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Making the Frontier Man Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780822947875
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It provides a key to understanding why the trans-Appalachian West was prone to violent struggles, especially between white men.
Wearables 01 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9789492940179
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Wearables
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
Wearables is an annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewellery traditions, placed in their cultural setting.
Writing and Desire Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780822947776
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire - the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world - as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What might such a recentering of desire offer us, personally and politically?
Decoding International Arbitration Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9781922952004
Pub Date: 26 Oct 2023
Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Description:
A concise;informed and practical introduction for legal practitioners and associated professionals to the law and practice of international commercial arbitration.
1800 Years of Encounters With Mandaeans Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9781463241322
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2023
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Mandaean Studies
Description:
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley’s new book is both an updated academic study and an autobiographical account of her decades-long Mandaean encounters. The book includes the author’s intellectual timeline in Mandaean studies from the late 1960s until today, a study of Mandaean scribal lineages, accounts of private and public meetings with Mandeans around the world with 26 anecdotes / vignettes, as well as selections from a privately printed book on her international human rights work for Mandaeans. The book is dedicated to a treasured Mandaean friend, the yalufa (learned layman) Sh.
An Illusion of Equity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9780813197661
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2023
Description:
Public education plays a crucial role in crafting a nation's future. In the United States, education reform policy, particularly the reliance on large-scale, standardized testing, is a growing topic of national conversation and concern. An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education demonstrates how centuries of propaganda have led us to accept the idea that test scores indicate something so valuable about human beings that they should be used to organize society.
Remaking the World Cover Remaking the World Cover
Format: 
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9780813197487
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2023
Illustrations: 12 b&w illustrations
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9780813197623
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2023
Illustrations: 12 b&w illustrations
Description:
Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the decolonizing process. Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order.
Yanks in Blue Berets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813197630
Pub Date: 04 Jul 2023
Series: American Warriors Series
Illustrations: 27 b&w halftones, 14 maps, 2 charts, 4 tables
Description:
In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually challenged in its peacekeeping mission, often having to alter its configuration.
Tar Hollow Trans Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813197555
Pub Date: 20 Jun 2023
Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Description:
"I've lived a completely ordinary life, so much that I don't know how to write a transgender or queer or Appalachian story, because I don't feel like I've lived one..
The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9780813197289
Pub Date: 06 Jun 2023
Description:
In the century after Emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. Sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, and across the world, European colonialism had bred a new slavery that menaced the liberty of even more Africans. A core group of Black freedom movement leaders, including Ida B.
Engaging Appalachia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9780813196947
Pub Date: 07 Mar 2023
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 1 table, 7 b&w illustrations
Description:
Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity - defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities - and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State Cover Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State Cover
Format: 
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780813196152
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 16 b&w illustrations
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780813197111
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 16 b&w illustrations
Description:
Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" has been designated as the official state song and performed at the Kentucky Derby for decades. In light of the ongoing social justice movement to end racial inequality, many have questioned whether the song should be played at public events, given its inaccurate depiction of slavery in the state. In Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State, editor Gerald L.
An Introduction to Black Studies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813196916
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Illustrations: 30 b&w illustrations
Description:
For hundreds of years, the American public education system has neglected to fully examine, discuss, and acknowledge the vast and rich history of people of African descent who have played a pivotal role in the transformation of the United States. The establishment of Black studies departments and programs represented a major victory for higher education and a vindication of Black scholars such as W. E.
Democratic Deliberation and Public Bioethics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9788869774133
Pub Date: 23 Jan 2023
Series: Politics
Description:
Since the 1990s, deliberative democracy has been the focus of increased scholarly attention, as well as the locus of initiatives intended to directly engage the public in matters of public concern. Geared to bringing the core tenets of public deliberation to bear onto different contexts within the public sphere, deliberative processes have been implemented in a range of forms, from citizens’ juries to national issue forums, from deliberative opinion polls to participatory budgeting. Ever more frequently, public deliberation has also gained traction in the field of public bioethics.
Temple People Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781913344078
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2023
Series: Fragility and Sustainability - Studies on Early Malta, the ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project
Description:
The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, culture change and collapse in prehistory, 2013–18) led by Caroline Malone has focused on the unique Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta and its antecedents. This third volume builds on the achievements of Mortuary customs in prehistoric Malta, published by the McDonald Institute in 2009. It seeks to answer many questions posed, but left unanswered, of the more than 200,000 fragments of mainly commingled human remains from the Xagħra Brochtorff Circle on Gozo.
Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780822947530
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2022
Description:
During Soviet rule, the state all but imposed atheism on the primarily Islamic people of Kyrgyzstan and limited the tradition of polygyny - a form of polygamy in which one man has multiple wives. Polygyny did continue under communism, though chiefly under concealment. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the practice has reemerged.