{"title":"University Press of America","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780761861676","title":"The Great Famine \u0026 Genocide in Iran","description":"The Iranian holocaust was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century. Using primary sources such as US military records, British official sources, and Iranian newspaper reports, this book provides a comprehensive account of this tragedy.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294750028149,"sku":"9780761861676","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761861676_a0af55be-4fa2-4a6e-9d3e-86832f6e830b.jpg?v=1794500091"},{"product_id":"9780761809722","title":"SWAHILI","description":"This is a comprehensive manual intended to teach students the basics of communicating in Swahili at an elementary level.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294796951925,"sku":"9780761809722","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761809722_3fa401aa-f468-4cc8-9347-97db121c033e.jpg?v=1786015780"},{"product_id":"9780761873921","title":"The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City \u003c\/i\u003eisthe first comprehensive portrait of the Cortland, New York schoolboy who forged a path of his own that garnered him a reputation in New York State and the Northeast of the nation as an accomplished lawyer, politician, banker, civic organizer, supporter of higher education, and promoter of industrial expansion.As a district attorney, Haskell crossed paths with the prohibition government agents, murderers, white slavers, members of the “Black Hand” gang, and the Ku Klux Klan. He successfully prosecuted those who were part of a tubercular cattle scandal. As a state assemblyman, he was an advocate for the state’s dairy farmers during the violent milk strikes in the 1930s. Haskell co-founded a chapter of Rotary International in 1919 and played a pivotal role in the 1950s in making the place of his birth “the typewriter capital of the world.” Based on a trove of scrapbooks assembled by Haskell through his lifetime and kept by his grandchildren, this biography reveals exactly why Haskell’s life of integrity and public service merits the title of “King of ‘Crown City.’”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311927013749,"sku":"9780761873921","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761873921_e86803ac-8074-403f-aa9e-73f51d05bdfb.jpg?v=1786015782"},{"product_id":"9780761872351","title":"War and the Arc of Human Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, an anthropologist sets his experiences as a teenager fighting in the Vietnam War within the larger sweep of American culture and society. When his daughter is born decades after he returned from war the violence of those experiences, long suppressed, emerges from the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311927243125,"sku":"9780761872351","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761872351_8df83aa5-ab2f-4321-a9e6-1e0e39f3c235.jpg?v=1786015781"},{"product_id":"9780761874911","title":"Answering Theodicy Questions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the concepts of good vs evil under an omnipotent and loving God, the author seeks answers to great and divisive questions we have all asked.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnswering Theodicy Questions: The Role of Plausibility\u003c\/i\u003e presents a two-part explanation of how an omnipotent and loving God could have created this world even though it has so much evil and suffering in it. John S. Pletz contends that a plausible theodicy (and not just a logically possible one) can be found in the strong net benefits that human beings receive from having four key attributes, even though those are the things that enable and facilitate much of the harm that occurs here. Those attributes have also allowed people to engage in substantive relationships with others and to take advantage of the continual opportunities that they have to lead meaningful lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            The author then examines the nature of plausibility and its differences from both possibility and probability. He sets out how this approach to a theodicy answer provides rational support for the proposition that if an all-powerful creator God exists, that God could also be omnibenevolent. He argues that because this tripartite answer to the general theodicy question is not dependent upon any religious premise, it should be considered to be reasonably believable regardless of personal belief or non-belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            In the second part of the book the author discusses how some people might be able to better deal with specific theodicy questions that they may have (e.g., “If God is good, why is this bad thing now happening to me?”). It addresses not only their searches for underlying reasons for the harms that have occurred to them but also several ways in which they could confront the kinds of challenges that often follow from those harms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56368176562549,"sku":"9780761874911","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57682859164021,"sku":"9780761892052","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"americas-preacher-and-his-message","title":"America's Preacher and his Message","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the popular literature concerned with Billy Graham as an evangelical icon is vast, there have been few serious academic considerations of his religious views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn America's Preacher and His Message\u003c\/i\u003e, Timo Pokki provides the most extensive systematic analysis to date on Graham's theology, paying particular attention to views surrounding conversion and sanctification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study not only provides a detailed analysis of Graham's thoughts on these topics, but also investigates the impact of Calvinism and Arminianism on revivalism and evangelicalism in general.