Uneasy Allies

Author : Klaus Larres,Elizabeth Meehan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191544576

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Uneasy Allies by Klaus Larres,Elizabeth Meehan Pdf

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, fundamental differences in values and policy can be discerned in British-German relations. For historical, political, and economic reasons, the collective memories of both nations have retained very different identities and attitudes towards each other and towards the European continent and European integration. Yet, Britain is one of the most significant European partners for Germany and Germany is of great importance for Britains role in Europe. This book focuses on the influence of European integration on the policies of Britain and Germany towards each other. It considers British-German relations in the context of European integration in their historical dimensions since 1945. Britains ambiguous policy towards the GDR and Mrs Thatchers opposition to German unification are also discussed. In particular, the book focuses on the post-1990 relationship and examines the political, security related, economic and financial as well as the social aspects of the dynamic British-German relations in an ever more interdependent world. The influence of the US and France on both Germany and Britain and their European policies is therefore considered in detail. This book offers interesting and challenging insights into the evolution of British-German relations within the context of European integration in the post-Second World War and post-Unification era. The book argues that throughout the latter half of the twentieth century Britain and Germany can be characterised as uneasy allies. It is only since the late 1990s Britain and Germany appear to have become genuine partners in the context of European integration.

Author : Alan Mittleman,Byron Johnson,Nancy Isserman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015070759678

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Uneasy Allies? by Alan Mittleman,Byron Johnson,Nancy Isserman Pdf

Uneasy Allies? offers a careful study of the cultural distance between Jews and Evangelicals, two groups that have been largely estranged from one another. Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman bring together a collection of critical essays that investigate how each group perceives the other and the evolution of their relationship.

Author : E.C. Banks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401701754

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Ernst Mach’s World Elements by E.C. Banks Pdf

By exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own terms as a natural philosopher and naturalist about human knowledge. Physicists, psychologists, philosophers of science, historians of twentieth-century thought and culture, and educators will find this volume a valuable help in interpreting Mach's ideas.

Author : Francis G. Caro,Jill R. Norton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aged
ISBN : 0789010321

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Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins by Francis G. Caro,Jill R. Norton Pdf

In the coming decade, we have a unique opportunity to create new and better aging policies. This collection of twenty essays by prominent educators, researchers, and policy analysts in the field of gerontology brings together innovative ideas from the United States, Europe, and Japan. The vital concerns addressed in Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins include work and retirement issues, the aging prison population, long-term care, Latino elders, transportation, death and dying issues, and the aging of the baby boom generation. Policymakers, educators, and students of gerontology will find this book an invaluable resource.

Author : Jenna Ryan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460330715

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Black Rose by Jenna Ryan Pdf

Will the bayou with its mysteries protect them or pull them down into its depths? Proprietress of the Rose Noire salon and New Orleans native Mia LeMay has secluded herself in the French Quarter—a place safe for those with secrets—for as long as she can remember. But when Mia is witness to a murder, fear and desire morph into one when agent Rick Ryder barges into her cloistered world. With Mia as his guide they enter the glades of Louisiana looking for a killer, but find more mystery and specters in the swampland. The darkness is a lure to Mia and Rick as they discover attraction in the shadows that are a welcome cover for a killer. Together, as they start to fall in love, nothing is what it seems—least of all the ghosts of their pasts.

Author : William Jeynes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119098379

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The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education by William Jeynes Pdf

A comprehensive source that demonstrates how 21st century Christianity can interrelate with current educational trends and aspirations The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad issues that characterize—and challenge—the relationship between Christianity and education today. Presented in three parts, the book starts with thought-provoking essays covering major issues in Christian education such as the movement away from God in American education; the Christian paradigm based on love and character vs. academic industrial models of American education; why religion is good for society, offenders, and prisons; the resurgence of vocational exploration and its integrative potential for higher education; and more. It then looks at Christianity and education around the globe—faith-based schooling in a pluralistic democracy; religious expectations in the Latino home; church-based and community-centered higher education; etc. The third part examines how humanity is determining the relationship between Christianity and education with chapters covering the use of Christian paradigm of living and learning; enrollment, student demographic, and capacity trends in Christian schools after the introduction of private schools; empirical studies on the perceptions of intellectual diversity at elite universities in the US; and more. Provides the breadth and depth of knowledge necessary to gain a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between Christianity and education and its place in contemporary society A long overdue assessment of the subject, one that takes into account the enormous changes in Christian education Presents a global consideration of the subject Examines Christian education across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education will be of great interest to Christian educators in the academic world, the teaching profession, the ministry, and the college and graduate level student body.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UIUC:30112075618824

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The SALT II Treaty by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141928661

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Hitler by Brendan Simms Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the 'living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States. Drawing on new sources, Brendan Simms traces the way in which Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War. The United States and the British Empire were, in his view, models for Germany's own empire, similarly founded on appropriation of land, racism and violence. Hitler's aim was to create a similarly global future for Germany - a country seemingly doomed otherwise not just to irrelevance, but, through emigration and foreign influence, to extinction. His principal concern during the resulting cataclysm was not just what he saw as the clash between German and Jews, or German and Slav, but above all that between Germans and what he called the 'Anglo-Saxons'. In the end only dominance of the world would have been enough to achieve Hitler's objectives, and it ultimately required a coalition of virtually the entire world to defeat him. Brendan Simms's new book is the first to explain Hitler's beliefs fully, demonstrating how, as ever, it is ideas that are the ultimate source of the most murderous behaviour.

