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In the 300 hundred years following the translation of The Arabian Nights into French and English, a chain of editions, compilations, translations, and variations has circled the globe. Here scholars from across the world reassess the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and beyond....

When did Europe pull ahead of Asia in terms of living standards? A number of well-known scholars compare economic and demographic indicators of well-being in the pre-industrial period. The emerging picture is not one of great differences, but of considerable similarities in standard of living between Europe and Asia before the Industrial...

Both a philosophy of practice and a specific set of tools and methods, the strengths model is designed to facilitate a recovery-oriented partnership between client and practitioner. This revised edition charts the evolution of the strengths model, reviews the empirical support behind it, and illustrates the techniques and values that guide its...

The Impact of Electronic Media on Social BehaviorMeyrowitz addresses the question of how television has affected our everyday lives by advancing the theory that television and other electronic media create new social situations that no longer depend on where we are or who is "e;with"e; us. Television, he claims, has lifted the veils of...

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Religious Ethics in a New KeyLarry L. Rasmussen offers a dramatic new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the health of our planet. Rejecting the modern ethical assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Earth-honoring Faith argues that we must derive a system of ethics and morality that accounts for the wellbeing of all...