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In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritual studies use Butler's work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The authors...

Each of us, at times, find ourselves struggling with sin. This struggle can exist as a continuous looming guilt or result in full blown actions beyond our control. Either way, everyone is in search for the true and lasting answer. This book explains the role Christianity plays in our continuous war between our fallen nature and our values held with the Lord. This unique commentary specifically reveals the answer to this war and deals with multiple spiritual Laws and their dynamics disclosed by the Apostle Paul in Romans chapters 6 and 7 due to his struggle with the sin nature.

This is the first research methods book to focus entirely on physical education and youth sport. It guides the reader through the whole research process; from the first steps to completion of a dissertation or practice-based project, and introduces key topics such as:

• formulating a research question
• qualitative approaches
• quantitative approaches
• mixed method research
• literature review
• case studies
• survey, interviews and focus groups
• data analysis
• writing the dissertation.

Each...

Strong leadership is essential to the success of any organisation and in today's world strong leadership must be realised at all levels.

When leadership development fails, performance gaps increase. This adversely impacts company culture, delivery of organisational objectives and the bottom line.

This book was written to change the way leaders think about and drive performance development for their leaders. It takes the guesswork out of performance development and the critical conversations needed to support behaviour change.

Written for leaders who lead leaders, this...

A groundbreaking book founded on extensive original research, designed to determine how restorative dialogue works, and the role of forgiveness within it. The research involved interviews with 20 victims who went through a Victim Offender Dialogue (used in crimes of severe violence), and documents how the shifts in energy during the course of their dialogue moves the toxicity associated with the crime to a different place. This study explores the role of bilateral forgiveness in restorative work and addresses key questions about the role of forgiveness in restorative justice, such as how it...

This collection of essays is a festschrift to honor Professor Dan Prentice who retires in 2008 from the Allen & Overy Professorship of Company Law at the University of Oxford. Dan Prentice has been deeply involved in corporate law from all perspectives - as a scholar, teacher, law reformer, and practicing member of Erskine Chambers. His interests have covered the full range of corporate law, finance, and insolvency. The occasion of his retirement has afforded a number of leading corporate law experts from around the world, many of whom are his former students and colleagues, an opportunity to...

'The art of coaching is recognising the situation, recognising the people and responding to the people you are working with... that's the big thing, to handle people'. Steve Harrison, Coach, Middlesbrough Football Club.

Responding to the fast growing subject in academic sports departments, this groundbreaking new coaching studies text offers a view that focuses the coach as a person and the coaching practice as a complex social encounter.

Unlike existing titles in the field which look at coaching as a science, this book examines the personalities, histories, relationships...

In this life we are going to suffer some bruises and some scars that cover our souls. Some of us may feel as if there is not an inch of our souls or minds that does not have a scar on it. That is where this poetry book comes in. You have been through so much in life that you need words to describe what you have been through. God speaks to us but sometimes life, people and our emotions get in the way. But through these words of hope, strength and true emotion let God speak to you and wrap his words around your body. Let his anointing come through these words as ointment that will begin to heal...

In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritual studies use Butler's work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The authors...

We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread--or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson, the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, the politicization of the death of Terri Schiavo, and the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina.

Framed by an original appropriation of Michel Foucault, and drawing on resources in visual culture theory and the history of photography, Ellen...

At the end of the 20th century, it was thought by many that the Anglo-American system of corporate governance was performing effectively and some observers claimed to see an international trend towards convergence around this model. There can be no denying that the recent corporate governance crisis in the US has caused many to question their faith in this view. This collection of essays by the leading British and American scholars provides a comprehensive attempt to answer the following questions: firstly, What went wrong-when and why do markets misprice the value of firms, and what was...