Society and culture: general Books

The origin of the "mystic experience" is objective and omnipresent; this is established through reason. A major result of that conceptual concreteness is that the entire scope of Reality can now be sketched from its uncaused source to its eternal...

This book describes a mentoring relationship that began in 1999 between a forty-year-old, white, upper-class physician and an eight-year-old African American boy from the inner city. It is told in parallel; we each wrote our recollections without reading...

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and CompositionSeries Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer BayThe scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature...

The Twiza Project emerged as a collaborative effort among faculty in North America, North Africa, and the Middle East. The project attempts to speak back to the sectarian divisions, often coupled with polarized debate, that have radicalized a politics...

Raising a child with autism is like living a scavenger hunt where once you collect all of the necessary pieces on the list, that list completely changes.Finding Leigha’s Voice will put you right in the heart of raising Leigha, my...

Without my past, I would never be who I am today. God has taken all the pain and turned it around for my good and heaven's gain. Once you walk through the door of healing, it's your responsibility to embrace your healing. We can get deliverance...

Kind, gutsy, smart, uplifting, groundbreaking, creative, funny, indestructible - women in a nutshell! The 50 stories told in this full-color illustrated book celebrate everyday Black women from the 20th and 21st centuries who went on to lead...

As her journey from India to America continues; her perception, experience and understanding of cultural differences continue to evolve. The first-generation immigrants have struggled to establish themselves in the midst of interracial conflicts and...

This book on media and mass communication discusses the recent technical developments that have affected media portrayal, media transmission methods and media consumption technologies. Advancement of technology plays an important role in the way media is...

Urban studies and planning deals with the allocation and management of land as a public resource and the regulation of infrastructure in an urban environment. This book on urban studies and planning talks about urban design, urban problems and management...

This book on films and media discusses the aesthetic and cultural values that are embodied in the art of film. The medium of the cinema reflects contemporary tastes, attitudes and opinions that make up the socio-cultural setup of any society. An...

Under the guidance of historical materialism, this book mainly takes the theory of economic and social forms as the central clue and uses system theory as the basic method. With the facts of historical evolution, in-depth discussions were conducted on...

In this gripping and intimate memoir of growing up with an abusive father, Teressa Shelton delivers a story of survival and redemption.

Crossing the Owl's Bridge: A Guide for Grieving People Who Still Love, by Kim Bateman, was named a finalist in the self-help (non-fiction) category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA).Crossing the Owl's Bridge uses the wisdom of...

If you are a woman with a surprise pregnancy and lack of support, consider listening to UBE and thoughtfully considering UBE’s words.An unplanned pregnancy can be terrifying with the threatened life change. A fear-based reaction, then, can deny the...

This book is intended for both the parent newly acquainted with a child's gay sexuality, and those parents who are still struggling to make sense out of it. It's meant to be a reassuring book from a pastor who has been involved with these parents and...

Studies on foreignness have increased substantially over the last two decades in response to what has been dubbed the migration/refugee crisis. Yet, they have focused on specific areas such as regions, periods, ethnic groups, and authors. Predicated on...

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT...

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is an account, written with insight and sympathy, of the life of the hobo, life in "Hobohemia," a frontier that was already...

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize,...

A close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary receptionsThe publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in...

Men's Stories for a Change records and analyses stories written by a group of older men who met over thirteen years to share memories about ageing and masculinity. So here there are stories of love and sex, bodily change, crisis and disturbance, politics...

It was not easy for Eileen, who was categorized as "stupid" and "dumb" in school and bullied by her classmates. Yet, when she discovered her inner talents and applied them as a businesswoman, everyone saw she was really "Smart on...

Analysing the status of agrarian justice and its relation with the national slogan of "gross national happiness"(GNH) in Bhutan, this monograph deals with food insecurity, resource asymmetry and growth in the political economy perspective. In this tiny...

What are the answers to the unanswerable? The question is as old as time, as is the journey of those who have chosen to set their feet on various and diverse pathways to true understanding. Wachetecuma's personal path to Native American spirituality...

The texts included within this anthology revolve around the theme of Indigenous identity before and after European settlement and colonization in North America. The intended purpose is to help with the preservation and reclamation of Indigenous culture.

A book in the Psychoeducational Intervention SeriesWith an innovative approach to dealing with classroom behavior problems, this book presents invaluable information for teachers, counselors, and administrators at all grade levels.Presents an innovative...

A volume in Educational Policy in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges, and SolutionsSeries Editor Bruce Anthony Jones,University of South FloridaThis volume of The David C. Anchin Research Center Series on Educational Policy in the 21stcentury:...

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying...

"Finding Far Away" is a fascinating memoir that reads like an incredible fiction novel. Writer Lisa Wade takes you on an exciting one-year journey in Peru. Imagine a young, single American woman working as an Environmental Engineer in the gold mining...

Even the scattered thoughts of a great thinker are worth pondering, and here are the "miscellaneous productions" of John Stuart Mill, one of the foremost intellectuals of the late 19th century. Collected by the author and first published in book form in...

Even the scattered thoughts of a great thinker are worth pondering, and here are the "miscellaneous productions" of John Stuart Mill, one of the foremost intellectuals of the late 19th century. Collected by the author and first published in book form in...

While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a few articles on the...

The fact that domestic violence is a serious and ongoing social problem has been well recognized since the women's movement made the hitherto private experience of violence against women in the home into a political issue in the 1960s and 1970s. In...

Thousands of educators have turned to "You're Going to Love This Kid!" for fresh ways to welcome and teach students with autism--and now the book teachers trust is fully revised and more practical than ever! Gathering feedback from teachers across the...

Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Visionby Elaine Neil OrrThis intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary...

The Road to West 43rd Street by Nash K. Burger with Pearl A. McHaneyAfterword by Eudora WeltyFor nearly thirty years and through the tenure of five editors-in-chief, Nash K. Burger was on the editorial staff of the New York Times Book Review. In this...

Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocadeby Karen Jackson FordThe argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for...

A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in MississippiBy Douglas L. Conner with John F. MarszalekForeword by Aaron HenryThis book chronicles the successful struggle of Douglas Conner to escape poverty and to provide advancement not only for himself but...

Bundling was the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by another, usually as a part of courting behavior--essentially, dating in bed. The tradition is thought to have originated either in the Netherlands or in the British Isles

FROM ORACLE BONES TO COMPUTERS: THE EMERGENCE OF WRITING TECHNOLOGIES IN CHINA is the first book to provide a systematic historical, rhetorical, as well as critical account of the development of major writing technologies in China, spanning a history of...

"I was a young woman, 20-something, and new to New York City, a small town girl from Ohio, living in a two-room apartment on the Lower East Side (the rent was $100 a month) and attending Brooklyn College, which was tuition free in those days. A...

Everyone in the family, except her mother, was away at fish camp. Her mother, Sophie, stayed in the village of Emmonak, awaiting the birth of her second daughter, Molly. Molly was born in the territory of Alaska in the summer of 1956. Alaska would not...

Every time a middle class person becomes a terrorist, the same question arises: Why? Each time, only mystery and silence remain. Until now. The Source of Terrorism: Middle Class Rebellion breaks the code of an otherwise inexplicable, deadly phenomenon.