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481416769909,"sku":"9780761814641","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761814641.jpg?v=1786089676"},{"product_id":"displacements-of-power","title":"Displacements of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten anonymously around 1460 for the Burgundian court of Philippe le Bon, the \u003ci\u003eCent nouvelles nouvelles\u003c\/i\u003e fits loosely within the traditions of Boccaccio and Chaucer, but also reflects in subtle ways the tastes, preoccupations, and fascinations of the fifteenth-century audience for whom it was intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven of the most interesting and problematic \u003ci\u003enouvelles\u003c\/i\u003e have been selected for this study.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481417523573,"sku":"9780761825630","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761825630.jpg?v=1786089677"},{"product_id":"democratic-management","title":"Democratic Management","description":"This book is designed to provide true democratic management practices as a viable alternative for establishing sustainable total quality with liberty and equality and to become competitive.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481418310005,"sku":"9780761826125","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761826125.jpg?v=1786089678"},{"product_id":"faith-negotiating-loyalties","title":"Faith Negotiating Loyalties","description":"Faith Negotiating Loyalties draws readers into the world of Christian faith in South Africa and the question of loyalties in the new post-apartheid state. It carries out its investigation in two parts. Part one examines Christian faith and loyalty during the first nation-building exercise following the South African War, positioning the creation and contestation of three Christianities corresponding to three nationalisms, each of which imagined South Africa in a particular way, shaping faith accordingly. The idea of an undifferentiated South African Christianity gives way to contesting and contested Christianities, nationalism gives way to nationalisms, and faith emerges in tension with and in criticism of these loyalties. Part two discusses the American theologian H. Richard Niebuhr in South Africa. Three kinds of faith in his wittings are set forth: social faith, radial faith, and reconstructing faith. Contextualized within the South African story, Niebuhr's ideas suggest self and society as constituted by hybridities and suspended in a web of loyalties. Faith Negotiating Loyalties suggests the message for faith in a post-apartheid South Africa is the importance of negotiating covenants which allow for crossings, hybridities, and contestations.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481419063669,"sku":"9780761841111","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761841111.jpg?v=1786089678"},{"product_id":"philosophy-101","title":"Philosophy 101","description":"This philosophy book is written for students who are not interested in philosophy or who are struggling to understand it. Professor Malikow makes it easy to understand the sophisticated ideas and profound truths of philosophy by his use of everyday language, analogies, examples, and humor.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481419850101,"sku":"9780761844167","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761844167.jpg?v=1786089680"},{"product_id":"choreographing-creativity","title":"Choreographing Creativity","description":"This book views teaching as a combination of artistic and technical elements. Dr. Bird presents a fictional story founded in factual teaching methods to illustrate this concept. The teachers in 'Cohort for Change' share snapshots of their classroom experiences and advice for educators who wish to reclaim classroom creativity.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481420636533,"sku":"9780761848950","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761848950.jpg?v=1786089680"},{"product_id":"new-york-abstains-courteously","title":"New York Abstains \"Courteously\"","description":"These essays touch on the very heart of what it means to be a responsible citizen, both in our own country and in the global community. New York Abstains “Courteously” explains how the true values undergirding the United States are being overshadowed by partisan politics and private ideologies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481421259125,"sku":"9780761858782","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761858782.jpg?v=1786089681"},{"product_id":"within-these-gates","title":"Within These Gates","description":"Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government entities, and other stakeholders.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481422012789,"sku":"9780761865384","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761865384.jpg?v=1786089682"},{"product_id":"the-spy-on-putney-bridge","title":"The Spy on Putney Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this captivating novel, a proper English lady and her young, dashing son get caught up in a spy network in World War I. It remains for her grandson to entangle the web of their activities on Putney Bridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481422635381,"sku":"9780761872573","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761872573.jpg?v=1786089683"},{"product_id":"first-father-abraham","title":"The First Father Abraham","description":"This book discusses the adult development of the Biblical Patriarch, Abraham, as a 'Spiritual Revolutionary' (based on Genesis 11-25). It begins with the image of the 'akeda,' the binding of Isaac in which a father is ready to murder his son, and asks what significance this disturbing scene holds for us today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481650930037,"sku":"9780819190277","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780819190277.jpg?v=1786089934"},{"product_id":"situated-order","title":"Situated Order","description":"Contents: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis; Parties and Joint Talk: Two Ways in Which Numbers are Significant for Talk-in-Interaction; Laughing at and Laughing with: Negotiations of Participant Alignments Through Conversational Laughter; Episode Trajectory in Conversational Play; Mm Hm Tokens as Interactional Devices in the Psychotherapeutic In-take Interview; Meeting Both Ends:","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481651618165,"sku":"9780819196262","price":74.