a text of economic analysis becomes incredibly powerful, because it delineates not only what...
The End of Infinity
Where Mathematics and Philosophy Meet
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The idea of infinity stands at the intersection of mathematics and philosophy. As da Vinci said, "Arithmetic is a computational science in its calculations, but it is of no avail in dealing with continuous quantity."The End of Infinity reviews the philosophical history of infinity, mathematics,...
by Dianne Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In addition to information on crime and incarceration rates, White-collar crime, and the typical criminal, the discussion of minorities and public perceptions is set within a broader context including the issues of terrorism and human trafficking, where race and ethnicity are also vital to public...
by Anthony C. Patton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
'The Political Spectrum' sets out to identify the timeless, universal principles of political philosophy that shape how we live as a society, from democracy in Ancient Greece and the aristocracies of the Enlightenment to the tribal lands of Pakistan and the modern state that is the United States of America....