Biography: philosophy and social sciences Books
Nimbus Publishing Limited Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland's
Book Synopsis
£21.80
Nimbus Publishing Ltd Anne's Cradle: The Life and Works of Hanako
Book Synopsis
£18.06
Reaktion Books Soren Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisThe Danish philosopher, theologian and author Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely considered to be one of the most important religious thinkers of the modern age. He is known as the `father of existentialism', but his work was also influential on theories of modernism, theology, Western culture, church politics and the Christian faith. His wit, imagination and humour have inspired a generation of followers from Franz Kafka to Woody Allen. But how did this inattentive schoolboy rise to critique the work of great thinkers such as Hegel and the German Romantics? Who was the unusual person writing behind the many pseudonyms? And in what way are Kierkegaard's concepts still relevant today? In this absorbing new biography Alastair Hannay unravels the mystery of Soren Kierkegaard's short but momentous career. Kierkegaard's key concepts and major works are described alongside the major incidents in his private and public life, from his longing for selfhood expressed at the age of 22, to a verbal assault on the Church in the months prior to his early death at the age of 42. Soren Kierkegaard is a story of a man destined to become a thorn in the side of society.
£18.23
Impress Books The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story
Book Synopsis
£15.08
Fulcrum Inc.,US Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth, Volume
Book SynopsisTales of the Talented Tenth, Volume One tells the story of Bass Reeves, an escaped slave who became one of the most successful lawman of the old west. Volume I chronicles his life from winning shooting matches in early childhood to traveling with his master, living with Native Americans in Indian Territory, and finally becoming a U.S. Marshal.
£20.66
McSweeney's Publishing Of Color: Essays
Book Synopsis
£17.10
Apollo Publishers Witch, Please: A Memoir: Finding Magic in Modern
Book SynopsisA touching and thought-provoking account of how a woman explored a spectrum of religions—ancient and new—and ended up, unexpectedly, becoming a bona fide witch—plus a celebration of modern Wicca and witchcraft, spell books, broomsticks, holiday recipes and recipes for the changing of the seasons, and much more. Misty Bell Stiers set out on a spiritual path to find a faith that worked for her, and accidentally became a witch. She knew the Bible well, and got to know the Torah and Koran. She studied Eastern philosophies, even the stories of the Egyptians and Greeks. Finally, after overcoming an immediate prejudice ("Um, no," she writes as her initial reaction), she found Wicca. Witch, Please reveals what makes the mysterious religion of Wicca so desirable for more than a million Americans. In her witty, direct, and heartfelt text, Misty explores spirituality, perseverance, and finding oneself. She shares what Wicca means to her and what defines her as a witch; what she uses her spell book, cauldron, and broomstick for; the significance of Wiccan holidays, many about new beginnings; the surprising history of Wicca; and what kinds of witches there are. She also shares how in her busy New York City life, as a mother and a creative director, her faith grounds and sustains her. Her uplifting, you-too-can-find-what-works-for-you voice speaks like a best friend: relatable, honest, and encouraging. This unusual and beautifully written memoir explores what it's like to be a modern-day witch, and how it's changed Misty's outlook on life. It's candid, but it's also threaded with magic and has a warming, lightheartedness to it. Bewitching original drawings by Misty are throughout, and Misty even shares ten original recipes for her Wiccan holiday treats (including the likes of her cinnamon rolls and roasted garlic rosemary bread, sprinkled with magic and seasoned with love, laughter, and healing).Trade Review“Witch, Please is very useful for beginners to know the experience and journey of a modern witch. Stiers’s experiences are universal for many readers, from falling in love and getting married to sharing her Wiccan faith with her family, having children, and experiencing difficult times and loss. Through Stiers’s personal experience you will learn about the gods/goddesses, symbols and tools of Wicca; spells and curses; living day-to-day as a witch; and Wiccan holidays (sabbats) with meaningful and delicious recipes. This book is very grounded, giving readers a hint of what life could be like as a Wiccan.” —DC Public Library “Witch, Please is a fantastic, enlightening read. Misty Bell Stiers’s personal journey working and raising a family in New York City as a modern-day witch is full of wisdom and wisecracks, but it never gets preachy. It reads like any good story should, like it is being told from one best friend to another.” —Nathan Tysen, Broadway lyricist (Tuck Everlasting and Amélie) “Misty Bell Stiers dispels rumors about Wiccans and reveals what their beliefs mean in the modern era. Witch, Please is about a modern mom and her experience using the tenets of Wicca as her version of third-wave feminism. This book casts a major spell on anyone who reads