Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james scott

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  • STUDY GUIDE AND WORKBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL AND CHURCH RENEWAL
    JAMES M. DAWSEY / SHARON E. WRIGHT / SCOTT SIKES
    The decline this century in church attendance has been pronounced. And polls show disconcerting ignorance about religious matters even among churchgoers. Is there a path to spiritual and church renewal? And what will become the shape of American Christianity this century?As an accompanying volume to James M. Dawsey's Handbook for the Christian Faith, this workbook offers a summ...

    $391.00

  • IMAGE LAKE
    JAMES M. SCOTT
    Set in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the North Cascades, Image Lake is a stirring hymn to Nature's grandeur and its unfailing power to awe, sustain, and heal us. The lure of a high-mountain lake surrounded by rugged heights serendipitously brings together four misfits: a beleaguered Indigenous woman for whom Image Lake is sacred; a former backcountry ranger who has tried writi...

    $302.00

  • IMAGE LAKE
    JAMES M. SCOTT
    Set in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the North Cascades, Image Lake is a stirring hymn to Nature's grandeur and its unfailing power to awe, sustain, and heal us. The lure of a high-mountain lake surrounded by rugged heights serendipitously brings together four misfits: a beleaguered Indigenous woman for whom Image Lake is sacred; a former backcountry ranger who has tried writi...

    $302.00

  • ETHICS AND THE GOOD SOLDIER
    JAMES ARTHUR / SCOTT PARSONS / ANDREW PETERSON
    Building on extensive, internationally leading empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, this book explores the soldier as a virtuous professional through a close examination of soldiers’ character and ethical reasoning. Starting from the view that virtues such as courage, honesty, loyalty and integrity are core to being a professional soldie...

    $540.00

  • TAXI, LIMOUSINE, AND TRANSPORT NETWORK COMPANY REGULATION
    JAMES M. COOPER / JORGEN AARHAUG / JOHN SCOTT
    The vehicle for hire (VFH) market – broadly comprising taxis, limousines, and app-based transport – has faced multiple and significant changes over the years, with the period since 2010 a time of major upheaval. This book documents the development of the market over time, examining its regulation and control structures, exploring its history, trends, and market theories, and di...

    $940.00

  • THE JESUS REVOLUTION
    JAMES M. SCOTT
    This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the pr...

    $692.00

  • THE JESUS REVOLUTION
    JAMES M. SCOTT
    This introduction to a biblical theology of the New Testament seeks to revitalize our engagement with the Scriptures for the twenty-first century by showing not only how the assemblage of ancient writings consisting of both Old and New Testaments is intrinsically relevant, but also how we can remain faithful to Jesus Christ, the organizing principle of those writings, in the pr...

    $692.00

  • SERIOUS GAMES IN PERSONALIZED LEARNING
    SCOTT M. MARTIN / JAMES R. CASEY / STEPHANIE KANE
    Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games, machine-learning artificial intelligence models, and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring, assessing, and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisiti...

    $1,160.00

  • REMAPPING SECURITY ON EUROPE’S NORTHERN BORDERS
    JUSSI P. LAINE, ILKKA LIIKANEN AND JAMES W. SCOTT
    This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation share a common border. Russian involvement in conflict situations in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood has drastically impacted the European security environment, leading to a resurgence o...

    $1,200.00

  • BEHAVIORAL METHODS IN SOCIAL WELFARE
    STEVEN PAUL SCHINKE / JAMES. K WHITTAKER / SCOTT BRIAR
    "Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare" offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral psychology from the laboratory, clinic, and classroom to the full range of client groups and social problems that m...

    $1,460.00

  • UNDERSTANDING TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
    SCOTT E. ROBINSON / JAMES W. STOUTENBOROUGH / ARNOLD VEDLITZ
    Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that individual agencies develop specific reputation...

    $1,240.00

  • EU ENLARGEMENT, REGION BUILDING AND SHIFTING BORDERS OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
    JAMES WESLEY SCOTT
    The 2004 entry of 10 Central and Eastern European countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, into the EU has caused a huge shift in the EU's external boundaries. The socio-economic and political transformations that this shift has caused not only suggest new regional development opportunities, but also many potential problems and tensions. While the EU insists that enlargement wi...

    $1,460.00

  • COLLOQUIAL CANTONESE
    DANA SCOTT BOURGERIE / KEITH S T TONG / GREGORY JAMES
    Colloquial Cantonese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Cantonese as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently a...

    $2,120.00

  • MULTICULTURAL RELATIONS ON CAMPUS
    WOODROW M. PARKER / JAMES ARCHER JR. / JAMES SCOTT
    First published in 1992. This book presents a program for multicultural awareness. With the aim of enabling participants to learn more about themselves and about how relationships and communication between different groups of people can be improved. The book is not intended to be political, but recognises that political forces cannot be ignored and that institutional racism is...

    $1,100.00

  • EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD THROUGH CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS?
    SCOTT, JAMES WESLEY / LIIKANEN, ILKKA
    This book pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, it focuses on the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new forms of political, economic, and socio-cultural cooperation between the European Union and its neighbours. On the other hand, through this investigation of civil society networks we will contribute to debate on the EU’s role as promoter of greate...

    $1,160.00

  • DECODING SUBALTERN POLITICS
    JAMES C. SCOTT
    James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form. For the first time Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistan...

    $1,560.00

  • BREACH OF PROMISE
    JAMES SCOTT BELL
    How far will a father go to get back his only daughter? And how will he survive in a legal system that crushes those who can't afford to fight back?Mark Gillen has the storybook life other men dream of, complete with a beautiful wife and an adoring five-year-old daughter. Then his wife announces she's leaving him. And taking their daughter with her. The other man is a famous fi...

    $179.00

  • SINS OF THE FATHERS
    JAMES SCOTT BELL
    A parent's worst nightmare.A lawyer's biggest challenge.A young boy's life on the line.The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees ...

    $109.00

  • DEADLOCK
    JAMES SCOTT BELL
    Deadlock is a novel about the impact of the Supreme Court today . . . and about imminent, real-life choices that will shape both its future and that of our nation.She is a Supreme Court Justice. She is an atheist.And she is about to encounter the God of the truth and justice she has sworn to uphold.For years, Millicent Hollander has been the consistent swing vote on abortion an...

    $119.00

  • THE IRISH AND BRITISH WARS, 1637-1654
    JAMES SCOTT WHEELER
    With numerous maps and illustrations, James Scott Wheeler connects the strategic and tactical levels of war with political actions and reactions, and discusses how Britain and Ireland became battlegrounds in the 'war of three kingdoms'. The various stages of this period of turmoil are clearly demonstrated, right through to the execution of Charles I, the conquest of Catholic Ir...

    $1,160.00

  • UNDERSTANDING NEAR CRISES AND ESCALATION IN WORLD POLITICS
    STEVEN E. LOBELL / PATRICK JAMES / SCOTT A. SILVERSTONE / VICTOR ASAL / KYLE BEARDSLEY / EDWARD GONZALEZ /  
    This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation. These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international di...

    $1,260.00

  • SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF SUBSTANCE USE
    MARGARET STARK / JASON PAYNE-JAMES / MICHAEL SCOTT-HAM
    This fourth edition of Symptoms and Signs of Substance Use has been thoroughly updated and revised, continuing to provide trusted information from leading experts. There are few countries that are not touched by some aspect of substance misuse and the consequences for individuals, families and the wider community can be devastating. This edition includes new legislation, in rel...

    $780.00