Author: Beverly Guy-Sheftall
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In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. Only since the seventies have black women used the term feminism. And yet, it is that concept that she uses to bring into the same frame the ideas and analyses of Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances W.E. Harper of the early nineteenth century, and the work of women such as the late Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, and bell hooks who stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century... She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously struggled for the liberation of African American women from the dual oppressions of racism and sexism. From the epilogue by Johnnetta B. Cole, President, Spelman College The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume. Elizabeth Spelman, Professor of Philosophy, Smith College **Review The indefatigable Beverly Guy-Sheftall has put together a breathtaking sweep of African American feminist thought in one indispensable volume. Elizabeth Spelman, professor of philosophy, Smith College About the Author Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Womens Studies at Spelman College and the founding director of the Womens Research & Resource Center. She is also one of the founding co-editors of Sage A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. Her previous publications include Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign (co-edited with Johnnetta B. Cole) and Still Brave The Evolution of Black Womens Studies (co-edited with Frances Smith Foster and Stanlie M. James).
Author: Phyllis MacK
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This volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G. Koenigsberger, Professor of History at Kings College London, who has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The contributors pay tribute to Koenigsbergers range of interest by taking up themes that have resonated through his lectures, seminars and public writings. What emerges from a variety of approaches and topics is an overriding concern with intellectual unity, an overview which encompasses and reconciles the values of the politician or scholar with those of the spiritual idealist. Even the most overtly political of the major cultural figures discussed in these pages, as Robert Kingdons essay on Calvin demonstrates, bent their political will to the service of an intense spiritual idealism.Book DescriptionThis volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G. Koenigsberger, Professor of History at Kings College London, who has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Author: Alex Watson
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This book examines the reception of British Romanticism in India and East Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan). Building on recent scholarship on Global Romanticism, it develops a reciprocal, cross-cultural model of scholarship, in which Asian Romanticism is recognized as itself an important part of the Romantic literary tradition. It explores the connections between canonical British Romantic authors (including Austen, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth) and prominent Asian writers (including Natsume Soseki, Rabindranath Tagore, and Xu Zhimo). The essays also challenge Eurocentric assumptions about reception and periodization, exploring how, since the early nineteenth century, British Romanticism has been creatively adapted and transformed by Asian writers. **
Author: Peter Rollins
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Rollins has already established himself as a major voice and an astute, generative force within the emergence Christianity. The Orthodox Heretic is his most accessible and engaging work to date. - Phyllis Tickle In this bold new book Peter Rollins presents a vision of faith that has little regard for the institutions of Christendom. His uncompromising critique of religion, while often unsettling, is infused with a deep and abiding love for what it means to genuinely follow Christ. Pete Rollins writes with clarity and compelling conviction. - Frank Schaeffer I remember driving around Belfast with Pete, sitting in the front seat listening to him tell these parables that hed writtenthinking, Everybody needs to hear these. And now you can. Rob Bell, author of Jesus Wants to Save Christians**
Author: Anthony Gottlieb
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His book...supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.A. C. GraylingAlready a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russells monumental History of Western Philosophy, but Gottliebs book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001. **
Author: Abbas Vali
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Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas Vali disputes the conventional view that the Kurdish Republic was the result of a Soviet conspiracy to dismember Iran, a side-effect of the Cold War. Instead he emphasizes the diversity of the internal Iranian and Kurdish factors that led to the formation of the Republic, arguing that the Republic represents the culmination of a new and modern Kurdish national identity. This was an identity which emerged in response to the exclusionary effects of the political and discursive processes and practices of the construction of a modern Iranian nation-state and national identity since the Constitutional Revolution of 1906. With its analysis of the formation and effects of nationalism and ethnic identity, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Kurds or the development of national and state identities in the Middle East. **Review Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE About the Author Abbas Vali is Professor of Modern Social and Political Theory at the Department of Sociology, in Bogazici Universiti, Istabul. He previously taught Political Theory and Modern Middle Eastern Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea, before moving to Erbil, Iraq to serve as the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan Hawler from 2006 to 2008. His writings include Pre-Capitalist Iran A Theoritical History (I.B.Tauris, 1993), Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism (2003) and Modernity and the Stateless The Kurds in the Islamic Republic (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming).
Author: Brian Tracy
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Anyone who works with people, from entrepreneurs and fast-paced executives to community volunteers and medical professionals, will find the advice in Great Little Book on Effective Leadership helpful, sound, and exhilarating.
Author: Edwin Abbott
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The beloved science fiction classic In Flatland, the more sides a man has, the more powerful he is. Triangles are laborers and soldiers. Squares and pentagons are middle-class doctors and lawyers. Hexagons are nobility. Women, however, are straight lines, incapable of advancement in a two-dimensional world. Everything in Flatland is clear-cut and orderly, until the day an average citizena Squaredreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible, why not four? Or one? Soon, the Squares provocative imagination and corresponding adventures threaten to turn the whole of Flatland against him.First published in 1884, two decades before Einsteins theory of relativity defined time as the fourth dimension, Edwin Abbotts Flatland is both a prescient exploration of the unseen and a delightful skewering of Victorian social strictures.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.