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Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essaysexamining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities.
Following the golden age of British Gothic in the...
The Trials of Lenny Bruce
The Fall and Rise of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"The book is indispensable." —Booklist
"Detailed, objective, and valuable." —Kirkus Reviews
“I thought I knew his story pretty well, but I learned a great deal from this book. It is a major contribution…" —George Carlin
10th Anniversary Edition—Includes...
Indictments from the Convicted
Rants, Articles, Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
To change the world? Or to just see it through, as unscathed and untraumatized as possible? For Patten, the latter was impossible; the former, a reluctant task.
He claims to have seen the worse in Mankind, this with the endless stream of inmates who return to their concrete hell, time after...
Alien Audiences
Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the – sometimes very surprising – results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film.
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Birds of New Guinea
Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350...
Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain
A Pediatrician's Guide for Reclaiming a Normal Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From a renowned expert in the field, a parent's guide to managing their child's chronic pain—to give back normal life to the 1 in 5 children for whom pain is a serious problem. A child's chronic pain undermines school performance and social and emotional health, erodes finances, and devastates the...
by edited, translated, and introduced by Janet K. Ruffing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
by K.M. Chinwe
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
At the suggestion of a close friend, 36-year old Katherine Williamson began to write her memories down on paper. She was experiencing a troublesome period in her life stemming from a divorce from her husband of fourteen years. She found that she was at a psychological standstill and through the patience...
Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion
The Search for Abundant Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural...
Paulos Mar Gregorios
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches. The book deals with his thought in the areas of ecumenism, orthodox theology,...
by Louis A. Barbieri, Michael Boyle, James Coakley
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Now you can study the Bible with the faculty of the Moody Bible Institute!
Imagine having a team of 30 Moody Bible Institute professors helping you study the Bible. Now you can with this in-depth, user-friendly, one-volume commentary.
General editors Michael Rydelnik and Michael Vanlaningham...
by K.M. Soehnlein
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a sexy slacker's life in San Francisco during the dot-com boom--avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely holding on to his relationship, but surrounded by fun-loving friends. And then Jamie gets the call he's always dreaded: Teddy, the father...