Author : Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813163369

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The United States and NATO by Lawrence S. Kaplan Pdf

The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was one of the most important accomplishments of American diplomacy in countering the Soviet threat during the early days of the Cold War. Why and how such a reversal of a 150-year nonalignment policy by the United States was brought about, and how the goals of the treaty became a reality, are questions addressed here by a leading scholar of NATO. The importance of restoring Europe to strength and stability in the post-World War II years was as obvious to America as to its allies, but the means of achieving that goal were far from clear. The problem for European statesmen was how to secure much- needed American economic and military aid without sacrificing political independence. For American policymakers, in contrast, a degree of American control was seen as an essential quid pro quo. As Mr. Kaplan shows, the lengthy negotiations of 1947 and 1948 were chiefly concerned with reconciling these opposing views.For the Truman administration, the difficulties of achieving a treaty acceptable to the allies were matched by those of winning its acceptance by Congress and the public. Many Americans saw such an "entangling alliance" as a threat not only to American security but to the viability of the United Nations. Mr. Kaplan demonstrates the tortuous course of the debate on the treaty and the pivotal role of the communist invasion of South Korea in its ultimate approval. This authoritative study offers a timely reevaluation of the origins of an alliance that continues to play a critical role in the balance of power and in the prospects for world peace.

Author : Carl Bowen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781496534903

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Thor and Loki by Carl Bowen Pdf

On Odin's order, Thor and Loki travel together to Utgard, the land of the giants. When they are challenged by giants to prove their worth as gods, Thor's pride takes a beating until they realize that Loki is not the only trickster present.

Author : Louis Michael Seidman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620976937

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From Parchment to Dust by Louis Michael Seidman Pdf

The prominent constitutional law scholar’s fascinating (and yes, mind-boggling) argument that we don’t need the Constitution after all For some, to oppose the Constitution is to oppose the American experiment itself. But leading constitutional scholar Louis Michael Seidman argues that our founding document has long passed its “sell-by” date. It might sound crazy, but Seidman’s arguments are both powerful and, well, convincing. As Seidman shows, constitutional skepticism and disobedience have been present from the beginning of American history, even worming their way into the Federalist Papers. And, as Seidman also points out, no one alive today has agreed to be bound by these rules. In From Parchment to Dust, Seidman offers a brief history of the phenomenon of constitutional skepticism and then proceeds to a masterful takedown of our most cherished, constitutionally enshrined institutions and beliefs, from the Supreme Court (“an arrogant elite in robes”), to the very concepts of civil rights, due process, and equal protection—all of which he argues are just pretenses for preserving a fundamentally rigged and inequitable status quo. Rather than rely on the specific wording of a flawed and outdated document, rife with “Madison’s mistakes,” Seidman proposes instead a version that better reflects our shared values, and leaves it to people currently alive to determine how these values will play out in contemporary society. From Parchment to Dust is a short, sharp, and iconoclastic book questioning the value (and ultimately the hypocrisy) of embracing the Constitution—which, after all, was written more than 230 years ago—as our moral and political lodestar.

Author : Jerome A. Chanes,Mark Silk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031249907

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The Future of Judaism in America by Jerome A. Chanes,Mark Silk Pdf

This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States. It reveals a community in an unparalleled state of flux grappling with a society in which religious identity is more and more considered an individual choice, rather than an inheritance, and where fewer adults feel impelled to identify with any religious tradition at all. In chapters written by leading experts, the book examines the community’s evolving demographics, the direction of the principal denominational movements, contemporary religious trends, interactions with other American religious communities and engagements in the country’s secular politics. This text uniquely covers all these aspects of Judaism in America making it appealing to students and researchers in such fields as the sociology of religion, Judaism, and American history.

Author : David S. Thompson,Jane Barnette
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817370091

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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22 by David S. Thompson,Jane Barnette Pdf

The eleven original essays in Volume 22 of Theatre Symposium examine facets of the historical and current business of theatre.

Author : Anshul Chaturvedi
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390742332

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A Bird from Afar by Anshul Chaturvedi Pdf

‘Chaturvedi goes beyond the admiration and the controversy to chase down the mystique of the man Bose was ... A compelling read’ Pritish Nandy ‘Combines a sure grasp of history with an ability to convert little-known facts into a marvellous fictional page-turner’ Mihir Bose Nazi Germany, 1942. Stalingrad has fallen to the Axis powers after a bitter, brutal campaign; in North Africa, Field Marshal Rommel’s Afrika Korps has emerged victorious; Rangoon has been seized by the Japanese after their capture of Singapore. Amidst these developments, Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose has been camped in wartime Berlin, since 1941, working furiously to build an army that will be able to march with him overland towards the Indian frontier. Bose is confronted with multiple dilemmas: in order to free India militarily from the clutches of the British empire, he must ally with Hitler’s forces, the Japanese army and Mussolini’s troops. And even if he succeeds, can a post-British India emerge as a single, united country? Set during a turbulent and complex time in our nation’s history, A Bird from Afar is an unforgettable tale of courage, resilience and Subhas Bose’s obsessive quest for Indian independence during the Second World War.

Author : Johanna Schoen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813597287

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Abortion Care as Moral Work by Johanna Schoen Pdf

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work.