In Religion and World History, distinguished authors John C. Super and Briane K. Turley examine the value of religion for interpreting the human experience in the past and present. They explore the elements of religion which best connect it to the cultural and political dynamics that have influenced history. Working within this framework, Super and Turley present three unifying themes: the relationship between formal and informal religious beliefs, how these change through time, and how they are reflected in different cultures; the relationship between church and state, from theocracies to the repression of religion; and the ongoing search for spiritual certainty, and the consequent splintering of core religious beliefs and the development of new ones. One of the few recent books to examine religion's role in geo-political affairs, its unique approach enables the reader to grasp the many and complex ways in which religion acts upon and reacts to broader global processes.

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence. At the beginning of the 21st Century, psycholinguistics forms part of the rapidly developing enterprise known as cognitive neuroscience, in which the relationship between biology and behavior plays a central role. Psycholinguistics is about language in communication, so that the relationship between language production and comprehension has always been important, and as psycholinguistics is an experimental discipline, it is likewise essential to find the right relationship between model and experiment. This book focuses in turn on each of these four cornerstone relationships: Psychology and Linguistics, Biology and Behavior, Production and Comprehension, and Model and Experiment. The authors are from different disciplinary backgrounds, but share a commitment to clarify the ways that their research illuminates the essential nature of the psycholinguistic enterprise.

This title explores the growing concept of relationship marketing, defined as the process of creating, maintaining, and enhancing strong, value-laden relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Relationship Marketing explores the concept in theory and practice for use in the e-commerce era. The book offers an understanding of relationship marketing as a business strategy within a framework that integrates marketing, e-commerce, corporate communications, and knowledge management.

"Relationship Marketing: Dialogue and Networks in the E-Commerce Era is based on ten years of consulting experience and academic study. The unique contribution of this book is the particular and careful emphasis on the understanding of human trading relationships as central to relationship marketing. Contemporary Relationship Marketing is explained as a business strategy within a management framework that integrates marketing, e-commerce, corporate communication, and knowledge management. A reconsideration of relationship marketing in the light of recent innovative thinking and the emerging new economy presents the other side of the coin - communication as the mode of inter-action, and relationships as the shared context for meaning-making. This book develops the management framework for responsive and responsible communicative interaction in an integrated corporate management system. The question of information & communication technology (ICT) as enabler and facilitator of Relationship Marketing is addressed, using a varied range of case studies to illustrate developments in principle, policy, and practice. This title is particularly relevant for students taking advanced undergraduate, MBA and MSc courses on relationship marketing, marketing management and service management.

Gideon by Jacquelyn Frank
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With the resurgence of necromancers, human magic-users bent on destroying the Nightwalker races, Gideon, the oldest Demon, has returned from self-exile to reclaim his place among his people. More difficult, though, is repairing his relationship with Legna, who felt betrayed by his rejection almost a decade ago. Fate steps in, and the two find themselves Imprinted, linked in body and mind, and struggling to adjust to their new relationship as the necromancer threat deepens and their people need the couple most. The second in Frank's captivating series (after Jacob: The Nightwalkers, 2006) takes us further into the brewing war between Nightwalkers and necromancers. Patience may be required at the outset, as Frank provides a lot of backstory. But Gideon offers a remarkable twist on the lore of creatures of the night in a lush narrative sure to please readers who have longed for new gothic and darkly romantic tales. Nina Davis (Amazon.Com)
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The Callan Method is based on actual classroom practice, on the psychological teacher-student relationship, and on their relationship to the language. When the Method was shown to some educational psychologists, one of them said "How else?". In other words, as language learning is a question of developing quick reflexes, how else can this be done than by a system of stimulus and response? The same psychologist went on to take an exaggerated example, by adding that one could teach a monkey to play the piano, given such techniques.