This book gallery contains monograph publications by Pepperdine University faculty members or staff. Each entry contains a link through which the user may access or purchase the publication.
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Political Sabotage: The LAPD Experience: Attitudes Towards Understanding Police Use of Force
Richard Melville Holbrook
2003
Political Sabotage may not be the answer for all in understanding social crime and violence or police use of force to control it, but it does provide a focus and single source toward that goal. Want to know about Ruby Ridge and Randy Weaver, Rodney King, and a truer story about the fiasco at Waco, Texas? Did law enforcement do it right? Maybe, but maybe not.
These questions are also answered: What facts and experiences create the subtleties for "the mystique of police culture?" Is a true unprofessional "code of silence" part of it? Is that culture a closed club for those wearing the badge of the Los Angeles Police Department? Is its "culture" and its use of police force in the attempt to control crime and violence responsible for the LAPD’s downfall? Do diversity and affirmative action exist as co-conspirators in that downfall? Or will it all remain as the unknown result of the influence and impact of the emotional and ideological attitudes found in our American society and its sometimes politicized, attorney-dominated, and unjust justice system?
What part did political sabotage play in orchestrating what academic isolation and a supporting media label "the ineffective administration of a corrupt LAPD?" And what led that leadership through a moderate level of hesitation and silence to a federal consent decree and various "commission investigations," and to every activist and media embellished blame, to forgo the effort to retain the best parts of what had once made the LAPD the most innovative, respected, effective and efficient police organization in America?
These questions have truthful and experienced answers. But the overall question is yet to be answered: Will the American citizen ever truly understand enough to make a difference?
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Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology
David A. Levy
2003
This innovative text is designed to improve thinking skills through the application of "Metathoughts" (literally, thoughts about thought). Metathoughts arise from critical analysis of the way we think. These specialized tools and techniques are useful for approaching all forms of inquiry, study, and problem solving. Levy applies Metathoughts to many large issues in contemporary social and clinical psychology: defining psychological phenomena, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses in various schools of psychological thought, evaluating the usefulness of psychological theories, and improving cognitive processes to explore new avenues of insight. For each Metathought, Levy offers practical examples, illustrations, anecdotes, clinical vignettes, and contemporary social problems and issues.
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Can't Shove a Great Life into a Small Dream: 12 Life-Essentials to Grow Your Dreams to Match the Life You Want
Tony Magee
2003
Had Enough of Feeling Stuffed into a Bucket? At one time or another, everyone feels cramped and restricted, unable to move forward, held back from getting the most out of life. A dead-end job, no job, a troubled childhood, a ruined relationship, few prospects, having to start over--your dream of a great life is shrinking day by day. But you can break through the crush. It's time to dream large, time to rise to your full height, time to grow and flourish.
In Can't Shove a Great Life into a Small Dream, Tony Magee helps you give shape to the life of your dreams with everything you need to get where you want to go. Here are 12 Life-Essentials crafted from his own incredible journey, and wrapped in the wisdom of the world's most successful people. So make room in your dream for a new life: informed, inspired, and invincible!
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Roadtrip Nation: Find Your Path in Life
Mike Marriner, Nathan Gebhard, and Joanne Gordon
2003
Mike Marriner and Nathan Gebhard share what they learned about life and the real world while traveling across the country in an RV to meet with people who had successfully defined their own paths in life.
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
Robert Louis Wilken
2003
In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. Wilken shows how these early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world and can still be heard as living voices in the modern world.
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The Corporate University Handbook: Designing, Managing, and Growing a Successful Program
Mark Allen
2002
Once upon a time in the halls of academia, being a college graduate was enough. But now, corporations need their employees to have a more intense, ongoing academic and technical education, so they provide it themselves via corporate universities. Mark Allen and other experts from ten corporate universities, academic institutions and consultancies contributed chapters to The Corporate University Handbook, a practical, behind-the-scenes manual about designing and managing a corporate university. The goal goes beyond education: corporate universities must train employees and help corporations excel and prosper. This thorough, yet conversational, examination includes best practices, source notes and programs offered by specific companies including Motorola, Toyota, Sun Microsystems and Charles Schwab, in the U.S. and elsewhere. getAbstract.com assigns this insightful book as an authoritative homework seminar for corporate university planners or managers.
