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1. Sects, Cults and New Religions

   Edited by James Lewis, Danielle Kirby

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   New Religious Movements (NRMs) came into being as a distinct subfield of academic study in the 1970s in response to the explosion of non-traditional religions that took place in the waning years of the Sixties counterculture. (The designation 'New Religion' is a direct translation of a Japanese...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Religion and Violence

   Edited by James Lewis, Henrik Bogdan

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   Because the cultural conception of ‘religion’ makes a rough equation between ‘being religious’ and ‘being good, moral, and decent’, the violent aspects of religion tend to be seen as either aberrant and isolated incidents in our own tradition, or the sine qua non of someone else's belief. We avoid...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Practical Speech User Interface Design

   By James R. Lewis

   Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics

   Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a...

   Published December 9th 2010 by CRC Press
4. Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan

   By James B. Lewis

   East Asia from 1400 to 1850 was a vibrant web of connections, and the southern coast of the Korean peninsula participated in a maritime world that stretched to Southeast Asia and beyond. Within this world were Japanese pirates, traders, and fishermen. They brought things to the Korean peninsula...

   Published September 16th 2010 by Routledge
5. Children Exposed To Violence

   Current Issues, Interventions and Research

   Edited by Robert Geffner, Dawn Griffin, James Lewis III

   Children’s exposure to violence (CEV) in their home, their community, and our society has finally been recognized as a serious mental health, social, and public health problem. This book highlights a summary of relevant current research, practice, and policy issues. It is the third in a...

   Published February 21st 2009 by Routledge
6. Professional Values and Practice

   Achieving the Standards for QTS

   By James Arthur, Jon Davison, Malcolm Lewis

   The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards...

   Published January 12th 2005 by Routledge
7. Usability Evaluation

   A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

   Edited by James R. Lewis

   Published March 31st 2002 by CRC Press
8. Korea and Globalization

   Politics, Economics and Culture

   Edited by James B. Lewis, Amadu Sesay

   Korea faces two challenges in the twenty-first century: unification and globalization. Both entail problems of economic, political and cultural integration. In the past, Koreans successfully 'unified' in various forms, and 'globalized' in many ways. This book is a study of the theme of...

   Published March 27th 2002 by Routledge