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The Myth of Mondragon

Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town

Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.

This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain.

The End of the Jihad State

The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads

Demonstrates for the first time that the cause of the Umayyad caliphate's collapse came not just from internal conflict, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.

Qays al-'Abdl, probably a local officer who was only interim governor very briefly.
He is mentioned only by Ibn Khayyat and, as a member of the Rabl'a would never
have received an appointment from Yusuf b. "Umar, Khalid al-Qasn's extreme
Qaysl successor. 'Abd Allah's official successor, who arrived to take office in
Rajab 120/July 738, was Ibrahim b. 'Asim al-'Uqayll, a Qaysl Jaziran commander
who had been with Asad in Khurasan. Ibrahim arrested Ibn Abl Burda and
packed off ...

The Effectiveness of Causes

The Effectiveness of Causes presents a strong view of causation seen as an operation between participants in events, and not as a relation holding between events themselves. In it, Emmet proposes that other philosophical views of cause and effect provide only a world of events, each of which is presented as an unchanging unit. Such a world, she contends, is a Zeno universe, since transitions and movement are lost. Emmet offers a more complex interpretation of the various forms of causal dependence. She sees immanent causation in the mere persistence of things, where effects are not temporarily separable from causes, and she considers the operation of efficacious grace. This is a new approach to the traditional problem and provides stimulating implications for the other metaphysical questions and for the philosophy of science."

" This is a new approach to the traditional problem and provides stimulating implications for the other metaphysical questions and for the philosophy of science.

History of al-Tabari Vol. 1, The

General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood

Volume I of the thirty-eight volume translation of Tabari's great History begins with the creation of the world and ends with the time of Noah and the Flood. It not only brings a vast amount of speculation about the early history of mankind into sharp Muslim focus, but it also synchronizes ancient Iranian ideas about the prehistory of mankind with those inspired by the Qur'an and the Bible. The volume is thus an excellent guide to the cosmological views of many of Tabari's contemporaries. The translator, Franz Rosenthal, one of the world's foremost scholars of Arabic, has also written an extensive introduction to the volume that presents all the facts known about Tabari's personal and professional life. Professor Rosenthal's meticulous and original scholarship has yielded a valuable bibliography and chronology of Tabari's writings, both those preserved in manuscript and those alluded to by other authors. The introduction and first volume of the translation of the History form a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic historiography in English and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for those who are interested in Middle Eastern history but are unable to read the basic works in Arabic.

10, where, in the same context, usul is included). The risalah was no doubt at
times published separately and then carried the title of al-Bayan 'an usul al-ahka'
m (I, 404, l. 4, II, 31, ll. 1 f., V, 7,1. 16, VI, 159,1. 19, XV, 59, l. 21, XVIII, 99,1. 15).
Here the operative word is usul "principles." It is also combined with latif to yield
such hybrids as Latif aI-qawl min al-bayan “an usul al-ahkam (I, 276, l. 24, II, 269,
1. 10, also Tahdhib, Musnad Ibn 'Abbas, 770, where fireplaces min), or Latif al-
bayan ...

Mediating Effect of Public Opinion on Public Policy, The

Exploring the Realm of Health Care

Examines how public opinion has influenced health care policy.

INTRODUCTION In the preceding chapters, the premise was that in order to
understand pol- icy change, it is necessary to understand the environment in
which policy de- velops. However, as Lippmann (1965) noted, this environment is
at times, “too complex” (p. 11). Others such as Kingdon (1984), Baumgartner and
Jones (1993), and Skocpol (1993) echo Lippman's sentiment. The difficulty, and
in- deed the challenge, for most of us is to understand the complexity of the policy
system ...

