5357 results for '"Alan E. H. Emery'

The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches? This book...

Little attention has been paid to modern movements of social protest which fall outside the classic patterns of labor or socialist agitation, and even less to those whose political coloring is not...

Part lullaby, part love song, this perfectly pitched bedtime book gives a nod to its classic predecessors as it champions the vibrant independent spirit of local bookstores.Join the Little...

This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form,...

A study of Boetti's 1988 work Map, a tapestry map of the pre-postcommunist world made of brightly colored, painstakingly woven national flags; illustrated with many color images.In 1968, the Italian...

First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock...

Product Description English Restoration writing, known for its skeptical libertinism, addressed social mores, the arts, economics, politics, cynicism, religion, philosophy, and youth, class, and...

The remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economicsFinding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a...

Il riconoscimento - l'agnizione dei latini, l'anagnorisis dei greci - è uno dei più grandi scandali della letteratura: ha luogo nell'azione drammatica, nel romanzo, nell'opera, nel cinema, e spesso...

Governments and institutions, perhaps even more than markets, determine who gets what in our society. They make the crucial choices about who pays the taxes, who gets into college, who gets medical...

Oggi abbiamo quasi dimenticato il significato originario di espressioni come "capire l'antifona", "in camera caritatis", "refugium peccatorum", "avvocato del diavolo", "bacucco" o "repulisti". In...

Matthew Townes, aspiring obstetrician, has hit the glass ceiling. Unable to continue his medical studies in New York City, the young man becomes disillusioned with the reality of racism within the...

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians "If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what...

Come e perché è nato il fascismo? Per quali ragioni si è diffuso nei più diversi contesti nazionali? Quali sono state le caratteristiche del fascismo inteso come fenomeno storico-politico globale?...

In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates...

Now in its third edition, Politics of Latin America explores both the evolution and the current state of the political scene in Latin America. Distinguishing itself from more traditional works on...

At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution,...

Questa raccolta dei testi di Epicuro, pubblicata da Usener verso la fine dell'Ottocento, costituisce l'edizione classica che ha rinnovato la conoscenza della filosofia del "Giardino". La prima parte...

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By...