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View book details for Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change
Sovereignties and Disruptions
This book argues that neither theories of secularisation nor theories of lived religion offer satisfactory accounts of religion and social change. Drawing from Deleuze and Gauttari's idea of the assemblage, Paul-Francois Tremlett outlines an alternative.Informed by classical and contemporary theories …
Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a wholly new kind of politically engaged, pan-African, auteur film-maker. Centring on …
View book details for The History and Politics of Free Movement within the European Union
European Borders of Justice
The right to free movement is the one privilege that EU citizens value the most in the Union, but one that has also created much political controversy in recent years, as the debates preceding the 2016 Brexit referendum aptly illustrate. …
View book details for Media and Power in Modern Iran
Mass Communication, Ideology, and the State
Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republicskirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting themselves on Facebook. …
View book details for For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt
Canadas largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and international conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. The Strikes centenary occasioned a re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history, when …
Lily DeLony, fifteen, tells her very one-sided version of what happened on Christmas Eve night 1883 in the town of McDade, Texas, when a vigilante group made up of ordinary citizens struck against a gang of outlaws. One of the …
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A Story of Providence by James Benedict
Mystery Box Historical Fiction This is a story of providence in the 1800s in Scotland. Hardworking eighteen-year-old Caleb Renwick and his family face great hardships. The landlord terrorizes them, his father becomes unexpectedly handicapped, and Caleb loses the best job …
View book details for Daisy Bell
A Novel
A strange voice forces its way into a young woman's head the day she turns eighteen. He tells her that she can touch the stars, transcend humanity, if she jumps off a cliff. He says that he created her world. …
Tales of warmth, wit, and wickedness.You never know what you'll find along this road. Minds and machines rend space and time. The doomed and the immortal discover new life. Justice turns criminal while crime serves justice. And at every turn, …
View book details for Finding Your True Self with the Wisdom of the Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra Interpretation Series Part 5(Traditional Chinese Edition)
This book is compiled based on a series of online live broadcasts with the theme of the Heart Sutra as interpreted by the Teacher Zhi Xin. The Heart Sutra, also known as the Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, has only 260 …
View book details for The Divine Beauty Parlor
Rediscovering Purgatory
Catholic Media Association Book Awards 2024: Honorable Mention in the category Popular Presentation of the Catholic Faith. The Divine Beauty Parlor: Rediscovering Purgatory is a captivating narrative that examines purgatory through the multifaceted approach of theology, philosophy, history, Christian anthropology, …
Uplifting poetry exploring the connection between Self and Nature. Easeful moments touch the essence of Self, the natural world, and integral connections to spirituality and love. Each poem offers a stepping-in point for the reader to delve deep within imagination …
In The Curse we see the existential dilemmas that the characters have to deal with in their day to day life on hard planet earth. These recurring dilemmas become the leitmotiv of the whole collection. The poet uses literary figures …
The Epistle of Udume follows Udumes journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in some recognizable Nigerian spaces, Udume is crucial to the novel where the other characters experience stems from his connection to them. Udumes positioning as the narrator in …
View book details for Wind, Sand, Sky
Three Stories
"The stories in Wind, Sand, Sky are short, but rich with meaning. Set on the East African archipelago of Zanzibar, these intimate portraits invite the reader to accompany characters navigating personal challenges within a rapidly changing terrain linked to socio-economic …
View book details for Writing Woman Anthology
Personal Essays and Short Stories
Weaving stories has been primarily womens domain since time immemorial. When women write, they speak from their hearts; emotion flows and carries the readers with the powerful currents. Women directly bear the brunt of family life fall outs, be it …
View book details for Glitter in the Blood
A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing
The definitive guidebook and rebel yell for poets seeking radical growth. You want to write great poems: poems that challenge, inspire and awe; poems that forever alter your audience and yourself. Those poems take imagination, skill and some serious guts. …
This book is a powerful examination of life in America for Filipino Americans and people of Asian descent. Bayani doesn't preach, but he comes across as an energetic pastor, thoughtful, graceful and ready. This arsenal of work he has been …
Science, poetry and Jeff Goldblum form a covalent bond that puts the poetic fire underneath our bunsen burners. A Lab Tech of words, Maney turns plain language into curious, knowledge-hungry poetry.
I Love You Is Back is the second collection of work from this internationally celebrated poet, spanning 2004-2006. It includes such popular works such as a The Victory Explosions," "All Distortion, All the Time," "St. Marks," and "The Last Poem …
View book details for Rethinking the African Philosophy of Education
A Fonlonian Perspective
The African Union (AU) declared 2024 the year of Education, with the motto: Educate an African fit for the 21 st Century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa. In response, …
View book details for Nation Building in South Africa
Internal Migration of the African People and their Transformation of their Ethnicity, Languages, Surnames, Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage
"The popular, dominant and hegemonic view of Africans of South Africa as people who are different among themselves in terms of their ethnicity, languages, surnames, culture and intangible cultural heritage should be the target of progressive South Africans for its …
View book details for Spotlight on Young Children
Challenging Behavior
Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behavior Addressing challenging behavior is a daily concern for early childhood educators. Its estimated that roughly 10 to 14 percent of children from birth to 5 years old demonstrate serious behavioral concerns, resulting in significant …
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Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes
Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a …
View book details for The Russia-Ukraine War from an African Perspective
Special Operations in the Age of
In the Russia-Ukraine war, attention has been focused on the "Special Military Operation" This book argues that there are many other special operations, in various other arenas in the world, that deserve equal and urgent attention. Connecting special military operations …
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