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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First, Best, or Different: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Niche Marketing
John Bradley Jackson
2007
Are you an entrepreneur, small business owner, or corporate marketing executive with questions like these? What viral marketing methods are most successful? What direct mail marketing tactics create the newest leads? How can I optimize my website and increase traffic? How can I motivate and retain my top sales reps? How do I choose the right Public Relations firm? What is podcasting and how do I get started? What outdoor advertising techniques work best? Get answers to these questions along with practical advice on over 100 topics. Written in plain English with short easy-to-read chapters, this book demystifies niche marketing by delivering easy-to-understand definitions and practical suggestions. About the Author John Bradley Jackson brings street-savvy sales and marketing experience from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. His resume also includes entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate trainer, philanthropist, and consultant.
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson
2007
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution."
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The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives
Edward J. Larson
2007
Few issues besides evolution have so strained Americans' professed tradition of tolerance. Few historians besides Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson have so perceptively chronicled evolution's divisive presence on the American scene. This slim volume reviews the key aspects, current and historical, of the creation-evolution debate in the United States.
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Home, Sweet Homework: A Parent's Guide to Stress-Free Homework & Studying Strategies that Work
Sharon Marshall Lockett
2007
Students today have twice as much homework as you did. That's twice as much reading. Twice as many definitions. Twice the number of math problems. It doubles the workload for your kids--and the headaches for you. Fortunately, there's Home Sweet Homework.
Getting involved with your student's homework will help them receive better grades, have a better attitude, and get accepted to better colleges. And Sharon Lockett, founder of Educational Innovations/SCORE, shows you how! She provides the tools and strategies you will need to conquer your child's bulging backpack.
Help your children do their homework--and do it right!
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The Awakened Leader: One Simple Leadership Style that Works Every Time, Everywhere
Joan Marques
2007
Argues that leadership styles do not need to change in different contexts, thus giving readers permission to develop one style that works for every situation. Readers are instructed on the behaviors and traits necessary to become awakened leaders, such as integrity and compassion, and they are warned about common mistakes, such as being judgmental or manipulative. In-depth interviews with leaders in many settings, from corporate to nonprofit and religious to personal, reveal crucial points for leadership success as well as organizational aspects for achieving greater job performance and satisfaction. Taking into account the many recognized leadership styles discussed in business literature, Awakened Leadership is presented as the most effective, versatile style of leading.
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Spirituality in the Workplace: What it is, Why it Matters, How to Make it Work for You
Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, and Richard King
2007
Provides the tools to make your work experience a gratifying one. A common misconception equates workplace spirituality with religion in the workplace; this sets the record straight, providing a practical definition of spirit at work and explaining its benefits for employees, managers, the organization, the societies in which the organization operates, and the world at large. Whether you are a leader, a manager, or an employee who cares about the people and the place you surround yourself with, you'll find the broad focus presented here useful for improving your work and your life.
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Aspirations: Achieving What You Want for Yourself and Your Life
Mark Mikelat
2007
You need Aspirations. Your Aspirations are your lifeblood. They sustain you, empower you, and give you purpose and direction in life towards ultimate happiness and fulfillment. As you need air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink, your Aspirations, too, are a needed daily nutrient.
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Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
Cindy L. Miller-Perrin and Robin D. Perrin
2007
Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in this field. The text is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to child maltreatment by disseminating current knowledge about the various types of violence against children. By helping students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues, and prevention of child maltreatment, the authors hope to further our understanding of how to treat child maltreatment victims and how to prevent future child maltreatment.
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Child Maltreatment: An Introduction
Cindy L. Miller-Perrin and Robin D. Perrin
2007
Thoroughly updated and expanded, the Second Edition of Child Maltreatment: An Introduction disseminates current knowledge about the various types of violence against children. Uniquely offering both a psychological and sociological focus, this core text helps students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues, and prevention of child maltreatment.
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Living Brands: Collaboration + Innovation = Customer Fascination
Raymond Nadeau
2007
If you want to build and strengthen your brand in the twenty-first century, you need more than clever grassroots promotions and hip guerrilla marketing. You need Living Brands, Raymond Nadeau's dynamic, groundbreaking approach to branding that shows you, in six simple steps, how to become an integral part of your consumers' lives.
Living Brands is based on a passion for understanding consumers' lives and their existing needs. It uses the latest strategies of consumer collaboration to create a more culturally evolved, emotionally engaged, holistic connection with consumers. As one of the marketing industry's global pioneers, Raymond Nadeau has seen how the marketing world has changed. He provides examples of what works and what doesn't in today's consumer-savvy market. Packed with interviews from today's finest creative and cultural minds, he reveals six secrets to creating brands that truly fascinate and fulfill consumers' needs.
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Wearing the Spider
Susan Schaab
2007
Sexual Harassment, Identity Theft, and Political Intrigue in one High-Tech Legal Thriller. It starts with a simple unwanted kiss and evolves into a labyrinthine trail of forgery and illusion. A lawyer's identity is hijacked and misused by a ruthless partner of her Manhattan law firm who engages in email impersonation, political gamesmanship and electronic forgery to set her up as the mastermind of an illegal scheme that ultimately leads to murder. She embarks on a clandestine investigation while dodging the FBI, risking her life as well as her career.
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What's Your BQ?: Learn How 35 Companies Add Customers, Subtract Competitors, and Multiply Profits with Brand Quotient
Sandra Sellani
2007
More than 100 books have been written on branding, but none of them take you through a step-by-step process of building a brand. Most business leaders are overwhelmed with the day-to-day operations of running a business and view branding as something that should be left to the marketing department. But in fact, branding is inextricably linked to strategy and the leader of the organization must be the brand champion. This book is the only one of its kind that addresses the link between strategy and brand by using an evaluation tool (the BQ Test) and by teaching clients how to build a strategy-based brand. The book also uses the powerful VRIO Model introduced by Dr. Jay Barney of Ohio State University to give companies a practical way to determine their true points of differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage in an environment of increasing complexity and competition.
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The Heartbreakers
Pamela Wells
2007
When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code," which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.
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The Story of Oklahoma
W. David Baird and Danney Goble
2006
From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely recognized history makers as Sequoyah, the 1889 Land Run, and the Glenn Pool oil strike. But they also give due attention to Black Seminole John Horse, Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Coach Bertha Frank Teague’s 40-year winning streak with the Byng Lady Pirates, and other lesser-known but equally important milestones. The result is a rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story.
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Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
Richard Carlson
2006
Presents sixty ways to guard against stressful elements and dysfunctional people during the holiday season. Don't Get Scrooged is a jewel of a handbook on how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk who ignores you in favor of her cell phone, the customer who knowingly jumps ahead of you in line at Starbucks, the unnaturally irritable boss down the hall, or the in-laws who invite themselves (every year) for a two-week stay at your house, you will always need to deal with Scrooges, grumps, uninvited guests, sticks-in-the-mud, and supreme party poopers. Learning to handle them whenever and wherever they appear is not just optional—it's essential.
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Plant My Feet on Higher Ground
Ila E. Flinn
2006
From prankster to preacher? Just start in the Galveston Storm, September 1900. That will lead you back to 1857 and your parents for the most unusual of three love stories in this history.
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Getting Reel: A Social Science Perspective on Film
Michael D. Gose
2006
This book is an easy-to-read, fun and provocative discussion of how to understand, appreciate, and evaluate film. Written by professor and film guru Michael Gose, the book is loved by students and moviegoers alike. Michael Gose masterfully raises key questions and examples that illuminate perspectives and issues raised in film. The style is both educational and highly entertaining. The work has received rave reviews. For example, Dr. Robert K. Johnson rates the book "a gold mine of wide-ranging questions and critical perspectives that together help viewers unpack a movie's power and meaning." This book is a masterful achievement that allows the reader to truly engage in the film experience.
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The La Brea Tar Pits: A Field Trip & Self-Study Guide; Understanding the Past & Critical Thinking
Allen W. Jang and William S. Weston
2006
A review of the theories surrounding the deposit of animal carcasses in the tar pits, including the fluvial transport theory adopted by some Creationists (i.e.: deposit by flood waters). According to the traditional view, the La Brea Tar Pits were pools of entrapment for unwary animals. This view fails to account for a variety of anomalies, including the disarticulation and intermingling of skeletal parts, the lack of teeth marks on herbivore bones, the absence of soft tissues, the inverse ratio of carnivores to herbivores, the numerical superiority of water beetles among insect species, and water saturation of wood debris. An alternative theory assuming a catastrophic flood is a better explanation of the data. This theory can apply to other late Pleistocene fossil sites, where similar anomalies occur. Fossil deposition by catastrophic flood seems to be global in scope. These considerations provide strong confirmation for the young Earth-Flood model of geologic history.
