A Radical History of the World

Reducere. To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start... Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world's most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. Hi...

Explores the diverse and sometimes conflicting attempts of lesbian and gay people to build a new world for themselves and those they loved.Publishe...

Reducere. Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, for...

On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by ...

Advancing time focuses on how the ever quickening pace of change impacts today's society and the massive challenges it creates. Never before has ou...

Reducere. What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard pa...

Reducere. The untold story of the founding father's likely Jewish birth and upbringing--and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nati...

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well keptThe mystery has haunted gener...

Reducere. Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-aut...

Reducere. Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to ...

Reducere. This book explores Greek collaboration with the Nazis during the Axis occupation of Greece in the Second World War, a topic that continues to be on...

Reducere. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 19...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What ac...

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibili...

Reducere. The incarnation--the act of God assuming mortal flesh through Jesus Christ--reveals God's radical love for a world marked by the rebellion of the c...

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...

Reducere. The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles...

Reducere. In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.To...

This is the fascinating history of how the radical delta-wing became the design of choice for early British and American high-performance jets, and...

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone worl...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellec...

Reducere. A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monogr...

Reducere. In the 1930s and 1940s the early roots of the Chicano Movement took shape. Activists like Jes s Cruz, and later Ralph Cuar n, sought justice for mi...

Reducere. Public support for the legal right to abortion in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet we're in the midst of an all-out assault on reprodu...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

A survey of recent history reveals the gloomy picture of an ongoing series of conflicts, wars, and general turmoil. Consequently, the human emotion...

Written in 1923, when Germany was in the throes of revolutionary demands from both the Left and the Right, Moeller van den Bruck envisioned a Germa...

Reducere. Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account ...

Reducere. Imagine God's Justice and Lead with CompassionLove. Justice. Solidarity. Living as siblings in the "kin-dom" of God requires bold faith. Women in t...

Reducere. Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, an...

Reducere. Ammiel Alcalay's groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of rel...

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people. The world has given us money enough to enable...

A radical new history of a dangerous idea Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynami...

Reducere. As the world reels from crisis to crisis, the most serious one seems to draw the least attention. And that is the crisis of the Western mind. The s...

DescriptionA must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mys...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which eponymously coined the term so ...

A fiery, intersectional guide for activists and witches alike, Revolutionary Witchcraft is an empowered introduction to the history and practice of...

Reducere. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take ...

A highly illustrated study of some of the weapons developed by Nazi Germany to equip the Luftwaffe in their desperate war against the encroaching A...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Reducere. DescriptionIn her ever-evolving career, the legendary filmmaker Agn s Varda has gone from being a photographer at the Avignon festival in the late ...

As the "Giant of Africa" Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, serves as Africa's largest producer of oi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world...

Reducere. Description"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn i...

Reducere. In 1877, Ephraim Shay came up with a radical design for a logging locomotive that featured a side-mounted set of cylinders. These drove drive shaft...

Reducere. DescriptionHe Disagreed with Something that Ate Him analyses the two James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton made in 1987 and 1989. Critically ove...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

Reducere. Romantic intrigue and electric action fill the gripping sequel to The Tiger at Midnight, a world inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mytho...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

Reducere. What does it mean to believe in God? This question still provokes a recalcitrant world. In spite of the apparent disinterest of our age, the religi...

Reducere. In the decade before the Civil War, Concord, Massachusetts, was a center of abolitionist sentiment and activism. To Set this World Right is the fir...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost universally cold reception in British natural history circles in the first half ...

Reducere. Gerald Massey's work has become essential for readers seeking a balanced understanding of human origins, religious thought and belief, and the role...

Reducere. In Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding ...

Reducere. What is the church? And why does it exist? These are essential questions for those who seek to follow Jesus in community. David Fitch delves into t...

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deput...

Reducere. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political...

Reducere. Something has happened to the simple, yet radical and profound movement started 2, 000 years ago by a Jewish carpenter from Nazareth. A movement th...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

DescriptionAn updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair Through working at both ...

DescriptionA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding B...

DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Reducere. Popular notions of Christian spirituality today tend to focus on getting us out of the world or getting the world out of us. Many are looking to sp...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100, 000 copies in its first month, an...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...