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Two Centuries of French Education in New York - The Role of Schools in Cultural Diplomacy (Hardcover): Flatau Ross Jane Two Centuries of French Education in New York - The Role of Schools in Cultural Diplomacy (Hardcover)
Flatau Ross Jane
R843 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R139 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Only by God's Grace - A lost boy's story of success against the odds, from homeless and hungry to throwing out the... Only by God's Grace - A lost boy's story of success against the odds, from homeless and hungry to throwing out the first pitch at an MLB Astros game (Hardcover)
Jarred Jake Cosart
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Pre-Famine Ireland - Social Structure: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (Hardcover): Desmond Keenan Pre-Famine Ireland - Social Structure: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (Hardcover)
Desmond Keenan
R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
On the Edge of Extinction (Hardcover): Royal Sutton On the Edge of Extinction (Hardcover)
Royal Sutton
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It was nearly the turn of the century. Not only was the century changing but the ways of life were changing. Many new inventions were making life easier. Electricity was becoming more and more available. Travel was becoming more comfortable and convenient. The awareness of the plight of the Native American Indians was more widely known. The Wounded Knee Massacre was a recent occurrence. As more and more people were exposed to the manner in which Indians were treated, attitudes changed. The Indian population had declined to its lowest ebb at the turn of the century. The Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha was an opportunity to show off many of the new inventions and to help the rest of the country be aware of the riches West of the Mississippi. One Frank A. Rinehart, the premier photographer in Omaha, was appointed the Official Photographer for the Trans-Mississippi Expo. At the last minute, it was decided to bring about 500 Indians to the Expo to show attendees the human side of this misunderstood people. Rinehart had the unique opportunity to produce photographic portraits of each of the Native Americans in attendance. "The Edge of Extinction" not only highlights some of those portraits of this handsome race, but also gives a view of life in Omaha, the commentary of the national press concerning the Trans-Mississippi, a look at the man who was Rinehart and more so as to help understand this time in the history of the Midwest.

Reporting Palestine-Israel in British Newspapers - An Analysis of British Newspapers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Nadia R. Sirhan Reporting Palestine-Israel in British Newspapers - An Analysis of British Newspapers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Nadia R. Sirhan
R2,978 Discovery Miles 29 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli 'conflict' by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the 'conflict', and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the 'conflict' (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and Operation Cast Lead) are reported in five British newspapers: The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times. By looking at these events across a range of newspapers, the book investigates differences in the way that the media report each side, before exploring what factors motivate these differences - including issues of bias, censorship, lobbying, and propaganda.

The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language; 4 (Hardcover): Sherwin 1868-1959 Cody The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language; 4 (Hardcover)
Sherwin 1868-1959 Cody
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gay Life Stories (Paperback): Robert Aldrich Gay Life Stories (Paperback)
Robert Aldrich
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what we recognize as today's varied gay culture. This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the 1st century BC; the unfortunate Robert De Peronne, first to be burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing proto-lesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and 'Aimee' and 'Jaguar', whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. With many striking illustrations, Gay Life Stories will entertain, give pause for thought, and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history.

Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Hardcover, New): Mary Sokol Bentham, Law and Marriage - A Utilitarian Code of Law in Historical Contexts (Hardcover, New)
Mary Sokol
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jeremy Bentham's law of marriage is firmly based on the principle of utility, which claims that all human actions are governed by a wish to gain pleasure and avoid pain, and on the proposition that men and women are equal. He wrote in a late eighteenth century context of Enlightenment debate about marriage and the family. As such his contemporaries were Hume, Locke and Milton; Wollstonecraft and More. These were the turbulent years leading to the French Revolution and it is in this milieu that Mary Sokol seeks to rediscover the historical Bentham. Instead of regarding his thought as timeless, she considers Bentham's attitude to the reform of marriage law and plans for the social reform of marriage, placing both his life and work in the philosophical and historical context of his time.

Power and Protest - Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Society (Hardcover): Lori Williamson Power and Protest - Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Society (Hardcover)
Lori Williamson
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), Anglo-Irish reformer, feminist, and anti-vivisectionist Lori Williamson builds on original research, Cobbe's autobiography, and the work of later historians to analyze Cobbe's life as well as her ideological outlook.

A workhouse visitor, Cobbe campaigned strenuously against those in power for rights of women, the poor and of animals. A prominent critic of the Poor Law, she was also the first person to draw up a petition to control cruelty to animals. Using Cobbe's thoughts and activities as a catalyst, Power and Protest explores the issues of protest, reform, hierarchy, power, and gender, the relationship between men and women, humans and animals, and includes important work on pressure-group dynamics.

Given its wide-ranging scope, depiction of nineteenth-century British society and culture, and its exploration of the symbiotic relationships between ideology and the dynamics of protest, Power and Protest will attract students of history, social policy, and gender. Its emphasis on anti-vivisection activity provides a powerful basis for understanding power relations and the historical concept of rights.

Mexican American Baseball in the Alamo Region (Hardcover): Grace Guajardo Charles, Gregory Lyndon Garrett, Jorge Iber Mexican American Baseball in the Alamo Region (Hardcover)
Grace Guajardo Charles, Gregory Lyndon Garrett, Jorge Iber
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Freud and the Emigre - Austrian Emigres, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Freud and the Emigre - Austrian Emigres, Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1930s-1970s (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Elana Shapira, Daniela Finzi
R3,519 Discovery Miles 35 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian emigres and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective language and activating their emigre networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.

The Indian (Hardcover): Grinnell, George, Bird The Indian (Hardcover)
Grinnell, George, Bird
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards,... Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia - Critical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards, Victor T. King
R3,981 Discovery Miles 39 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of 'race' and 'ethnicity' that dominates explanations of conflicts and cleavages in the Malaysian context. The contributions are organised in three broad themes. 'Identities in Contestation: Borders, Complexities and Hybridities' takes a range of empirical studies-literary translation, religion, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity and sexual orientation-to break down preconceived notions of fixed identities. This then opens up an examination of 'Identities and Movements: Agency and Alternative Discourses', in which contributors deal with counter-hegemonic social movements-of anti-racism, young people, environmentalism and independent publishing-that explicitly seek to open up greater critical, democratic space within the Malaysian polity. The third section, 'Identities and Narratives: Culture and the Media', then provides a close textual reading of some exemplars of new cultural and media practices found in oral testimonies, popular music, film, radio programming and storytelling who have consciously created bodies of work that question the dominant national narrative. This book is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of identity and nationhood in Malaysia, and for those with wider interests in the fields of critical cultural studies and discourse analysis. "Here is a fresh, startling book to aid the task of unbinding the straitjackets of 'Malay', 'Chinese' and 'Indian', with which colonialism bound Malaysia's plural inheritance, and on which the postcolonial state continues to rely. In it, a panoply of unlikely identities-Bajau liminality, Kelabit philosophy, Islamic feminism, refugee hybridity and more-finds expression and offers hope for liberation". Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge "This book shakes the foundations of race thinking in Malaysian studies by expanding the range of cases, perspectives and outcomes of identity. It offers students of Malaysia an examination of identity and agency that is expansive, critical and engaging, and its interdisciplinary depth brings Malaysian studies into conversation with scholarship across the world". Sumit Mandal, University of Nottingham Malaysia "This is a much-needed work that helps us to take apart the colonial inherited categories of race which informed the notion of the plural society, the idea of plurality without multiculturalism. It complicates the picture of identity by bringing in religion, gender, indigeneity and sexual orientation, and helps us to imagine what a truly multiculturalist Malaysia might look like". Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore

Moments in History Ii - More People and Events Worth Remembering (Hardcover): Mark R. Brewer Moments in History Ii - More People and Events Worth Remembering (Hardcover)
Mark R. Brewer
R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Folly Monitor - Great Deceptions of the Modern Age (Hardcover): David Lynn Folly Monitor - Great Deceptions of the Modern Age (Hardcover)
David Lynn
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Gangsters vs. Nazis - How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America (Paperback): Michael Benson Gangsters vs. Nazis - How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America (Paperback)
Michael Benson
R465 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R101 (22%) In Stock

The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII—and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson reveals the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers during the 1930s and 1940s.

As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious Jewish mobsters (Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Red Levine, and others) waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst, gangland-style . . .

Packed with surprising, little-known facts, graphic details, and unforgettable personalities, Gangsters vs. Nazis chronicles the mob’s most ruthless tactics in taking down fascism—inspiring ordinary Americans to join them in their fight. The book culminates in one of the most infamous events of the pre-war era—the 1939 Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden—in which law-abiding citizens stood alongside hardened criminals to fight against the Nazis for the soul of America.

