Social groups, communities and identities

Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F.

The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern JudaismThis is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism.

How could a girl born with a genetic defect - who later suffered brain damage leaving her blind, epileptic and physically handicapped, and who lived only eight years - change the world?

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

A timely and important search for architecture's missing womenFor a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared.

How the competition for young recruits is creating rivalries among Islamists todayToday, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty.

The life of Josie Bassett was nothing short of a female pioneer adventure.

Born in 1871 on Maines Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseballs first American Indian player.

The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism.

Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.

Intentionally excluded from formal politics in authoritarian states by reigning elites, do the common people have concrete ways of achieving community objectives?

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women.

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice.

The unheralded contribution of women to Egypt's Islamist movement-and how they talk about women's rights in Islamic termsIn the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere.

How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violenceFocusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence.

After leaving home at a young age and defying her parents to marry the dashing Garrett Maupin, Martha Maupin's future became bound up with some of the most extraordinary events in antebellum American history, eventually leading to her journey to a new life on the Oregon Trail.

In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Comanches in tales nearly too tall to be true.

How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declinedThe kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory.

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Was Arizona Donnie Clark, AKA Kate ';Ma' Barker the mastermind behind the Barker gang terrorizing the Midwest during the early years of the great Depression?

James Mitchell presents a series of biographical sketches and interviews of more than thirty Maine women who have all carved out meaningful careers for themselves.

Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birminghams much-loved Real Lace.

Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared.

This book of quotes explores the many sides of the one-and-only Elizabeth Taylor.

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "e;good"e; jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.

Having written a bestselling book at 22, survived a harrowing battle with anorexia nervosa, and pursued a successful career as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Daniels has led a remarkable life.

A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.

The Histories of Herodotus is one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC.

One stormy August night, a lightning bolt struck Mark Warren's tin-roofed farmhouse and burnedeverything to the ground.

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Its Head Came Off by Accident is a humorous, yetpoignant reflection on gratitude and loss.

While diet has long been recognized as having potential to alleviate symptoms of inflammatory diseases including arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia, research indicates that specific foods offer particular benefits in preventing or mitigating specific symptoms.

A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe.

In Psalm 31:14, David writes, ';But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, ';You are my God.

As a Sunday School teacher and church librarian for over 25years, Shirley had noticed a need for student information concerning Bible Theology and the Gospel message, along with development of a Christian's relationship with God.

Living in a fast-forward culture, it's easy to feel overlooked or forgotten.

In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass.

Do you set your own needs aside as you help others?

Being Lost is the First Step to Getting Found As a marriage and family therapist, one of Nicole Zasowski's greatest joys is helping her clients grow in emotional freedom.

There weren't many women in the late 1800s who had the opportunity to accompany their husbands on adventures that were so exciting they seemed fictitious.

While it's mindboggling to fathom anyone labeling a war ';splendid,' a high-ranking American official used that term to describe the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Breaking into the Boys Club is the ultimate guide to success for women in business.

';Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like.

Moving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Arizona what it is todayRemarkable Arizona Women profiles the lives of seventeen of the state's most fascinating figureswomen from across Arizona, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life.

A major new biography of legendary art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) assembled an extraordinary collection of art from diverse cultures and eras-and built a Venetian-style palazzo in Boston to share these exquisite treasures with the world.

An in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional classDespite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group.

A look through life's failures and fears to find the real woman God intended you to be.