Author: Thomas George Daum
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: Richard N. Côté
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Names of libraries are included with each title unless the item is deemed as "COMMON" to four or more libraries.

Author: Marilyn Rouvelas
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.

Author: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN: 9780841909342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: James Denholm Van Trump
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: John E. Harkins
Publisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Drew Westen
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586485997
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists -- and Democratic campaign strategists. The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. That's why only one Democrat has been re-elected to the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt -- and only one Republican has failed in that quest. In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. Westen shows, through a whistle-stop journey through the evolution of the passionate brain and a bravura tour through fifty years of American presidential and national elections, why campaigns succeed and fail. The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions. Westen turns conventional political analyses on their head, suggesting that the question for Democratic politics isn't so much about moving to the right or the left but about moving the electorate. He shows how it can be done through examples of what candidates have said -- or could have said -- in debates, speeches, and ads. Westen's discoveries could utterly transform electoral arithmetic, showing how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years -- such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can't change the structure of the brain. But you can change the way you appeal to it. And here's how

Author: Alfred W. McCoy
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Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on European Affairs
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Iris Dianne Bomar
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ISBN: 9780944514535
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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