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The Corporate University Handbook: Designing, Managing, and Growing a Successful Program
Mark Allen
2002
Motorola. Sun Microsystems. Charles Schwab. Toyota. These global business leaders have bred excellence through innovative executive and management development organizations that go well beyond traditional job training. Known as corporate universities, these entities are essentially strategic partners of their sponsoring companies. Often working in conjunction with traditional educational institutions, they boast cream-of-the-crop faculty from the academic and business communities. Once the province of only the largest corporations, corporate universities are fast becoming the standard at smaller companies as well. This comprehensive handbook is a valuable resource for companies of all sizes who are considering (or already developing) enhanced professional learning programs. Featuring contributions from experts at ten different corporate universities, academic institutions, and consulting firms, the book addresses the three major components of corporate university success: organization, content, and processes. From structural and financial models to the role of technology, from curriculum development to evaluation approaches and measuring ROI, here is a wealth of information on this major development in professional education.
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Culture and Customs of Egypt
Molefi Kete Asante
2002
Modern Egypt blends African history and geography with Arab culture and religion. With its position at the crossroads of Africa, its status as a major Islamic nation, and continuing interest in its ancient monuments, Egypt makes for fascinating study. This volume provides an accessible, up-to-date overview of a society that greatly evolved, yet retains traces of attitudes and behaviors from the days of the Pharaohs. This volume's insights into everyday life, sociopolitical structures, and cultural institutions transcend ordinary guide books. Asante, a noted Africanist, presents the richness of Egypt from the Nile to the Nubian influence, to Cairo congestion and carpet schools. Chapters describe the land, people, history, education, tourism, religion, art and architecture, food, social customs and lifestyles, literature, media, cinema, and performing arts. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos enhance the text.
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The Firestone Syndrome: A Novel
Stephen P. Beeler
2002
The experience and trials I faced as a young cop in Los Angeles during the 60's and 70's at the notorious Los Angeles County Firestone Sheriff's Station led me to write this book. It is a novel based on an historical era and times, and it is the reader's prerogative to determine if this could happen anywhere at anytime.
This story is a hard, realistic, intense and sometimes sadly humorous look at street cops and the inside politics of the largest sheriff's department in the world. It follows an idealistic young deputy as he struggles with those politics and simultaneously battles what he perceives to be his own inability to use the lethal force that would gain him entrance into the "in" group.
My objective was to depict how power, control and money play an important part in major law enforcement departments, regardless of the idealistic virtues taught in academy courses. I wanted also to show how all-powerful "information" is used and misused to gain rank, wield power and sometimes destroy lives.
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Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers
Lee Ann Carroll
2002
"Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers" will be an invaluable tool for composition specialists who design and teach first-year writing courses, faculty across the disciplines interested in improving student writing, and administrators engaged in revising general education and major programs."--Jacket.
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ABC's of the Sea
Shannon Casey Celia and Carla Marlenee Bates
2002
From anchor to zebrafish, children can practice their ABC's while exploring the wonders of the sea.
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The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain
Louis J. Cozolino
2002
"For years, the brain has been viewed as a relatively static entity, determined by the interaction of genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience. In contrast to this view, recent theoretical perspectives and technological advances in brain imaging have revealed that the brain is an organ continually built and re-built by one's experiences. We are now beginning to learn that many forms of psychotherapy, developed in the absence of any scientific understanding of the brain, are supported by neuroscientific findings." "Written for psychotherapists and others interested in the relationship between brain and behavior, this book encourages us to consider the brain when attempting to understand human development, mental illness, and psychological health."--Jacket.
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Bodacious: An AOL Insider Cracks the Code to Outrageous Success for Women
Mary E. Foley and Martha I. Finney
2002
Provides women with advice and strategies for succeeding in today's economy through stories of the start-up days of AOL, pointing out the qualities that made AOL such a huge success.
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Across the Taiwan Strait: Democracy: the Bridge between Mainland China and Taiwan
Bruce Herschenson
2002
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Dar's Story: Memoirs of a Secret Service Agent
Darwin Horn
2002
Dar's Story is a firsthand narrative encapsulating the fascinating life of a U.S. Secret Service Agent. Darwin takes the reader on a journey through his educational years, from elementary schools in St. Louis, Missouri, and Venice, California, to junior high and high school in Inglewood, California. After high school, Dar enlisted in the U.S. Navy, ultimately being assigned to the USS Serene during World War II. He not only served his country with honor but also made lifelong friends with many of his shipmates. After the war, Dar takes the reader through his adventures first at Los Angeles City College; then at George Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California where he met and fell in love with Shirley Ann, now his wife of fifty-one years. At Pepperdine, he excelled athletically as the star fullback for Pepperdine's championship football team. His academic career came to a conclusion at the University of Southern California, where he earned his master's degree. Fresh out of Pepperdine, Dar entered the Los Angeles Police Department, where he served for two years as a police officer - a job that gave him the experience and knowledge he needed for his ultimate career choice: the U.S. Secret Service. He began his work in the U.S. Secret Service in 1951, a wonderful and fulfilling career that spanned over thirty years. His journal-like entries come alive through vivid stories of the sometimes dangerous, and always exciting, protection assignments of nine presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan, as well as many kings, queens, prime ministers, and other foreign political VIPs. He recounts his extensive travels that took him through every state in the nation and to 75 foreign countries. As Darwin journeys through the life of a secret serviceman, the reader discovers what Darwin himself discovers on the road of life: that the agents of the U.S. Secret Service are some of the finest law enforcement personnel in the world.
