Books published by University Press of America

Wilfred L. David makes a plea for the fundamental reorientation of the economics that guide conventional development discourse, moving toward an emancipatory conversation focusing on human well-being or people-centred liberation.

Challenging the widespread classification of evangelical theologian Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) as a Schleitheim-adhering Anabaptist, this book argues that Hubmaier should instead be understood as a bridge between the Radical and Magisterial branches of the Reformation.

In 1941, German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. During the 900 days of the siege, Leningrad was beset with aerial bombings, fuel shortages, and extreme starvation. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old in 1941, witnessed these raids and endured the cold and hunger. This is her story.

Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World provides an alternative reading of Middle Eastern politics and political culture by focusing on the dynamics of change, and examining the role of Islam in the emerging modern Middle East.

This book presents a political analysis of the relationship between Congress and the local government of Washington, D.C. It examines the influence of suburban members of Congress on District affairs, the fiscal crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, governmental inefficiency, and the Control Board.

Managing the Mills reconstructs the management culture of this industry and shows how it interacted with the economics of steelmaking to shape particular labor policies like the twelve-hour day, welfare capitalism and the use of spies in the workplace.

Many classical as well as modern models of ministry appear to stress either a Christian identity or secular relevance. However, both qualities are essential to a comprehensive model of ministry. The author presents a friendship model of ministry that is both traditionally faithful and worldly pertinent.

This book is a verse-by-verse commentary that examines Mark 8:22-9:13, and concludes that these three episodes form the transition point-from dealing with Jesus' identity to his mission.

Previous studies of H. Richard Niebuhr's intellectual background have fallen into two groups: those that stress the German and especially Kantian sources of Niebuhr's thought, and those that emphasize the American and especially pragmatic sources of his thought.

Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation.

An Introduction to Connecticut State and Local Government is a timely, comprehensive, and well-referenced college level text for political science courses focused on state and local government. Author Edward Sembor covers the major governmental institutions and actors found at the state and local levels in Connecticut.

Southerners, Too? challenges the view that 'southern heritage' refers to white southerners only by revealing that, historically and culturally, African-Americans have been integral to southern life and history.

Basic Statistics for Social Workers covers descriptive and inferential statistics at an introductory level. Using examples from social work, the text covers single-subject analysis, as well as multiple regression. The mathematics is presented in a simple user-friendly manner.

In Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, Ruth Sandberg analyzes ten biblical commandments and their interpretations in classical and medieval rabbinic sources. These texts reveal that the process of Jewish law is one of both development and discontinuity, in which biblical law can be enlarged upon and expanded, or conversely, be contracted, restricted, or even eliminated entirely.

In "Empowering the Lonely Crowd", John Raymaker explores and compares John Paul II and Lonergan's thought in relation to (Japanese) Buddhism, concluding that while all life has a coded genome, all humans have a free, uncoded spiritual genome that is a viable alternative to postmodern skepticism.

This book chronicles the evolution of veteran's entitlement programs from 1636 through the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999. The primary purpose of the book is to identify and explain role orientations of legislators in Congress, the President and Interest Groups in the formulation and enactment of the Veteran's Millennium Health Care Act of 1999.

Presenting a review of the unification policies of separated nations, this study relates a brief historical capsule of each part of the divided country, presents the socio/economic dynamic of the divide, and offers a political synthesis of future unification options.

Prison Argot is Gilbert L. Encinas' study of the different elements of prison language.