Mission Manifest

Mission Manifest
Author: Matthew K. Shannon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2024-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501775960

In Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US government officials, nongovernmental organizations, and their Iranian counterparts as cultural and political brokers—the living sinews of a binational relationship during the Second World War and early Cold War. As US global hegemony peaked between the 1940s and the 1960s, the religious authority of the Presbyterian Mission merged with the material power of the American state to infuse US foreign relations with the messianic ideals of Christian evangelicalism. In Tehran, the missions of American evangelicals became manifest in the realms of religion, development programs, international education, and cultural associations. Americans who lived in Iran also returned to the United States to inform the growth of the national security state, higher education, and evangelical culture. The literal and figurative missions of American evangelicals in late Pahlavi Iran had consequences for the binational relationship, the global evangelical movement, and individual Americans and Iranians. Mission Manifest offers a history of living, breathing people who shared personal, professional, and political aims in Iran at the height of American global power.

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
Author: Frederick Merk
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674548053

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Make Your Mission Statement Work

Make Your Mission Statement Work
Author: Marianne Talbot
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781857038200

"The practical book answers all these questions before leading you step-by-step through the process of writing your own mission statement and then living up to it"--Back cover.

Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries

Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries
Author: Dennis Nickson
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750665726

Dennis Nickson takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management theory and practice, it contextualises it to the tourism and hospitality industries by looking at the specific employment practices of these industries.

Mahamantra

Mahamantra
Author: Raja Gopaal Iyer
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 289
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9352061764

"MAHAMANTRA-The essence of Leadership, inculcating the theme of the DASHAVATARA-10 AVATAR SPIRITS, for young and budding leaders to imbibe the same for improvising themselves to transform into true leaders exhibiting the skill sets of a competent professional. This book will give you an insight as to why he has drawn inspiration from the 10 Avatar spirits with a wholesome view in designing with emphasis on creating various initiatives for a successful leadership. With his determination, verve and fire to impart diversified education, this will also help in developing one’s skills to adopt the core of these spirits in their personal as well as professional lives."

Outposts on the Frontier

Outposts on the Frontier
Author: Jay Chladek
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0803222920

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev’s in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind’s first outposts on the frontier of space. Purchase the audio edition.

Nicholas of Cusa and Islam

Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
Author: Ian Christopher Levy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004274766

To explore Christian-Muslim relations at the dawn of the modern age, this book examines Nicholas of Cusa’s seminal works on the Qur’an and world religions. It also considers Muslim responses to Christianity and other Christian writings on Islam.

Heavenly Alliance

Heavenly Alliance
Author: Samantha Fey
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2024-10-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1612835007

“Heavenly Alliance is a transformative map to connecting with your spirit guides, angels, and ancestors. Through practical exercises and inspiring stories, Samantha empowers you to manifest your dreams and live a life of purpose and joy. A must-read for anyone seeking to deepen their connection with their spirit-guide team and live a fulfilling life!” —George Lizos, bestselling author of Protect Your Light and Secrets of Greek Mysticism Imagine a life where you can achieve anything you want and are deeply connected to your inner wisdom, where you are led by your spirit guides and guardian angels and supported by your ancestors. This is the life that Heavenly Alliance can help you to achieve. Fey’s transformative guidebook takes you on a profound spiritual journey, helping you to connect with higher realms of consciousness manifest your dreams and live a fulfilling life work with the spirit world for guidance and wisdom recognize and establish a connection with your spirit guides connect with your guardian angel and experience their support honor and acknowledge your ancestral lineage to uncover a wealth of ancestral wisdom and healing potential Through forgiveness exercises, energy clearing practices, and visualization techniques, individuals gain the tools to let go of emotional baggage, creating space for positive transformation to happen. Your dream life is waiting, and with Heavenly Alliance and a little help from your spirit allies, you’ll begin to make it a reality.

America, Amerikkka

America, Amerikkka
Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317491246

America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America’s sense of itself. In its examination of America’s "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.