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The FET College Series is designed to meet the needs of students
and lecturers of the National Certificate Vocational qualification.
For the student: Easy-to-understand language; Real-life examples; A
"Key Word" feature for important subject words; A "Dictionary"
feature for difficult words; A "Think about it" feature helps
develop critical, creative and independent thinking;
Workplace-oriented activities; and Chapter summaries that are
useful for exam revision. For the lecturer: Chapter summaries that
are cross-referenced to the text; Clearly identified outcomes and
assessment standards; Assessment tasks and activities are aligned
to the outcomes and assessment standards; and A CD Lecturer's Guide
with model answers to assessments in the Student's Book, additional
assessments with model answers and general reference material on
teaching outcomes-based education.
This work, based on archival research, contests the assumptions
that Romania remained pro-Western in the late 1930s and only joined
the Axis as a result of Western negligence and German pressure.
Instead, Germany was drawn by Romanian politicians into political
and economic cooperation with Bucharest. In the event, this proved
Romania's undoing. Let down by her German protector, she was forced
to cede territory to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Subsequently, Romania was allowed into the alliance she sought with
Germany.
"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren". So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as the biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. In this book Stephen Haynes examines the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse. He begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters. He argues that the story of Noah's curse was compelling for antebellum white Southerners because it resonated with the themes of antiquity, domesticity, race, and sin.
The Death of God theologians represented one of the most
influential religious movements that emerged of the 1960s, a decade
in which the discipline of theology underwent revolutionary change.
Although they were from different traditions, utilized varied
methods of analysis, and focused on culture in distinctive ways,
the four religious thinkers who sparked radical theology--Thomas
Altizer, William Hamilton, Richard Rubenstein, and Paul Van
Buren--all considered the Holocaust as one of the main challenges
to the Christian faith. Thirty years later, a symposium organized
by the American Academy of Religion revisited the Death of God
movement by asking these four radical theologians to reflect on how
awareness of the Holocaust affected their thinking, not only in the
1960s but also in the 1990s. This edited volume brings together
their essays, along with responses by other noted scholars who
offer critical commentary on the movement's impact, legacy, and
relationship to the Holocaust.
Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first
collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field
of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to
theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the
relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies
of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the
Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply
a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations
proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists,
psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention,
intervention, and punishment.
Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first
collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field
of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to
theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the
relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies
of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the
Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply
a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations
proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists,
psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention,
intervention, and punishment.
American church-related liberal arts colleges are dedicated to two
traditions: Christian thought and liberal learning. According to
Haynes, the moral continuity of these traditions was severed by the
Holocaust. Because so many representations of these traditions
contributed to the Nazis' ideological and physical efforts to
annihilate millions of men, women, and children, it is unclear
whether these traditions can any longer be said to facilitate human
flourishing. Haynes presents a convincing argument that the
post-Holocaust church-related college can participate in the
restoration of these ruptured traditions through a commitment to
Holocaust Education. This book provides valuable information for
teachers who already offer a Holocaust course or for those who are
considering doing so. In addition, the author presents an accurate
picture of Holocaust Education at church-related colleges through
an analysis of his nationwide survey. This book will be an
important resource for scholars, teachers, and administrators.
This book develops a comprehensive approach, known as the Ranking
Technique, for the assessment of decision options. It aims to
provide a way of presenting a decision maker with a consistent
method of making a thorough assessment of all the factors
associated with complex decisions. The Ranking Technique is based
on a detailed analysis of all the issues involved and presents the
results in a simple manner which should be understandable by the
lay public not versed in the complexities of the issues involved.
Ranking Technique is illustrated by application to four major
decisions that have caused controversy and one fuel resource
evaluation, although it is stressed that the Technique is
applicable to all decision-making situations. The study describes
how technical, economic and socio-political factors can be
evaluated and their significance integrated to give a comprehensive
assessment of the decision options.
"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads
Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis
9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified
as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as
biblical justification for American slavery and segregation.
Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's
curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of
the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive
and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American
pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against
masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even
death. Riotous Flesh explores women's leadership of those
movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and
political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics
of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise
had very different goals. As April Haynes shows, the crusade
against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared
agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as
susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that "self-abuse" was
rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education
could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the
groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from
"ultra" utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists.
Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together to
popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of
masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the
professionalization of medicine.
An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a
unique American tradition that was not imported. The origin story
of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but
commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by
half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a
fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning
barbecue cook Joseph R. Haynes sets out to correct one of the most
common barbecue myths, the "Caribbean Origins Theory," which holds
that the original southern barbecuing technique was imported from
the Caribbean to what is today the American South. Rather, Haynes
argues, the southern whole carcass barbecuing technique that came
to define the American tradition developed via direct and indirect
collaboration between Native Americans, Europeans, and free and
enslaved people of African descent during the seventeenth century.
Haynes's barbycu-to-barbecue history analyzes historical sources
throughout the Americas that show that the southern barbecuing
technique is as unique to the United States as jerked hog is to
Jamaica and barbacoa is to Mexico. A recipe in each chapter
provides a contemporary interpretation of a historical technique.
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