Located in Houston's Third Ward—a historic African-American neighborhood—Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. Since its inception in 1993, PRH has fostered a positive, creative environment in the community by infusing it with art and creativity and creating sustainable opportunities for artists, mothers, entrepreneurs, and residents. Today the PRH site encompasses five city blocks and houses thirty-nine structures that serve as home base to a variety of community-enriching initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25 highlights the history of the Third Ward neighborhood, PRH's role in its development over the past quarter-century, and the idea of social art practice from the perspective of PRH's five pillars: art and creativity; education; social safety net; good and relevant architecture; and economic sustainability. It also includes scholarly essays; a selection of impactful moments that have shaped the organization’s work; documentation of the hundreds of people who have participated in PRH programs; and numerous photographs. The book shows how the PRH model for art and social engagement not only applies to Houston, but can be adopted by diverse communities everywhere. Contributors. Ryan N. Dennis, Nonya Grenader, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, George Lipsitz, Michael McFadden, Assata-Nicole Richards, Danny Samuels Published by Project Row Houses Distributed by Duke University Press

Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25

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Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero (SCHOLAR'S PRESS STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES SERIES)

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressIn this interdisciplinary work, Martin H. Krieger examines the entrepeneur in terms of modes and ideal figures drawn from religion and classical studies. In so doing, he provides a means or vocabulary with which entrepreneurs can articulate their experience of risk, commitment, and judgment. In addition, by establishing a comparison between the entrepreneur and the figures he utilizes from religious and classical literature, Krieger generates surprising new ways to look at the careers of such traditional figures as St. Augustine, Moses, Oedipus, Antigone, and the characters of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Both an exercise in the humanities and in the pragmatic world of business, Krieger’s work offers an intriguing methodology for how humanistic learning can be applied to the real world concerns of the entrepreneur. A teaching and self-study guide to Entrepreneurial Vocation is included as an appendix for those wishing to adopt the text as a classroom resource.

Business & Money

Krieger, Martin H.

Economics

Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press
This work responds to a renewed emphasis on teaching in the academy. Written from the perspective of a classroom teacher, it is a practical application of the principles behind the critical thinking movement to the study of religion. Emphasizing that the acquisition of critical thinking depends less on what is taught than on how it is taught, the author presents concrete examples from his own experience to illustrate a student-centered approach to teaching. By demonstrating how the study of religion contributes to the development of critical thinking—through the acquistion of problem-solving, decision-making, and metacognitive skills—Penaskovic suggests its value to a broader liberal arts curriculum as well. Both a theoretical view of critical thinking and a nuts-and-bolts manual on how it can be used and assessed in the classroom, this work will challenge new and veteran teachers alike to reexamine and renew what the do in the classroom.

Critical Thinking and the Academic Study of Religion (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism)

Religion & Spirituality

Penaskovic, Richard

Christian Books & Bibles

Originally published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressDesigned primarily for the prospective author, The Directory of Publishers in Religion lists and describes 177 publishers serving the full range of religious publishing: secular and denominational, academic and popular. Numerous indexes guide the reader to publishers with a particular faith/denominational/cultural emphasis, subject area focus, or genre preference. The Dictionary of Publishers in Religion is an indispensable tool for the prospective author and publishing professional, an up-to-date resource for the best and most complete information about religious publishing worldwide.

The Directory of Publishers in Religion (Harvard Semitic Monographs)

Reference

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Power, Powerlessness, and the Divine: New Inquiries in Bible and Theology (Scholars Press Studies in Theological Education)

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University PressContributors include: Rita Nakashima Brock, Claudia V. Camp, Kimberly Chastain, Paul D. Miller, Cynthia L. Rigby, William Schweiker, Gerd Theiben, Michael Welker, Vincent L. Wimbush

Rigby, Cynthia L.

Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press Contributors include: Rita Nakashima Brock, Claudia V. Camp, Kimberly Chastain, Paul D. Miller, Cynthia L. Rigby, William Schweiker, Gerd Theiben, Michael Welker, Vincent L. Wimbush

History

World

Originally Published by Scholars PressNow Available from Duke University Press

A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (Scholars Press Homage Series)

Originally Published by Scholars Press Now Available from Duke University Press

Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell Jr. at His Retirement (Scholars Press Homage Series)

The great amount of research which has appeared in the journal, "American Literature," since 1949 has made a revision and an enlargement of the previous Analytical Index, published in 1954, imperative.  The present volume extends the coverage another ten years and, by combining the new material with the former index, provides an analysis of the first thirty volumes of the journal, beginning with 1929.Since the magazine has been from its beginning the chief repository of research in the field and the principal medium for scholarly reviews, an analysis of this material provides, in essence, a working bibliography for the serious student of American culture form 1929 to 1959.  Consequently, care has been taken to expand the already large number of cross-references so that material not clearly indicated by the titles of articles or books may be identified.

An Analytical Index to American Literature: Vols. I–XXX, March 1929–January 1959

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Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25

Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero (SCHOLAR'S PRESS STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES SERIES)

Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero (SCHOLAR'S PRESS STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES SERIES)

Critical Thinking and the Academic Study of Religion (South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism)

The Directory of Publishers in Religion (Harvard Semitic Monographs)

Power, Powerlessness, and the Divine: New Inquiries in Bible and Theology (Scholars Press Studies in Theological Education)

Power, Powerlessness, and the Divine: New Inquiries in Bible and Theology (Scholars Press Studies in Theological Education)

A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (Scholars Press Homage Series)

Realia Dei: Essays in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Edward F. Campbell Jr. at His Retirement (Scholars Press Homage Series)

An Analytical Index to American Literature: Vols. I–XXX, March 1929–January 1959