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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In the Western world, the modern view of childhood as a space protected from broader adult society first became a dominant social vision during the nineteenth century. Many of the West's sharpest portrayals of children in literature and the arts emerged at that time in both Europe and the United States...
Matching Organs with Donors
Legality and Kinship in Transplants
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting...
The Art of Contact
Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these accounts may be, their stories, as voiced by a Greek,...
Identity
The Necessity of a Modern Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European...
Human Rights Education
Theory, Research, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the...
Inventing the Egghead
The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to...
Women as Unseen Characters
Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male initiation rituals that until recently were held in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, these rituals have been understood as all-male institutions,...
Order and Chivalry
Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco asks different questions. Does chivalry have anything to do with the emergence of an urban bourgeoisie?...
A Kingdom of Priests
Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition...
Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans
Blessings and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
The "oldest old," individuals aged 85 and above, are the most rapidly growing segment of American society. And although more than a third of cancer occurs in people over 75 years of age, their tumors are less fully diagnosed and often less fully treated than those in younger patients. Ageism...
Ancient Christian Ecopoetics
Cosmologies, Saints, Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In our age of ecological crisis, what insights—if any—can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our...
by Ivan G. Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms,...
The Americas in the Spanish World Order
The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish...
Jean de Saintre
A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, Jean de Saintré has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older and much more experienced...