History Of Science – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 7

Judith Weisenfeld
Black Religion in the Madhouse

"Black Religion in the Madhouse traces the encounter between African Americans and American psychiatry in the decades after the end of slavery and into the twentieth century, showing how white psychi…

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Yunus Carrim
Attacking the Heart of Apartheid

For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe's Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC president Oliver Tambo and senior ANC and SA…

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Catherine Higgs
Sisters for Justice

Sisters for Justice explores the activism of a select number of Catholic religious sisters in South Africa, beginning in the 1960s. Catherine Higgs analyzes how these individuals' seemingly small actions …

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Michael W Homer
Joseph's Temples

Freemasonry's significant place in the early history of Mormonism

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

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Philippe Rochard
The Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu

The athletes known in Iran as pahlav¿ns and the domed structure, the zurkh¿neh, where they congregate to practice ritualized martial arts, physical culture, and spirituality, are usually presented as the …

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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Anita Sanchez
The Monkey Trial

The riveting examination of the notorious trial of a teacher whose arrest for teaching science reverberates to this day.Highlighting the quiet dignity of a teacher who stood up for his students' right to …

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Jonathan Cheng
Korean Messiah

A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity---a spectacular, penetrating account of a world like no otherNorth Korea. The H…

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Robert Wuthnow
Nurturing Happiness

How does religious faith contribute to happiness? In Nurturing Happiness, Robert Wuthnow describes how American faith leaders at pivotal moments in their history attempted to nurture -- and control -- the…

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Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

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Benjamin E Park
American Zion

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called burned-over district of western New York, which seemed to produce seers and prophets daily. Most of the…

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Prager University
The Honest Book of Presidents

America's most trustworthy resource delivers a refreshing guide to the American presidency.Only forty-five men have held the title President of the United States. In this concise yet powerful volume, Prag…

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Paul Kahan
The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

A Short History of the Politics of Reconstruction in a Changing America On December 5, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant transmitted his eighth and final message to Congress. In reviewing his tenure as pre…

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Amiya P Sen,
Colonial Hinduism

In a tightly woven narrative, historian of modern India Amiya P. Sen traces the shifting self-understanding of Hindus in the light of the many challenges posed by the British colonial encounter, offering …

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Michael Patrick Cullinane
Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet

In his final days in office in 1909, Theodore Roosevelt invited dozens of friends to the White House for lunch. They had never met as a group, but they had one thing in common: Each played tennis with the…

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Matthew Pinsker
Boss Lincoln

We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, central to his character and leadership: he was a master of party politi…

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Thomas W Murphy
Unsettling Scripture

A groundbreaking exploration of the unexpected intersections between Haudenosaunee oral tradition and Latter-day Saint scriptureIn Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon , anthropologist Th…

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