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A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.
This is a coming-of-age novel about Oklahoma boy Willi Males who goes off to Yale to get educated and become a man. It takes place during the Vietnam War American Style which ate up the 60s and went on and on. Willi never experiences Vietnam but does experience Sweden, which is where he ends up after deserting his army…
Kategorier: Amerikas historia Andra tekniker och tillämpade vetenskaper Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Etnicitet Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Historia Historia och arkeologi Rymdforskning Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
The #1 New York Times bestseller
-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARD
The phenomenal true story of the…
Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle has a knack for solving murders – lots of them. Sometimes she’s concerned by just how many killers she’s had to track down in her quiet village, though none of her neighbours seem surprised by the rising body count…
But when someone close to Sherry ends up dead, and…
Kategorier: Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Urbana samhällen
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for…
Kategorier: Filosofi Filosofi och religion Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Global growth sets new records, poverty and illiteracy rates fall, technological innovation creates amazing opportunities. Still we are deeply discontent, there is something fundamentally wrong with contemporary society. Democracies are paralysed and produce authoritarian bullies as leaders, a growing underclass…
Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Biografi: allmänt Biografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Medicin och omvårdnad Medicin: allmänt Medicinhistoria
A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of…
From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future
The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ”spreading democracy” – except wreak havoc in country after country and…
Breathes new life into revolutionary ideas.
Kategorier: Fantasy Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor Urban fantasy
Skulle du tro att alla gamla gudar som människor någonsin har föreställt sig, Oden och Czernobog, Anansi och Ibis, Mama-Ji och baron SamediKali och leprechauner och demoner och alla de andra …
… att de fortfarande finns kvar idag? Här i vårt land?
Kanske …
Och att detta land har skapat nya gudar åt sig, kreditkortens…
The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles-a preeminent source for further research. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest…
A ”powerful text” (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those…
From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.
A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly…
Popular Evangelicalism in American Culture explores the controversies, complexities, and historical development of the evangelical movement in America and its impact on American culture. Evangelicalism is one of the most dynamic and growing religious movements in America and has been both a major force in shaping…
Why is so little heard about John Cotton, who was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest Puritan preacher in America? Why has he alone remained an enigma among the founding fathers of American protestantism? Professor Ziff examines Cotton’s career as a teacher and preacher, both in England and New…
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as…
From a small group of devout Puritan settlers, the USA ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world. Yet it is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, offers a unique historical, cultural and characterological analysis of…
From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control–sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts,…
The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then looks at the opportunities for change in the “age of Francis.” Pope Francis has become an unlikely global star whose image has graced the…
In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the…
The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles on a variety of topics. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship in the…
American Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Protestants sought, which was to establish the Bible as the primary authority, only to find that the task was not so simple…
At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have engaged in…
As Americans rethought sex in the twentieth century, the Catholic Church’s teachings on the divisive issue of contraception in marriage were in many ways central. In a fascinating history, Leslie Woodcock Tentler traces changing attitudes: from the late nineteenth century, when religious leaders of every variety…
Now in an updated second edition, African American Religion remains an invaluable overview of the great diversity of religious groups within the modern African American community. This plethora of forms reflects a tension that has characterized African American religion since its beginnings—a tension between…
What is justice? How can it be realised within society? These are universal concerns and are central to the primary scripture of Islam, the Qur’an. Utilising a pioneering theological and hermeneutic framework adapted from both classical Muslim literature and contemporary academic studies of the Qur’an,…
This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German kingdom. The sources translated here bring to life the activities of five noblemen and noblewomen from Rome to the Baltic coast and from the Rhine River to the…
Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain’s march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam’s final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain’s ”Catholic Monarchs” Isabella and Ferdinand on…
Popular Evangelicalism in American Culture explores the controversies, complexities, and historical development of the evangelical movement in America and its impact on American culture. Evangelicalism is one of the most dynamic and growing religious movements in America and has been both a major force in shaping…
By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.
This book presents a holistic view of the enduring…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Ursprungsbefolkningar
A book in which various well-known and lesser-known Native Americans talk about life from the indigenous perspective, their views on white people, and the problems of not respecting nature and other people in an ever-changing world.
The most essential part of the book is presentations of quotes by Geronimo, Sitting…
Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Ande, kropp och själ Etnicitet Filosofi och religion Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Religion och tro Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
• A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness, black American tradition, metaphysics, and heightened creativity. • Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Lucille Clifton, Dolores Kendrick, Sonia Sanchez, Michele…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Explores Native American spirituality to show how you can live a simple and reverent life in a complex world.
Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria Ursprungsbefolkningar
Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the…
This book is a readable compendium of patents, diagrams and explanations of the many incredible inventions of the originator of the modern era of electrification. In Tesla’s own words are such topics as wireless transmission of power, his towers for transmitting electrical power, death rays and radio-controlled…
Kategorier: Amerikas historia Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Historia Historia och arkeologi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Conspiracy theories are not new to our modern time. They date back to biblical times when Moses sent his spies out to check out what the Egyptians were doing. Espionage is, also, linked to various conspiracies and is all mixed up in the same bag of tricks and form any decent conspiracy or theory.
In this new, fact…
First edition is out-of-print – this new expanded edition brings back this title with a bang.