Authors:Robert S. Witte, John S. Witte,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: statistics
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470392223
ISBN-13: 9780470392225

Drawing upon over 40 years of experience, the authors of this highly accessible book provide business professionals with a clear and methodical approach to essential statistical procedures. The ninth edition clearly explains the basic concepts and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. It features a new emphasis on expressions involving sums of squares and degrees of freedom as well as a stronger stress on the importance of variability. This accessible approach will help business professionals tackle such perennially mystifying topics as the standard deviation, varianc

Author: John Witte
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: religious, perspectives, global, rights, human
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 1996-02-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9041101764
ISBN-13: 9789041101761

The sacred texts and legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world -- particularly of women, children, and dissidents. Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and twenty leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions, and challenge peoples of all faiths to adopt `golden rules of religious liberty’. This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy unde

Author: John, Jr. Witte
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: god, law, religion, university, studies, emory, tradition, joust, western, justice
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0802844219
ISBN-13: 9780802844217

There are three things that people will die for — their faith, their freedom, and their family. This volume studies all three, and the interactions among them in the Western tradition and today. Retrieving and reconstructing a wealth of material from the earliest Hebrew and Greek texts of the West to the latest machinations of the Supreme Court, John Witte explores the legal and theological foundations of authority and liberty, equality and dignity, rights and duties, marriage and family, crime and punishment, and similar topics. This volume is a lucid scholarly introduction to the burgeonin

Author: John Witte Jr.
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: experiment, constitutional, american, religion
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0813342317
ISBN-13: 9780813342313

This new edition offers a novel reading of the American constitutional experiment in religious liberty. Lucid and engaging, this volume serves as a provocative primer for students, and a pristine restatement for specialists in law, religion, history, sociology, politics, and American studies. Through a fresh reading of familiar sources and cases, and through the discovery and introduction of new cases and materials, the author reclaims the essential value, vigor, and vitality of America’s most essential and cherished religious rights and liberties.

Author: John F. Witte
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: first, voucher, program, america, analysis, approach, education, market
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-07-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691089833
ISBN-13: 9780691089836

Milwaukee, one of the nation’s most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality of opportunity, the con

Authors:John Witte Jr., Robert M. Kingdon,
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: marriage, family, engagement, religion, series, courtship, calvin, life, john, sex, geneva
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0802848036
ISBN-13: 9780802848031

You wouldn’t expect it from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western concept of sex, marriage, and family life. This fascinating, even sensational volume comprehensively treats the new theology and law that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Calvin made marriage and divorce, children’s welfare, and sexual sin matters of both church and state, and many of the reforms that he and others initiated — new rights and duties for wives in the bedroom, fault-based divorce on grounds of adultery and desertion, protection for impo

Authors:John Witte Jr., Frank S. Alexander,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: companions, religion, cambridge, introduction, law, christianity
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521697492
ISBN-13: 9780521697491

What impact has Christianity had on the law from its beginnings to the present day? This introduction explores the main legal teachings of Western Christianity, set out in the texts and traditions of scripture and theology, philosophy and jurisprudence. It takes up the weightier matters of the law that Christianity has profoundly shaped - justice and mercy, rule and equity, discipline and love - as well as more technical topics of canon law, natural law, and state law. Some of these legal creations were wholly original to Christianity. Others were converted from Jewish and classical tradition