2615 results for '"Alfred P. Rubin'

In many parts of the world, women are continually portrayed in one of two ways: either in terms of traditional domestic roles or in terms of their sexual appeal to the male population. In Affirmation...

Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) Pullman, Philip

A collection of essays, poems, and articles by women engaged in both activism and pacifism. More than simply a history of feminism, it is specifically about the oppression of women in the peace...

In 2011 the Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. The toppling of a generation of dictators left the region in turmoil. Has the promise of the Arab Spring been lost? What does the rise of...

What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers...

A vivid, dramatic, and authoritative account of perhaps the most influential family in Italian history: the Medici.A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful...

2006 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! Liturgiam Authenticam, issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 2001 has provoked much comment, both...

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism,...

Unique in the Church, the Camaldolese life is ordered to a three-fold good: solitude, community, and witness. Men and women as hermits live by a monastic rule, committed to both solitude and...

Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron!Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with...

The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan presents a complex set of empirical puzzles as well as a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar...

Reproductions of some of the world's favorite artworks celebrate leisure activities in the nineteenth century.No group of painters pursued the civilized and sensual pleasures of life so avidly while...

The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French...

In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical...