Henry K: 82 books

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism. Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...

Cancer of the Skin, edited by Drs. Rigel, Robinson, Ross, Friedman, Cockerell, Lim, Stockfleth, and Kirkwood, is your complete, multimedia guide to early diagnosis and effective medical and surgical treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers. Thoroughly updated with 11 new chapters, this broad-based,...

This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of...

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...

This book offers keen insight and useful lessons underscoring the value of practice to theory. Conceived by two anthropologists who lead consulting practices, McCabe and Briody selected contributors to explore how cultural change happens in a variety of consumer and organizational contexts. The 12...

There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating...

For many years, political leaders and analysts have debated the impacts of China’s rise on the stability of the existing international system. International observers have also debated whether China would be a status quo power or a revisionist power, and whether China would observe the rules and...

Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man...

Daniel and Jeffery are two very different fathers.  One's son is the center of his universe, the other's isn't even a part of his.  When a horrible tragedy strikes, one must make an agonizing choice.  One that will change the lives of both fathers, and their sons, forever.

There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...

Oktober 1414. Kaum ist der junge Bäcker Cunrat Wolgemut in Konstanz eingetroffen, um während des Konzils sein Glück zu finden, gerät er auch schon in Schwierigkeiten: Er wird in eine Schlägerei verwickelt, seine heiratswütige Base stellt ihm nach und sein Freund wird tot aufgefunden. Bald gibt...

1415 in einem habsburgischen Kloster. Äbtissin Elisabeth versucht sich in einer Welt voller Intrigen und Geheimnisse zu behaupten, als sie einen Verrat aufdeckt. Der Adlige Gessler versucht, das Kloster um seine Besitzungen zu bringen. Sie schickt ihren Hofmeister zum Konstanzer Konzil, um beim Papst...