Rosemarie: 151 books
Retirement Living in Florida
His Heaven My Hell
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Retirement in Florida is a dream for many but not for this New Yorker. With much humor, Rosemarie De Gennaro explains her attempts, and ultimate failures, to adjust to southern living and her hopes to return to her family and life back home on Long Island. All her life, she has prayed for spiritual...
Unified We Are a Force
How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only...
High and Dry
Meeting the Challenges of the World's Growing Dependence on Groundwater
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world’s population Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by keeping streams and rivers flowing. But a growing global...
Staring
How We Look
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. In the first book of its kind, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate...
Extraordinary Bodies
Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings...
Feminist Thought
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In this survey of feminist theory, Rosemarie Tong provides coverage of the psychoanalytic, existential and postmodern schools of feminism. The author guides the reader through the complexities of even the most notoriously difficult thinkers. Students will meet and become familiar with many of the...
Finding Our Way
Love and Law in The United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports of same-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways at district, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations...
Too Hot to Touch
The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Today, the issue of waste management is as prominent as reactor safety in the controversies surrounding nuclear power and is particularly topical in the US since the 2010 closure of the Yucca Mountain repository project. William M. and Rosemarie Alley provide an engaging and authoritative account...
Feminist Approaches To Bioethics
Theoretical Reflections And Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
No other cluster of medical issues affects the genders as differently as those related to procreation—contraception, sterilization, abortion, artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood, and genetic screening. Yet the moral diversity among feminists has led to political...
by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
"A revealing and concealing intelligence lurks somewhere—but where, exactly?—in Dickens's writing. To capture something of that knowing Dickens who eludes us, I follow some representative clusters of thought and feeling that link Dickens's ways of talking in letters with his concerns in fiction...
Transpersonal Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Honoring Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1998
There is no shortage of research methods that are easily applied to the study of everyday human experience. How, though, does one attempt to study extraordinary human experiences - ultimate values and meanings, peak experiences, transcendence and heightened awareness, among others.
William...
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Edgar and Brigitte: A German Jewish Passage to America is the fruit of an extraordinary archive of personal journals, letters, speeches, and published writings left by Edgar and Brigitte Bodenheimer, who emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1933 and became American law professors. More German than Jewish,...
Bakin' Without Eggs
Delicious Egg-Free Dessert Recipes from the Heart and Kitchen of a Food-Allergic Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1999
Finally, delicious recipes for cookies, cakes, and other baked goods that use no eggs!
Millions of people-- including 5 percent of all American children-- have a food allergy, and eggs are one of the most common culprits. In this easy-to-use collection of recipes, Rosemarie Emro presents more...
A Woman's Dilemma
Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The second edition of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution updates Rosemarie Zagarri's biography of one of the most accomplished women of the Revolutionary era. The work places Warren into the social and political context in which she lived and examines the impact of Warren's...