Social groups, communities and identities

For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine.

Micro Miracles: Journey Through the NICU is a collection of journal entries in which a mother shares her day-to-day life in the NICU having twin boys born severely premature at 1 lb.

The poetic proverbs known to nuevomexicanos as dichos are particular to their places of origin.

This detailed biography brings to life one of the greatest military heroes of WWII-and demonstrates why his contributions were crucial to Allied victory.

My Story is an autobiography of the life of Uuka Umi Ato.

For the first time, music legend Rudy Perez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage.

She has not been in this place before.

In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism?

This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals.

Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.

Written with both humor and poignancy, the narrator details the challenges, and frustration of an American working with the privileged few in the Third World, as well as his association with the peasant class, which created his contempt for their leaders, but a deep affection for the subjugated people forced by birth into a world of poverty and indifference.

Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith.

The Navajo tribe, the Dine, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest.

Studies show that emotional intelligence -- the social and emotional skills that make up what we call character -- is more important to your child's success than the cognitive intelligence measured by IQ.

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlan, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance.

She was born in Washington, DC, to a very low-income family, a time in which the '80s introduced drugs to their area.

"e;Hotshot Has a Valentine"e; is a lilting tale of a school-age boy and an elderly lion.

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In light of the fact that human-hydra cannot be created and destroyed, but can only be converted, what exactly is the goal of the conversion process?

For beauty, honesty, sheer weirdness, and a haunting evocation of place, Kevin Sampsell is my favorite Oregon writer.

Going to a foreign land and entering a war zone as a civilian and not as a soldier can take its toll on an individual or have its good and bad times, which will leave one scarred for the remainder of his/her life.

This book is one of its kind, written by an immigrant who experienced firsthand the real life of an immigrant in America.

The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.

Gegenwärtig wird Entwicklung überwiegend unter kognitiver Perspektive gesehen.

This story is about a woman named Isabel, who gave birth to six daughters.

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** Guardian Politics Book of the Day**For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle.

There are dozens of tucked away 'villages' in London, from Columbia Road to Clarendon Cross.

You’re a good leader, but leadership is challenging and can rattle your confidence.

This is for the woman who is evolving to greatness.

This is my life story, from birth to age eighty.

In 1913, unmarried and alone at the age of thirty, Clara left Minnesota and headed to Montana to file a homestead claim on free land.

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up.

A fast-moving novel that centers on Monica Woods, who at thirty puts her tragic experiences behind her.

In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history.

This book is about racial reconciliation.