How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activism
US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's 1974 impeachment hearings.
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain.
'Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their hauntings, demands and manifestations in the present.
One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.
This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics.
En un momento en que el tema del feminismo ha recobrado inusitada fuerza, este texto revela la evolución del movimiento desde una mirada histórica y no ideologizada, a través de una compilación de breves reseñas biográficas de sus líderes, y la mención de sus obras fundamentales, como también el advenimiento de nuevas corrientes, que hoy se suman a la causa.
AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for yearsand up to his final daysto complete this monumental book, which is the definitive demographic history of German Jewry.
El valle Calchaquí fue el escenario de un largo proceso de resistencia indígena a los continuos intentos de penetración española que buscaban su dominio y el control de la mano de obra indígena durante los siglos XVI y XVII.
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of reform movements, among them women's rights and the antislavery crusade.
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century.
Theodor Birts Buch 'Die bekanntesten Geschichten, Biografien & Sagen aus der Zeit des Altertums' ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Erzählungen aus der antiken Welt.
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of reform movements, among them women's rights and the antislavery crusade.
Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century.
Die Chronik der dörflichen Kirchgemeinde Lützschena und Hänichen mit Quasnitz westlich von Leipzig führte deren Pfarrer Reichel über dreißig Jahre (1861–1863) ohne große Unterbrechungen.
Estudios sociologicos de Caldas: historia, cultura y emociones son una contribucion del grupo de investigacion Idacanzas: previendo las mudanzas de los tiempos a la celebracion del primer cuarto de siglo de existencia del departamento de Antropologia y Sociologia de la Universidad de Caldas, a la vez son un testimonio de las bondades de la reforma de la estructura organica de la universidad en virtud d ela cual se fundo esta unidad academica con el compromiso de desarrollar las citadas disciplinas, concertando esfuerzos en lo relacionado con la investigacion, la docencia y la extencion universitaria.
The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.
The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.
Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A.
