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What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating.

Not As Good As You Think found that in nearly 300 schools in middle class and affluent neighborhoods, more than half of the students in at least one grade level performed below proficiency on the 2006 California Standards Tes(CST)–the statewide test that assesses student grade level knowledge. Many of these schools are located in California's most affluent areas including Orange County, Silicon Valley, and the Los Angeles beach and canyon communities.

How to Get More Out of Being Jewish Even If- A. You Are Not Sure You Believe in God, B. You Think Going to Synagogue Is a Waste of Time, C. You Think Keeping Kosher Is Stupid, D. You Hated Hebrew School, or E. All of the Above! and
Tackling some of the most pertinent questions Jews ask themselves every day, this book examines the relevance of the Jewish religion and its traditions in the modern world. Culled from interviews with Jews from varying backgrounds, it addresses the major issues that affect all Jews, regardless of age, sex, or level of practice.

As Russia re-asserts itself on the global stage, a look back at the hard, and yes, cold facts of the Cold War might indicate a shift in Americans understanding of our relative strengths and weaknesses and add a touch of humility to our sense of primacy in the world. Contrary to President Johnson's assurances to the public, there had indeed been a missile gap, and the author is the man who quantified it.

Les "Premiers matériaux pour une théorie de la Jeune-Fille" constituent probablement l'essai le plus important et le plus novateur des 10 dernières années. Le collectif anonyme y analyse les causes et les différents processus de la "mécanisation des corps et des âmes". Tiqqun actualise Debord et Klossowski (La monnaie vivante) en décrivant les conséquences de l'économie spectaculaire-marchande sur ses contemporains, à savoir leur moeurs et leurs formes de vie. Le propos est richement illustré d'exemples "tirés de la vie réelle", comme on dit dans la presse. Radicalement novateur, dans le fond comme dans la forme. Bluffant.

The present volume, a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy (International Institute of Philosophy), provides an international survey of significant trends in contemporary philosophy.

Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'—hotels, motels, and the like—that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas.

Frommer's portable Cayman Islands–-See the very best of the Cayman Islands–-On the beach at a fine resort or in the ocean petting a stingray, our expert authors guide you to your best Cayman Islands experience.

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City Profiles USA is a convenient one-stop source for business and vacation travel planning.If you handle a lot of travel-related inquiries, then City Profiles USA is an essential ready-reference for your collection. This one-of-a-kind directory profiles more than 250 cities, including the largest U.S. cities by population, the 50 state capitals, and nine major Canadian cities.

Offering an intimate look at the people and places of Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, this memoir by adventurer and historian Mathew Wilson recounts journeys into remote areas as a member of the British army and with his family in the late 1960s. Wilson relates stories of crossing the Hindu Kush with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son and running a gauntlet of armed border guards to get his injured son to a hospital. Twenty-one years later, Wilson returned to honor a promise made to a Hindu priest in Central India-to seek, find, and follow the fleeting shadow of the Rani of Jhansi, one of the heroines of India's 1957 revolt against British rule.

Most of us devote a substantial percentage of our waking hours to making, spending and having more. This desire to accumulate is natural. But when a bigger bank balance – or the things it can buy - becomes our animating purpose, disappointment generally follows. In The Secret of Shelter Island, nationally renowned financial analyst and bestselling author Alexander Green explores the complicated relationship we all have with money and reveals the road map to a rich life.

Much as Good to Great described what separates top companies from the rest, The Next Level shows new, current, and future executives what differentiates success and failure at the executive level. Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to function successfully in their new role. When this happens, most new executives rely on strengths that served them well earlier in their careers.

Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. Published to acclaim in France, Ireland remained in print there until 1914. The English edition, translated by William Cooke Taylor and published in 1839, was not reprinted.