Author: Chen JiafeiPublisher: Karadi Tales Picturebooks
ISBN: 9788193654255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A retelling of an old Chinese folktale that is about staying positive in the face of adversity.
Risk And Misfortune
Author: Judith GreenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000657205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
There has been a growing sociological interest in both risk and its management, and with how we cope with the uncertainties of late 20th- century life. Understanding accidents is the key to understanding the risk society, for accidents are both the paradigmatic challenge for risk technologies to predict the apparently unpredictable and the ultimate
Sion's Misfortune
Author: Chen JiafeiPublisher: Karadi Tales Picturebooks
ISBN: 9788193654255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A retelling of an old Chinese folktale that is about staying positive in the face of adversity.
The Homiletic Review
Author: Preacher and Homiletic Monthly
Author: Meditations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin
Author: Edouard BarthePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Litanies
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
Author: Mathieu OrsiniMetropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly
Author: The Price of Misfortune
Author: Daniel PlattPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673403X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A history of the struggle for debtors’ rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those questions, immensely important for debtors, creditors, and society at large, have changed over time. The Price of Misfortune examines the cause of debtors’ rights in the modern United States and the struggles of reformers who fought to establish financial freedoms in law. Daniel Platt shows how, in the wake of the Civil War, a range of advocates drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways those analogies were used to campaign for bold new protections for debtors, keeping them secure in their labor, property, and personhood. Yet, as Platt demonstrates, those reforms tended to assume as their ideal borrower someone who was white, propertied, and male. In subsequent decades, the emancipatory promise of debtors’ rights would be tested as women, wage earners, and African Americans seized on their language to challenge other structural inequalities: the dependency of marriage, the exploitation of industrial capitalism, and the oppression of Jim Crow. By reconstructing these forgotten developments—and recovering the experiences of indebted farmwives, sharecroppers, and wage workers—The Price of Misfortune narrates a new history of inequality, coercion, and law amid the early financialization of American capitalism.
Styrian Witches in European Perspective
Author: Mirjam MencejPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137372508
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic, anthropological, as well as historical, perspectives. Witchcraft is presented as part of social reality, strongly related to misfortune and involved in social relationships. The reality of the ascribed bewitching deeds, psychological mechanisms that may help bewitchment to work, circumstances in which bewitchment narratives can be mobilised, reasons for a person to acquire a reputation of the witch in the entire community, and the role that unwitchers fulfilled in the community, are but a few of the many topics discussed. In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with supernatural beings of European folklore, forming part of the overall witchcraft discourse in the area, is explored.
Military Misfortunes
Author: Eliot A. CohenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743280822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Rejecting accepted theories for unexpected military disasters, the authors brilliantly analyze disasters of great magnitude. They assert that military misfortune turns not on individual or collective failure but is rooted in the nature of the complex interconnections between men, systems, and organizations.