With raw honesty and vulnerability, Rowdy Girl illuminates the realities of animal agriculture through tracing the authors journey from a poor upbringing to life as the wife of a Texas cattle rancher. Unable to reconcile the cruel realities of her h...Loe edasi...
In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life. Leisure served to teach citizens about their various social roles and helped them construct identities, mainly by establ...Loe edasi...
In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life. Leisure served to teach citizens about their various social roles and helped them construct identities, mainly by establ...Loe edasi...
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancing, hunting or singing all could help to keep ones humours in balance...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the British votes for women campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power...Loe edasi...
Consciousness has been a central theme of Indian philosophy for more than 2500 years. Returning to the theories that originated in the Classical age, Matthew MacKenzie presents the first comprehensive overview of Indian views about the nature and str...Loe edasi...
In the Modern Age (1920-present) leisure became inseparable from modern life. Rising incomes, less time at work, and more forms of available recreations fostered an intensive cultivation of leisure experiences for all classes of people. Between the w...Loe edasi...
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancing, hunting or singing all could help to keep ones humours in balance...Loe edasi...
Over the past 20 years, 33,000 North Korean refugees have escaped to South Korea, though their plight in South Korea is largely unknown to the Western World. These North Korean refugees who have made it to freedom are struggling.Within South Korea,...Loe edasi...
How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Remarkable A joy to read JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West Dazzling Will change how you see Rome, and Christianity, for ever CATHERI...Loe edasi...
Dark and strange and wonderful MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeHilarious, moving, and delightfully weird JO HARKIN, author of The PretenderA bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative historical novel with an unf...Loe edasi...
The death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 deprived the United Kingdom of its longest-serving monarch. The Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary United Kingdom, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. Th...Loe edasi...
Ben Peterson explores the erosion of communal self-governance in contemporary American society and its consequences: rising social disorder and increased dependence on formal institutions such as policing and incarceration.Drawing on thinkers such as...Loe edasi...
As societies around the globe undergo rapid change, Benjamin Nelsons theories help explain how and why civilizations evolve.This book offers a full-length, comprehensive analysis of Benjamin Nelsons ideas and historical studies, exploring his civil...Loe edasi...
In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage. Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experi...Loe edasi...
AC Grayling presents a work of analytic philosophy arguing that considerations of natural language ontology tell us much about how to understand truth, reference and concepts of reality.In this detailed examination of how philosophers currently think...Loe edasi...
In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage. Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experi...Loe edasi...
In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word leisure had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the British votes for women campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance (1450-1650), various forms of leisure from theatre and reading to sports became more prominent cultural phenomena due to professionalisation, institutionalisation and commercialisation. While festivals, sports and games fro...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance (1450-1650), various forms of leisure from theatre and reading to sports became more prominent cultural phenomena due to professionalisation, institutionalisation and commercialisation. While festivals, sports and games fro...Loe edasi...
In the Modern Age (1920-present) leisure became inseparable from modern life. Rising incomes, less time at work, and more forms of available recreations fostered an intensive cultivation of leisure experiences for all classes of people. Between the w...Loe edasi...
This study explores for the first time the changing professions and roles of the women who worked to clothe six Stuart queens between 1603 1714: Anna of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne...Loe edasi...
The Age of Empire (1800-1920) stands out as a profoundly new era in the history of leisure. Especially in cities and towns the landscape of recreation substantially expanded and differentiated, motivating growing masses of people in the Western world...Loe edasi...
Consciousness has been a central theme of Indian philosophy for more than 2500 years. Returning to the theories that originated in the Classical age, Matthew MacKenzie presents the first comprehensive overview of Indian views about the nature and str...Loe edasi...
AC Grayling presents a work of analytic philosophy arguing that considerations of natural language ontology tell us much about how to understand truth, reference and concepts of reality.In this detailed examination of how philosophers currently think...Loe edasi...
The Age of Empire (1800-1920) stands out as a profoundly new era in the history of leisure. Especially in cities and towns the landscape of recreation substantially expanded and differentiated, motivating growing masses of people in the Western world...Loe edasi...
This book pays homage to a rock band that has most influenced alternative culture, the Grateful Dead. It critically discussing the evolution of the libertarian spirit in the USA, which was born and developed in the 1960s and merged in the last three...Loe edasi...
This book pays homage to a rock band that has most influenced alternative culture, the Grateful Dead. It critically discussing the evolution of the libertarian spirit in the USA, which was born and developed in the 1960s and merged in the last three...Loe edasi...
In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word leisure had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly...Loe edasi...