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780819196262.jpg?v=1786089936"},{"product_id":"strangers-in-a-stranger-land","title":"Strangers in a Stranger Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat did it feel like to be an openly Jewish soldier fighting alongside German troops in WWII? Could a Jewish nurse work safely in a field hospital operating theater under the supervision of German army doctors? Several hundred members of Finland’s tiny Jewish community found themselves in absurd situations like this, yet not a single one was harmed by the Germans or deported to concentration or extermination camps. In fact, Finland was the only European country fighting on either side in WWII that lost not a single Jewish citizen to the Nazi’s “Final Solution.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangers in a Stranger Land\u003c\/i\u003e explores the unique dilemma of Finland’s Jews in the form of a meticulously researched novel. Where did these immigrant Jews—the last in Europe to achieve citizenship status—come from? What was life like from their arrival in Finland in the early nineteenth century to the time when their grandchildren perversely found themselves on “the wrong side” of WWII? And how could young lovers plan for the future when not only their enemies but also their country’s allies threatened their very existence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven years researching Finland’s National Archives plus numerous in-depth interviews with surviving Finnish Jewish war veterans provide the background for a narrative exploration of love, friendship, and commitment but also uncertainty and terror under circumstances that were unique in the annals of “The Good War.” The novel’s protagonists—Benjamin, David and Rachel—adopt varying survival strategies as they struggle with involvement in a brutal conflict and questions posed by their dual loyalty as Finnish citizens and Zionists committed to the creation of a Jewish homeland. Tensions mount as the three young adults painfully work through a relationship love triangle and try to fulfill their commitments as both Jews and Finns while their country desperately seeks to extricate itself from an unwinnable war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536479265141,"sku":"9780761871491","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761871491.jpg?v=1788186350"},{"product_id":"legal-and-ethical-dictionary-for-mental-health-professionals","title":"Legal and Ethical Dictionary for Mental Health Professionals","description":"This dictionary provides mental health professionals with clear and concise definitions of legal and ethical terminologies. To enhance the professional's understanding, a professional significance section has been added after the definitions to further comprehension of practical dimensions of the words and to aid in legal and ethical decision making.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695225610613,"sku":"9780761846840","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761846840.jpg?v=1793032160"},{"product_id":"beyond-naivete","title":"Beyond Naivete","description":"This book discusses theories in economics and ethics to help the reader understand all points of view regarding the crossroads between economic systems and individual and social values. Covering microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, as well as many topics discussed in a university-level ethics course, Beyond Naïveté demonstrates how ethics and philosophy speak to economic questions and how economics addresses philosophical and ethical questions. Easily accessible to non-specialists, the book also provides numerous insights for specialists in economics, philosophical ethics, or both.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57695225676149,"sku":"9780761859581","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761859581.jpg?v=1793032161"},{"product_id":"europe-without-illusions","title":"Europe without Illusions","description":"Co-published with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, this book offers a critical assessment of European Union developments since 1994. It combines the texts of the five Paul-Henri Spaak lectures given at Harvard University in the 1994-2000 period, and a cogent analysis of the successes and failures of the EU by Professor Andrew Moravcsik, entitled 'Europe without Illusions.'   The European Union is the most successful voluntary international organization in world history. Europe without Illusions explores the paradox that the EU recently completed perhaps the most successful decade of integration in its history, yet it continues to be widely perceived as unstable and undemocratic.   The Center for International Affairs was founded in 1958 and was renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1998 in gratitude for the endowment established by Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation. The Center was created as a means of confronting global problems.  The Center is the largest international research center within Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is distinctive in its recognition that knowledge is a product not only of individual academic research, but also of vigorous, sustained intellectual dialogue among scholars and nonacademic experts. To stimulate this dialogue, the Center sponsors a wide array of seminars, research programs, workshops, and conferences.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57705596453237,"sku":"9780761831280","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761831280.jpg?v=1793377242"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-university-press-of-america.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}