Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Ch[...]

"Through their dynastic control of The New York Times, the
Ochses and Sulzbergers have been the most powerful family in twentieth-century America. Not only have they owned the Times for more than a hundred years, but a family member has always been at the paper's helm, a position that has given [...]

This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they [...]

Contents: Messenger and the Message; Motive and End of Christian Missions; Growing Moral and Spiritual Supremacy of Jesus; Jesus Comes Through Irregular Channels, Mahatma Gandhi's Part; Through the Regular Channels, Some Evangelistic Series; Great Hindrance; Question Hour; Jesus Through Experience; [...]

'Economists agree about many things - contrary to popular opinion - but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought'. So begins the first chapter of "Cultures Merging", in which Eric Jones - one of the world's leading economic historians - takes an elo[...]

The wide variety of psychotherapies that psychologists and students of psychology face can make for a confusing picture. The level of complexity is multiplied for Christians since they must ask how a particular psychotherapy fits (or doesn't fit) with a Christian understanding of persons and their s[...]

This Reader presents a diverse and ecumenical cross-section of ecclesiological statements from across the twenty centuries of the church's existence. It builds on the foundations of early Christian writings, illustrates significant medieval, reformation, and modern developments, and provides a repre[...]

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious l[...]