With a compassionate eloquence reminiscent of James Baldwin's Letter to My Nephew, Ellis Cose presents a realistic examination of the challenges facing black men in modern America.
A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.
This easy-to-follow guide for salespeople trying to generate product excitement over the phone provides quick strategies to help you boost your success rate.
Even Big Ron, man of a thousand, quips was hard pressed to do justice to the glories of the season: beaten 8-1 by Manchester United he nobly offered 'I was expecting a nine-goal thriller', proving that even with the firing squad loading up, there is room for wit at the sharp end of soccer's dreams.
Full of facts and trivia for every day of the yearDo you know when the Duke of Albemarle arranged Britain's first boxing match, between his butler and his butcher?
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Johann Valentin Andreae - The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (German: Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) is a German book edited in 1616 in Strasbourg.
A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay.
Una antropología del amor requiere una mirada distanciada y crítica con relación a la presuposición de que las emociones y los sentimientos apasionados más refinados se vinculan, necesariamente, con las vivencias y las manifestaciones del amor romántico, tal como este ha sido concebido e idealizado en Occidente.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories.
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age.
In einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt reden wir zwar viel über die Wissensgesellschaft, aber was mit den Netzwerken der Technik, der Ökonomie, der Kultur oder einer zeitgemäßen Bildung wirklich gemeint ist, durchschaut keiner so richtig.
Richard Fabers materialreiche Untersuchung zeigt, dass derKampfbegriff Abendland eine lange Vorgeschichte hat undpolitisch hoch belastet ist: nicht nur antikommunistisch undantisozialistisch, sondern auch antidemokratisch undantiliberal, autoritär bis faschistisch, elitär bis hierarchischund klerikal bis neopagan – vor allem aber imperialistisch.
The tenth book in David Feldmans bestselling Imponderables(R) series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries Every day, we are confronted with innumerable small mysteries, which puzzle and confound.
La liturgia, casa de la ternura de Dios recoge textos de José Rivera sobre el año litúrgico, agrupándolos por cada uno de los tiempos fuertes que van marcando su calendario: Adviento y Navidad, Cuaresma, Semana Santa, Pascua y Pentecostés.
Der ultimative kleine Kulturführer für Entdecker und Genießer: Dieses Büchlein erklärt anschaulich die höchsten islamischen Feiertage und bietet gleich dazu verlockende Rezepte zum Ausprobieren.
A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Doyle writes beautifully, trenchantly, near-irrefutably' Richard Dawkins 'Thought provoking and entertaining.
From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own.
El tema de la infancia y la juventud se mantiene vigente en los contextos institucionales y de la academia, en los que a diario evidenciamos una infancia contemporánea de carácter precoz, compleja e inacabada, y un conjunto de jóvenes portadores de una identidad descentrada que el mundo adulto no comprende.
'A series of intelligent and fiery essays' The Sunday Times'A landmark in British food writing' Jonathan Nunn'Makes you laugh, think, and get a little angry' iPaper'I started stitching together my story through a different, universal language: food.
Muckraker, el nombre de guerra con que se etiquetó a aquel grupo de narradores que a comienzos de siglo XX se ocupó de "remover la basura" con resultados bastante satisfactorios, es también la nueva colección digital de Capitán Swing dedicada a la no ficción contemporánea, en un formato que hoy puede sonar disparatado como es el reportaje largo, y con un interés especialmente orientado a escritores locales y actuales.
En 1974 Pierre Bourdieu pronunció una conferencia alrededor de la moda donde señalaba que su interés por la misma procedía de su categoría de "herramienta indigna para intelectuales".