it.” —Seth Herzog, comedian with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon “Misty Bell Stiers’s practical, conversational writing style is relatable and addictive. From the first line she pulls you in, opening our eyes to the simple everyday magic of connecting with others, understanding oneself, and the wonders of the earth and sky. In her understated and approachable way, she shares her journey with us as she finds her individual path of honest, spiritual growth.” —Dawn Aurora Hunt, owner and CEO of Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery “Today, in a world that seems so unfamiliar to many of us, Misty Bell Stiers has gifted us with a book that shows that we can still follow the sun over the horizon, that we can inhale the crisp air that floats over glacier-carved lakes, and that we can wrap our arms around the sacred, wherever we may find it and whenever we open our hearts to it. The authenticity of her voice is only matched by her welcoming, lyrical prose—both weaved together to narrate and define. Misty gives us an intimate view of how to find magic in modern times, magic that has always been with us and inside us, and helps us find a familiar world again. It’s honest. It’s lovely. It’s magic.” —Kase Johnstun, award-winning author of Beyond the Grip of CraniosynostosisTable of ContentsEVERYONE DESERVES THE CHANCE TO FLYIntroduction THAT'S ME IN THE CORNERHow I Became a Wiccan A LITTLE FAITH AND A LOT OF HEARTWhat Wicca Is ... and Isn't A RESTLESS SPIRIT ON AN ENDLESS FLIGHTDiscovering My Identity as a Witch THAT'S THE POWER MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUNDMarriage and Wicca I LIGHT A CANDLE THEN I CALL YOUR NAMEThe Gods and Goddesses, Symbols, and Tools of Wicca I PUT A SPELL ON YOUThe Truth about Spells and Curses BIG WHEEL KEEP ON TURNIN'Living the Day-to-Day as a Witch THESE ARE THE DAYS OF MIRACLE AND WONDERRaising My Children Wiccan (Not Wicked) AND WE'LL DANCE BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONWiccan Holidays CHASING THE SUNLiving My Faith in Times of Crisis OH OH OH IT'S MAGIC Afterword NOTES
£9.74
Rutgers University Press Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race
Book SynopsisRace remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States’ histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with the toxic and torturous legacies of American racism?Slavery’s Descendants brings together contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, all members or associates of a national racial reconciliation organization called Coming to the Table, to tell their stories of dealing with America’s racial past through their experiences and their family histories. Some are descendants of slaveholders, some are descendants of the enslaved, and many are descendants of both slaveholders and slaves. What they all have in common is a commitment toward collective introspection, and a willingness to think critically about how the nation’s histories of oppression continue to ripple into the present, affecting us all. The stories in Slavery’s Descendants deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity, gratitude, and love. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery to reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time. Funding for the production of this book was provided by Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund (https://www.furthermore.org). Trade ReviewIn its first-hand chronicles of courage, rage, forgiveness, and the solace of an embrace, Slavery’s Descendants unleashes powerful emotions. Full of hard-won wisdom, this book also captures the painful ambiguities our past fastens on us. "I want revelation," one participant says, "and yet, I dread it, too." -- Henry Wiencek * author of The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White *“In these moving essays, we see the testaments of journeys made by both descendants of enslavers and descendants of the enslaved to reckon with pain of the past, and look beneath the skin of the present for healing. Using poetry, essay, oral history, genealogical shard, these writings bear witness to the search to find and give language to our tangled, fraught, but ultimately shared history. Puzzling through the intimate histories that link us as Americans to one another— though often violent or painful— each writer here finds a way of knowing the past that offers the present more freedom, more hope. Here are stories told at a human scale, full of longing, honesty, grief, and also hope. In a difficult time, these writers lay down these meditations in the hope of a better, freer future for all of us. Their efforts are paths we would do well to follow. They offer us a chance for greater wholeness, too.” -- Tess Taylor * author of The Forage House *Fordham Magazine mention of Slavery's Descendants edited by Jill Strauss and Dionne Ford * Fordham Magazine *'"They were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names?" by Hannah Natanson https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/14/they-were-once-americas-cruelest-richest-slave-traders-why-does-no-one-know-their-names/?wpisrc=nl_mostwpmm=1 * Washington Post *Interview with Jill Strauss and Dionne Ford, Slavery's Descendants and Coming to the Table https://networks.h-net.org/node/11465/pages/5424505/interview-jill-strauss-and-dionne-ford-slaverys-descendants-and-coming * H-Net *Table of ContentsContentsForeword: Coming to the Table - Lucian K. Truscott IVIntroduction - Dionne Ford and Jill StraussPart I Uncovering History1 President in the Family - Shannon Lanier2 So Many Names - A. B. Westrick3 The Will, the Woman, and the Archive - Catherine Sasanov4 Overcoming Amnesia: How I Learned the Forgotten History of Two Families Linked by Slavery - Bill Sizemore5 Oregon’s Slave History - R. Gregory Nokes 6 Seed of the Fancy Maid - Rodney WilliamsPart II Making Connections7 State Line - Antoinette Broussard8 The Plantation Cake - Leslie Stainton 9 Am I Black? - Eileen Jackson10 The Immeasurable Distance between Us - Thomas Norman DeWolf11 Making Connections - Karen Branan 12 A Millennial Facing the Legacies of Slavery - Fabrice GuerrierPart III Working toward Healing13 Standing on the Shoulders of My Ancestors - Tammarrah Lee14 So Close and So Far Away - Elisa D. Pearmain 15 Born Both Innocent and Accountable: A Moral Reckoning - Debian Marty16 The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: An Essay of Atonement - David Terrett Beumée17 Not a Wound Too Deep - Karen Stewart-Ross 18 To See/ The Blindness of Whiteness - Sara JenkinsPart IV Taking Action19 Digging Up the Woodpile - Sharon Leslie Morgan 20 On Being Involved- Stephanie Harp 21 Changing the Narrative- Joseph McGill 22 Tangled Vines: A Bloodline Shaped by Slavery - Grant Hayter-Menzies23 A Dream Deferred along Holman’s Creek- Sarah Kohrs24 The Tale of Two Sisters - Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby Afterword: What a Legacy of Slavery and Racism Has to Do with Me - Jill StraussPostscript: From Branches to Roots - Dionne FordAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on Contributors
£25.19
Penguin Putnam Inc Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family,
Book Synopsis
£15.30
Pottersfield Press Ode to the Unpraised: Stories and Lessons from
Book Synopsis
£17.95
Pottersfield Press The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie
Book Synopsis
£19.76
Classiques Garnier Essais de Critique Et d'Histoire. Volume II
Book Synopsis
£87.00
Bohlau Verlag Frauen in Sachsen-Anhalt 2: Ein
Book Synopsis
£79.83
Bohlau Verlag Preussisch, Konservativ, Judisch: Hans-Joachim
Book Synopsisn der Biographie des preussisch gesonnenen, konservativen und judischen Religionshistorikers Hans Joachim Schoeps (1909-1980), der seit seiner Jugend Mitglied der bundischen Jugend gewesen ist, 1938 emigrierte und schon 1946 heimwehkrank nach Deutschland zuruckkehrte, zeigen sich beispielhaft jene Wunsche, Widerspruche und Enttauschungen, die deutsche Juden im Zwanzigsten Jahrhundert hegten und verarbeiten mussten. Noch im Deutschland der ersten Jahre des NS Regimes vergeblich darum bemuht, die Anerkennung des judenfeindlichen Regimes zu gewinnen, wurde Hans Joachim Schoeps im spat erreichten schwedischen Exil zu einem bedeutenden, das fruhe Christentum auf ganzlich neue Weise erforschenden Religionswissenschaftler. Dem korrespondierte ein existenziell erfahrenes theologisches Engagement, das der Jude Schoeps im Dialog mit der dialektischen Theologie zum Erneuerer eines idealistisch gepragten judischen Offenbarungsdenkens werden liess. Nach seiner trotz seiner Homosexualitat in Schweden vollzogenen Heirat kehrte Schoeps sowie fruh wie moglich nach (West)Deutschland zuruck, was er am Ende seines Lebens bereute. Die inneren Widerspruche, fatalen Fehleinschatzungen, getrogenen Erwartungen und trotzigen Hoffnungen des deutschen Judentums haben sich lebensweltlich und wissenschaftlich nirgendwo so deutlich niedergeschlagen wie in Leben und Werk von Hans-Joachim Schoeps.
£65.53
Bohlau Verlag Von Etappe zu Etappe: Die Jugend einer jüdischen
Book SynopsisNadja Strasser war eine bekannte literarische Übersetzerin, die Fjodor Dostojewski und Andrei Bely ins Deutsche übertrug. Sie war eine Publizistin, die im Kreis ihres Schwagers Franz Pfemfert und dessen avantgardistischer Zeitschrift Die Aktion wirkte. Und sie war eine radikale Feministin und Schriftstellerin, die bereits 1917 und 1919 mit ihren Büchern Die Russin und Das Ergebnis die vollständige Gleichberechtigung der Frauen forderte: Nadja Strasser, 1871 als Neoma Ramm im russischen Starodub geboren, lebte in Wien, Reichenberg, Prag und Berlin, bevor die Nationalsozialisten sie und ihren Mann, den Architekten Alexander Levy, ins französische Exil trieben. Levy wurde in Auschwitz ermordet; Nadja Strasser kehrte nach Berlin zurück, wo sie 1955 verstarb. Erstmals liegen Strassers Erinnerungen an ihre Kindheit und Jugend vor, Erinnerungen an eine jüdische Kindheit in einem typischen Stetl, an eine Jugend zwischen Zionismus und Revolution, die in das lang ersehnte Studium mündete, das junge Frauen sich damals noch erkämpfen mussten. Nadja Strasser schrieb den Text vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Erst jetzt ist er veröffentlicht und erlaubt Einblicke in eine zerstörte und somit vergangene Welt.
£58.28
Brill U Mentis Friedrich August Von Hayek's Draft Biography of
Book Synopsis
£40.00
Brill U Mentis Kant ALS Lehrer Der Aufklarung: Historische Und
Book Synopsis
£147.98
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sí, si es contigo. Edición especial / Yes, If Its
Book Synopsis
£16.96
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La revolución a dedo / The Random Revolution
Book Synopsis
£18.81
