Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy, Paperback - Heather Pool

What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

Reducere. "The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on c...

Reducere. 1. Peace: A Beginning2. Pictures of a City (including 42nd at Treadmill)3. Cadence and Cascade4. In the Wake of Poseidon (including Libra's Theme)5...

A well-planned attack on the U.S. leaves the Hawaiian Islands isolated. After enduring a high casualty first wave attack by a Chinese regime, the i...

Reducere. In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual ...

Reducere. In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to exa...

Reducere. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion, and numerous other cultural factors play important roles in recovery from traumati...

Reducere. Contributor(s): With: Roxanne ClaassenAuthor: Ron ClaassenNo education library should be without Discipline That Restores: Strategies to Create Res...

This book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations an...

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. DescriptionA New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very speci...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

This book challenges these limited accounts of ethics and responsibility. It will be relevant to students and researchers across business and manag...

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of ...

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

Assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) - commonly called the Tokyo trial - establishe...

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

Reducere. A New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very special river. F...

Reducere. Pati Navalta Poblete's world is shattered when her 23-year-old son, Robby, is violently killed. She blames God, gun violence and the town where he ...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

Reducere. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical mu...

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 ...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangle...

DescriptionManchester 1819: Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform.Mill-w...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French ...

This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europe's political, economic and f...

DescriptionTo your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment block, the horrors of a natur...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sam JeffersonIllustration(s): Chartlets and colour photography throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publica...

Reducere. The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of mi...

In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equal...

Reducere. What happens after the worst happens?Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey's life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER,...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

Reducere. Matt Kell is a young husband and father in the late stages of terminal cancer. His former classmate Cathy Spehn has recently moved to his hometown ...

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to b...

Reducere. Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity tells the true story of a lifelong supporter of Israel who underwent a remarkable spiritual awakening in which he...

Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question w...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Real-life flight attendant Heather Poole has written a charming and funny insider's account of life and work in the not-always-friendly skies. Crui...

Reducere. Description"No one's insights about the craft and journey of being an artist have guided me in the day-to-day struggle of this profession more than...