Paperback / softback. New. A collection of biographies of many women including gospel singers black nuns preachers missionaries and civil rights workers. These biographies look at the history and experiences of African-American women in relation to their spirituality and activities in organized religion. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This book offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. paperback
Hardback. New. This book analyses how generations of secondary and high school students in many countries have been thoughtful committed and effective political actors particularly over the past decade. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Provides insights into the validity of fieldwork autobiography and the textual critique of anthropologists presenting new scope for the genre of autobiography and contributing to debates about reflexivity and political responsibility. paperback
Hardback. New. This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels mainly from North Africa draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies languages and cultures. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters. paperback
Hardback. New. This book demonstrates that student movements have always been part of the political landscape and remain a significant and potent source of political change and renewal. hardcover
Hardback. New. More than 100 entries cover the significant events people publications movements and organizations associated with Anthony and each entry describes the topic in historical context. More than 100 entries cover the significant events people publications movements and organizations associated with Susan B. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. In this story of Cassy a slave tried for murdering her owner's youngest daughter the lives of three women-a slave a murder victim and the author discovering her family had owned slaves-are woven together to reveal Cassy's story in 1833 America and why it matters today. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This volume provides basic education K-12 administrators with a framework for understanding issues and programming for students who are speakers of English as another language and for conceptualizing the role of educational administrators in promoting equal educational opportunity. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Projects use different types of media e.g. books tapes CD-ROMs the Internet giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States shows the complexity of migrant experiences advocating for immigration as a social issue rather than a social problem and understanding that immigration rests on larger units of meaning structured by time and place. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Considers the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine. This book offers a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Africa is a massive continent with many multicultural nations where translation and interpretation are everyday occurrences. Translation studies has flourished in Africa with countries often having several official languages. This book presents research articles on translation and interpreter studies in Africa. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters. paperback
Hardback. New. Fritz Marti: Immigrant A Biographical Memoir is the story of Marti's encounter with and adaptation to America and a look at American academic life during the early Twentieth Century. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. By drawing upon object relations concepts the couples therapist is able to work with both the intrapsychic makeup of the partners and their ways of relating as a couple. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. Dynamic Play in Creative Movement offers effective and accessible methods to supplement elementary education for young children using dance movement and play. paperback
Hardback. New. This book introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. Literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great reads-smart insightful and engaging books that are specifically written for adolescents. hardcover
Hardback. New. The volume examines the motives for lexical borrowing from English during the last century the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of its integration into twelve languages representing several language families. Many of these absorbing languages are studied here for the first time. hardcover
Hardback. New. Shows how the Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka was adept at deflecting international criticism as well as the wider implications for human rights and international peacemaking. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Judith Lieu examines the rhetorical function of Jews in the early texts of the second century and seeks to acknowledge the complex nature of an issue which is too easily proclaimed 'Christian anti-Semitism'. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. A volume which argues that in order to give children the positive successful and enthusiastic start in life that is necessary as a basis for the ideal of "lifelong learning" schools must be prepared to engage the community actively while undertaking radical self-appraisal and renewal. paperback
Hardback. New. Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century for theologians and the question of the nature of his relationship with theology remains a source of lively discussion. This book offers theologians and philosophers alike a clear account of the directions and the potential of this debate. hardcover
Hardback. New. Brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital and hybrid library projects providing a stimulating and informative handbook and reference for library staff and information managers. hardcover