266 results for '"Elia, Miriam'

Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The...

Rayya Elias composes “a classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC”* in this raw, powerful memoir—with an Introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert.“Terrific...Rayya’s stories blew mine away...

Nobert Elias (1897-1990) is among the great sociologists of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Elias earned a doctorate in philosophy and then turned to sociology, working with Max Weber's...

From the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, social, and cultural movements in American history.“An...

This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad...

The growing concern in the United States about the safety of chemicals in our environment makes the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) a timely topic. TSCA is the primary vehicle for enabling the...

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death...

The last major work by one of our century's most influential social theorists,The Germans is a penetrating account of German social development, from the seventeenth century to the present. Enhanced...

From the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, a bold and brave collection of stories and art about inspiring and accomplished girls who have made...

When the French Revolution promised the citizens of France liberty and equality, the Jews were not excluded. The Jews enjoyed full rights of citizenship in France long before they did in other...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and...

"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes." —Claire Messud, Harper'sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize...

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world—al-Nuwayri’s The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century...

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in...