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson
2006
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial that pit William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes into a famous debate over science, religion, and their place in public education.
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely setting of one of our century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial and the debate over science, religion, and their place in public education. This ”trial of the century” not only cast Dayton into the national spotlight, it epitomized America's ongoing struggle between individual liberty and majoritarian democracy.Now, with this authoritative and engaging book, Edward J. Larson examines the many facets of the Scopes trial and shows how its enduring legacy has crossed religious, cultural, educational, and political lines.The ”Monkey Trial,” as it was playfully nicknamed, was instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a controversial Tennessee law banning the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The Tennessee statute represented the first major victory for an intense national campaign against Darwinism, launched in the 1920s by Protestant fundamentalists and led by the famed politician and orator William Jennings Bryan. At the behest of the ACLU, a teacher named John Scopes agreed to challenge the statute, and what resulted was a trial of mythic proportions. Bryan joined the prosecutors and acclaimed criminal attorney Clarence Darrow led the defense—a dramatic legal matchup that spurred enormous media attention and later inspired the classic play Inherit the Wind. The Scopes trial marked a watershed in our national discussion of science and religion. In addition to symbolizing the clash between evolutionists and creationists, the trial helped shape the development of both popular religion and constitutional law in America, serving as a precedent for more recent legal and political battles. With new archival material from both the prosecution and the defense, paired with Larson's keen historical and legal analysis, Summer for the Gods is poised to become a new classic on a pivotal milestone in American history.
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Done Deal: Your Guide to Merger and Acquisition Integration
M. Beth Page
2006
"When is the Deal Done?" The greatest barrier to successful integration is cultural incompatibility. Undervaluing or ignoring the human dynamics related to an M&A transaction can prompt the departure of key talent that was among the assets that made the acquisition attractive to the buyer in the first place. The importance of an organization s culture, particularly as a risk factor in M&A integration, cannot be underestimated. Harvard researchers report that firms that managed their culture realized a nearly seven-fold increase in revenue, compared with only 166% for firms that did not manage culture. You will discover how using transition teams, an integration manager, and a comprehensive employee communications strategy rank among the best practices in the 5C Integration Model for strengthening your M&A Integration the 5C Self Assessment workbook for your M&A planning the importance of the human dimension to overall M&A success.
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Arnheim's Principles of Athletic Training: A Competency-Based Approach
William E. Prentice and Daniel D. Arnheim
2006
Illustrated by numerous black and white photographs, this classic textbook introduces the principles trainers should follow to help athletes avoid injury, explains tissue susceptibility to sports trauma, and describes the anatomy and musculoskeletal injuries that can occur to each region of the body. The twelfth edition adds material on stretching, ephedrine, low carbohydrate diets, and headgear.
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Awakening the Workplace: Achieving Connection, Fulfillment and Success at Work
Kathy Glover Scott and Adele Alfano
2006
Increasingly, people are seeing themselves in a new light in relation to their work, expressing higher expectations for achieving connection, fulfillment, and success. At the same time, the workplace is constantly evolving, creating a need for new approaches and strategies to create environments in which people work more effectively together to achieve lasting results. In short, both as individuals and teams, we seek to be fully alive in our work—finding personal meaning and creating stellar growth for our organizations. Awakening the Workplace is the seventh book in the popular Experts Who Speak book series. In this volume, we are proud to offer the collective wisdom, experience, and knowledge of 16 top speakers, coaches, and consultants from across North America and Australia. Each is a specialist in workplace issues and innovation—with proven results. Where else can you find this essential information in one book? In this volume, you’ll learn how to: • Focus your actions to achieve exponential results • Awaken the leader within • Unleash spiritual passion at home and work • Create an authentic workplace • Activate innovative leadership strategies • Integrate your work and life in a winning way • Boost your change resilience • Ride smoothly when the road gets bumpy • Defeat the energy crisis in the workplace You are holding in your hands a unique gold mine of essential information, strategies and expertise directed to awaken your limitless potential and enable a progressive, thriving workplace. The choice is yours—to remain where you are or move forward…
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Marketing to Hispanics: A Strategic Approach to Assessing and Planning Your Initiative
Terry J. Soto
2006
For many companies already targeting this lucrative market segment and for those who are considering it, success is not always guaranteed. Even companies with a reputation for well-planned and implemented marketing programs often fail to do the upfront homework, apply the necessary analytical frameworks, and set the foundation; often resulting in false starts and initiatives that do not achieve the necessary internal traction necessary for a successful and sustainable strategy.
