Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
Paralysed with Fear
The Story of Polio
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.
International Volunteer Tourism
Critical Reflections on Good Works in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.
Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy for Education
Reverence for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that Schweitzer's life and work offer inspiration and timely insights for both educational thought and practice in our new century.
by Sharell Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
How far would you go to change your life?
Sharell Cook is 30 years old and living a privileged life in Melbourne's wealthy suburbs. She has it all: the childhood-sweetheart husband, the high-powered job and plenty of cash to splash.
And it's not destined to last. In a dramatic turn of...
Reading the Book of Isaiah
Destruction and Lament in the Holy Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Randall Heskett uses both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess Lamentation and Restoration of Destroyed Cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres.
Islamophobia in America
The Anatomy of Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Islamophobia in America offers new perspectives on prejudice against Muslims, which has become increasingly widespread in the USA in the past decade. The contributors document the history of anti-Islamic sentiment in American culture, the scope of organized anti-Muslim propaganda, and the institutionalization of this kind of intolerance.
Women & Catholicism
Gender, Communion, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The book investigates three situations in the Catholic Church that point to Catholicism's weak spot: the role of women in the Church. Zagano sheds light on the Catholic Church's hierarchically-imposed laws that keep women at a distance from the holy, whether as liturgical ministers, as wives of priests, or as priests themselves.
by Carole Levin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2001
The reign of Elizabeth I was marked by change: England finally became a protestant nation, and England's relations with her neighbours were also changing, in part because of religious controversies. Elizabeth's reign was also significant in terms of changing gender expectations, and in terms of attitudes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Together, they provide a textured understanding of the complexities in religious belief, practice and organization.
Languages of Witchcraft
Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it and what was its place in their culture? The new essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends in witchcraft research...
by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.
Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy
Hagiography and the Late Antique Past in Medieval Ravenna
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. During this period, written stories about saints...
Urdu Literary Culture
Vernacular Modernity in the Writing of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India.
by J. Riley-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades....