Identity Crisis

Reducere. Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well kn...

Reducere. Gotham's masked protector, Batman, has trained extensively to become a feared caped crusader. His Kryptonian friend Superman was born with superhum...

DescriptionThe Arab-Palestinian community, which constitutes 20 percent of Israel's population, is an ethnic minority living mainly in ethnically h...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

Reducere. While recurrent drought, war with neighboring Ethiopia, and a staggering refugee crisis have recently propelled the African nation of Somalia into ...

DescriptionCrisis after crisis has beset the European Union: the financial chaos of the euro and Greek sovereign debt; the conflicts with Russia ov...

Reducere. In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they ma...

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former British diplomat in Pari...

Reducere. In 1975, after ten years of exploring its identity, the original Church of Satan confronted the limitations of its Jud o-Christian imagery and a di...

Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so comp...

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitio...

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents...

Reducere. For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic desce...

Reducere. Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

Reducere. "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back t...

Reducere. Democracy and higher education are inextricably linked: universities not only have the ability to be key arbiters of how democracy is advanced, but...

Reducere. This book offers the first sustained attempt to read the Gospel of Mark both as an ancient biography and as a form of ancient rhetoric. Ben Witheri...

Reducere. Young people in America are facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions--yet no one is taking action. Children are born as active, curious, imag...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

Reducere. This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the twenty-first century. With insights ...

Reducere. One man's riveting, contemporary journey through multiple comings-out to authentically live his unique identity.Black Enough, Man EnoughEmbracing M...

Reducere. Feel-good chick-lit from international bestseller Jill Mansell, with a chaotic cast who must let go of their grudges and secrets to build the lives...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Cox RichardsonWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to ...

You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the wor...

Reducere. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid cris...

Reducere. In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independenc...

Reducere. In 1975, after ten years of exploring its identity, the original Church of Satan confronted the limitations of its Jud o-Christian imagery and a di...

In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great dea...

Reducere. Activist essays on ending the Anthropocene, from Belgian theorist Lieven De Cauter, author of Entropic Empire and The Dwarf in the Chess MachineIn ...

Reducere. Erik H. Erikson is recognized as one of the world s leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His ideas about the stage...

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict ne...

Reducere. Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat...

Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

Reducere. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes...

DescriptionCHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS: BASED ON MY CHARLES MANSON PRISON INTERVIEWS & PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals the forming o...

Reducere. The radical sexuality of gay American men in the 1970s is often seen as a shameful period of excess that led to the AIDS crisis. Beyond Shame claim...

A vibrant and provocative debut novel that dispels myths surrounding transracial adoption."A transracial Korean adoptee works through identity ques...

Reducere. Break through your brand's invisible barrier.Has your business hit a wall? Have you struggled to figure out why?Business owners bear the burden of ...

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic party, seeking a direction for its fu...

This exhibition companion explores the aesthetic and political concepts inherent in Feleksan Onar's glass artworks. Onar's work draws on her own pe...

Reducere. Can Lyn reclaim her sanity in the midst of chaos and confusion? A happy wife and mother who loved nothing more than taking care of her brood, Lyn B...

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. This welcoming ...

Reducere. "Moving... This engrossing and hopeful story will hold readers from start to finish."--Publishers Weekly"Family secrets, complex characters and a g...

Reducere. In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a par...

Education and Intercultural Identity offers a dialogue between influential authors Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera that reflects on and discuss...

Reducere. After being sexually assaulted at 4, Angelia Robinson grew up with an identity crisis so acute that she didn't even know how to properly spell her ...

Reducere. Jean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring's studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a y...

Who is the true master of disaster? Earthlings: prepare for the shock of your lives Global warming ... reversed. The energy crisis ... over. The gr...

Reducere. Serene Voyager, known as Seri in the Soul Realm, reassesses her eternal journey before embarking on her next lifetime in the Earth Realm. For aid a...

Reducere. For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this sublime and delightfully unhinged metaphysical mys...

Reducere. Many people will agree that we are living in a world in which many people seem to be experiencing an identity crisis. To complicate the matter, thi...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

DescriptionFrom Julie Houts aka @JooleeLoren, "Instagram's favorite illustrator" (Vogue), a collection of darkly humorous illustrated essays that "...

Reducere. If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Brice D. Smith" They] said I couldn't live as a gay man, but it looks like I'm going to die like one." Good Midwestern g...

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

Reducere. "Caleb Maupin has crafted an urgent and necessary, both visionary and organic guide for the way forward - a bold and brilliantly conceived blueprin...

A man follows another man's trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for identity, by Japan's award-winning literary sens...

Reducere. Transitioning to your first people leadership role?Are the strategies and tools that got you here no longer cutting it?Curious about what it takes ...

Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how did this once ric...

Reducere. Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing, and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with The Love in Bloo...

DescriptionFor fans of Ryan T. Higgins and Jory John comes a humorous and "splashy" story from a former Disney animator, about a jellyfish with an ...

Reducere. Can Lyn reclaim her sanity in the midst of chaos and confusion? A happy wife and mother who loved nothing more than taking care of her brood, Lyn B...

Under such headings as "The Idealized Self-Image, " "The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex, " "Emotional Growth and Its Function, " "Real and False Nee...

From Blank the podcast comes Blank: Why It's Fine to Falter and Fail, and How to Pick Yourself up Again. Blank is an informal, insightful podcast i...

A groundbreaking new sci-fi action series in the world of the Eisner Award-winning Black Hammer universe, about prejudice, honor, and identity. Mar...

Reducere. Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this ...

In Another Sun is a lovely and eloquent look at one woman's journey towards, and away from, the American Dream. We follow its protagonist, the chil...

The Nakba or 'catastrophe' of 1948 saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed from their land to create the state of Israel, creating a...

Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss is a memoir about a gay woman of conscience who became a fugitive, on the run for over nineteen ye...