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At the start of the 19th century, women had severely limited rights. They had no control of their earnings, could not divorce a husband, had no claim of property, could not speak at public meetings, and could not vote. The women's suffrage movement, a political campaign that sought to address these problems, began around 1800 and culminated in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Led by women such as Sus...

This was my first read of a Mike Gayle novel and I was impressed. Author Mike Gayle has a crafty gift for character development and story telling. The book drew me in so much that I finished it in a few hours on a cross-country flight! It is a shame that it sat on my shelf for so many months before I got to it. In this novel that is set in the U.K., we follow two love birds Jim and Alison through a friendship, romance and break-up as they ea...

The Spanish Civil War became the setting for the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution as well as being, for many outsiders, the place of armed conflict between the forces of democracy and fascism. This book is a path-breaking synthesis of political, social and cultural history concerning the anarchist revolution during the Spanish Civil War by Spain's leading historian of the Civil War.

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer

This is a study of how women figured in public reaction to the church from New Testament times to Christianity's encounter with the pagan critics of the second century CE.

A study of the relationship between earth's population explosion and the mass extinction of countless species of plant and animal communities. It is suggested that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture.

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Although this is Louis Green's first novel, his unique speaking style has captivated audiences since the mid 1960's. Now the masterful preacher presents the Parable of the Prodigal in such a way that each chapter will say to you, "this is how it must have happened." The Crimson Cord is comprised of multiple intertwined strands, woven in complexity when a young mother dies giving birth to twin sons. While dying, she gives them names foretelling...

Although this is Louis Green's first novel, his unique speaking style has captivated audiences since the mid 1960's. Now the masterful preacher presents the Parable of the Prodigal in such a way that each chapter will say to you, "this is how it must have happened." The Crimson Cord is comprised of multiple intertwined strands, woven in complexity when a young mother dies giving birth to twin sons. While dying, she gives them names foretelling...

This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.

This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.

This original work captures the heart, and enlarges the soul, of reform movements within the study of governance and bureaucracy. Author David John Farmer provides constitutive features of a new consciousness for democratic governance that will revolutionize the subject of public administration. To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts--thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice a...

Educating students about their roles as "global citizens" is a challenge that has taken on increasing importance in recent years. In this volume, prominent educators join Nel Noddings to address the issue of global citizenship, what it means, and how it should shape curriculum and teaching in K-12 classrooms. Features: Frameworks for educating global citizens, including building community and mutual respect, creating social responsibility, ins...

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Everyone in class 4-11 knows that classmate, Charlie Wonder, is the best cook in town. But when the whole class suddenly comes down with a mystery illness right after eating Charlie's "Strawberry Surprise" cake, guess who gets the blame! As the kids try to discover the answer to this "delicious dilemma", they find themselves embroiled in several adventures. CHARLIE WONDER--CHEF-DETECTIVE is a fast-paced mystery, which will mystify and excite y...

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Frank Buchar has written Super Skills for Supervisors to make supervisory skills as accessible as possible to both new and experienced supervisors. His work with thousands of supervisors and managers in his professional consulting career has given him special insights into the supervisory role. The supervisors depicted in these pages are based on real-life individuals though the names and circumstances have been altered slightly to illustrate ...

The Elections in Israel--2003 brings together leading Israeli and North American social scientists and their state-of-the-art, in-depth analysis of the 2003 Israeli national elections. These elections returned Ariel Sharon and the Likud to power amid one of the bloodiest rounds of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and a severe economic downturn in Israel. Contributors analye the electoral behavior of the voters as a whole and variou...

Applications of category theory and related topics of mathematics to computer science have been a growing area in recent years. This book contains selected papers on the subject from the London Mathematical Society Symposium held at the University of Durham in July 1991.