Intimate Politics

This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matt...

'A brilliant vivid and intimate new memoir' The Daily Mail 'For over a decade Kate Fall was the most influential woman in British politics.' Alice ...

I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics is a helpful and entertaining how-to for anyone who has felt they are walking on eggshells in these increasing...

Examines the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries.

This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relations...

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behav...

A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and T...

Reducere. - - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1951, a very special year.Was this the year you were born?Was this the year you were ma...

A fun and snappy look at how the world's most important job is filled each year - published in time for the 2020 election. Written in a conversatio...

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the ch...

Reducere. "A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language."--Entertainment Week...

These essays share intimate stories of life and Indigenous resistance in the Amazon rainforest during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, p...

Tis is simply the best book that has been written about politics in Chicago. In the words of Andrew M. Greeley, "It is a very astute and dispassion...

At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his ...

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next? The political ambitions of the mo...

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next? The political ambitions of the mo...

Reducere. When a call girl is found dead in a popular governor's office, investigative reporter Nichelle Clarke must risk everything to uncover the dangerous...

Reducere. A Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family ho...

Reducere. "A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant."--New...

Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative...

A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple's struggle to survive ...

Reducere. French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversati...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. Neustadt"A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead ...

Reducere. The first commandment of Socrates was: "Know Thyself." Real-Time Relationships provides the second commandment: "Speak Thy Truth." The first virtue...

Reducere. DescriptionAn intimate biography of one of the greatest social and religious reformers of the modern world."Gandhi's work in nonviolence was compre...

Dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught--the rough-and-ready rambling' man--to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for...

Reducere. In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Ch vez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics o...

Reducere. In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black i...

A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and work Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of t...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's...

Reducere. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among...

Reducere. Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

Reducere. The #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller from the host of NPR's Weekend Edition--"absolutely spectacular--wise and intimate, often funny, always touchin...

Reducere. Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as 'a people of the past'--their culture somehow 'frozen' in time, their identities tied to st...

Reducere. An intimate view of the last Russian Tsar and his family The cataclysm of the First World War ultimately swept away many of the great monarchies of...

Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gen...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Reducere. Description"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote TamiratFor readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All B...

Reducere. No matter your politics or home country this will change how you think about the movement of people between poor and rich countries...one of the be...

This stunning standalone from the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist, follows the people on all sides of a domestic terrorist group, f...

A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, int...

Reducere. Considerat unul dintre cele mai frumoase romane ale adolescenţei feminine, Drumul egal al fiecărei zile realizează portretul, la această vîrstă, al...

Livrare din stoc, in 24-48 ore! Zarifopol-Johnston seeks to understand Cioran rather than accuse him. . . . [She] points out both continuities and ...

Reducere. Considerat unul dintre cele mai frumoase romane ale adolescentei feminine, Drumul egal al fiecarei zile realizeaza portretul, la aceasta virsta, al...

Reducere. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both ...

A radical reconstruction of the founders' debate over slavery and the Constitution, by the best-selling, award-winning author of The Rise of Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a remarkably personal and intimate account, Jerry Tillinghast, one of the most popular characters from the first season of Crimetown,...

Reducere. For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State wen...

Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and c...

DescriptionClose presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and influential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, b...

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

Reducere. For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State wen...

In Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting--th...

Reducere. Although trained as a U.S. Army broadcaster, Albert Viator was quickly diverted into PSYOPS-psychological warfare-and spent his one-year tour of du...

Reducere. "A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lu...

Reducere. "Unbelievably exciting...These are poems to read and reread, repeating the lines as though they were a secret between yourself and the page." --The...

Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has...

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base...

DescriptionKeith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a...

Reducere. In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on interna...

Reducere. Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Gr...

Reducere. In Art for an Undivided Earth Jessica L. Horton reveals how the spatial philosophies underlying the American Indian Movement (AIM) were refigured b...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually coopt...

Reducere. The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking Am...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and econom...

Reducere. Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock l...

"An intimate dialogue with Joseph Beuys ... takes us into the deeper motivations and understandings underlying 'social sculpture' and his expanded ...