Workers of the World: Essays Toward a Global Labor History, Paperback - Marcel Linden

Reducere. DescriptionThe studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using li...

Reducere. This book takes you on an emotional journey deep into the Slovak and Slavic inner world. Follow the trail that opens your eyes to the magical realm...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose Ortega y. GassetTranslator: Helene WeylAfterword by: John William MillerSenor Ortega y Gasset has contributed a though...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, theorist and sound artist Micah Silver addresses the impact of sound on human behavior and social space. Silver's resear...

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers have portrayed these Ni...

Reducere. Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

In them his canon of great writers - Tolstoy, Chekhov, James, Proust and Joyce - is cited many times, with deep and subtle appreciation. His interv...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon

DescriptionThe final writings of Samir Amin--a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movementsIn this secon...

Reducere. The influence of Pierre Bourdieu--one of the most protean intellectual forces in contemporary French thought--extends far beyond is home discipline...

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

Reducere. DescriptionHomesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox schola...

DescriptionIn 1917, at the height of World War I, Laurence Binyon was commissioned by the army to write a story about wartime volunteers and spent ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe final chapter in the Scandals series Rule #1: Be discreet No one suspects plain, sensible Bathsheba Crawford of being the anonymous ...

Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More, " held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

Toward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the arms race and prevent nuclear war. Examini...

Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W. s "Little Red Song Book" has been a staple item on picket lines and workers...

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DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

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Publisher: Gallic BooksNumber of pages: 1392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 58Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephane Ger...

This book takes steps to develop a philosophy of engineering not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate critical reflection among ...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and...

Reducere. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working cl...

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by European...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter N. (George Mason University) StearnsIllustration(s): 9 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Tables, bl...

Reducere. This 2003 book analyzes the global dynamics of labor movements, introducing a major new database on labor unrest events worldwide from 1870 to 1996...

What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowl...

Description"Superb... A tour de force."--Ebrahim Moosa"Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a...

Reducere. DescriptionLove is never out of fashion... Felicity Dawkins is determined to save her dress shop, Madame Follette's, from ruin. Times and styles ha...

Reducere. "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the src...

Publisher: SteinerBooks, IncAuthor(s): Marjorie SpockIllustration(s): colour illustrationsTranslator: Peter StebbingNumber of pages: 48Publication ...

Through a collaboration among twenty legal scholars from North America, Europe and Asia, this book presents an international consensus on the use o...

Since the 1950s, U.S. military and intelligence agencies have systematically tortured and abused children. Their goal: the creation of mind-control...

DescriptionThis thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at thi...

What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Inde...

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Reducere. Nicholas Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher and activist who changed the philosophical, aesthetic and religious landscape...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

DescriptionKorean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their global fandom continues to grow. Despite cultural differences, ...

DescriptionJulian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this...

Reducere. Originally published in 1978, Toward the Final Solution was one of the first in-depth studies of the evolution of racism in Europe, from the Age of...

Reducere. This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions under...

The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines ...

Reducere. There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and th...

International perspectives about literacy and deaf students is an uncharted intellectual landscape. Much of the literacy research in deaf education...

Essays on Philosophical Pragmatism.Publisher: CENTRAL BOOKSAuthor(s): LUDWIG NAGLNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 243 x ...