A study of the Russian Empire at the peak of its military power and success (1762-1825), this important book examines how a country with none of the obvious trappings of moderni...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Janet Evans.
Blossoms on the Olive Tree
Janet M. Powers · ISBN 9780275990015
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
Blossoms on the Olive Tree is an American woman's account of work that Israeli and Palestinian women are doing to educate themselves and their societies about militarization, hu...
Packed with riches yet highly accessible, The Heart's Time is at its core a series of short, resonant poems for each weekday of Lent and Easter. It will appeal to existing poetr...
Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet the coming of the light, we need to engage wi...
'Bring us, Lord our God, at our last awakening, into the house and gate of heaven...' John Donne's prayer speaks of the hope and promise of a life with God that embraces us beyo...
'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development...
The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
Janet M. Chernela · ISBN 9780292711860
Julkaistu 1996 Kieli englanti pokkari
The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differs from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wa...
Masculinity and Femininity
Janet T. Spence; Robert L. Helmreich · ISBN 9780292750524
Julkaistu 1978 Kieli englanti pokkari
Many societies assign sharply distinguished roles to men and women. Personality differences, as well as physical differences, between men and women are used to justify these dif...
Taking the Waters in Texas
Janet Mace Valenza · ISBN 9780292787346
Julkaistu 2000 Kieli englanti pokkari
"It is well known that Southern Texas possesses a greater variety of Mineral Waters than any other country on the globe" enthused a promotion for one of Texas' many watering spa...
Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to p...
Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to p...
Not Native American Art
Janet Catherine Berlo; Joe Horse Capture · ISBN 9780295751368
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti sidottu
Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American artThe faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a ce...
New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest....
Wild by Design
Janet Catherine Berlo; Patricia Cox Crews · ISBN 9780295983097
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti pokkari
Wild by Design explores the American tradition of freewheeling, improvisational, often asymmetrical quilts, whose makers experimented boldly with design, color, and pictorial mo...
In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change a...
In the early twentieth century, the appearance of new houses across the United States shifted dramatically. Rejecting the elaborate decoration and complexity of Victorian homes,...
In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change a...
Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves
Janet J. Ewald · ISBN 9780299126001
Julkaistu 1990 Kieli englanti sidottu
Telling the Little Secrets
Janet Handler Burstein · ISBN 9780299212407
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli englanti sidottu
Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their...
Readers first meet Simone Lerrante, a Belgian war orphan, as a child refugee in Sussex, England, her memory damaged by trauma. The novel offers a kaleidoscopic vision of Simone'...