Demythologizing An Elite

Author : Mostafa Rejai,Kay P. Phillips
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275943318

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Demythologizing an Elite by Mostafa Rejai,Kay P. Phillips Pdf

This study seeks to resolve differences between various types of political leaders and to link broad historical patterns with the idiosyncratic circumstances of individual lives and careers--to integrate the micro and the macro levels of understanding in the field of leadership studies. To accomplish this task, a vast array of previous scholarship and primary documents has been assembled and drawn into new combinations. Equivalent data on all U.S. presidents enable an unprecedented internal comparison within this select group. Comparison with parallel data, developed for other types of leaders, permits U.S. presidents to be analyzed in comparative perspective for the first time. Against this background, the study creates a unique collection of medical and psychological profiles for the entire set of presidents--a body of data that allows us to discover new combinations and patterns of presidential traits. American presidents emerged from this study looking very much like other political leaders in terms of social background and preparation for a political career. But contrary to myth, the authors found U.S. presidents to be puzzingly unexceptional--even average--in their personal and career characteristics. For other types of leaders, the authors had found distinctive combinations of traits and experiences that seemed to account for their political leadership roles. For the presidents, such combinations seemed elusive, even confounding. They did conclude, however, that presidential leadership is firmly anchored in the cultural, sociological, and historical contexts from which it emerges.

Author : Robert W. Fuller
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619963931

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Demythologizing Jesus of Nazareth: Was Jesus a Historical Or Mthical Person? by Robert W. Fuller Pdf

Some subjects are terribly complicated like Gravity, Dark Matter, Wormholes and the whole idea of Quantum Physics. Recently, though, these difficult subjects have taken a back seat to the search for the historical Jesus, especially, after Dan Brown's book, The Da Vinci Code. Yet, it should be pointed out that the search to identify Jesus of Nazareth is not as difficult as liberals have led to believe. One problem is that liberals refuse to debate in the traditional manner of denying or affirming a proposition that can be proven true or false based on the evidence. Liberals insist on presenting hypotheses dressed in a postmodern worldview that allows subjective imagination to be valued as highly as historical facts. They present opinions without labeling them as such, responding that, "My views are as authoritative as yours!" They do this while discounting and distorting concrete historical facts, without which, conservative scholars are left shadow-boxing avoidance and silence. ROBERT FULLER is an ordained minister having received his BA degree in the Biblical Field from Abilene Christian University and a M. Ed from the University of North Texas. Mr. Fuller's goal in this book is to reduce the highly technical material surrounding the Jesus-debates into a more easily understood vocabulary that avid readers without degrees can comprehend. This subject is extremely interesting and important to the laity and those who have no idea about what is going on in this cultural conflict. I believe this book accomplishes its goal by unveiling the "slight-of-hand" illusions of scholars who present personal opinions in the guise of scholarship. Read this book and find out that some liberal scholars have stacked their bunk higher that a two-story building!

Author : Benjamin Franklin Camins,Ilana Wexler
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595474530

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Hillary Is the Best Choice by Benjamin Franklin Camins,Ilana Wexler Pdf

Hillary Is the Best Choice presents a more balanced view of politics. To start with, politics is neither good nor bad. It is neutral. It can either go good or bad depending on the politicians who are involved. For the first time in American presidential politics, for example, we have a woman candidate. In previous elections, when only men were presidential contenders, the tendency to play "dirty" was always a great temptation. With Hillary Clinton, Democratic Senator from New York and our country's former First Lady, as one of the current leading presidential aspirants, it is our hope that the old pattern of negativity will be replaced by a new pattern of political civility. Politics can be a clean activity. And elections, especially presidential ones, ought to be a matter of choosing the better of two goods (when an independent or third party candidate is running, it will be a matter of choosing the best of three).

Author : Colin Bennett
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781931044325

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Looking for Orthon by Colin Bennett Pdf

In a literary tour-de-force, Colin Bennett advances the thesis that the defining moment of the 20th century will prove to be 12.30 pm on Thursday, November 26, 1952, when George Adamski claims to have met Orthon, a long-haired youth from Venus.

