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  • The Beta Israel

    Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century

    by Steven B Kaplan ...
    Series series Falasha in Ethiopia
    This "balanced and well informed" historical study is "a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha" ( Foreign Affairs).The origin of the "Black Jews" of Ethiopia has long been a source of fascination and controversy. The culmination of almost a decade of research, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia is the first comprehensive and authoritative ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalizing Patient Capital

    The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

    by Stephen B. Kaplan ...
    China's overseas financing is a distinct form of patient capital that marshals the country's vast domestic resources to create commercial opportunities internationally. Its long-term risk tolerance and lack of policy conditionality has allowed developing economies to sidestep the fiscal austerity tendencies of Western markets and multilaterals. Employing statistical tests and extensive field ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Proof

    The Rational Case for God

    by Barry B Kaplan ...
    Proof: The Rational Case for GodA Book for Skeptics. A Challenge for Atheists. A Companion for Seekers.In a world dominated by scientific confidence and philosophical doubt, Proof: The Rational Case for God offers something rare: a calm, structured, intellectually serious examination of whether belief in a Creator is rationally defensible.Barry B. Kaplan, author of Horology and a lifelong student ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America

    by Stephen B. Kaplan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In an age of financial globalization, are markets and democracy compatible? For developing countries, the dramatic internationalization of financial markets over the last two decades deepens tensions between politics and markets. Notwithstanding the rise of left-leaning governments in regions like Latin America, macroeconomic policies often have a neoliberal appearance. When is austerity imposed ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Expedition

    by Patricia B. Kaplan ...
    Trish accidentally time travels to Lieutenant-Colonel Custer’s army camp during its final preparations for the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. Luckily for her, she has her old-style flip cell phone with her, along with a ballpoint pen and plastic reading glasses. Even luckier, she is befriended by the regiment’s surgeon, who is officially in charge of her. He soon believes her story that she is from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Drugs, Crime, and Other Deviant Adaptations

    Longitudinal Studies

    Edited by Howard B. Kaplan ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume brings together a sample of the best of the studies that illustrate two recent trends in research on deviant behavior. The first of these trends is the investigation of deviant behavior in longitudinal perspective. Panels of subjects are followed over long periods of time to establish temporal relationships be tween deviant behavior and the antecedents and consequences of deviant behav ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics

    by Robert B. Kaplan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains 39 original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Origins of Democratic Zionism

    by Gregory B. Kaplan ...
    This book is the first to link the modern appreciation for democratic freedom directly to Jewish political thought in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The modern appreciation for democratic values is often assumed to have its roots in Classical thought. However, democracy has taken various forms in its progression to the governance many countries now employ. Working in dialog with Protestants, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sodom on the Thames

    Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times

    by Morris B. Kaplan ...
    Sodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-nineteenth-century England. Morris Kaplan draws on extensive research into court records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal correspondence and diaries, even a pornographic novel. He focuses on two notorious scandals and one quieter incident. In 1871, transvestites "Stella" (Ernest Boulton) and "Fanny" ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Theory and Practice of Writing

    An Applied Linguistic Perspective

    by William Grabe, Robert B. Kaplan ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    This book undertakes a general framework within which to consider the complex nature of the writing task in English, both as a first, and as a second language. The volume explores varieties of writing, different purposes for learning to write extended text, and cross-cultural variation among second-language writers. The volume overviews textlinguistic research, explores process approaches to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Symbol Formation

    by H. Werner, B. Kaplan ...
    First published in 1984. The authors’ basic aim in this volume has been to set forth a certain perspective on psychological phenomena and to show how this perspective enables one to order and integrate data on symbolization and language behavior—data obtained by a variety of methods and garnered from domains that are too often treated in isolation from each other. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Social Deviance

    Testing a General Theory

    by Howard B. Kaplan, Robert J. Johnson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)

    $49.49 USD