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Women And Religion In Medieval England
by Diana WoodPapers based on contributions to a conference held by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education at Rewley House, 16-18 February 2001.
Isis Lactans: Corpus Des Monuments Gréco-romains D'isis Allaitant Harpocrate (Études Préliminaires Aux Religions Orientales Dans L'empire Romain Ser. #37)
by V. Tran tam Tinh
Critical Models: Interventions And Catchwords (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)
by Theodor W. Adorno Henry W. PickfordTwo volumes by Theodor W. Adorno are combined in this volume: "Interventions - Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Model II" (1969). Both books are examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism.
Common Prayer: The Language Of Public Devotion In Early Modern England
by Ramie TargoffCommon Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Early modern England, she demonstrates, was characterized less by the triumph of religious interiority than by efforts to shape public forms of devotion. This provocatively revisionist argument will have major implications for early modern studies. Through readings of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry and his translations of the Psalms, John Donne's sermons and poems, and George Herbert's The Temple, Targoff uncovers the period's pervasive and often surprising interest in cultivating public and formalized models of worship. At the heart of this study lies an original and daring approach to understanding the origins of devotional poetry; Targoff shows how the projects of composing eloquent verse and improving liturgical worship come to be deeply intertwined. New literary practices, then, became a powerful means of forging common prayer, or controlling private and otherwise unmanageable expressions of faith.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James SurowieckiIn this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications: Decisions take by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. With great erudition, Surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Along the way Surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand - economics. What are prices? How does money work? Why do we have corporations? Does advertising work? His answers, rendered in a delightfully clear prose, demystify daunting prospects. As Surowiecki writes: 'The hero of this book is, in a curious sense, an idea, a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business, politics and society'.
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
by Bryan StevensonThe US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman - a crime he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer's coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
The auto/biographical I (PDF): Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto-biography
by Liz StanleyThis feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
People Power: Fighting For Peace From The First World War To The Present
by Lyn SmithPeople Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, telling the story of conscientious objectors and others who have been engaged in protest over the past century. Drawing on testimonies from the Imperial War Museum's vast collection, and its rich archive of visual material, including photographs, paintings, posters, cartoons and badges, the book explores the wide-ranging reasons for opposing war and examines the changes and continuity in the movement as the nature of conflict has evolved from trench warfare to nuclear weapons. The role of key organizations and groups within the movement is examined, such as the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the 1980s, as well as that of high-profile individual campaigners, including Fenner Brockway and Tony Benn. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in 2017, People Power is an important and compelling counterpart to the myriad histories of war in the past 100 years.
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, And Classic Horror Cinema (PDF) (Film And Culture Ser.)
by Angela SmithIntroduction: disability, eugenics, and classic horror cinema -- Eugenic reproduction: chimeras in Dracula and Frankenstein -- Enfreaking the classic horror genre: freaks -- Revelations and convulsions: spectacles of impairment in classic horror film -- Mad medicine: disability in the mad-doctor films -- Shock horror and death rays: disabling spectatorship -- Conclusion.
The Sexual Politics Of Disability: Untold Desires (Sexual Politics Ser.)
by Tom Shakespeare Kath Gillespie-Sells Dominic Davies
The Liberal Ideal And The Demons Of Empire: Theories Of Imperialism From Adam Smith To Lenin
by Bernard SemmelAs Great Britain and other Western nations built empires - both formal and informal - writers on economic and social questions developed theories to explain why and how advanced industrial states exercised control over colonial regions. Different schools of thought emerged: some anticipated the growth of a cosmopolitan economic order, others believed in a brutal imperialism necessary for an expanding capitalism, still others saw evil pre-capitalist forces at work. In this book, Semmel traces the evolution of the ideas about imperialism and discusses four major schools of thought: the classical economists; the social theorists; the national economists; and the Marxists.;From Adam Smith to Lenin, the subject of colonialism - and then imperialism - has remained controversial. Although classical economists offered visions of a prosperous world economy based on free trade, and liberal idealists argued that rational self-interest would eliminate aggressive mercantilism and wars of conquest, such "utopian" ideals proved elusive. Even defenders of capitalism noted contradictions between the harsh realities of the emerging industrial system and the optimistic economic theories that attempted to describe it. In the end, the critics - including liberal sociologists, national economists and Marxists - would win the day by defining imperialism in terms of historic demons: feudal aristocrats, medieval usurers and evil empires. These ideas, Semmel concludes, became props of the liberal, socialist and fascist ideologies of our time.
Canons And Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, And Reception History (Analysis In Context. Leuven Studies In Musicology Ser. #1)
by Katelijne Schiltz Bonnie J. Blackburn B. J. Blackburn K. Schiltz
Sociology As Applied To Medicine (PDF)
by Graham ScamblerThe 4th edition of this firmly established text gives a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of health, illness and health policy. Presents the principles of medical sociology and emphasizes practical issues. The text is concise, and designed in two colors with highlight boxes for easy use.
Paying The Land
by Joe SaccoThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around-it is central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment-but also road-building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape; and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. Resource extraction is only part of Canada's colonial legacy- Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to remove the Indian from the child; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage labourers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping story about money and dependency, loss and culture, with stunning visual detail by one of the greatest comic's reporters alive.
At The Northern Frontier Of Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research On Caucasia And Anatolia In The Bronze Age
by Elena Rova Monica Tonussian Der Nordgrenze Der Vorderasiatischen Archaologie - Neue Forschung Uber Kaukasien Und Anatolien In Der Bronzezeit
Teaching Technology From A Feminist Perspective (PDF): A Practical Guide
by Joan RothschildTeaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - The Athene Series
Teaching Science And Health From A Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (Athene Ser.)
by Sue V. RosserTeaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - Athene Series