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The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.

This book examines the work and thought of Richard T. Ely in light of his rejection of capitalism and view toward individualism. It concludes that there are real problems with Ely's theories and the principles of Progressivism, and addresses the implications of this for current American political thought.

This collection of essays by major scholars analyze the religious diversity in Chinese religion, bringing together topics from traditional and contemporary contexts and Chinese religions' encounters with Western religion.

How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions. If political equality generally is considered a core feature of democracy, it has received little attention among theorists concerned with global governance. Given the enormous emphasis on democracy as legitimizing factor in global politics, this neglect is noteworthy. This book sets out to address what accounts for the neglect, on the one hand, and how it m...

Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems.

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century.

The major financial scandals of the past decade, which have been discussed exhaustively in corporate offices by corporate attorneys, and in accounting firms, have led to the passage of massive Congressional enactments in the United States that impact the world of finance. The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, with its significant provisions of 20-year imprisonment for certain offenses, and the conviction of Enron's CEO and other sen...

Werk- und Vorsängerbuch für die musikalische Gestaltung der Messfeier mit dem "Gotteslob" (Stammteil und Eigenteile München-Freising, Österreich, Bozen-Brixen). Erarbeitet von Markus Eham, Bernward Beyerle, Gerald Fischer, Michael Heigenhuber und Stephan Zippe, unter Mitwirkung von Rupert Berger. Hg. von der Abteilung Kirchenmusik im Ordinariat des Erzbistums München und Freising.

Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk, biological variation in human populations, political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition education, and current trends in globalization, the utility of a biocultural approach to the study of food, the cultural construction of a commodity ...

European integration not only has changed career opportunities for politicians, it has expanded them. This book is dedicated to the study of political career patterns. It focuses on parliamentary careers in select European countries, but the U.S. is also included as a long-standing system with multi-level politics. The chapters, from an impressive range of scholars, represent a systematic investigation into level-hopping practices in Europe. W...

A book about Veganism as a way of life, covering many areas, such as health, well-being, nutrition, spirituality, activism, recipes and much more. A great all-round guide to be a Vegan in today's world. This is a modern and up-to-date book that will give you the best advice on being a vegan.

Like many good things in life, Selfie Elfie was born of a dream- a dream to bring an inspiring current day character to the North Pole and to the imagination of our children. The dream was, and is, strong. The hand drawn illustrations are perfect blend of detail and simplicity. The illustrations spark the imagination and pull the child into the story. Book 1, Selfie Elfie, introduces Selfie as loving little elf with a passion, selfies. Some of...

The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish - the peak period of emigration since the Great Famine.

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Thoo's chapters ease students from topic to topic until they reach the twenty-first century. By the end of Algebra in Context, students using this textbook will be comfortable with most algebra concepts, including, Different number bases, Algebraic notation, Methods of arithmetic calculation, Real numbers, Complex numbers, Divisors, Prime factorization, Variation, Factoring, Solving linear equations, False position, Solving quadratic equations...

This title demonstrates how to integrate scientific methodologies into Egyptology broadly, and in Egyptian archaeology in particular, in order to maximise the amount of information that might be obtained within a study of ancient Egypt.

Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to migration and diaspora this book explores the experiences of Bengali Muslim migrants through this period of upheaval and transformation. It draws on over 200 interviews conducted in Britain, India, and Bangladesh, tracing migration and settlement within, and from, the Bengal delta region in the period after 1947. This ground-breakin...

In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but as a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. This book is framed within the process of historiographical renovation of the scholarship on the early modern Christian missions in the Pacific, studying the complexities of Jesuit missionisation in the Micronesian islands of Guam and the Marianas. It grounds t...

In this book, Rebekka Hufendiek explores emotions as embodied, action-oriented representations, providing a non-cognitivist theory of emotions that accounts for their normative dimensions. Embodied Emotions will be of interest to philosophers working on emotions, embodied cognition and situated cognition.