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Discover the road to breast health and overall well-beingOnly about 10% of breast cancer is linked to heredity and genes, the majority is associated with lifestyle and environmental factors. This means that you can take control of your breast health?and work to prevent cancer and many other common breast problems.Written by two authorities in complementary medicine and women?s health issues, Breast Health the Natural Way is a compassionate gui...

In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato's political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato's theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as having the potential for contributing to democratic discourse about ethics and politics today.The author argues that Plato articulates and "solves" his S...

Andelson has provided an interdisciplinary, international collection of essays, which has been in the making for twenty years. This is not a book on the history of economic thought but rather a book about the theory and practice of land reform and an historical summary of efforts to apply land value taxation in different countries around the world.

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This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan Assmann's views on ancient Egyptian religion, with special emphasis on theology and piety. Deeply rooted in the texts of ancient Egypt and thoroughly informed by comparative religion, theology, anthropology, and semiotic analysis, Assmann's interpretations reveal the co...

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Discover the road to breast health and overall well-beingOnly about 10% of breast cancer is linked to heredity and genes, the majority is associated with lifestyle and environmental factors. This means that you can take control of your breast health?and work to prevent cancer and many other common breast problems.Written by two authorities in complementary medicine and women?s health issues, Breast Health the Natural Way is a compassionate gui...

In seinem neuen Roman erzählt Peter Härtling von E.T.A. Hoffmann und dessen Bamberger Jahren, als der vielseitig begabte romantische Künstler Julia, das Urbild seiner Kindfrauen, kennenlernte, um ihr zu verfallen. Ein mit hoher Intensität geschriebener, kühn komponierter Roman. Fünf Jahre verbrachte der Musiker, Komponist, Maler, Schriftsteller und Richter E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) in Bamberg, als Theaterkapellmeister, Direktionsgehilfe un...

When it comes to guiding students through the big "end of the term" paper or presentation, sometimes it's hard to know where to start, much less how to keep students on course once you get the ball rolling. These long-term projects culminate in products or presentations that nurture the information literacy skills students need to become self-directed learners. Students are educated, hands-on, about the many roles information technology can pl...

Written from the perspective of staff members who worked in the Williamsburg Regional Library system during four years of multiple construction projects, this fresh and straight-on text covers both new construction and renovation and additions. The results at Williamsburg are exemplary (one patron commented, "The building is a wedding of books and light, which gives wings to the spirit"). As the Williamsburg staff relates their experiences, th...

This extensively illustrated book offers a new kind of introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. It considers the evolving economy and society - the basic facts of life for the majority of Europe's people. It shows how the religious and intellectual unity of western culture fragmented and dissolved under the impact of new ideas. It also examines politics to consider the emergence of modern attitudes and techniques in governing.

This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well. Like the studies in the previous two volumes in the series, those in this new volume shed important light on the Jewish cultural experience across a vast geographic expanse, and over many centuries. The studies illuminate the relationship of Jewish social structure and intellectual cre...

Florence Hope Luscomb's life spanned nearly all of the twentieth century. Born into a remarkable family of abolitionists and progressive thinkers, the young Florence accompanied her feminist mother to lectures and political rallies, soon choosing a course of political engagement and social activism from which she never retreated.Political Woman counters the traditional narratives that place men at the center of political thinking and history. ...

This innovative 7-vol. set offers an exceptional, interdisciplinary approach to learning by integrating two important subjects: science and history. The volumes are chronologically ordered from 2000 B.C. to the present, addressing a wide variety of scientific developments with explanations of underlying factors and their effects on politics, economics, culture and daily life. The entries -- more than 20 topical essays, 25 full biographies and ...

Even small children can understand and build enthusiasm for science concepts if they are given proper motivation. The dynamic and compelling fiction and nonfiction trade books featured here are sure to snag the curiosity of young learners and have them reaching for more. By pairing a fiction and nonfiction book on the same theme and packaging them with copies of the provided questions and activities, teachers and librarians can send students o...

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Poor People, Poor Places2. Chicago: Economic and Social Transformation of an Urban Metropolis3. The Study Population4. Family Matters: Turning Points from Orientation to Procreation5. Doles and Safety Nets: Public Assistance and Income Support6. Makin' a Living: Employment Opportunity in the Inner City7. The Contours of OpportunityAppendix A - Design of the Urban Poverty and Family Life SurveyAppen...

Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient ...

Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce our alienation from the rest of nature and reflects on how anthropology has contributed to the prevailing Western perception of a divide between nature and culture.

A memoir encompassing a rich sampling of mythology, natural history, biography, cultural studies, and iconography, this book tells what happens when a psychiatric case manager decides to stop taking antidepressants and get to the essence of melancholia.

These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White, " "Rumpelstiltskin, " "Rapunzel, " "The Twelve Dancing Princesses, " "The Frog Prince, " and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" (C.K. Williams).