The role that race and religion play in American presidential elections is attracting national attention like never before. The 2008 presidential candidates reached out to an unprecedented number of racial and religious voting constituencies including African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, women, the non-religious, and more. Religion, Race, and the American Presidency focuses on the roles of these racial and religious groups in presidentia...

′The book gives a comprehensive overview of what research and the research experience encompass....This book makes an interesting read for everyone who has carried out qualitative research or is planning to do so in the future. It is well-written, and very clearly structured′ - Social Research AssociationWhile each research situation is different and no book can fully prepare the researcher for what they experience - this book provides a guide to what may be expected. Brian Roberts...

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark McLau...

God Speaks Again: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith by Kenneth E. Bowers is the first introductory book to place the religion's founder, Bahá'u'lláh, at the heart of the story. And what a compelling story it is!Born to Persian nobility in 1817, Bahá'u'lláh seemed destined for a life of wealth and ease. Yet He chose to minister to Tehran's poor and later sacrificed everything to support the Báb, a young Messenger who proclaimed a new Day of God. This decision led to impri...

A critical analysis of the connections that the United States Supreme Court has made between campaign finance regulations and voters' behavior. The sanctity of political speech is a key element of the United States Constitution and a cornerstone of the American republic. When the Supreme Court linked political speech to campaign finance in its landmark Buckley v. Valeo (1976) decision, the modern era of campaign finance regulation was born. The decision stated tha...

Learn to think deeply about the relationship between church and state in a way that goes beyond mere policy debates and current campaigns.Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics--and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among them*--Five Views on the Chur...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

A donor-centered guide to charitable gift planning for fundraisers and professional advisorsThe Philanthropic Planning Companion compiles and analyzes the latest research on donor/client behavior, discussing the need for segmented approaches to charitable gift planning based upon the values and personal planning objectives of the donor/client. With its many tools, checklists and sample materials, it will serve as your charitable giving guide in your work w...

In this issue of Neuroimaging Clinics, guest editors Drs. Robert E. Watson, Jr. and Brian Burkett bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Imaging of Epilepsy. Top experts discuss cortical malformations; temporal lobe epilepsy and mesial temporal sclerosis; 7T MRI for epilepsy; nuclear imaging of epilepsy; MEG; fMRI for epilepsy; and more. - Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including autoimmune/inflammatory causes of epilepsy; acquired causes of epilepsy; MRI protoc...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Somewhere between dreams and memory… a love story waits to be remembered.Vincent lives a quiet life as the baker in a small-town bakery — a man of habit, flour-dusted mornings, and afternoons spent on a bench by the river, where he often slips into dreams that feel more like memories.He’s always imagined her — the same woman, the same smile, a sense of something unfinished.Until one day… she walk...

These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order. Th...

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IVCOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM FOURTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OFEVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.ROBERT ESSIG – BRIAN BOWYER – MERRILL DAVID – KIMBERLY NICOLE – LESLIE KURT – LM KAPLIN – THOMAS R. CLARK & LUCAS MILLIRON – JAMIEKORT – R.E. SHAMBROOK – AARON LEBOLD – THOMAS STEWART – ASH ERICMOR...