This book examines the role and influence of American Christians in fostering the emigration of Soviet Jews and ending the cultural and religious discrimination against them. It contributes to an understanding of the complexities and nuances of interreligious affairs between Christians and Jews and of human rights in the 1970s and 1980s.

The need to use computers in the teaching and learning process in order to improve performance in mathematics is critical and needs urgent address. The traditional use of chalk and chalk board in the classroom is outdated. This book provides an investigation of the perception of teacher trainees towards the use of computers in mathematics instruction in secondary schools in Kenya. Specifically, the trainees attitude towards use of computers, their competencies in computer use, and other factors hindering use of computers in mathematics instruction are highlighted. ...

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer.

'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.'  Margaret Thatcher – election night victory speech 1979.  Five years later, and reality is somewhat different. Class warfare, bitter strikes, CND marches, anti-fascist movements, mass unemployment, and the constant threat of the cold war, will pit father against son, community against community and government against the very people they're supposed to represent. In this toxic and barren landscape, two flowers sprout through the cracks in the pavement—their names… hope ...

The study has been undertaken to determine and evaluate weekly and monthly reference crop evapotranspiration at Akola and Nagpur stations of Vidarbha region. Climatic parameters (Maximum temperature, Minimum temperature, Maximum relative humidity, Minimum relative humidity, Bright sunshine hours, wind speed)for 20 years (1983-2002 )were collected from agriculture meteorological observatory of Akola and Nagpur. Mean climatic data of 20 years (1983-2002) on weekly and monthly basis were used to determine reference evapotranspiration ( ETo) by FAO-56 Penman ...

Waged over three days in July 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg proved to be the turning point of the Civil War in the East. This book brings you face-to-face as never before with the people and events that shaped this epic battle.

Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low taxes, and unfettered personal freedom and opportunity. Little of this is true. Phoenix has been described as one of the least sustainable cities in the country. ...

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find ...

God is eternal, but the questions we ask about him are always rooted in our own culture. Thus our understanding of theology is also rooted in our culture. Dr Samuel Kunhiyop is deeply aware of this, and so has produced  African Christian Theology  as a companion book to his African Christian Ethics. In this book, Dr Kunhiyop addresses many of the same issues mentioned in Western systematic theologies, but also addresses issues that are not mentioned in those books, including the spirit world, ancestors, and the power of blessings and curses. ...