What ACL Means to Me

I joined the Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) in 1997, at a time when I was seeking God’s will for my future in library work.The previous year, I had been unexpectedly let go after eight years in a Bible college library position due to downsizing, and my heart was still in academic library work. I found ACL to be far more than a facilitator for library job searching. This association is foremost a Christian one, and provided something far better than networking just to advance oneself. Attending my first ACL conference in 1997, I was greatly encouraged by a group of library colleagues with whom I could share my heart and search for God’s will, with the assurance that they understood and would pray for me. Here I could be developed and challenged both professionally and spiritually – what more could I ask for? I determined to attend the ACL conference every year

An Iron Age II tomb with Phoenician items at Khirbet Bir el-Kharayib, Central Palestine

In 2017, during a salvage excavation carried out by the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of Palestine, an Iron Age shaft tomb close to the site of Khirbet Bir el-Kharayib in Central Palestine came to light. The funerary equipment of the tomb goes within the Iron Age IIA pottery tradition. Vessels of this period primarily consist of Red Slip Ware bowls and juglets, Black Slip Ware juglets, Simple Ware jars, jugs and juglets, and Cooking Ware pots. A Bichrome Ware jug, a bronze bowl and a zoomorphic figurine complete the funerary set

The Political Economy of War Finance

What explains the variation in how states pay for war? Leaders must choose between four primary means of war finance: taxation, domestic debt, external extraction, and printing. Each alternative has different political and economic costs and benefits. Borrowing compounds the cost of war through high interest rates; printing can result in disastrous inflation; taxation combats high inflation and minimizes cost yet can be politically damaging; while garnering money from abroad invites outside influence and fosters dependency. Conventional wisdom suggests that regime type dictates war finance strategy. However, based on statistical analysis of a novel data set and in-depth case studies, I demonstrate that regime type plays at best only a small role in a state\u27s war finance story. I argue that there are four primary influences shaping war finance outcome: support for the war effort, fear of inflation, bureaucratic capacity, and the ability to cope with a balance of payments problem. To test these hypotheses, my dissertation presents the results of the first large-scale statistical analysis of war finance. It utilizes an original data set on interstate war finance from 1823 to 2003. I augment my statistical analysis with six case studies, three paired comparisons. First, I compare the financing of the United States\u27 war effort in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. I then compare the Russian and Japanese financing of the Russo-Japanese War. Lastly, I compare British financing of its war efforts in the Crimean War and World War II. The study ultimately finds that a larger percentage of the war effort is financed by taxation when there are one or more of the following conditions: high support for the war, inflationary fears, or high bureaucratic capacity to extract tax revenue. In contrast, higher levels of borrowing and printing are likely to fund wars when support for the war is low or the state has low bureaucratic capacity. Moreover, the state will borrow from abroad when it is facing low currency reserves

Editor\u27s Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Communication Campaigns

The articles published in this symposium make contributions to an increased understanding of the theoretical bases for communication campaigns. They add to a growing literature that aims to move communication campaigns from a formulaic craft to a theory-driven, but practical, endeavor (Hornik, 2002a; Rice & Atkin, 2001; Zaller, 1992)

Talk and Silence Sequences in Informal Conversations II

Three models describing the structure of talk and silence sequences within and across conversations presented in a previous report (Cappella, 1979) are tested. The Markov model, describing talk and silence sequences within a conversation, is found to be a valid representation on a dyad-by-dyad basis. The Independent Decision (ID) model shows some predictive validity between conversations, although its fit within the conversation is less than the Markov model. The Incremental model in relaxing the consistency-across-conversation assumption of the ID model finds differences due to switching of partners in the probability of breaking or continuing mutual silences and in the probability of continuing to hold the floor. The implication for deriving dyadic interaction patterns from individual interaction styles are explored

The Biological Origins of Automated Patterns of Human Interaction

The biological origins of automated patterns of human interaction are explored. Automated patterns of interaction are distinguished from deliberate patterns. Automated patterns consist of two particular types: stimulation regulation and emotional responsiveness. Evidence for the biological origins of these patterns is obtained by studying the early interactions of infants and neonates, surveying the ethological parallels, exploring the evolutionary adaptiveness of the specific patterns, and ascertaining physiological, psychopharmacological, and brain mechanisms responsible for the patterns. Although circumstantial, the case for a biological basis for stimulation regulation and emotional responsiveness is very suggestive

On Defining Conversational Coordination and Rapport

The construct of rapport is arguably one of the central, if not the central, construct necessary to understanding successful helping relationships and to explaining the development of personal relationships. The role of nonverbal behavior in initiating and signaling rapport has its roots in the work of Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967). Tickle-Degnen and Rosenthal substantially advance our knowledge about the relationship between rapport and nonverbal behavior in the meta-analyses presented in this and other articles (see Tickle-Degnen & Rosenthal, 1987). My purpose in this response is to offer a critical reaction to the conceptual analyses of this article and to end with what, I hope, are constructive suggestions