Inner City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community

Telling a neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi, Aidan Russell examines the political language of truth that drove extraordin...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 314Collection: Urban StudiesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionIs it possible to lead a creative post-urban existence? A wave of creatives is opting out of increasingly regulated and pressured urban ...

Reducere. With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how the...

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people co...

Reducere. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as...

Jean Vanier's classic book Community and Growth - reflections and guidance on life in community, based on the unique experiences of l'Arche - is he...

Reducere. Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000-500 BC)...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative wi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 260Collection: Theme...

The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Exa...

Contributor(s): Author: Rhoda BanksA Moment of Prayer May you always overcome every crisis that life throws your way, remembering that you have a G...

The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and edi...

Reducere. DescriptionFifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and...

A moving account of the bond between people and animals by a vet at a London animal charity

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, a...

Reducere. Modello is the true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Ho...

Reducere. In May 1971, Look magazine featured an article entitled ``Chicago's Cook County Hospital: A Terrible Place.`` The article provided an in-depth look...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. R. C. HuttonThe notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often re...

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

The Inner Life of the Person Dying recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's perspective, showing that-along wit...

Reducere. Treats the question of interpreting difficult texts of the Bible that seem to shock our modern understanding of God and religious ideas.

Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of ra...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cinead McTernanIllustration(s): 150 colour photographsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. DescriptionMayor Joe Curtatone Stealing from Somerville: Death of an Urban City is an expose of abuses, a compilation of articles from Somerville N...

DescriptionWith her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, cultural anthropologist Carole Counihan makes a significant contribution to ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

DescriptionSometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Arago...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting IPV in IMR lives.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAu...

Part childhood memoir, part biopic of rural life, the journey take place during the first two decades of the 21st century, through the referenda on...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Scott AndrewsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 100Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 202 x 18...