Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church's practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths regarding women.
FIDIC 2017: A definitive guide to claims and disputes second edition serves as a practical legal companion for managing the procedures for claims and disputes within the 2017 FIDIC suite of contracts.
Considering an under-researched dimension of political violence, this interdisciplinary collection provides an extensive examination of terrorist victimisation.
Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world.
Jina Kim investigates how North Korea rationalized its pursuit of nuclear weapons programs for more than two decades, by exploring the dialectical development of the nuclear crisis and the obstacles generated by complex internal Korean dynamics and conflicting interests amongst the major players concerned.
In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill.
WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2019The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path' left an indelible mark on the country that resonates even today.
Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.
A must-read for those intrigued by the ever-shifting landscape of unconventional warfare and its profound impact on contemporary global dynamics Throughout history, conflicts have given rise to unconventional forms of warfare, often propelled by personal, religious, tribal, or national ambitions.
Shirley, Goodness & Mercy is a heart-warming, yet compellingly honest story about a young boy growing up in Newclare, Coronationville and Riverlea during the apartheid era.
El fenómeno del cristianismo sionista nos invita a preguntarnos sobre la secularización de las sociedad, qué problema plantea a la separación de Iglesia y Estado o más aún: la separación entre religión y política.
This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan.
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents.
Widerstand leisten, für eine gerechtere WeltJean Feyder war Diplomat und ehemaliger Vertreter Luxemburgs bei der WTO und beobachtet die internationale Politik seit Jahren aus nächster Nähe.
This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response.
This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response.
This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries.
This third book in the best-selling Big Ideas series introduces readers to the classics, as well as modern childrens fictiona charming addition to Big Ideas for Curious Minds and Big Ideas from HistoryGreat stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them.
*Winner of the Western Association of Women Historians 2026 Gita Chaudhuri Prize*This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain.
This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.
Con una atenta y minuciosa selección de textos, discursos y homilías de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, este volumen remarca la continuidad existente en sus palabras desde el inicio de su camino sacerdotal hasta llegar al "pontificado de la ternura y de la misericordia", como ha sido definido por conocidos comentaristas.
Esta obra contiene un conjunto de aportes valiosos que sirven para entender los desafíos y la complejidad que poseen las problemáticas de las comunidades aborígenes, en relación a temas como la igualdad de género, la defensa de los derechos de la mujer en sociedades o sistemas culturales en los cuales existe una tradición de subordinación o relegación en favor del varón, la tutela de los menores, la diversidad cultural y el respeto a las minorías, la posesión del territorio, la inclusión y la exclusión en un mundo que, paradójicamente, se expresa a favor de nuevas ideas occidentales que han venido a suplantar las antiguas visiones de desprecio por lo aborigen y por lo diferente.
En octubre de 1978, la conducción de Montoneros decidió iniciar la llamada Contraofensiva Estratégica frente al temor de que la organización armada dejara de representar una alternativa política para la sociedad argentina, luego de dos años de exilio orgánico y represión dictatorial.
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT'Deft and operatic' OBSERVERFrom one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity.
