One world currency

The globe

One World Currency presents a serious study about the need for a single stable currency with timely, historical references and skillful economic analysis by noted economist Jose Rafael Abinader. This book describes how a global and universally accepted currency will lead to economic stability throughout ...

Aftermath of the arab uprisings

the rebirth of the Middle East

The 2011 Arab uprisings are integrated into the movement to create a regional economic community for a potential twenty-eight nations, with nearly 500 million citizens. A reinvented Marshall Plan, supported internationally, is forthcoming. This updated book provides strategic models to develop the organizations required. In ...

For the Glory of God: the role of Christianity in the rise and development of Modern Science

Volume II: The history of christian ideas and control beliefs in science

For the Glory of God addresses key questions regarding the connection between religion and science. Richard H. Jones investigates whether ideas from the Bible and Christian theology have played a significant role in the development of modern scientific theories. If so, has the role always ...

Archaeology and the biblical record

In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians. This traumatic event created the need to construct and articulate a comprehensive past that would give meaningful context to the identity of the Israelites. New modes of communal organization and worship during ...

The poverty of Nations

The Poverty of Nations is a study about the status and trends in human well-being as it varies from nation to nation worldwide. A basic premise is that human well-being comes from a nation's physical, social, economic, and political macro systems. A metric of ...

A critical analysis of the efficacy of Law as a tool to achieve gender equality

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago ...

The modern, the postmodern and the fact of transition

the paradigm shift through peninsular literatures

The Modern, the Postmodern, and the Fact of Transition defines the basic parameters of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift theory as applied to the evolution of Spanish and Portuguese societies from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, from the perspective of a ...

Twenty-First-Century world powers and changing alignments

Twenty-First Century World Powers and Changing Alignments provides an in-depth analysis of global political relations that exist between the most powerful countries of the world such as United States, Russia, England, China and others. It also describes the rationale behind the current and future political ...

Objective economics

how Ayn Rand's philosophy changes everything about economics

CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Method and Context Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Objective Economic Value Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Fundamental Economic Concepts Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Foundational Theories Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Introduction to the Theory of Objective Prices Chapter 7 Chapter ...

Ayatollah Khomeini and the anatomy of the Islamic Revolution in Iran

toward a theory of prophetic charisma

This book attempts to explain how and why Ayatollah Khomeini was able to lead the Iranian people in their successful revolution against the Shah of Iran. Bringing together the sociological study of charisma by the sociologist Max Weber and the critical psychology of Erich Fromm ...

Subjective morals

Is morality a good thing? Is moral relativism a bad thing? Traditionally, moral philosophers have presumed that the answers to both questions must be yes. In today's world, however, many moralists feel obligated to ban gay marriage or censor whatever they deem offensive, and ...

The triumph of hate

the political theology of the Hitler movement

he Triumph of Hate explains the religious, philosophical, sociopolitical, and historical roots of the rise of Hitler and his movement. Beginning with Paul's rejection of traditional Judaism, the book accounts for the animosity and estrangement that has shaped the tragic history of Christians and ...

The Euro-Mediterranean partnership and the broader Moddles East and North Africa initiative

competing or complementary projects?

In response to changing security concerns in the post-Cold War era, the European Union and the United States have developed projects intended to maintain their economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa regions while tackling security threats stemming from these regions. The September ...

Christianity, Islam, and the West

This book has its origins in a comparative religions course Burns has taught at the University of Arizona for the past thirty years. Those who have enrolled in the class have come from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Whatever the mix, a shared curiosity about ...

Oblivion or utopia

the prospects for Africa

Foreword by Alan Fowler. This book explains that efforts to reverse Africa's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date because they have not been consciously aimed at enabling Africa to turn its vast natural resources into wealth; here, Malunga proposes a five step strategy enabling ...

Conceptions of happiness

Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people ...

Eternal colonialism

Eds. Russell Benjamin, Gregory O. Hall. This book examines "eternal colonialism," a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and ...

Faith and reason in Kierkegaard

The roots of balkanization

Eastern Euope C.E. 500-1500

Balkanization_ is a modern term describing the fragmentation and re- division of countries and nations in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a dynamic meaning _the Balkan way of doing things._ The Roots of Balkanization describes the historical changes that took place in the ...

The german colonial experience

select documents on german rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884- 1914

Eds. Arthur J. Knoll, Hermann J. Hiery. This book provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I, by intensely scrutinizing colonial documents. Many of these documents have never ...