In Marketing to Hispanics: A Strategic Approach to Assessing and Planning Your Initiative, Terry Soto provides an in-depth view of the strategic planning process companies need to apply to effectively create market entry strategies that are in sync with not only the environment in which companies compete for a share of this market but also with their strategic, operational and organizational goals and metrics. Terry Soto's book provides a practical, systematic approach to preparing your company to target and serve Hispanic America and to set realistic goals by which to measure your success. -
The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary: 30,000 Words Including Cognates, Roots, and Suffixes
Scott Thomas
2006
The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary is much, much more than a Spanish vocabulary reference! This unique and complete resource combines three complementary approaches to vocabulary building―cognates, root families, and suffixes―to instantly increase word familiarity and aid memorization.
Whether for active face-to-face communication or passive comprehension of written or spoken words, in-depth knowledge of vocabulary is the key to foreign language mastery. The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary makes acquiring this mastery simpler and more straightforward than ever.
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Finding the Life You've Been Looking For
H Norman Wright
2006
Everyone envisions a better life for themselves and their family. But daily demands soon take over the hope of a different way. H. Norman Wright, bestselling author and noted Christian counselor, renews hope for readers with the assurance that the simpler life they want is in reach when they define success in meaningful terms, simplify all areas of work and home, create balanced priorities and downscale, release emotional baggage, and set up a personal plan.
Loaded with sound advice and user-friendly suggestions, Finding the Life You've Been Looking For will guide readers toward making manageable changes to their pace, expectations, activities, relationships, possessions, and spiritual life in order to achieve the life of their dreams.
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Star Wars, the Cestus Deception: (A Clone Wars Novel)
Steven Barnes
2005
Jedi master, Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to the planet Ord in order to persuade the manufacturer not to export the powerful battle droids to the Confederacy, but discovers that he is not the only one pursuing them.
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Pepperdine University, Strengthening Lives for Purpose, Service and Leadership
Andrew K. Benton
2005
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Changing Lanes: A New Adult's Guide to Understanding Your Lane in Life
Tonia N. East
2005
Provocative and deeply uplifting, Changing Lanes fulfills a purpose as a strong, spiritually directed guide for those who face one of life’s greatest challenges: learning about self and one’s unique purpose in life. Changing Lanes has been well received by readers in various stages of life, especially those in transition. Whether it is a career change, marriage, divorce, graduation, or promotion, change is inevitable at any age. Changing Lanes is unique in that it addresses many of the issues people face, in a way that relates directly to their experience.
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Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany
Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper
2005
European governments must struggle with assimilating Muslim newcomers into their countries, with so many more now living in Western Europe. Britain, France, and Germany have dealt with the related problems differently. This book explains why their policies differ and proposes ways of ensuring the successful incorporation of practicing Muslims into liberal democracies. Resolving their issues has become all the more urgent in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Bodac!ous Career: Outrageous Success for Working Women
Mary E. Foley
2005
If you're like most women, you sense you could be doing better. Bodacious! Career: Outrageous Success for Working Women, shows you how! Learn what it takes to build a successful career. How to thrive in constant change. How to embrace office politics. How to actively market yourself. How to know your worth. How to take a stand. How to think strategically, and act bodaciously. And much more!
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Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
Candice E. Jackson
2005
Bill Clinton rose to the White House proclaiming himself a supporter of women's rights, but this shocking expose reveals a pattern of disturbing actions that render his rhetoric hollow. Combining in-depth research and first-hand accounts, Candice E. Jackson proves that Clinton used his political power to harass, intimidate and terrorize the women who got in his way. And while Jackson stops short of morally condemning the former president for his philandering, her research uncovers an undeniable link between his liberal beliefs and misogynistic behavior. It's a discovery that should concern women everywhere, given that Hillary Clinton, his eager accomplice, might one day occupy the Oval Office.
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If Looks Could Kill
Jeanne Lazo
2005
On Halloween night, four children find a dead body wearing red shoes in the local cemetery, and decide to investigate the murder when the shoes reappear a week later in a painting displayed at the local art gallery.
