Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over nearly two millennia, across multiple continents, and in innumerable different contexts.
Across headlines and scholarly research alike, migration from countries like Ethiopia is often framed as a crisis: poverty, climate change, and conflict pushing people from their homes.
832 pages, 643 images, 73 contributors Child Fatality Review is designed to serve CFR team members, potential team members, and interested nonmembers as the only text they will need on child death review.
355 pages, 139 images, 32 contributors Abusive Head Trauma Quick Reference is an ideal resource for any professional active in the fields of medicine, social services, education, law enforcement, or legal prosecution.
Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children combines the best clinical writing with high-quality photographic content found in color atlases -- a wealth of knowledge bound in one concise edition.
This is a book about how Moliere, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship.
This is a book about how Moliere, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship.
Almost fifty years have passed since the adoption of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the UNESCO World Heritage Convention).
In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated, and resisted.
The Tuatha De Danann and the Fomorian giants, Lugh of the Long Arm and Cu Chulainn: the divine race of pre-Christian Ireland, lifted out of the old manuscripts and told as one continuous story.
Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose incivil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eightcountries.
Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white lifestyle migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United Statesfrom alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeastin a process akin to urban gentrification.
In this novel from a Quebecois feminist writer, a shy sixteen-year-old falls in love with a classmate while attending a Catholic boarding school for prospective schoolteachers.
En Infancia y cine en la larga Transicion espanola, Sarah Thomas analiza al nino cinematografico en esta compleja coyuntura historica de un pais que tiene a su espalda decadas de gobierno autoritario y ante si un futuro incierto, examinando peliculas de distintos generos y de cuatro directores clave de la Transicion: Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Victor Erice y Jaime de Arminan
Si "Gran Hermano" ha sido, en las dos primeras décadas de este siglo, el formato estrella del espectáculo televisivo de lo real, parece conveniente preguntarse qué ha supuesto su novedad en la historia del espectáculo, ¿cuáles han sido sus efectos en la cultura contemporánea?
En apenas una generacion, el tiempo que va desde la aparicion de la oferta comercial de television en 1990, hasta la actualidad, el medio televisivo ha cambiado tan profundamente que hace irreconocible las formas y las practicas que conociamos hace tan solo dos decadas.
School-based practitioners, like other front-line mental health workers, have been under increased pressure and stress as the demand for their services continues to increase.
We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challenges to this sound-based definition.
Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influenced Mexican music, politics, and culture from the 1960s to the late 1980s.
Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change.
Uno de los rasgos más perversos que caracterizan el mundo actual es la creciente y cada vez más obscena desigualdad económica entre una ínfima minoría de la población, estimada en un 0,1%, que acumula la mayor parte de la riqueza del planeta (un mundo paralelo de privilegiados por lo común oculto y desconocido que hace caso omiso de leyes y tributaciones), y el resto.
Post-war Latin American economies have failed to close the development gap with advanced industrial countries despite more than six decades of attempted reform and undoubted economic and social progress.
Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change.
Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication.
Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication.
Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism.
Since its inauguration in 1960, Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, has become an internationally recognized center for eclectic forms of modern mysticism.
