Author: Inglis, Fred Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social...
Author: Inglis, Fred Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social...
Author: Stringer, Martin D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worsh...
Author: Whittaker, David J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Examining a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, David J. Whittaker's book provides a balanced introduction to this very controversial subject.Fuelled by extensive...
Author: Brooks, Roy L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgive...
Author: Konstan, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully...
Author: Cassidy, John Publisher: Original Writing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Patrick Kavanagh said that no one could write a comprehensive account of Irish life that ignored the Gaelic Athletic Association. Likewise, any attempt to chronicle the history of the GAA would be far...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Children-Their Rights and Privileges" is based on a speech given by Victoria Woodhull to the American Association of Spiritualists at its Eighth National Convention on Wednesday, September 13, 1871 i...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An enduringly popular work by Twain, this book mocks the Christian Science Church and pokes fun at its founder Mary Baker Eddy. Established in late 19th-century, the church propounded the belief of he...
Author: Collins,Kathleen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally a medical miracle, cocaine is now a dangerous pariah. Drawing on exciting international perspectives, "Cocaine" analyzes and rethinks the origins of the modern drug. For the first time a bo...
Author: Gray, Herman S. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Herman Gray takes a sweeping look at black popular culture over the past decade to explore culture's role in the push for black political power and social recognition. In a series of linked essays, he...
Author: Black, Christopher Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Early Modern Italy: A Social History" is a fascinating examination of society in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. During this period I...
Author: Burgess, Larry E. Publisher: ESRI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Redlands, known as the jewel of Southern California's Inland Empire, has prospered as the result of a strong tradition of civic responsibility. Faithfully and Liberally Sustained presents this rich ...
Author: Girling, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Girling provides an informative and stimulating overview of French life in a climate of globalization and European integration. He critically examines the residual values of grandeur and elitism ...
Author: Higman, B. W. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to...
Author: Higman, B. W. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Humanitarian Government" was published by Victoria Woodhull in 1890 London. This is a clean and easily read facsimile of that 68-page booklet. It describes a government that would be guided by eugeni...
Author: Hopkins, Eric Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Provides an essential introduction to the effects of industrialization on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the Welfare State in the 1950s. The book looks at contemporary wa...
Author: Stella, Vince Publisher: TotalRecall Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interview With A Boomer Living Through A Phenomenon Do you can recall where you were, what you were doing, and who you were doing it with when President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King was assa...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the last decades of her life, Victoria Woodhull claimed to be the first of either sex to promote eugenics throughout the United States and Great Britain. Even more surprising, she claimed to ha...
Author: Royle, Edward Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Praise for the first edition:’Royle calls on an impressive range of materials (supported by an excellent bibliography) to offer a judicious review of most of the issues currently confronted by so...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the Wall/After the Fall maps a new discourse on the evolution of cultural life in Eastern Europe following the end of communism. Departing from traditional binary views of East/West, the contribu...
Author: Talhami, Ghada Hashem Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Palestine in the Egyptian Press follows the evolution of the press institution in modern Egypt, as well as of the prominent role the Palestine question played in its rise to political prominence. Thro...
Author: Cashill, Jack Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The first accessible, upbeat, engaging and even amusing history of the endlessly fascinating topic of credit and debt, which has shaped civilization in ways even bankers cannot begin to imagine. ...
Author: Kidd, Thomas S. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740...
Author: Hsieh, Chiao-Min Publisher: Hamilton Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about Zhejiang University, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China, which was forced to evacuate from the Hangzhou when the Japanese arrived in 1937 and began torturi...
Author: Gruen, Erich S. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians,...
Author: Uys, Errol Lincoln Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the wheels, hearing that old steam whistle blowing for crossings ...
Author: Firth, Robert Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Lesson of Scoundrels is one of crime and punishment. The author tells the story of a number of men, some of them probably were great men, most were well educated and all had driving ambition far a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becomin...
Author: Rothstein, Bo Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A 'social trap' is a situation where individuals, groups or organisations are unable to cooperate owing to mutual distrust and lack of social capital, even where cooperation would benefit all. Example...
Author: Walker, Melissa Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from tha...
Author: Walker, Melissa Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from tha...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Stirpiculture or, The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race" is a clean and easily read facsimile of a 31-page booklet published by Victoria Woodhull in London during February of 1888. (Like the o...
Author: Walker, Susannah Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Style and Status, Susannah Walker examines twentieth-century commercial beauty culture in terms of race and gender. She demonstrates that while black women's beauty culture often mirrored that of w...
Author: Fossier, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general rea...
Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Arthur Conan Doyle's The British Campaign in France and Flanders: 1915 is an account of the second battle of Ypres, the great Battle of Loos, and other conflicts. The narrative precisely describes the...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Garden of Eden" was first published in 1875. This version is a 58-page facsimile of the version in The Human Body The Temple of God published in 1890 London. Here Victoria Woodhull explains her c...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit" was published by Victoria Woodhull in 1891 London. This is a clean and easily read facsimile of that 39-page booklet and describes her fear that 'unfit' people ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period. Represents one of ...
Description: This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period. Represents one of ...
Author: Woodhull, Victoria, C. Publisher: Inkling Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Scientific Propagation of the Human Race; or, Humanitarian Aspects of Finance and Marriage. The Science of Well Being" was published by Victoria Woodhull in 1893 and contained no place of publica...
Author: Edy, Jill A. Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A nation's collective memory does not simply exist. It is created. But what factors influence its form and content? And what roles do the news media play in fashioning our collective memory? Here Jill...
Author: Houze, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girl...
Author: Kitta, Andrea Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book...
Author: Kitta, Andrea Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book...
Author: Blom, Philipp Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of...