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If Looks Could Kill: Teacher's Guide
Jeanne Lazo
2005
If Looks Could Kill Teacher's Guide, for grades 6-8, is packed with innovative tools to stimulate classroom discussion and get every child actively involved. Companion to If Looks Could Kill, a mystery by Jeanne Lazo for ages 10 and up, this guide helps teachers and students expand the joy of reading to a multi-dimensional learning experience.
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Nicaragua
Richard Leonardi
2005
Central America’s best-preserved secret. Sleepy towns and active volcanoes. Where to go and what to see. Deserted beaches and pristine rainforests. Where to eat, drink and sleep, from beach huts to elegant colonial haciendas. A nation of poets and comedians. Rum, reggae, and revolution. Full-colour maps. Kamikaze parrots, fishing bats, and iguanas that can raise the dead…
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Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott
Patricia Loughlin
2005
Scholars of the American West have largely overlooked the lives and work of three women public historians who, in the 1930s and 1940s, produced some of the most important writings about Oklahoma and the Southwest. In Hidden Treasures of the American West, Patricia Loughlin illuminates the contributions of Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott to the study of the West and American Indians.
Muriel Wright, an Oklahoma Choctaw, promoted Oklahoma history in her writings for the Chronicles of Oklahoma, a journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Wright focused on the progress, strength, and endurance of American Indian cultures.
Angie Debo, Wright's contemporary, studied American Indian history and Oklahoma's distinct identity as a place of frontier possibilities and American Indian settlement. She participated in the larger, national discourse concerning the history of the United States and the history of the American Indians, revisiting issues she thought were misrepresented in previous accounts.
Alice Marriott, an anthropologist, was known within the discipline as a pioneer of experimental ethnography, but she never enjoyed the respect her output deserved. Marriott strove to convince collectors that Indian arts and crafts from Oklahoma were just as authentic and valuable as those from Arizona or New Mexico.
Patricia Loughlin sketches the biographies of these influential women including their significant texts that contributed greatly to Oklahoma historiography, their establishment of new methodologies, and their understanding of state and regional history, federal Indian policy, and interpretations of American Indian cultures.
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The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison
James Madison, Edward J. Larson, and Michael P. Winship
2005
In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats–without becoming as overbearing as England. So thirty-six-year-old James Madison believed. That summer, the Virginian was instrumental in organizing the Constitutional Convention, in which one of the world’s greatest documents would be debated, created, and signed. Inspired by a sense of history in the making, he kept the most extensive notes of any attendee.Now two esteemed scholars have made these minutes accessible to everyone.
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Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Michael Shermer
2005
In each of the essays in Science Friction, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores the barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the boundaries of the unknown. As Shermer puts it, the challenge we all face in distinguishing facts from fiction can be summed up with a twist on a well-worn bromide: "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it." What do we know and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? Together, these fourteen essays probe the omnipresent clash between the known and the unknown, always employing Shermer's trademark wit and intelligence.
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Michael Shermer
2005
From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamouml;, infamously known as the "fierce people" of the tropical rain forest, to the Stanford studies on jailers' behavior in prisons. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.
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Falling Away: Why Christians Lose Their Faith & What Can be Done About It
Brian Simmons
2005
How can a son, raised in an authentically Christian home, reach adulthood and then make the choice to walk away from the faith he has learned since infancy...while his sister, raised in the same home and circumstances, grows into a sure, stable, and closely-treasured belief in God and his promises? Why do people from mixed marriages fall away from the church more often? What are the signs that an adolescent is having something more than a normal identity crisis? How can Christians respond to deep, probing questions of faith from those who are struggling, without closing the door on their return to the Christian fellowship?
Drawing on the latest sociological, psychological, and religious research - and most importantly, drawing on the wisdom of Scripture - Brian Simmons seeks to answer these and other important questions about the process, implications, and consequences of apostasy. A must-read for anyone who's ever questioned the faith - or loved someone who did.
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Another Attempt at Rescue
M. L. Smoker
2005
Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker, whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison. "M.L. Smoker's poems are tough, funny, magical, but not in a goofy way. This is blue-collar magic. Unemployed magic. Living on government cheese magic. I highly recommend this collection"--Sherman Alexie. Smoker is an Assiniboine/Sioux writer from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
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The Crabs of Santo Domingo: The Power of Working Together
Carlos A. Conejo
2004
The concepts of "helpful crabs" and "fighter crabs" are used to illustrate the power of collaboration and cooperation.
