Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions, Hardcover - Philip Jenkins

Reducere. Demography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a populati...

The Poet's Great War: Violence, Revolution and Modernism

Reducere. One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current e...

Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Laureate and IFDC Board Member

A thought-provoking, informative and interactive book that looks at the beliefs, history and customs of the major world religions.

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updat...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special a...

Reducere. Reveals the Mayan calendar to be a spiritual device that describes the evolution of human consciousness from ancient times into the future - Shows ...

The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

Reducere. A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources In this perfect compani...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigeno...

An engaging and accessible introduction to Christianity's relationship with other world religions, addressing the questions of why the reality, and...

5th edition. Provides an authoritative account of the course of American history. Fully revised and updated to include new developments, including ...

DescriptionHow remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athl...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustratio...

Reducere. Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electroni...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

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Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

Reducere. Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender...

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...