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On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP¿s rise and rule. The party has suffered self-inflicted wounds yet thrived thanks to its flexibility. Looking ahead, Saich assesses how the CCP is adapting to global leadership and the expectations of Chinäs growing middle class.

The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and emotional characteristics of both species. Pat Shipman looks to fossil records and new evidence to trace how the process of domestication worked and discovers how much of ourselves we owe to our canine companions.

The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy government. Michael Neiberg takes readers back to the fraught early years of World War II, when Americäs misguided policy on Vichy alienated its British ally and ensured tensions with Charles de Gaulle and the postwar French Republic.

Standard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert Koch. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs focuses on a forgotten group of contributors: the conscript soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved people whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.

In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does ¿sport¿ differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and disc...

»Alle sind eingeladen, alle dürfen mitfeiern.« - Solche Sätze sind schnell gesagt. Aber was braucht ein Gottesdienst, damit viele Menschen mit Kopf und Herz dabei sind? Vor allem eine zeitgemäße verständliche Sprache und Gestaltungsperspektiven. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist die Sprache der Lesungen und der Gebete. Wenn sie verständlich sind, schalten wir nicht ab, sondern bleiben dran.Im Fokus dieser dritten, vollständig überarbeiteten Auflage steh...

An introduction to the life, thought and spiritual practices of Rufus Jones, a Quaker giant of the 20th century.

Explore and learn the influences that karma and past life events have on your relationships.

With grit, relentless action, and twists you'll never see coming, Laws of Annihilation is the third installment in the highly acclaimed Martyr Maker crime fiction series from actor, director, producer, and award-winning author Eriq La Salle.A war is brewing in New York City, and nobody can stop it.It's summer in New York City, and a sweltering heat wave stifles the area. The entire city is on edge.Tensions between the Hasidic and Black communi...

Joseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework, theorizing four realms of existence¿bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious. Together, these four realms operate continuously as an ¿ensemble of being¿ to make humans who and what we are.

A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno.To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx¿and especially to Marx's critique of political economy¿represent a relic from an early and short-lived stage of the great Frankfurt School critical theorist's intellectual development. In this book, on the basis of relevant and la...

In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in politic...

An extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition, the Talmud, compels readers to engage with its abundance of ideas on living a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical back-and-forth over centuries, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages long. And, as Liel Leibovitz enthusiastically explores, the Talmud is humanity's first self-help book, with sage advice on an unparalleled scope of topic...

A spiritual self-help book and feminist manifesto designed to activate you to embrace your inner divinity and to show up vulnerably and unapologetically in the world

Learn rituals, spells, meditations, and more, involving the element of water.

Discovery of forgotten ancient knowledge for a better understanding of nature and man.

Who am I? What is my purpose in life? These are timeless questions. Indian philosophy and the yoga tradition offer a comprehensive understanding of the human being, from its conception of the mind to the nature of the soul, a path of self-discovery and doorway to inner liberation. With a fresh and modern interpretation of the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space, readers are presented with a practical and assessable approach to kn...

Integrative & Comparative Endocrinology takes a holistic approach to endocrinology, introducing students to the diverse facets of this interdisciplinary science ranging from the medical to comparative domains, while also exploring evolutionary, environmental, and conservation specializations within the field.

This book attempts to understand early Buddhist architectural vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it.

Integrative & Comparative Endocrinology takes a holistic approach to endocrinology, introducing students to the diverse facets of this interdisciplinary science ranging from the medical to comparative domains, while also exploring evolutionary, environmental, and conservation specializations within the field.