Putting Women in their Place critically assesses the ways in which gender norms and gender hierarchy shape political decision-making, economic development, financial disparities, as well as violence and conflict.
that moment / when nothing happens, you want it all to come / back to get you, even the hard stuff-Our increasingly nihilistic age is marked by profound sorrow.
The eight essays in this volume deal with different aspects of Mycenaean religion, synchronically and diachronically, and on the three different levels of philology, iconography and archaeology.
When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn t know what exactly awaited him.
In this wise and funny memoir Ralph Benmergui, one of Canada's beloved storytellers, shares his path from resident class clown and the son of Moroccan immigrants to gracing TV screens across Canada and into his third, unexpected, act in Hashpa'ah: Jewish Spiritual Direction.
"e;From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book's epilogue, Burnell's voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring.
Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions.
From award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.
Although Dalmatia is not at the core of the contemporary imagination of the Habsburg Empire, which has recently been idealised in scholarship, it shares several similarities with the majority of the ex-Habsburg borderlands, one of which is its complex ethnic makeup in the period of politicisation of a modern nationalist agenda (1890-1941).
The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920.
The story of how a young cavalry officer eager to serve his country became a pilot and then, when success beckoned, had his life taken over by a very skilled group of publicists, writers, photographers and artists.
Mermaid Cove offers a stunning collection of multi-media mermaid art by Maurine Howard in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the "e;Yachty Gras,"e; the largest grand night boat parade held annually during Mardi Gras.
In diesem Geschenkbuch für die schönste und besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres hat die beliebte Theologin und Bestsellerautorin Margot Käßmann wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichten und -Gedichte zusammengestellt, die ihr persönlich lieb und wichtig sind.
This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is "e;an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have"e; (Flight Line Book Review).
This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek romances by anonymous authors of the 14th/15th centuries that narrate the lives and loves of Achilles and Paris before and during the Trojan War.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
