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"At last, a book on presidential leadership that goes beyond strategic and tactical thinking about power stakes to explore the tensions between moral and ethical values on one hand and situational leadership on the other. I would recommend this volume not only to anyone teaching a course on the presidency, but also to anyone working in the next administration." - Richard Pious, Adolph and Effie Ochs Professor, Barnard College"This wonderful collection of first-rate articles deals with an oft neglected but very important element of presidential leadership: the role of values in presidential politics. The top-notch scholars who have contributed to this excellent volume offer a rich and diverse take on this vital topic and illuminate for the reader the vital role values play in politics and in leadership." - Michael A. Genovese, Loyola Chair of Leadership, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, Loyola Marymount University and Past President, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association"The editors of this book have brought together an eclectic group of distinguished scholars to examine the role of values as they underlie leadership in the American presidency. The mix of disciplinary perspectives, historical and contemporary cases, and normative concerns yields a volume of nuance and insight that will be of interest to all who study leadership and the presidency. " - Robert J. Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, SUNY Cortland and Past President, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association"Effective presidential leadership needs to be informed and shaped by the appropriate moral context. Conjoining normative and empirical analyses, this collection of new studies of presidential leadership covers many of the familiar topics in leadership studies, while emphasizing the crucial dimension of ideas and beliefs, all too often neglected in modern social science." - Jeffrey K. Tulis, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

The Values of Presidential Leadership

'This important study convincingly demonstrates how the nationalist nightmare in Sri Lanka relies on exclusion of non-Buddhist ideas to underpin the eradication/expulsion of non-Buddhists from this idyllic island. While this suggests blame for Buddhism, ‘religion’ or ‘tradition’, an equally strong finding is that state-centric abuses of power continue to occur with impunity.'
Werner Menski, SOAS, University of London, UK
'Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne weaves an innovative　 argument on the nexus between community and nation in late colonial and post colonial Sri Lanka where the incorporation of communities through reassertion and restoration of state power overrides exclusionary urges. This lucid and critical account of the way Buddhism and politics are interlaced in contemporary Sri Lanka will be invaluable for scholars and students from a variety of disciplines'
Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University, the Netherlands
"The book addresses the issues at stake in an original way… De Silva Wijeyeratne goes beyond the standard postcolonial interpretation that grants European colonial institutions exclusive power to silence or misread native categories, and emphasizes instead the ways in which Sinhalese native (Buddhist) categories oriented the adoption of colonial systems and their implementation” 
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Professor Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The historical scope of the book is vast, moving quickly from the fifth century to the present and focuses much more on nationalism than on constitutionalism. Yet its scope and focus make for an intriguing take on a form of ethnoreligious nationalism that seems to be gaining new energy and impetus in recent years.”
Dr Benjamin Schonthal, Religious Studies Review (Vol. 40, 4, 234-35) 
"This book is a very well-judged and well-written book that uncovers one of the elisions in modern western perceptions: preoccupied with militant and exclusionary Islam, and immersed in sound bite aphorisms about Buddhist goodness and compassion, the notion of a militant, exclusionary and violent Buddhism, closely allied to an ethnic nationalism, and capable of great brutality and cynical political gamesmanship, has hardly surfaced in the West.” 
The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (104, 2, 240-41), Professor Stephen Chan School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
“A welcome contribution to the current literature on the Sri Lankan civil war for at least two important reasons. First, unlike some other treatises on this subject, Wijeyeratne approaches the civil war in a sober, unbiased manner...This monograph is an illuminating study that deserves to be widely read. Anyone interested in the political and cultural circumstances of the Sri Lankan civil war will gain much from this book. In addition, this book will be extremely useful as a general teaching aid in the delivery of courses on Sri Lankan history." - James John Stewart, South Asia Research Vol. 34 (3): 285-288

Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka

'I urge those interested in analytical psychology and related fields to read this concise work. It models scrupulous investigation of history and displays the necessity and importance of thorough research. Sonu Shamdasani has provided another of his powerful contributions not only to the history of analytical psychology but also to our increased comprehension of the scope, complexity, and nature of our clinical practice.' - San Naifeh, Journal of Analytical Psychology'According to the advance publicity circulated by Noll's publishers, his books purport to be 'ground-breaking works of historical reconstruction' bringing Jungian scholarship to 'a new level of sophistication'. Sonu Shamdasani has demonstrated the hollow nature of this claim, and he is to be congratulated for making what is, by contrast, a balanced and meticulously researched contribution to the study of Jung and his psychology. It deserves to be widely read.' - Anthony Stevens, Journal of Analytical Psychology

C. G. Jung and the Founding of Analytical Psychology

Cult Fictions

Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831

'What is so important about Archaeologies of the British is that it does begin to articulate the gaps and ruptures between such grand ideologies of being able to 'know all' and the messiness of materially lived lives.'– Post-Medieval Archaeology
'An inspiring alternative pathway ... [and] a significant contribution to archaeological thought on ethnicity, empire, domination and resistance that will be of lasting interest to archaeologists of all periods.'– Antiquity

Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945

Archaeologies of the British

Das Messen von Messen: Eine Roadmap zur nachhaltigen Sicherstellung der Messeerfolgskontrolle

"Gallois's journey through religious conceptions of time is breathtakingly ambitious and crystal clear in its line of argumentation. Specialist and generalist readers alike will find themselves questioned, stimulated and, on occasion, productively infuriated."–Dr Markus Daechsel, Edinburgh University 
"Thought-provoking, ambitious and immensely learned, this should be read by all who are interested in the cultural variety of attitudes to time. Readers should prepare for a surprise: it is rare to get so much theology in a history primer."– Penelope J Corfield, University of London

