Proconsuls
This book is a study of proconsulship, a form of delegated political-military leadership historically associated with the governance of large empires. Opening with a conceptual and historical analysis of proconsulship as an aspect of imperial or q...
The Cash Ceiling
The Cash Ceiling
Mastering Salesforce Reports and Dashboards
Effective, repeatable, and insightful analytics are key to ROI in customer relationship management systems. But most organizations today lack the automated reporting tools they need to run their businesses and instead choose to massage the data in...
Attunement
What is a feminist theologian to do with Christianity's patriarchal inheritance? She can avoid the most patriarchal aspects of the theological tradition and seek resources for constructive work elsewhere. Or she can critique misogynistic texts and...
Motherhood
A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood. What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In thi...
Image and Presence
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present-from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversa...
Evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes
At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of ...
Don't Call It Love
'Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books are changing the lives of thousands ' 'I lost three marriages, all because of affairs.' 'I became suicidal because of multiple intense involvements.' 'I spent money on sex when I needed it for children's clothes.' 'I lost promotion opportunities and a special scholarship because my co-workers found out about my sex life.' Every day they face the possibility of destruction, risking their families, fiances, jobs, dignity, and health. They come from all walks of life: ministers, physicians, therapists, politicians, executives, blue-collar workers. Most were abused as children--sexually, physically or emotionally--and saw addictive behavior in their early lives. Most grapple with other addictions as well, but their fiercest battle is with the most astounding prevalent 'secret' disorder in America: sexual addiction. Here is a ground-breaking work by the nation's leading professional expert on sexual
Minds on Fire
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on...
