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Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism? Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way? What, if anything, can be done about it? Terror in the Mind of God, now in its fourth edition, answers these questions and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the book analyzes in detail terrorism related to almost all the world's major religious traditions: European Christians who oppose Muslim immigrants; American Christians who support abortion clinic bombings and militia actions; Muslims in the Middle East associated with the rise of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Hamas; Israeli Jews who support the persecution of Palestinians; India's Hindus linked to assaults on Muslims in the state of Gujarat and Sikhs identified with the assassination of Indira Gandhi; and Buddhist militants in Myanmar affiliated with anti-Muslim violence and in Japan with the nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway. Drawing from extensive personal interviews, Mark Juergensmeyer takes readers into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion. Identifying patterns within these cultures of violence, he explains why and how religion and violence are linked and how acts of religious terrorism are undertaken not only for strategic reasons but to accomplish a symbolic purpose. Terror in the Mind of God continues to be an indispensible resource for students of religion and modern society.
Violence --- Violence (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Religious aspects. --- Moral and religious aspects --- explaining terrorism. --- fourth edition. --- hindi. --- hindu. --- india. --- islam. --- muslims. --- palestine. --- palestinian. --- pastors. --- personal interviews. --- politicians. --- priests. --- religion and god. --- religious zealots. --- sarin gas attacks. --- terrorism. --- terrorists. --- tokyo japan.
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Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson, Sr. highlights the similarities and differences among criminological theories, and provides linkages across explanatory levels and across time and geography to explain police violence. This book is appropriate as a resource in criminology, policing, and criminal justice special topic courses, as well as a variety of violence and police courses such as policing, policing administration, police-community relations, police misconduct, and violence in society. Stinson uses examples from his own research to explore police violence, acknowledging the difficulty in studying the topic because violence is often seen as a normal part of policing.
Police brutality --- cops. --- criminal justice. --- criminological theories. --- criminological theory. --- criminology. --- explaining police violence. --- phenomenon of police violence. --- police community relations. --- police misconduct. --- police officers. --- police violence. --- policing administration. --- policing. --- special topic courses. --- violence and police courses. --- violence in society.
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William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives"confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with. But how should we define this new conservatism? What is new about it? In this volume, some of today's top political scholars take on the charge of explaining, defining, and confronting the new conservatism of the last twenty-five years. The authors examine the ideas, policies and roots of this ideological movement showing that contemporary neoconservatism has been able to blend many of the aspects
Conservatism -- United States. --- Political culture -- United States. --- Political parties -- United States. --- United States -- Politics and government. --- Conservatism --- Political culture --- Political parties --- charge. --- confronting. --- conservatism. --- defining. --- explaining. --- last. --- political. --- scholars. --- some. --- take. --- this. --- todays. --- volume. --- years. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Human Rights --- United States --- Politics and government.
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the great myths --- science in a pre-scientific age --- the Creation story in the Book of Genesis --- Arnold Toynbee --- human ideas and values --- culture --- explaining the natural world --- religious myths --- the meaning of life --- the ways of men and the ways of the gods --- mythology
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Great Britain -- Parliament -- Bill for explaining, amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, the several laws now in being for preventing the exportation of live sheep --- Wool industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century --- Sheep industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century --- Export controls -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century --- Great Britain -- Economic policy
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Great Britain -- Parliament -- Bill for explaining, amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, the several laws now in being for preventing the exportation of live sheep --- Wool industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century --- Export controls -- Great Britain --- Sheep industry -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Parliament -- Bill for explaining, amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, the several laws now in being for preventing the exportation of live sheep --- Wool industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain --- Woolen and worsted manufacture -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 --- Sheep industry -- Great Britain --- Sheep -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
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This book develops a new theoretical approach to the explanation of systemic financial crises in industrial and emerging market countries. In contrast to standard models, the present cyclical approach is consistent with the following three stylized facts. Firstly, systemic financial crises are a recurrent phenomenon generally accompanied by excessive boom-bust cycles. Secondly, the frequency of financial crisis cycles is very irregular. Thirdly, most financial crisis cycles are initiated by positive shocks to profit expectations which induce an unsustainable build-up of financial fragility driven by irrational exuberance. The present approach is based on a sophisticated balancesheet structure with many assets, as well as on an expectation formation scheme which combines the rational expectations hypothesis with Keynes’ Beauty Contest Theory.
AA / International- internationaal --- 333.481 --- Financial crises --- -332 --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Business cycles --- Monetaire crisissen, hervormingen, saneringen en stabilisering. --- Mathematical models --- 332 --- Mathematical models. --- Economic theory & philosophy --- Monetary economics --- Financial crises. --- Business cycles. --- Economic cycles --- Economic fluctuations --- Cycles --- Monetaire crisissen, hervormingen, saneringen en stabilisering --- Approach --- Beauty Contest Theory --- Cyclical --- Explaining --- Financial --- Financial Crises --- Financial Stability --- Long-Run Rationality --- Radke --- Theorie --- Währungskrise
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Go online and type in "construction, estimating" and you will get over 25 estimating and takeoff software programs. There are programs for all the trades and for large, midsized, and small contractors, in both building and heavy construction. Now type in "construction contractor, failures" and scan the various responses. You will learn that according to the Surety Information Office the contractor failure rate is about 25% for trade contractors and 22% for heavy, highway contractors. These figures have been fairly constant for years. You will also learn that poor estimating is a major cause of these failures. This book will focus on small construction contracting firms, but the concepts presented are equally applicable to heavy construction. It is written for contractors that either do not use estimating software or use packaged software that frequently does not include all the items of work that they are called on to do.
Building --- Construction cost estimates --- Construction industry --- Quantity surveying --- Estimates. --- Costs --- Price books --- Estimates --- Construction bidding --- Construction estimating --- Construction estimating: overhead and indirect costs --- Construction estimating: beyond direct costs --- Construction estimating: project scheduling --- Construction estimating: work analysis --- Construction estimating: assigning costs --- Construction estimating: Value Engineering --- Construction estimating: subcontractor selection --- Construction estimating: explaining your estimate --- Construction estimating: order of magnitude estimates --- Construction estimating: preliminary or conceptual estimates --- Construction estimating: detailed estimates --- Construction estimating: architect/engineer's estimates --- Civil engineering. Building industry
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The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extended by the United Nations has been both widely used and strongly criticized. The criticisms raise questions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general. The authors develop techniques to deal with national and international comparability problems intrinsic to such datasets. The result is a new dataset of consistent inequality series, allowing them to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new data allow the authors to perform parametric non-linear estimation of Lorenz curves from grouped data. This in turn allows them to estimate the entire income distribution, computing alternative inequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, the authors use their broadly comparable dataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty.
Cross-Country Inequality --- Data Quality --- Developing Countries --- Economic Policy --- Economic Theory and Research --- Explaining Inequality --- Gini Coefficient --- Income --- Income Distribution --- Income Inequality --- Income Study --- Inequality --- Inequality Levels --- Inequality Measurement --- Inequality Series --- Inequality Trends --- Information Security and Privacy --- International Comparability --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Measurement Error --- Measurement Problems --- Policy Research --- Poverty Estimates --- Poverty Impact Evaluation --- Poverty Reduction --- Services and Transfers to Poor --- Social Protections and Labor
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