Time, Religion and History

"...The style, as in the first edition, is informal and intuitive.  The content is astonishingly far-ranging for such a comparatively compact book..a valuable resource at a wide range of levels."-Short Book Reviews of the ISI"The style is thoroughly down to earth and practical, the examples are carefully chosen to reflect a wide variety of fields of applications, and the importance of experimental design is made apparent...a succinct, authoritative and readable account of the area."-Mathematical Gazette"Good mix of theory, application, and examples with real data."-American Mathematical Monthly

Analysis of Binary Data

Big Boys Go Potty

En Casa Teníamos Un Himno / At Home We Had an Anthem

&ldquo;Miech, a former sports writer for the Las Vegas Sun, had spent the last year following gamblers around Las Vegas, talking to oddsmakers, watching the daily yin and yang of the business. It all comes together beautifully.&rdquo; &mdash;Gaming Today on Sports Betting for Winners

Tips and Tales from the New World of Sports Betting

Sports Betting for Winners

Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

Architecturally Speaking

Proceedings of the Alte Barcelona Conference July 2001

European Language Testing in a Global Context

'From its first chapter, on the background of Voices at the BBC, to its last chapter, on statistical mapping of Voices data,this bookconsistently shows how we can add state-of-the-art academic analyses to the public success of the BBC Voices project.'
William Kretzschmar, University of Georgia, Athens,USA
'Analysing 21st Century British English shows even more than we thought just what a rich mine of information the BBC　Voices　project is. Here we can find computer mappings of dialect areas based on the mass of regional vocabulary collected, alongside reflections on the project by both BBC journalists and linguists. This is a unique and innovative volume with wide appeal to linguists and media studies specialists alike - but lay readers will find much to entice them, too.'
Paul Kerswill, University of York, UK

Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of the 'Voices' Project

Analysing 21st Century British English

Effective strategies, personal style and professionalism

Promoting Behaviour for Learning in the Classroom

Intervention, Security and Identity

The Globalization of NATO

A Single Dad Romance

Burned

"The entries, cited with scrupolous thoroughness, present information about the environment, settlements, economy, sociopolitical organization, religion, and art of a major tradition. A thorough index and table of contents make this text accessible. ...this is an excellent reference that will be appreciated by anyone interested in South American prehistory... this is an excellent reference that will be appreciated by anyone interested in South American prehistory. Summing up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."Choice, 41:1 (2003) 
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Volume 7: South America

Encyclopedia of Prehistory

The Congregation

Marketing Planning for Services

"This valuable book combines examination of current educational reforms in Japan with an ethnographic account of the actual experience of two beginning teachers. Interwoven throughout is an analysis of postwar reforms, plus comparative perspectives on pedagogy in Japan and in the U.S... Although Japanese schools have undergone several waves of reform in the postwar world, the ethnographic study, which constitutes the second half of the book, clearly demonstrates that the culture transmitted both by beginning and experienced teachers continues to stress traditional values. Recommended for general readers and upper-division undergraduates and above." -- Choice October 2002

Teaching in Japan

Maurice Blondel at the Intersection of Theology and Philosophy

The Possibility of Christian Philosophy

Relative Fate: A Novel

Titanic

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&ldquo;Sean Michael Wilson has authored a unique line of manga-style books on Japanese themes. This latest edition, The Satsuma Rebellion, with artist Akiko Shimojima, portrays the real last stand of the samurai and the central figure&mdash;Saigo Takamori, the subject of NHK television&rsquo;s year-long historical drama in 2018&mdash;with style and accuracy.&rdquo;&#160; &mdash;Davide Calzetti, Japanese historical researcher

Illustrated Japanese History - The Last Stand of the Samurai

The Satsuma Rebellion

A New Look inside Abu Ghraib and the Citizen-Soldiers Who Redeemed America?s Honor

Packed for the Wrong Trip

Dr. Morton 119: Nichts als Heroin

"Working at the intersection of medieval, postcolonial, and Judaic studies, Krummel has createda wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work of scholarship that re-evaluates how anti-Judaism works. Stressing the absence of the Jews even when physically present (transformed into a figure, a symbol, a deicidal monster), the book traces Jewish representation by Christians and (powerfully) by Jews living amongst Christians. Even when expelled from the island in 1290, the Jews continued to haunt, so integral were they to medieval Christian identities. Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England is a carefully researched, disquieting, vigorously argued, and profound book." - Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University

"In Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England, Krummel explores the varied and arresting medieval pre-histories of modern racism and antisemitism. Krummel's lively, eloquent and wide-ranging exploration of the Jews' 'virtual presence' in medieval English culture asks timely and challenging questions about religious violence and group identity. Krummel's book not only helps us to think about the vanished English Jews, expelled in 1290, but also suggests provocative and innovative ways of recovering and interpreting the haunting, multiple presences the Jews continued to play in the English, Christian imagination." - Anthony Bale, Reader in Medieval Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London

Legally Absent, Virtually Present

Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England

'A timely memorial to what used to be ... it encompasses the grand sweep of more than four centuries of classical naval warfare ... Who was the finest submariner: Karl Doenitz or Max Horton? The greatest modern naval leader: Cunningham or Nimitz?... Who was the most influential explorer: Cook or de Bougainville? Every amateur of naval history will find his or her attention sharply arrested at every page.' - Guy Liardet, The Times
'For seekers after treasure, there are many nuggets here.' - Richard Hill

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