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NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary
Vincent James and Erin Jansen
2002
NetLingo has thousands of definitions that explain the online world of business, technology, and communication, including text and chat acronyms and smileys. This reference book helps everyone from students, teachers, parents, and seniors, to gamers, designers, and techies, to bloggers, journalists, and industry professionals worldwide. NetLingo has been the leading Internet dictionary since 1994 helping millions of people each month understand this new jargon.
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The Diamond Conspiracy: A Novel
Nicolas M. Kublicki
2002
Justice Department attorney Patrick Carlton uncovers a conspiracy revolving around an Arkansas diamond mine, which leads him to investigate a top White House official and a corrupt South African diamond conglomerate.
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Why Didn't I Think of That?: Think the Unthinkable and Achieve Creative Greatness
Charles W. McCoy
2002
Accompanied by self-tests, interactive exercises, tips, and techniques, an innovative guide to unleashing creativity and adopting new standards of thinking provides practical step-by-step instructions for making decisions that require observation, accuracy, and analysis to determine the best possible outcome and to improve performance IQ.
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Computing Fundamentals: the Theory and Practice of Software Design with BlackBox Component Builder
J Stanley Warford and Karlheinz Hug
2002
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Computing Fundamentals: The Theory And Practice Of Software Design With Blackbox Component Builder
J. Stanley Warford and Karlheinz Hug
2002
The book introduces the reader to computer programming, i.e. algorithms and data structures.
It covers many new programming concepts that have emerged in recent years including object-oriented programming and design patterns.
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Faith and Public Policy
James R. Wilburn
2002
Fourteen essays, presented by Wilburn (public policy, Pepperdine U.), offer arguments for eroding the separation between religion and public policy in contemporary American life. Preliminary essays argue that the United States was founded as a religious nation and that it's success is due to that religious founding. Other essays blame a number of social and individual ills on a perceived lack of religion, failing to explain why many less religious countries don't have these ills on the same scale. Further contributions offer arguments for bringing religious institutions into schooling, social welfare, and tax policy (this last relying heavily on the arguments of Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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The Marriage Problem: How our Culture has Weakened Families
James Q. Wilson
2002
Marriage, the emotional core and social foundation of our culture, is under attack. Profound changes in our values have eroded family life to a degree that degrades the very integrity of our society. This devastation takes many forms, says the renowned scholar, James Q. Wilson: the proliferation of cohabitation instead of formal marriage, the steep increase in single and teenage parents, and the rising divorce rate. Behind these diverse forces, Wilson draws on meticulous research to identify two underlying causes of this destruction: the rise of individualism and the consequences of slavery. Unafraid to contradict conventional wisdom, Wilson provides ample evidence that marriage benefits all parties, husbands, wives and, especially, children. An important and persuasive book, The Marriage Problem is a clarion call to rebuild the family, and society, by having a solid marital structure at its core.
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Realizing the California Dream: The Story of Black Churches of Christ in Los Angeles
Calvin H. Bowers
2001
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Press Censorship in Jacobean England
Cyndia S. Clegg
2001
"Press Censorship in Jacobean England examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. The book challenges prevailing attitudes that press censorship in Jacobean England differed little from either the "whole machinery of control" enacted by the Court of Star Chamber under Elizabeth or the draconian campaign implemented by Archbishop Laud during the reign of Charles I. Cyndia Clegg, building on her earlier study Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under King James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. This was both because the monarch took greater interest in the press and because the law courts, the people, and parliament expressed in print different views on the day's political and religious issues." "The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts. Each chapter sets the censorship history of a different set of texts into the explanatory context of the era's central political and religious interests. Clegg thus considers the relationship of censorship to such international matters as King James's defense of the Oath of Allegiance, his promotion of the Synod of Dort, and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The book exposes the kinds of tension that really mattered in Jacobean culture and will be an invaluable resource for literary scholars and historians alike."--Jacket.
