Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism, Paperback - Pippa Biddle

Reducere. In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled...

Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...

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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen in...

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Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

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Reducere. How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting ...

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

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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human a...

Argues that the state in America is rooted in the country's colonial experience and analyses the evidence for this by reviewing governance at all l...

Exploration of the divine sonship of Jesus in the New Testament letter to the Hebrews

A sympathetic yet honest and nonjudgmental account that goes behind the palace doors and into the private lives of these iconic public figures Thei...

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Reducere. In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might ...

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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Rava...

This is an interpretative history of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union between 1850 and 1991.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David...

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

Worked to the Bone is a provocative examination of race and class in the United States and the mechanics of inequality. In an elegant and accessibl...

From The New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a counterintuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in...

Reducere. Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but...

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang argues that not all types of corruption hurt ...

Why do smart people do stupid things at work? Welcome to the idea of functional stupidity. Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause o...

Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance ...

Reducere. How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a c...

Reducere. The first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violen...

* Kundnani dissects the conflicting pressures at play in Germany today and how these influence its politics, economic strategy and foreign policy

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The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of racism that persists today.

A powerful, heart-breaking, ultimately redemptive novel about three childhood friends in 1930s Vienna whose fates are closely intertwined, even whe...

A powerful, heart-breaking, ultimately redemptive novel about three childhood friends in 1930s Vienna whose fates are closely intertwined, even whe...

Reducere. A collection of parables and teaching stories from the martial arts traditions of Japan and China that emphasizes their spiritual foundation. - The...

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DescriptionThe coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich an...