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In this book, Mike Higton provides a constructive critique of Higher Education        policy and practice in the UK, the US and beyond, from the standpoint of Christian        theology. He focuses on the role universities can and should play in forming        students and staff in intellectual virtue, in sustaining vibrant communities...

This book identifies and explores a particular story about life - a narrative identity. At the centre of this life story is the concept of redemption as the deliverance from suffering to a better world. Adults who score high on psychological measures indicating a caring and productive approach to life tend to construe their own lives as narratives...

Selected EssaysThis volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central ideas in the        work of individual philosophers from Descartes, Berkeley, and Locke to Quine, Burge,        McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa. Stroud confronts a series of philosophical        issues, and examines the sources, implications, and legacy of Hume's...

Poor people everywhere are politically weak, and yet poverty in some developing        countries has gone down dramatically. Why is this? Using nine country case-studies        this book provides answers by examining government alliances; policies on labour,        tax, and expenditure; and the role of aid donors and NGOs....

In   Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for   The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction of glaring economic and social disparities - and asks the...