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Press Censorship in Jacobean England
Cyndia Susan Clegg
2001
This book examines the ways in which books were produced, read, and received during the reign of King James I. Cyndia Clegg contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with the reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for scholars as well as historians.
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Destination Korea
Dana Abbott Curtis and Jennifer R Willand Dillard
2001
Destination Korea is an eyewitness account of the daily life of servicemen in the Korean War. It consists of letters written by a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army to his wife while he was stationed in Okinawa and Korea during the Korean War. Through a collaborative effort between the author of the letters, Dana Abbot Curtis, and his granddaughter, Jennifer R. Willand Dillard, they give an accurate account of the life of an infantryman and combat engineer ordered to fight in Korea.
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Bakhtin and Religion: a Feeling for Faith
Susan M. Felch and Paul J. Contino
2001
The dimension of religion in the life and work of Mikhail Bakhtin has been fiercely contested -- and willfully ignored -- by critics. Unique in its in-depth focus on this subject, Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith brings together leading British, American, and Russian scholars to investigate the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings.These essays comprise a valuable overview of Bakhtin's attitude toward religion in general and Russian Orthodoxy in particular, addressing topics ranging from how Bakhtin's religious ideas informed his linguistic and aesthetic theories to the idea of love in Bakhtin's secular and religious thought to the religious component of Bakhtin's theory of laughter.
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Remember the Ladies: A Story about Abigail Adams
Jeri Ferris and Ellen Beier
2001
Abigail Adams lived through the Revolutionary War and became the First Lady of the second president of the United States. Though women of her time could not vote, govern, or own property, Abigail believed that women should not be ruled by laws they did not make. Although she did not see these rights come to women, she never gave up talking, writing, and perhaps most important, believing that women were equal to men. Her courage and strength enabled her to help her husband create a new country. She never fired a gun, but her pen was a weapon that helped win freedom for her country--and herself.
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Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12-36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah
R Christopher Heard
2001
"In Dynamics of Diselection, Christopher Heard brings literary-aesthetic and socio-historical considerations, often practiced in isolation from one another, into a meaningful synergy that illumines both the literary features and the social functions of Genesis 12-36. Heard rigorously scrutinizes and focuses attention upon the ambiguities (some long known, some heretofore unrecognized) in the characterizations of Lot, Ishmael, Esau, and Laban. He charts the range of possible resolutions of these ambiguities, noting the lack of guidance provided by the narrator for readers negotiating these options. Heard argues that the narrator's penchant for leaving these ambiguities unresolved is neither accidental nor a generic feature of language, but is instead a strategy giving robustness to the narratives' ideological function in promoting ethnic exclusivity in post-exilic Judah. Heard's careful examination thus provides a richer understanding of why Genesis 12-36 was written as it was, and thereby gives new depth and vigor to studies of the form and functions of the book of Genesis."--Jacket
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When Children Grieve: For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses
John W. James, Russell Friedman, and Leslie Landon Matthews
2001
The first—and definitive—guide to helping children really deal with loss from the authors of The Grief Recovery Handbook Following deaths, divorces, pet loss, or the confusion of major relocation, many adults tell their children “don’t feel bad.” In fact, say the authors of the bestselling The Grief Recovery Handbook, feeling bad or sad is precisely the appropriate emotion attached to sad events. Encouraging a child to bypass grief without completion can cause unseen long-term damage. When Children Grieve helps parents break through the misinformation that surrounds the topic of grief. It pinpoints the six major myths that hamper children in adapting to life’s inevitable losses. Practical and compassionate, it guides parents in creating emotional safety and spells out specific actions to help children move forward successfully.
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Useful Educational Results: Defining, Prioritizing, & Accomplishing
Roger A. Kaufman, Ryan Watkings, and Doug Leigh
2001
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Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands
Edward J. Larson
2001
"When Charles Darwin landed on the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he was the first to recognize that their isolation and desolation were advantages for a naturalist: Here the workings of nature are laid bare for study. Still, much more happened on these islands than Darwin's lone visit. Evolution's Workshop describes how specimen-hunting and science have supported each other (or not) on the Galapagos over the past three centuries. In lucid prose, Edward Larson introduces the extraordinary parade of top researchers who have studied on the islands, the warring institutions that have sent expeditions, and the major discoveries that have emerged as a result. He shows why these islands have been called the workshop of evolution: It is here that the tools and blueprints of nature are visible, and here that the great theories have been built."--Jacket.
