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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
One hundred years after the Azusa Street Revival stunned Los Angeles and changed Western Christianity, Pentecostalism has become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. However, many Pentecostal denominations in the United States are in a slow decline. Will Pentecostalism survive in North...
by Tom Regan, Jeremy Garrett, Mylan Engel Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which...
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
The French Educator Celestin Freinet (1896-1966)
An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
The French Educator Celestin Freinet is a complete overview of the influence of this seminal figure. Although Celestin Freinet is virtually unknown outside of France, his ideas about the integration of technology into the classroom are more relevant now than ever. Victor Acker has succeeded in introducing...
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948
Facing the Temple Mount
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site became one of the holiest places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world. Once the Dome of the Rock was built during early Islam, the edifice replaced the temple and for centuries pilgrims,...
Partners in Wonder
Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Contrary to accepted interpretations, women fans and writers were a welcome and influential part of pulp science fiction from the birth of the genre. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors, under their own female...
African American Identity
Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what...
The Immortal Comedy
The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In...
On Jean Améry
Philosophy of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's...
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent...
Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples
The Body of Naples
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual,...
Where Is My Home?
The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century. An originator of novel trends in sculpture...
And Why Not?
The Human Person and the Heart of Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Although free enterprise and free economies now proliferate around the globe, the idea of business as a holy vocation is one that has received little attention. Few business figures have depicted their professions in this light, as few have seen how their roles might bridge the divide between the...