Postmodern Public Policy

Postmodern Public Policy introduces new ways of investigating the urgent difficulties confronting the public sector. The second half of the twentieth century saw approaches to public administration, public policy, and public management dominated by technical-instrumental thought that aspired to neutrality, objectivity, and managerialism. This form of social science has contributed to a public sector where policy debates have been reduced to "bumper-sticker" slogans, a citizenry largely alienated and distant from government, and analysis that ignores history and context and eschews the lived experiences of actual people. Hugh T. Miller brings together the latest thinking from epistemology, evolutionary theory, and discourse theory in an accessible and useful manner to emphasize how a postmodern approach offers the possibility of well-considered, pragmatic solutions grounded in political pluralism and social interaction between public service professionals and community members.

Postmodern Public Policy introduces new ways of investigating the urgent difficulties confronting the public sector.

Watching Channel One

The Convergence of Students, Technology, and Private Business

Channel One, an electronic curriculum that was developed primarily to sell products in the marketplace, is cablecast daily to approximately twelve-thousand public high schools in the United States. About one quarter of our public secondary schools have been wired by Whittle Communications, a private company, for the delivery of this required news program. This translates to a captive audience for advertisements of around eight- to nine-million teens. The political, economic, social, and cognitive impact of Channel One will be vast. How did school board members and administrators arrive at the decision to include Channel One in their districts? What is the form and content of news and advertising on Channel One? Do students pay attention to the news? To the ads? Do students learn from Channel One? These questions, among others, are addressed in this book. By employing various forms of discourse analyses, critical theory, rhetorical analysis, structural and post-structural readings, descriptive case studies, and traditional-effects studies, the authors provide a thorough investigation into Channel One.

Teachers,. and. Parents. In the flurry of activity surrounding contractual
agreements and installation of equipment to support the Channel One news
broadcast, many people have neglected to ask critical questions concerning the
implementation of this innovative educational program. The program is designed
to be used as a complete, twelve-minute broadcast, but the literature on
educational media contains ample evidence showing that teachers frequently
use only specified parts of ...

Professional Development for Cooperative Learning

Issues and Approaches

Describes different forms of professional development for cooperative learning and shows how the use of cooperative learning in professional development is leading to new insights into teaching and professional growth in schools.

CAROL ROLHEISER AND LAURIE STEVAHN Staff development for cooperative
learning can take many forms. Formal off-site training as well as informal on-site
collaboration, sharing, and problem-solving make unique contributions to a
teacher's understanding of the complex nature of cooperative learning. This
chapter focuses on formal training programs in cooperative learning and the role
of staff developers in effectively leading those programs. A formal program is
typically a ...

Teaching Cooperative Learning

The Challenge for Teacher Education

Explores cooperative learning practices.

Explores cooperative learning practices.

The History of al-Tabari Vol. 19

The Caliphate of Yazid b. Mu'awiyah A.D. 680-683/A.H. 60-64

This volume deals with the caliphate of Yazid. Yazid was not accepted as a legitimate caliph by many of the leading Muslims of the time, and, therefore, al-Tabari has concentrated his account of Yazid's caliphate almost entirely on the opposition to him. This opposition had its leadership in two of the leading Islamic figures of the time, al-Husayn, the son of the caliph 'Ali, and Ibn al-Zubayr, a leading Muslim who felt that he had had some claims to the caliphate himself. The first revolt was led by al-Husayn. This revolt, although ineffectual in military terms, is very important for the history of Islam, as al-Husayn came to be regarded by Shi'ite Muslims as the martyred imam; his martyrdom is still commemorated every year by them. In his account al-Tabari has preserved for us some of the earliest historical writing on the subject. The amount of space he devotes to this event shows the importance it had already assumed by his own time. The second revolt, that of Ibn al-Zubayr, was much more serious in immediate terms. The revolt or civil war can be divided into two stages. This volume covers the first stage, ending with the timely death of Yazid, which saved Ibn al-Zubayr from defeat.

Al-saldt al-jami'ah was the regular form of call to prayer used whenever the
governor wanted to address the people. It has been suggested that it was the first
form of the call to prayer. See E. Mittwoch, "Zur Enstehungsgeschichte des ...