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Evolution's Workshop: God And Science On The Galapagos Islands
Edward J. Larson
2001
More than any other place on Earth, the Galapagos Islands are the workshop of evolution. Isolated and desolate, they were largely overlooked by early explorers until Charles Darwin arrived there in the 1830s. It was Darwin who recognized that Galapagos' isolation and desolation were advantages: the paucity of species and lack of outside influences made the workings of natural selection crystal clear. Since then, every important advance and controversy in evolutionary thinking has had its reflection on the Galapagos. In every sense-intellectually, institutionally, and culturally-the history of science on these islands is a history of the way evolutionary science was done for the past 150 years. Evolution's Workshop tells the story of Darwin's explorations there; the fabulous Gilded Age expeditions, run from rich men's gigantic yachts, that featured rough-and-ready science during the day and black-tie dinners every night; the struggle for control of research on the Galapagos; the current efforts by "creation scientists" to use the Galapagos to undercut evolutionary teaching; and many other compelling stories.
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Useful Educational Results (Defining, Prioritizing, Accomplishing)
Doug Leigh, Ryan Watkins, and Roger Kaufman
2001
The accomplishment of meaningful results in education is achieved when the outcomes required by educational partners (including society) are defined and prioritized, and then used in effective decision-making by educational institutions and individual educators. Useful Educational Results provides a guide for educators who want to ensure that the results they accomplish in the classroom lead to useful contributions outside of the classroom.
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The Life of Selina Campbell: a Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration
Loretta M. Long
2001
"Loretta M. Long examines the life and influence of one of the most visible women in the 19th-century Disciples of Christ movement. Best known as the wife of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Disciples, Selina Campbell both shaped and exemplified the role of women in this dynamic religious group (also known as the Stone-Campbell movement). Her story demonstrates the importance of faith in the lives of many women during this era and adds a new dimension to the concept of the "separate spheres" of men and women, which women like Campbell interpreted in the context of their religious beliefs."--Jacket.
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The Art of Profound Meditation
Lawrence M. McCafferty
2001
The Art of Profound Meditation is a trip through the art of meditation for everyone from the beginner to the experienced intermediate practitioner. In a very easy writing style that walks the reader through the philosophy as well as the techniques.
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Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran Jr., and Angela C. Carmella
2001
This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars-including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton-describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. The book reveals not only the diversity among Christian legal thinkers but also the richness of the Christian tradition as a source for intellectual and ethical approaches to legal inquiry. The contributors bring various perspectives to the subject. Some engage the prominent schools of legal thought: liberalism, legal realism, critical legal studies, feminism, critical race theory, and law and economics. Others address substantive areas, including environmental, criminal, contract, torts, and family law, as well as professional responsibility. Together the essays introduce a new school of legal thought that will make a signal contribution to contemporary discussions of law.
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Never Sell Yourself Short
Stephanie Riggs and Bill Youmans
2001
Stephanie Riggs, an award-winning television journalist tells the story of a young man who is short in height but "stands tall," and traces the many roles a person with dwarfism can play in life. Fourteen-year-old Josh was born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. In this photo-essay, Josh talks about his life, describing the challenges he faces along with his plans for the future.
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You're Not Going to Tell That, Are You, Mom?
Nan Ray Alexander
2000
Anecdotes from the life of Nan Ray Alexander, a graduate of Pepperdine's first class (1939) and wife of a Church of Christ preacher.
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The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten
Molefi Kete Asante
2000
Traditional Eurocentric thought assumes that Greece was the origin of civilization. This book dispels this and other myths by showing that there is a body of knowledge that preceded Greek philosophy. The author documents how the great pyramids were built in 2800 B.C., 2,100 years before Greek civilization. The popular myth of Hippocrates being the father of medicine is dispelled by the fact that Hippocrates studied the works of Imhotep, the true father of medicine, and mentioned his name in his Hippocratic oath. Eleven famous African scholars who preceded Greek philosophers are profiled: Ptahhotep, Kagemni, Duauf, Amenhotep, Amenemope, Imhotep, Amenemhat, Merikare, Sehotepibre, Khunanup, and Akhenaten. These scholars’ ideas on a variety of topics are discussed, including the emergence of science and reason, the moral order, books and education, and the clash of classes.
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Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany
Joel Fetzer
2000
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany explores the causes of public opposition to immigration and support for anti-immigrant political movements in the three industrialized Western countries. Combining sophisticated modeling of recent public-opinion data with analysis of the past 110 years of these nations' immigration history, the book evaluates the effects of cultural marginality, economic self-interest, and contact with immigrants. Though analysis partly confirms each of these three explanations, the author concludes that being a cultural outsider usually drives immigration-related attitudes more than economics or contact do.