Author : Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412982986

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Religion in Sociological Perspective by Keith A. Roberts,David Yamane Pdf

Religion in Sociological Perspective is an introduction to the sociology of religion core text, designed to present and illustrate the basic theories sociologists use to understand the social dimensions of religion. First and foremost, the authors seek to help students understand the perspective from which sociologists view religion. By the time students have finished this book, they should understand the central theories and methods of research in the sociology of religion, and they should have an idea of how to apply these analytical tools to new groups they encounter. The goal of this text is to be illustrative rather than all-encompassing. The Fifth Edition continues to draw on a wide range of perspectives. The text aims to help students recognize the contributions of various theoretical perspectives and the blind spots of each theory. Conflict, functional, social constructionist, and rational choice paradigms are used throughout the text. Various middle-range theories are also utilized to explore specific processes. Despite the effort to introduce many perspectives, however, we have made an effort to enhance integration of the text by using one framework throughout the book: the open systems model.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106011638217

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Ginev,Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401157889

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Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science by D. Ginev,Robert S. Cohen Pdf

Azarya Polikarov was born in Sofia on October 9, 1921. Through the many stages of politics, economy, and culture in Bulgaria, he maintained his rational humanity and scientific curiosity. He has been a splendid teacher and an accomplished critical philosopher exploring the conceptual and historical vicis situdes of physics in modern times and also the science policies that favor or threaten human life in these decades. Equally and easily at home both within the Eastern and Central European countries and within the Western world. Polikarov is known as a collaborating genial colleague, a working scholar. not at all a visiting academic tourist. He understands the philosophy of science from within, in all its developments, from the classical beginnings through the great ages of Galilean, Newtonian. Maxwellian science. to the times of the stunning discoveries and imaginative theories of his beloved Einstein and Bohr of the twentieth century. Moreover, his understanding has come along with a deep knowledge of the scientific topics in themselves. Looking at our Appendix listing his principal publications, we see that Polikarov's public research career, after years of science teaching and popular science writing, began in the fifties in Bulgarian, Russian and German journals.

Author : John Jeffries Martin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415260620

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The Renaissance by John Jeffries Martin Pdf

The Renaissance paradigm in crisis - Politics, language and power - Individualism, identity and gender - Art, science and humanism - Religion: tradition and innovation.

Author : Bruce Wetterau
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015050702664

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CQ's Desk Reference on the Presidency by Bruce Wetterau Pdf

Provides answers to over five hundred commonly asked questions about state government; grouped in the categories of the states, governorship, legislatures, campaigns and elections, state courts, and facts and figures; and includes profiles of individual states.

Author : Mostafa Rejai,Kay Philips
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055466828

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Concepts of Leadership in Western Political Thought by Mostafa Rejai,Kay Philips Pdf

Rejai (emeritus, political science, Miami U., Ohio) and Phillips (sociology, gerontology, and anthropology, Miami U.) present a companion work to their 1997 work Leaders and Leadership: An Appraisal of Theory and Research, in which they looked at concepts of leadership in the post World War II period. Here they trace the development of concepts of leadership through the lens of political theory and psychology from Plato to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. Separate chapters look at various philosophies takes on leadership, with treatments of natural law theory, Christianity, Machiavelli, social contract theory, Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Weberian sociology, Freud, and Erikson. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Mostafa Rejai,Kay Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049993705

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The Young George Washington in Psychobiographical Perspective by Mostafa Rejai,Kay Phillips Pdf

Allows Washington to speak for himself. In presenting Washington's writings, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, italics, the editor's brackets have been left intact: they are exact reproductions from the sources indicated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civil service ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015073065537

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Public Integrity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : IND:30000038874594

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Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ulrich Merten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351519540

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Forgotten Voices by Ulrich Merten Pdf

The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war's end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil.Supplementary maps and pictures are available online at http://www.forgottenvoices.net

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373971

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.