This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South AsiaThe first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947.
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.
The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion.
The reasons behind Detroit's persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "e;arsenal of democracy,"e; Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis.
This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.
A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.
In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims.
'A must-read for everyone' Stylist'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times'A vital work' Stella DuffyIn a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to those who circumvent motherhood?
Das Fördern und Fordern von Eigenverantwortung ist zentrale Zielsetzung zahlreicher gesundheitspolitischer Anstrengungen, um Menschen zu mehr Gesundheit zu aktivieren.
In diesen 1997–2012 gehaltenen Vorträgen spannt der Autor einen weiten Bogen über sein zentrales Thema: die Begegnung mit dem Ätherischen bereits wirksam erscheinenden Christus.
Magnus Hirschfelds Buch 'Berlins drittes Geschlecht' präsentiert eine bahnbrechende Studie über die Vielfalt der Geschlechteridentitäten im Berlin der 1920er Jahre.
Complete with historic photographs and actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides,Object Matrimony includes stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits as well as stories of the marriage brokers, mercenary matchmakerslooking to profit as merchants did off of the miners and settlers.
A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' SARAH WATERS'A cracking read, and a reminder of what shaped where we are now' VAL MCDERMID 'Riveting; indispensable; and suffused with a humane warmth' ALISON BECHDELFor as long as queer women have existed, they've created gathering grounds where they can be themselves.
A Legacy of Purpose offers an inspiring and timely exploration of how the Leadership Alliance has transformed academic diversity through its three-decade mission to support underrepresented students in pursuing research careers.
No momento em que o Brasil atravessa um período conturbado na sua esfera social e política, Valmir Benício convida os leitores portugueses a uma importante reflexão sobre as diversas camadas que envolvem a realidade e a cultura do seu país.
En la violencia laboral, problemática que los trabajadores vienen padeciendo, cada vez se vivencia más la dificultad de comunicarla por la pérdida del trabajo que ello implica.
El Eneagrama es una figura geométrica que fue dada a conocer por Gurdjieff como una representacion simbólica de ciertas leyes universales con tradición esotérica.
La otra mitad de Dios es un ensayo filosófico que comienza con un comentario al Génesis, en particular el episodio de la destrucción de Sodoma por dos ángeles exterminadores.
Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.
¿Se puede denunciar a la policía a una paciente que acude al hospital buscando ayuda médica en una emergencia (por ejemplo, con un aborto en curso) porque alguien entiende que esa paciente cometió un delito?
