Author: Jeroen BouwmeesterPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031519639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Rome Across Time and Space
Author: Claudia BolgiaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119217X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.
Black Is the Body
Author: Emily BernardPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0451493036
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. "Black Is the Body is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages." --Elizabeth Gilbert WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR
Building Networks: Exchange of Knowledge, Ideas and Materials in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe
Author: Jeroen BouwmeesterPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031519639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
International Educational and Technical Exchange, Report
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Educational ExchangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World
Author: Deirdre GolashPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048189993
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The essays in this volume consider issues at the intersection of freedom of expression and racial, cultural, and gender diversity. The claims of those whose cultures and beliefs differ from our own are no longer the exclusive province of diplomats, as the Danish newspaper that published cartoons ridiculing Mohammed quickly learned. Negotiating the claims of freedom of expression as they come into open conflict with a wide diversity of viewpoints, both domestically and internationally, has become an increasingly complex task. The present volume seeks both to provide fresh insight into the philosophical grounds for limiting government restriction of expression and to address current tensions between freedom of expression and pluralism. The suppression of ideas by government is no doubt as old as government itself. Ideas help to keep governments in power, and opposing ideas can help them to lose it. As well, through most of the history of the world, the belief that some know b- ter than others what is true, what is right, and what is valuable has been sufficiently widespread to make it seem natural for those betters to dictate for the rest what they should believe. Just as clerics did not hesitate to dictate to their congregations, Christians did not hesitate to impose their beliefs on non-Christians in order to save their souls.
CyberUnion
Author: Arthur B ShostackPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315292238
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Key players in organized labour in the USA and abroad are busy modernizing their communications and making creative and effective use of computers and other technology. The author of this book argues that the road to CyberUnion has begun and that those unions are ensuring a future strength.
Handbook of Research on Creativity
Author: Kerry ThomasPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857939815
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Containing cutting-edge research the Handbook of Research on Creativity will strongly appeal to academics and advanced students in cultural studies, creative industries, art history and theory, experimental music and performance studies, digital and ne
The Air Force Comptroller
Author: Radio
Author: Steve WarrenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0240806964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Everyday Life
Author: Ágnes HellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317403347
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book, first published in 1984, examines the politics and philosophy of ordinary men and women, and their ordinary transactions. It analyses the interaction between the individual and the social, both for the roots of everyday behaviour and for the means to change the social fabric. Using an approach that combines Marx, Husserl, Heidegger and Aristotle, Agnes Heller defines categories such as ‘group’, ‘crowd’, ‘community’, and deals with characteristics of everyday life such as repetition, rules, norms, economics, habits, probability, imitation. She also analyses everyday knowledge, and concludes by looking at the place of personality in everyday life.