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Peacemakers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781459406230
Pub Date: 15 May 2014
Imprint: Formac-Lorimer
Description:
A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years. Though few of us realize it, today the world is more peaceful than in past centuries.
RRP: £15.99
Selma to Saigon Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 394
ISBN: 9780813145075
Pub Date: 13 May 2014
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 25 b&w photos
Description:
The civil rights and anti--Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S.
JJP Supplement 19 (2014) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9788392591979
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2014
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
This work presents the newest trends appearing in the field of Roman Law particularly devoted to the fault-based liability – culpa – that were addressed at the International Conference organised by the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University in February 2010. Articles written by Merola, Rampazzo and Tucillo touch the problem of culpa in the public law. The authors concentrated on the question of liability of public officers and their culpa or negligence during the performance of their duties.
Dying to Know Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781922132482
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2014
Description:
Ride shotgun with author and award-winning copywriter Josh Langley as he battles his inner-cynic and subjects himself to a barrage of strange and creepy adventures as a result of his lifelong obsession with the afterlife. Determined to find out what happens when we die but realising it’s unlikely that an obliging ghost is going to jump out in front of him with the verdict, Josh designs his own unique “afterlife investigation plan’’ and sets off on an extraordinary journey in aquest for answers to the question we all secretly want to know. Things get a little weird and spooky as he visits crematoriums, experiments with out-of-body experiences, attempts past-liferegressions, conjures up dead people, converses with his long dead grandmother and is scared witless on a terrifying ghosthunt, to name a few.
RRP: £9.99
Snapshots of Chinese Culture Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781626430020
Pub Date: 30 Mar 2014
Description:
Over their long and colourful history, the Chinese people have produced a variety of fascinating and useful cultural artefacts and performances - from the compass and paper money to tea ceremonies and wedding parties - that have won the admiration of people around the world, and improved living conditions for many who remain unaware of the inventions' Chinese origins. This book's forty concise chapters serve as windows into a wide range of Chinese cultural traditions and innovations. Some aspects of culture featured here include Chinese gardens, homes, and temples; calligraphy, chess, and clothing; paper cutting, seals, and musical instruments; martial arts and Peking Opera; and feng shui (auspicious design).
Alternative Ulsters Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781907593956
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2014
Imprint: Liberties Press
Description:
The province of Ulster - nine counties in total, six in Northern Ireland and three in the Republic of Ireland - is an ambiguous and complex patch of Irish soil. Known for the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Rugby Team, the Red Hand of Ulster, Monaghan-poet Patrick Kavanagh, among a host other things, Ulster represents an eclectic mix of national and cultural identities, religious ideologies, and political allegiances. The idea of a communal or conclusive Ulster identity seems impossible and questions such as, 'Are you an Ulsterman/woman?
Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780822962717
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2014
Description:
The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.Belarus is widely regarded as the most authoritarian state in the region, while Ukraine is witnessing a slow, if often troubled, democratic consolidation.
River of Hope Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780813144504
Pub Date: 17 Feb 2014
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 30 b&w photos
Description:
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform at the ballot box, formed clubs, ran for office, and engaged in voter registration and education activities from the end of the Civil War through the Brown v.
Medicine, Healing and Performance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782971580
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w illustrations
Description:
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.
African American Connecticut Explored Cover African American Connecticut Explored Cover
Format: 
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780819573988
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2014
Illustrations: 40 illus. (9 colour)
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780819573995
Pub Date: 06 Sep 2016
Series: Garnet Books
Illustrations: 40 illus. (9 colour)
Description:
The numerous essays by many of the state's leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state's colonization around 1630 and continuing well into the 20th century. The voice of Connecticut's African Americans rings clear through topics such as the Black Governors of Connecticut, nationally prominent black abolitionists like the reverends Amos Beman and James Pennington, the African American community's response to the Amistad trial, the letters of Joseph O. Cross of the 29th Regiment of Colored Volunteers in the Civil War, and the Civil Rights work of baseball great Jackie Robinson (a twenty-year resident of Stamford), to name a few.
The Embattled Past Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9780813142661
Pub Date: 07 Jan 2014
Illustrations: 15 b&w photos
Description:
Internationally recognized for having reinvigorated and redefined his field, distinguished military historian Edward M. Coffman is a dedicated and much-admired teacher and mentor. In The Embattled Past, several of his most important essays have been assembled into a collection that serves as an essential reference to the discipline and an initiation to the study of military history for aspiring scholars.
Violence and Civilization Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781782976202
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Illustrations: b/w and col. illustrations
Description:
This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time.
Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789187351150
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2013
Description:
How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh conditions, now or in the past? Can storytelling help us sort out our innermost feelings and troubles? This deeply human subject is relevant not only to practitioners of psychotherapy, but to all of us, as we sometimes go through difficult times in life.
Creating Authenticity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9789088902055
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 15 b/w and 34 col. illustrations
Description:
‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities.
The U.S. South and Europe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9780813143088
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2013
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Description:
The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans.
Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781902937540
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2013
Description:
The cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, due to the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s which revealed the longest sequence of human occupation in the region, from (we now know) 50,000 years ago to the recent past. This book is the first of two volumes describing the results of new work in the caves by a multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers aimed at clarifying the many questions raised by the earlier work. This volume is a closely integrated account of how the old and new work combines to provide profound new insights into the prehistory of the region: the strategies developed by our species to live in rainforests from the time of first arrival; how rainforest foragers engaged in forms of ‘vegeculture’ thousands of years before rice farming; and how rice farming represented profound transformations in the social (and spiritual?
RRP: £62.00