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  • Silent Exodus—Parents' Silent Suffering

    Empowering Chinese Canadian Parents in Ethno-Religious Communities Impacted by Generational Assimilation and Dechurching

    by Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd ...
    The broad cultural phenomenon of youth dechurching is often accompanied by stories of broken-hearted parents. The objective of this book is to consider ways immigrant parents are impacted by generational assimilation and dechurching from ethno-religious communities. The original contribution of the book is in substantiating parents' experience from a spectrum of impacts. The author explores ways ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English Ministry Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches

    Towards the Retention of English-Speaking Adults from Chinese Canadian Churches through Associated Parallel Independent English Congregational Models

    by Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd ...
    In this book, Dr. Matthew Todd looks into the anecdotal reporting of high numbers of Canadian-born Chinese leaving Western Canadian Chinese churches--what is termed the silent exodus. Some of the fastest-growing Canadian churches are Chinese, yet reportedly the highest dropout rates are among Chinese and Asian church adult ministries. This book recommends solutions towards the retention of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soviet Society And Culture

    Essays In Honor Of Vera S. Dunham

    by Terry L Thompson, Richard Sheldon, Edward J Brown, Michael P Sacks ...
    Academic analysis has not always kept pace with the dramatic changes that have occurred in the USSR since Stalin’s time, for objective study has often been overshadowed—especially in the 1980s—by publicity concerning the negative aspects of the “Evil Empire.” Recently, however, because of reforms initiated by Gorbachev, the dynamics of the Soviet system have come into sharper focus. This book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Empire, Development and Colonialism

    The Past in the Present

    by Mark Duffield, Lisa Smirl, David Williams, Tom Young, Patricia Noxolo, April R. Biccum, Uma Kothari, Douglas Johnson, Paul Kelemen, Dr Douglas H Johnson0, Vernon Hewitt2, Vernon Hewitt3, Matt Merefield4, Henrik Aspengren5, Suthaharan Nadarajah6, Richard Sheldon7 ...
    This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches.The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy

    Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson's Writings

    by Derek H. Davis, M. Andrew Holowchak, Richard E. Dixon, William Merkel, James J. Carpenter, Richard Guy Wilson, Garrett Ward Sheldon, Paul B. Thompson ...
    Though it is not uncommon for historians to have something to say concerning philosophical strands in Jefferson’s thought, that something is usually insubstantial—often misleadingly so—or inchoate. Overall, precious little has been said. The significance of the man and the richness of his thought demands that this defect be remedied.Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy is a collection of nine new ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The German Army on the Somme, 1914–1916

    by Jack Sheldon ...
    This groundbreaking WWI history presents a detailed narrative of German Army operations from the start of the war to the 1st Battle of the Somme.A renowned expert on the German Army during the First World War, historian Jack Sheldon draws on his extensive research into German sources to shed new light on the famous battleground. In an account filled with graphic descriptions of life and death in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium

    by Richard J. Ellings, Sheldon W. Simon ...
    Assessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the international dynamics of Southeast Asian security, and its impact on such external factors as the US, China and Japan. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Zoo, or Letters Not about Love

    by Viktor Shklovsky ...
    Translated by Richard Sheldon ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an epistolary novel born of this constraint, and although the brilliant and playful letters contained here ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drug Development in Psychiatry

    Edited by Matthew Macaluso, Sheldon H. Preskorn, Richard C. Shelton ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book reviews clinical trial methodology as it pertains to drug development in psychiatry. The reader will understand the process of drug development in psychiatry from discovery through marketing with the help of clinically relevant examples. The reader will appreciate the history of drug development in psychiatry dating back to the era of serendipitous discovery and culminating in an era of ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Stability of Happiness

    Theories and Evidence on Whether Happiness Can Change

    Edited by Richard E. Lucas, Kennon M Sheldon ...
    The right to "pursue happiness" is one of the dominant themes of western culture, and understanding the causes of happiness is one of the primary goals of the positive psychology movement. However, before the causality question can even be considered, a more basic question must be addressed: CAN happiness change? Reasons for skepticism include the notion of a "genetic set point" for happiness, i.e ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context

    Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being

    Edited by Valery I. Chirkov, Kennon M. Sheldon, Richard Ryan ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • The German Army on the Western Front 1915

    by Jack Sheldon ...
    Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility. Both sides were temporarily exhausted in static positions from the Channel to the Swiss Border. In a reversal of roles, the French launched major offensives in Champagne and Artois, while the British Army, adapting to the demands of large scale continental warfare ... Read more

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