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In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time¿Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson¿evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language?

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith profoundly shaped America. Although usually rendered nearly invisible, skepticism touched - and sometimes transformed - more lives than might be expected from standard accounts. This book examines Americans wrestling with faith and doubt as they tried to make sense of their world.

A Future in Ruins is an eye-opening look at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Focusing on early luminaries like H.G. Wells, Aldous, and Julian Huxley, with their dystopian fears for the future, through to the devastation of ancient sites like Cuzco, Abu Simbel, the Bamiyan Valley, and Palmyra, the book traces how, from 1945 to the present, cultural heritage has been a vital part of the elusive hope ...

Humans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not only concerned about survival, but also about our significance. The quest for transcendent meaning is one reason why humans embrace the supernatural. Children naturally see t...

Nigeria is one of the most important democracies in the world, but scarcely examined. With its continent-wide influence in a host of areas, Nigeria's success as a democracy is in the fundamental interest of its African neighbors, the United States, and the international community. This volume provides interested readers with an accessible overview of essential questions related to widening inequality stemming from Nigeria's oil wealth, Nigeria...

The number of religious NGOs (RNGOs) engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years. This volume examines whether the RNGOs¿ involvement polarizes political debates at the UN or facilitates agreement on policy issues.

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Keisha Lindsay¿is an associate professor of gender and women's studies and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps, the Jordanian and ...

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.

This book explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage expectations associated with modernization and globalization influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women in Northeast Brazil.

Happily Inc, so heißt die Kleinstadt am Rande der kalifornischen Wüste, in der der Legende nach seit dem 19. Jahrhundert jeder die wahre Liebe findet. Hier wird fast täglich geheiratet, und Weddingplanerin Pallas Saunders übertrifft sich selbst bei den ausgefallensten Hochzeiten. Aber ihr eigenes Liebesglück? Das muss warten, der Job geht vor - das denkt Pallas zumindest, bis sie dem Künstler Nick Mitchell begegnet und der Zauber von Happily I...

Es ist Sommer in der Blossom Street, und in Lydias Wollladen »A Good Yarn« findet ein neuer Strickkurs statt. Abbie ist eine der Teilnehmerinnen und sie weiß, erst wenn sie die Liebe überwindet, die zerbrochen vor ihr liegt, kann sie nach vorn schauen und wieder glücklich werden. Wie beim Stricken muss sie erst mit dem Vergangenen abschließen, bevor sie neu beginnen kann. Doch die Nadel lässt sich mit jeder Masche leichter führen, bis schließl...

Im eigentlich beschaulichen Dorf Mordsacker ist ordentlich was los! Ein altes Fräulein sitzt plötzlich tot an seinem Kaffeetisch. Neben sich ein Abschiedsbrief. Alle glauben an Selbstmord - nur Amateurdetektivin Klara Himmel wittert eine Verschwörung. Hat vielleicht die hübsche junge Schamanin etwas damit zu tun, die seit geraumer Zeit im Ort für Unruhe sorgt? Leider interessiert sich Klaras Mann, der Dorfpolizist, nur noch für die Hühner und ...

Als ich Donovan Kincaid zum ersten Mal traf, war mein Schicksal besiegelt ... In seiner Welt drehte sich alles um Geld, Sex und Macht, und das zog mich magisch an. Obwohl ich wusste, dass ich mir die Finger verbrennen würde, konnte ich nicht anders. Ich war unschuldig - und er hat mich zerstört. Jetzt, zehn Jahre später, hatte ich mein Leben endlich wieder im Griff und gerade einen tollen Job bekommen. Alles war perfekt. Bis ich meinen neuen...

This concise book by the eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn provides an accessible explanation of what truth is and how we might think about it. Blackburn's overall message is that truth is often best thought of not as a product or an end point that is 'finally' achieved, but as an ongoing process of inquiry.

A powerful reminder to anyone who thinks design is primarily a visual pursuit, The Senses: