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  • Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church

    Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work

    by Amy Stambach, Aikande Kwayu ...
    Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Confucius and Crisis in American Universities

    Culture, Capital, and Diplomacy in U.S. Public Higher Education

    by Amy Stambach ...
    Series series Education in Global Context
    China’s investment in U.S. higher education has raised considerable debate, but little research has been directed to the manner in which this investment unfolds and takes shape on the ground in local contexts. Confucius and Crisis in American Universities fills this gap by closely investigating how Chinese-funded U.S. programs are understood and configured in the modern American university. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro

    Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa

    by Amy Stambach ...
    Sambach brings together an ethnograhic study of a school and community in East Africa. Stambach focuses on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region. At issue here are the competing influences of Western modernity and the cultural traditions of East Africa-ideas about gender ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures

    Youth and the Politics of Possibility

    Edited by Amy Stambach, Kathleen D. Hall ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Each chapter focuses on today’s generation of students and on students' use of education ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Faith in Schools

    Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa

    by Amy Stambach ...
    American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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    by BarCharts Publishing, Inc. ...
    The essentials of the systematic and scientific study of human social behavior, groups and society. Extremely easy to access, study by, and reference for students in college courses or students of the world around them. ... Read more

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  • Public Administration

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    by Michael Anthony Tarallo ...
    How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Stories of Culture and Place

    An Introduction to Anthropology, Second Edition

    by Michael G. Kenny, Kirsten Smillie ...
    Stories of Culture and Place makes use of one of anthropology's most enduring elements—storytelling—to introduce students to the excitement of the discipline. The authors invite students to think of anthropology as a series of stories that emerge from cultural encounters in particular times and places. References to classic and contemporary ethnographic examples—from Coming of Age in Samoa to ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Critical Conversations in Kaupapa Māori

    Edited by Te Kawehau Hoskins, Alison Jones ...
    Kaupapa Māori theory and methodology developed over twenty years ago and have since become influential in social research, practice and policy areas. This collection furthers knowledge about kaupapa Māori by examining its effects over the decades, identifying and discussing its conventions and boundaries and reflecting on kaupapa Māori in social and educational research and practice. The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Against Fairness

    by Stephen T. Asma ...
    "Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism." — The Wall Street JournalIn our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus