Rlpg/Galleys

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity follows the lives of two generations of an American Lutheran missionary community as they live within Tanzania, the United States, and other...

More than Money is a wondrous journey to 11 congregations across the United States that have been transformed by living out stewardship that is more than fundraising. Important factors emerge from...

This book examines how postmodernist writers use the long poem as a means of exploring a direct relationship with the divine. They find that they must chart individual paths of spiritual...

Focusing on films, works of fiction, memorials and museums, National Responses to the Holocaust opens up new ways of thinking about how different nations including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany,...

Focusing on films, works of fiction, memorials and museums, National Responses to the Holocaust opens up new ways of thinking about how different nations including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany,...

The most comprehensive selection of Mr. Kristol's influential writings on politics and economics, and the best of his now-famous essays on society, religion, culture, literature, education, and-above...

Federal recognition enables tribes to govern themselves and make decisions for their citizens that have the power to retain their cultures. This book examines how news coverage has prioritized gaming...

Noted director Michael Blakemore is renowned for such Broadway successes as Joe Egg, Noises Off and City of Angels. In the introduction, Simon Callow says of Blakemore's book, "There have been...

In Nietzsche in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Nietzsche's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The...

This book embraces two centuries of the history of non-violence, reconstructing the great historical crises that this movement has faced. In this book the historical reconstruction is intertwined...

Theodore Dalrymple's brilliant new collection of writings follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier books, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No writer today is more...

In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, Dalrymple takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless young-all...

Driven by a careful hermeneutical investigation of the Qur'an, this book provides an invitation to reevaluate the real meaning of pain and suffering and humanity's lost divine merit as God's own...

Here, adapted for the stage, is Budd Schulberg's classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who "coulda been a contender."Author: Budd SchulbergPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublication Date: May...

Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze analyzes the ways oppression and marginalization produced the philosophical space necessary for the development of a unique...

In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes--universally regarded as Plato's student in antiquity--and Plato's other Athenian students in order to add external and historical evidence for...

In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the...

Includes: Clare Booth's The Women; Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; Shirley Graham's It's Morning; Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All; Fay Kanin's Goodbye, My Fancy; Jane Bowles' In the Summer...

Linking Europe's colonial era to today's high-tech border crisis, this book offers a genealogical account of border technologies and excavates the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for...

This volume will address whether and to what extent those working to better understand or achieve climate justice should think about the real-world feasibility of their theories or proposals.Author:...

Provides an improved understanding into women's participation in Nigeria and lays bare the misconceptions.Author: Damilola Taiye AgbalajobiPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublication Date: Jun 15, 2024Number...

This work situates the Qur'anic story of Moses' meeting with Khi?r (Surat al-Kahf, 18:60-82) in an ever-expanding network of intercultural and interreligious ideas about knowledge, humility, and...

This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.Author: Barry W Poulson, John...

In this book, personal accounts mingle with factual information and sensitive analysis to provide a snapshot of the joys and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and...

Provides the first comprehensive discourse analysis of the dynamics and features of the largest LGBT Pride Parade in the world.Author: Steven F ButtermanPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublication Date: Jul...

This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore and Amartya Sen. The author argues that Tagore and Sen focused on the need to...

Distinguished contributors take up eminent scholar Daniel R. Schwarz's reading of modern fiction and poetry as mediating between human desire and human action. The essayists follow Schwarz's advice,...

In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O'Sullivan argues that this...

Through in-depth explorations and analyses of "social dumping" and the responsibilities of importing countries, and the relationships of these phenomena to ILO and WTO policies, this book...

Enriches the current discussion on the management of the refugees' case in Europe combining a multidisciplinary approach to practical case-studies from Europe and beyond.Author: Cristina Astier,...