New Releases by Richard Nelson

A companion to the best selling job-hunting book in the world.

This Old Testament Library volume offers a commentary on the book of Joshua. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.

The first of three volumes that will serve as a comprehensive and inclusive finding tool, this work defines propaganda in an uncertain postmodern information age. Linked to the U.S. Constitution, mass media, and business, the role propaganda plays must be understood in terms of an information-based economy. An extensive chronology of propaganda-related events, plus an A-Z guide defining hundreds of important terms (some ill-defined in context, such as backdoor contact and spin doctor), combine to meet an immediate need for an easy-to-use resource that not only credibly defines the field but stimulates new research. Americans have had a love-hate relationship with propaganda since before the nation itself existed. The thesis of this work is that propaganda is as American as apple pie. The right to persuade and communicate is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The technologies and business aspects of mass media that shape culture around the world were perfected in America; hundreds of thousands of people find employment in various persuasion industries. Propaganda is becoming even more essential to maintaining social cohesion in a multiculturally diverse society. The three volumes in this series act as a finding tool that distinctively crossed over artificial barriers to open new approaches to understanding the phenomenon that defines our time. This work clarifies what propaganda is or is not as it knives through the confusion surrounding the imprecise terminology and lack of historical background to often associated with its study.

A study of the heritage of Central Asia. It brings together such distinct elements as the world of Zoroaster, the Achaemenid ecumene, the Sakas and later waves of nomadic invaders, the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road, the historic role of the Turks, and more.

V. 1, Adam-Curr -- V. 2, Dahl-Loma -- V. 3, Long-Shil -- V. 4, Shin-Zall.

With this path-breaking book, Richard Nelson Current closes a major gap in our understanding of the important role of white southerners who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The ranks of the Union forces swelled by more than 100,000 of these men known to their friends as "loyalists" and to their enemies as "tories". They substantially strengthened the Union, weakened the Confederacy, and affected the outcome of the Civil War. Despite the assertions of southern governors that Lincoln would get no troops from the South to preserve the Union, every Confederate state except South Carolina provided at least a battalion of white troops for the Union Army. The role of black soldiers (including those from the South) continues to receive deserved attention. Curiously, little heed has been paid to the white southern supporters of the Union cause, and nothing has been published about the group as a whole. Relying almost entirely on primary sources, Current here opens the long-overdue investigation of these many Americans who, at great risk to themselves and their families, made a significant contribution to the Union''s war effort. Current meticulously explores the history of the loyalists in each Confederate state during the war. Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia provided over 70 percent of the loyalist troops, but 10,000 from Arkansas, 7,000 from Louisiana, and thousands from North Carolina, Texas, and Alabama volunteered as well. The author weaves the separate state stories into an intriguing and detailed tapestry. The loyalists served in a variety of capacities--some performing mundane tasks, some fighting with valor. Whatever his individual role, each southerner joining the Unionconstituted a double loss to the Confederacy: a subtraction from its own ranks and an addition to the Union''s. Undoubtedly, this played an important role in the Confederate defeat.

A classic in the field of career-choosing, this perennial bestseller is now printed throughout in two colors in order to better assist the reader in finding just the right job.

Here is Nelson''s luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.

One of Chekhov''s most powerful plays probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape.

The author defines a disability and discusses vocabulary that is important to people with disabilities. While he is primarily interested in helping people looking for work, he is also eager to educate employers. He prepares both sides for the interviewing process, offering hope and practical suggestions.

Richard Bolles. author of the perennial bestseller, What Color is Your Parachute?, originally created this book as an appendix in Parachute. He wrote it to answer one of the questions most often asked by job-hunters, "How do I go about finding pout what my Mission in life is . . .?" This is his response to that question--available for the first time as a separate book.

"Presents in booklet form a self-directed series of pen and paper exercises"--Back cover

Boreal forest Indians like the Kutchin of east-central Alaska are among the few native Americans who still actively pursue a hunter''s way of life. Yet even among these people hunting and gathering is vanishing so rapidly that it will soon disappear. This updated edition of Hunters of the Northern Forest stands as the only complete account of subsistence and survival among the Kutchin, capturing a final glimpse of a way of life at the crossroads of cultural development.

In clear and concise language and drawings, these booklets describe the common species the reader is likely to come across in Southwestern terrain.

Martin Noth argued that in the books of Joshua-Kings could be seen the work of a single, purposeful author or historian-a hypothesis which, although close to becoming one of those rare ''assured results of critical scholarship'', has recently encountered criticism. Nelson observes that Noth''s historian has a ''disturbing tendency to fall apart in the hands of those who work with him''. In this comprehensive study of the question, he attempts to put on a solid critical foundation the increasingly popular theory that the Deutoronomistic History is a product of a two-stage literary process.

Abstract: A concise guide helps job-seekers to identify job applications which closely fit their talents and desires. The text is organized into 3 preparative sections: identifying specific, enjoyable personal skills; identifying specific applications for these skills; and identifying the kind of job desired, and the organizations that have that type of job in the desired geographical location. The overall information is then synthesized into actual interviews with people having the authority to hire (not the personnel department). The design of the text is intended to serve as a map leading to specific interviews for the desired job, offering the greatest potential for hiring. Illustrations and exercises are given throughout the text. (wz).

A guide to job hunting and career planning, and how to deal with the transitions which accompany them.