Books published by University Press of America

In the Spring of 1994 teacher-educators from representative institutions within the Christian College Coalition met to consider the question: Just what is it that Christian colleges of education should do in preparing teachers for the nation's schools? This well-constructed volume begins to answer that question.

This volume notes the accomplishments of key figures among the Italian-Americans of the 20th century. The men and women featured differ in personality and profession, but are similar in the intensity involved in achieving their goals and in making a contribution to the American dream.

This study acknowledges the power that pornographic images continue to assert in a culture whose conscious intention is to deny their attraction. It brings together a wide range of sources in an attempt to explain the prevalence of pornographic themes and imagery in sexual arousal and fulfilment.

Studies and analyzes the changes and other developments in the American Jewish community, its organizations and leadership, as it reacted to the Holocaust and the establishment of an independent state of Israel.

This learner's dictionary for students whose native language is other then English is an educational aid that provides over 3400 entries. It indicates the primary stress, the part(s) of speech, the various meanings of the word in simple English and a description of how the word is used.

"With the translations of these articles, original GDR essays are made available to the English-speaking public. The editors achieved their aim to present material 'essential for an understanding of the German Democratic Republic.' The introductions to each chapter, the footnotes, and the questions for discussion attest to their dedication."--GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW

This "how-to" guide provides instructions for writers to follow in taking a potential novel from its initial germination as an idea to a complete blocking-out. It is flexible enough to account for all the possible modes and genres - from children's fairytale to mainstream bestseller.

This book presents every inflectional pattern in the Greek New Testament, explaining the pattern in terms of a formula, showing how principles of phonetic change alter the application of the formula, and giving every word which follows each inflectional pattern.

This work aims to be a comprehensive analysis of human growth and development and social processes, reflecting the primary concerns of social alienation, cultural problems and existential relevancy facing the 21st-century world.

This title aims to contribute to the debate about Americans taking an active part in shaping their lives and communities. It considers the possibilities for social action at a time of disillusionment for many Americans with their prospects for influencing events and policies.

This book examines the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernization.

This study analyzes the writings of Rabbi Haim Hirschensohn, a Hebrew cultural pioneer who laid the foundation for the Zionist enterprise. His writings focused on finding a philosophical basis that could reconcile the Torah with the transformation forced upon the Jewish people by modernity.

This study is a strategic assessment of the power of nations in the world of the 1990s and recommendations as to the U.S. strategic role appropriate to that world.

Describes the basic relational qualities that characterize all experiential psychotherapy whether done by gestaltists, transactionalists, behavioral modifiers, rational-emotives, family therapists, psychoanalysts, or non-directive therapists.

This book, based on in-depth interviews of radical social workers, who at one time were associated with the Catalyst collective, explores through oral history the social psychological effects of upward mobility on political ideology.

Lessing's Spinozism looms up out of the numerous intellectual riddles of the past. Almost everything has been tried in an effort to sound and weigh the exact amount of Spinozism Lessing betrayed in his conversations with Jacobi.

Defines the distinctive characteristics of true Christian discipleship derived from following the pattern of the life and death of Jesus Christ. This pattern consists of the three conditions of, in the author's words, 'self-denial, taking up the Cross, and following Jesus.' Concludes that spiritual discipline and the conditions for discipleship are one and the same reality.

"The basic theme of the work is an important one for operational research, namely the influence of constraints rather than objectives in policy formulation."-JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

Does campus policing predominantly involve the enforcement of law or does it involve more traditional security functions such as plant protection, preventive maintenance, and the regulation of student conduct? In what ways is university policing, a form of private policing, similar to and different from the model of municipal policing? This fine study addresses these and other questions.

This book discusses the controversy surrounding the constitutionality of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance by exploring the history of the government's references to God, American "civil religion," the background of the Constitution, the Supreme Court's Establishment Clause rulings, and advocating a new rationale.

This book relies on a global studies (interdisciplinary) paradigm to study the basic transitions through which Latin America has gone over the last millennium.

Intended for undergraduate mathematics students and teachers, this book provides an introduction to the history of the branches of mathematics, the lives of the mathematicians, and the challenges they faced. It explores the great Greek legacy, Indian arithmetic, Integral Calculus, the Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes, and others.

How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these questions in readable prose with an unapologetic bias toward non-violence.