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A Biography of Loneliness by Bound Alberti Fay;
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Bound Alberti, Fay;

The Complexities of Loneliness Among the Elderly The experience of loneliness in old age is not universal, or inevitable. It is dependent on the dominant ideologies of ageing and social ...
( Category: History January 19,2020 )
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons by Kim Sung Chull; Cohen Michael D.; & Michael D. Cohen
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kim, Sung Chull; Cohen, Michael D.; & Michael D. Cohen

6 THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR THREAT AND SOUTH KOREA’S DETERRENCE STRATEGY Chaesung Chun ON JANUARY 6, 2016, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and claimed that the regime had ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
Hypatia by Watts Edward J.;
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Watts, Edward J.;

9 The Memory of Hypatia The discordance between the type of person that Hypatia was and the brutal way in which she died explains the initial shock that many people ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )
Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America by Shari Rabin
epub |eng | 2017-12-12 | Author:Shari Rabin

“Strangers among Brothers” In 1844 Isaac Leeser offered his own theory of Jewish community: [Our] souls are linked together by the ties of consanguinity in faith, by the union of ...
( Category: Jewish January 19,2020 )
Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought by Robin Marie Averbeck
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Robin Marie Averbeck

CHAPTER FOUR Building the Blame Illegitimacy is a painful subject, but one is surprised in this age of the Foul Speech Movement to find that it is also thought to ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities by J. C. McKeown
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:J. C. McKeown [McKeown, J. C.]

The rise of Christianity did very little to curb slavery. Even St. Augustine, in the 5th century, thought it acceptable for slaves to be obtained by kidnapping, provided the kidnapping ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
The Conquest of Death by Matthew Lockwood
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Matthew Lockwood [Lockwood, Matthew]

SIX The Changing Nature of Control DESPITE THE WISHES OF BOTH historians and their subjects, history rarely unfolds in a straightforward, progressive manner. The gains and developments of one era ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Writing and Script by Robinson Andrew;
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Robinson, Andrew; [Robinson, Andrew;]

Champollion wondered if his new alphabet, derived from much later Graeco-Roman inscriptions, might apply to this set of purely Egyptian inscriptions. The last two signs were familiar to him, having ...
( Category: Handwriting January 19,2020 )
Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store by Nicole C. Kirk
epub |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Nicole C. Kirk

Moral Art The idea of artwork as a moral instructor was a rather astonishing development in the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the century, Protestantism was often at odds ...
( Category: Company Profiles January 19,2020 )
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age by James Kirchick
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:James Kirchick

6 Brexit: From Great Britain to Little England England … will save Europe by her example. William Pitt the Younger, 1805 We seem, as it were, to have conquered half ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
Seven Ways of Looking at Religion: The Major Narratives by Benjamin Schewel
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Benjamin Schewel [Schewel, Benjamin]

CHAPTER SIX The Perennial Narrative THE PERENNIAL NARRATIVE CLAIMS that all religions exhibit common characteristics. For some, the word “perennial” immediately calls to mind the school of thought known as ...
( Category: Philosophy January 19,2020 )
Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Lottery poster, Society of Antiquaries, London. So, in 1616, the Virginia Company again revamped its plan. The previous lotteries had been in London and were called “standing lotteries,” but now ...
( Category: Atmospheric Sciences January 19,2020 )
Safe Passage: The Transition From British to American Hegemony by Kori Schake
epub |eng | 2017-11-27 | Author:Kori Schake

A Splendid Little War For the Spanish-American War, the fight in the West (Cuba) gets most of the attention because the war began there, ease of access allowed extensive newspaper ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
The Believing Primate by Schloss Jeffrey; Murray Michael;
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Schloss, Jeffrey; Murray, Michael; [Schloss, Jeffrey; Murray, Michael;]

Assessing the Views Are these cognitive/evolutionary explanations plausible? If so, they at most show us why we are liable to develop religious ideas, though as noted it won’t be much ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 19,2020 )
The Nature of Revolution by Tyner James;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Tyner, James; [Tyner, James;]

The Poetics of Building Socialism I contend that the CPK, as a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party, understood nature and humanity not as binaries but instead as oppositional contradictions. Humanity, consequently, was ...
( Category: World January 19,2020 )

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