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Character Matters

How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

The author introduces his Character Education program, designed to give parents and teachers the essential tools and strategies for raising responsible, conscientious, and compassionate children.

The author introduces his Character Education program, designed to give parents and teachers the essential tools and strategies for raising responsible, conscientious, and compassionate children.

International Human Resource Management

Policy and Practice for the Global Enterprise

This is an ideal foundation text for anyone studying or working in the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) arena. This text utilizes and incorporates most of what is currently known, researched or experienced in the field. It features data and examples from academic research, international businesses and consulting firms, as well as experiences of and interviews with HRM managers in multinational and global firms. This book offers both a theoretical and practical treatment of this important and constantly evolving area. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition now includes key terms, learning objectives, discussion questions and an end-of-book integrative case. It has been designed to lead readers through all of the key topics in a highly engaging and approachable way. This book focuses on IHRM within multi-national enterprises (MNEs) and covers topics including: * MNE and country culture * organizational structure, strategy and design * international joint ventures and cross-border mergers and acquisitions * labour standards, ethics and codes of conduct * selection and mangement of international assignees * training and management development * compensation and benefits * health and safety and crisis management * IHRM departments and professionals Uncovering precisely why IHRM is important for success in international business and how IHRM policies and practices function within the multinational enterprise, this outstanding textbook provides an essential foundation for an understanding of the theory and practice of IHRM. This book is essential reading for all students, lecturers and IHRM professionals.

This is an ideal foundation text for anyone studying or working in the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) arena. This text utilizes and incorporates most of what is currently known, researched or experienced in the field.

Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls

Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.

In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship.

What’s Wrong with Democracy?

From Athenian Practice to American Worship

In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of democracy has now become an object of popular veneration.

In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy & its significance for the United States today, Samons firstly shows why the Athenian model was distrusted by America's founding father, before considering how the concept of ...

A Precious Fountain

Music in the Worship of an African American Catholic Community

A Precious Fountain is a work of liturgical ethnography that probes the rich liturgical life of one worshiping community whose roots and practices are at once Black and Catholic, using music as a primary lens through which to explore the community's liturgy and embodied theology. Our Lady of Lourdes community in San Francisco is part of a larger event in the American church: the emergence of a new paradigm of Catholic worship, one that is "authentically Black and truly Catholic." Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, describes how the music worship of Our Lady of Lourdes in San Francisco not only enriches that community but also is an example of how a theology of music is practiced in that parish. She offers this new genre of liturgical literature that brings to light how God's Spirit is working in the churches through the idioms, perceptions, and insights of specific ethno-cultural communities in this time of massive cultural change and globalization.

A Precious Fountain is a work of liturgical ethnography that probes the rich liturgical life of one worshiping community whose roots and practices are at once Black and Catholic, using music as a primary lens through which to explore the ...

Worship Today

Understanding, Practice, Ecumenical Implications

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of the contemporary state of Christian worship. Some thirty liturgists, theologians, church leaders and pastors - from Coptic Orthodox to Quaker, from Mar Thoma to Yoido Full Gospel - present their church's current understanding and practice of worship. The impact of the liturgical renewal and ecumenical movements on worship is considered.

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of the contemporary state of Christian worship.

Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Change and Continuity in Religious Practice

"This is a fine collection of essays that significantly enriches our knowledge of a crucial period in liturgical history." --Paul Bradshaw, Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame "The authors do a remarkably fine job of taking seriously the continuities between late medieval and early modern practices, especially in the Protestant world. They pay as much attention to subtle transformations of the medieval liturgical inheritance as they do to the dramatic changes in worship initiated by Protestant reforms. The authors also clarify the often murky, dynamic relationship between text and practice, and explain the ways in which practices of worship were rooted in local politics and culture. The primary sources accompanying each essay bring to light liturgical texts that deserve to be better known." --Virginia Reinburg, Boston College "This original and useful compilation of essays demonstrates a commendable ecumenical breadth and sensitivity." --Randall Zachman, University of Notre Dame Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or change traditional Catholic worship practices. Featuring some of the most outstanding scholars in the field, this volume will be invaluable to academics interested in the Reformation, early modern studies, theology, and liturgical studies, as well as to general readers who wish to learn how their worship life was shaped in the sixteenth century.

Alternative Political Economy

Should Dr. Chapra's treatise be considered "a catalyst for promoting the Islamic approach to the solution of the economic problems of the contemporary Muslim world?" After reading the second half of his book, one cannot escapes the ...

Arabic Dictionary

This dictionary is intended to cover the needs of students of Arabic and English with the most up-to-date entries in handy reference. It contains over 16,000 entries in a clear, easy-to-read format.

Pocket Arabic Dictionary

Arabic-English English-Arabic

It's never a good idea to be overly–relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Arabic dictionary. Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to the Middle East Pocket Arabic Dictionary is an essential tool for communicating in Arabic and a great way to learn Arabic. It features all the critical Arabic vocabulary appropriate for beginning to intermediate students. It's handy pocket format, and easy-to-read type will make any future trip to the Arab world much more manageable. In addition to being an excellent English to Arabic dictionary and Arabic to English dictionary, Pocket Arabic Dictionary contains essential notes on the Arabic language, Arabic grammar and Arabic pronunciation. All Arabic words are written in a Romanized form as well as Arabic script ( al 'arabiyah ) so that in the case of difficulties the book can directly be shown to a native Arabic speaker. This dictionary contains: The 3,000 most commonly used words in the Arabic language. English–Arabic and Arabic–English sections. Romanized Arabic and Arabic script ( al 'arabiyah ). An introduction to and history of the Arabic language. Information on Arabic grammar. A guide to pronouncing Arabic correctly. Other books from this bestselling series you might enjoy are Pocket Japanese Dictionary, Pocket Tagalog Dictionary, Pocket Korean Dictionary, Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary, Pocket Arabic Dictionary, Pocket Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, Pocket Cantonese Dictionary, Pocket Cambodian Dictionary, Pocket Thai Dictionary, Pocket Indonesian Dictionary, and Pocket Malay Dictionary.

Other books from this bestselling series you might enjoy are Pocket Japanese Dictionary, Pocket Tagalog Dictionary, Pocket Korean Dictionary, Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary, Pocket Arabic Dictionary, Pocket Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, Pocket ...