This is the story of the mob that’s rarely told—one of the most fascinating chapters in American history and American organized crime.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (Hardcover, English): Carole Reeves A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (Hardcover, English)
Carole Reeves
R3,315 Discovery Miles 33 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University. Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London. Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1600 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, and Chiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex and Sexuality 4. Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.

Cincinnati Reds - 1950-1985 (Hardcover): Jack Klumpe, Kevin Grace Cincinnati Reds - 1950-1985 (Hardcover)
Jack Klumpe, Kevin Grace
R781 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Native Peoples A to Z (Volume Six) - A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Donald... Native Peoples A to Z (Volume Six) - A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Donald Ricky
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975 - "The Greatest Challenge"? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Grant Masom Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975 - "The Greatest Challenge"? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Grant Masom
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century." - Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK "This book is an important and original work. Anyone interested in twentieth-century Christianity in Britain will learn much from it. Grant Masom enables the reader to make sense of the new urban spaces that became a key part of British life in the last hundred years." - Rev Dr David Goodhew, Visiting Fellow of St Johns College, Durham University, UK "This ground-breaking study adds new depth to our understanding of the importance of religion in English life and the role of the churches in shaping their own destiny in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century." - Dr Mark Smith, Associate Professor in History, University of Oxford, UK This book contributes to the ongoing academic debates on secularisation-or the marginalisation of mainstream religious beliefs and practices-in twentieth-century British society. It addresses three areas in which the current literature is weak: the 'agency' of organised religion in the outcomes described as secularisation, rather than explanations based on external challenges (such as the 'modernisation' of society and thought, increased affluence, and more leisure choices); a focus on urban areas transformed by twentieth-century industrialisation and suburbanisation; and an extended time period to the end of the third quarter of the twentieth century, allowing proper consideration of long-term trends alongside short-term upheavals such as the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the social changes of the 1960s. Further, the book employs a distinctly different, highly data-driven approach, considers all religious movements, and sets its conclusions within the wider social and cultural context of a representative community.

Memorandum on Some of the Results of Indian Administration. (Hardcover): Memorandum on Some of the Results of Indian Administration. (Hardcover)
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Transnational Religious Spaces - Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond (Hardcover): Philip... Transnational Religious Spaces - Religious Organizations and Interactions in Africa, East Asia, and Beyond (Hardcover)
Philip Clart, Adam Jones
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume, bringing together work by scholars from Europe, East Asia, North America, and West Africa, investigates transnational religious spaces in a comparative manner by juxtaposing East Asian and African examples. It highlights flows of ideas, actors, and organizations out of, into, or within a given continental space. These flows are patterned mainly by colonialism or migration. The book also examines cases where the transnational space in question encompasses both East Asia and Africa, notably in the development of Japanese new religions in Africa. Most of the studies are located in the present; a few go back to the late nineteenth century. The volume is rounded off by Thomas Tweed's systematic reflections on categories for the study of transnationalism; his chapter "Flows and Dams" critically weighs the metaphorical language we use to think, speak, and write about transnational religious spaces.

The Anatomy of The Book of Esther (Hardcover): Rick Arons The Anatomy of The Book of Esther (Hardcover)
Rick Arons
R600 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R98 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Anatomy of the Book of Esther is the first commentary on the Biblical book that includes, not only classic scriptural and midrashic commentary, but also historical comments that are based on Persian, Greek, archaeological and other historical sources. The book includes the complete Hebrew text and English translation, its unique commentary, and both preliminary blessings and post reading blessings and hymns. An introduction that places this more than two millenia-old book historically makes this edition fascinating reading, an indispensible educational tool and a necessary text for synagogue observance.

A Handbook of Plant-form for Students of Design; One Hundred Plates, Comprising Nearly 800 Illustrations, Drawn and Described,... A Handbook of Plant-form for Students of Design; One Hundred Plates, Comprising Nearly 800 Illustrations, Drawn and Described, and With an Introductory Chapter on Design and a Glossary of Botanical Terms (Hardcover)
Ernest Ellis 1869- Clark
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Manx Folklore - Tales of the Isle of Man (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover): John Rhys Manx Folklore - Tales of the Isle of Man (Folklore History Series) (Hardcover)
John Rhys
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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