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Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
By Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. 1993
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first…
full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups. Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities. Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
By Anthony Grafton. 1992
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence…
of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.The Home Edit Life: The No-Guilt Guide to Owning What You Want and Organizing Everything
By Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin. 2020
The New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit and stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The…
Home Edit teach you how to apply their genius, holistic approach to your work life, on-the-go necessities, and technology.At home or on the go, you don't have to live like a minimalist to feel happy and calm. The Home Edit mentality is all about embracing your life—whether you&’re a busy mom, a roommate living with three, or someone who&’s always traveling for work. You just need to know how to set up a system that works for you. In the next phase of the home organizing craze, Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin go beyond the pantry and bookshelf to show you how to contain the chaos in all aspects of your life, from office space and holiday storage to luggage and pet supplies. Get to know your organizing style, tailor it to your family&’s lifestyle, and lead the low-guilt life as you apply more genius ideas to every aspect of your life.Clea and Joanna are here to remind you that &“it&’s okay to own things&” in the quest for pretty and smart spaces. With The Home Edit Life, you&’ll soon be corralling phone cords, archiving old photos, arranging your phone apps by color, and packing your suitcase like a pro.The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
By Sarah Ogilvie. 2020
How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival…
the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
By Eiko Ikegami. 1995
Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this…
logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan’s so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami’s approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society.Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
By Merlin Donald. 1991
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its…
incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.A New History of French Literature
By Barbara Johnson, R. Howard Bloch, Peter Brooks, Nancy K. Miller, Joan DeJean, Nancy J. Vickers, Denis Hollier, Philip E. Lewis, François Rigolot. 1994
Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document…
in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.This book offers a comprehensible overview of the statistical approach called the person-centered method. Instead of analyzing means, variances and…
covariances of scale scores as in the common variable-centered approach, the person-centered approach analyzes persons or objects grouped according to their characteristic patterns or configurations in contingency tables. This second edition explores the relationship between two statistical methods: log-linear modeling (LLM) and configural frequency analysis (CFA). Both methods compare expected frequencies with observed frequencies. However, while LLM searches for the underlying dependencies of the involved variables in the data (model-fitting), CFA examines significant residuals in non-fitting models. New developments in the second edition include: Configural Mediation Models, CFA with covariates, moderator CFA, and CFA modeling branches in tree-based methods. The new developments enable the use of categorical together with continuous variables, which makes CFA a very powerful statistical tool. This new edition continues to utilize R-package confreq (derived from Configural Frequency Analysis), much updated since the first edition and newly adjusted to the new R base program 4.0. An electronic supplement is now available with 18 R-scripts and many datasets.Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy
By Cian Duffy, Martina Domines Veliki. 2020
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. …
Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 1.8 International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science,…
TTCS 2020, held in Tehran, Iran, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They focus on novel and high-quality research in all areas of theoretical computer science, such as algorithms and complexity; logic, semantics, and programming theory; and more.Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity
By Janell L. Carroll. 2016
The new edition continues answering the questions and concerns that readers have about themselves and their sexuality with scientific fact,…
sensitivity, humor, and unmatched candor. Carroll presents the range of sexual orientations and behaviors and takes into account the current social, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts. This edition includes even more examples and research on sexual diversity both within and across cultures.Forget Love Memory Over Time: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Xiao Shu. 2020
Lin Nan had thought that as long as she was good enough, Fu Yan would one day notice her and…
spend the rest of his life with her.However, she later found out that this man didn't even have eyes for her.It had nothing to do with him whether she was good or not. Everything about her had nothing to do with him.The Perfect Scoop
By David Lebovitz. 2007
Ripe seasonal fruits Fragrant vanilla toasted nuts and spices Heavy cream and bright liqueurs Chocolate…
chocolate and more chocolate Every luscious flavor imaginable is grist for the chill in The Perfect Scoop pastry chef David Lebovitz s gorgeous guide to the pleasures of homemade ice creams sorbets granitas and more With an emphasis on intense and sophisticated flavors and a bountiful helping of the author s expert techniques this collection of frozen treats ranges from classic Chocolate Sorbet to comforting Tin Roof Ice Cream contemporary Mojito Granita to cutting edge Pear-Pecorino Ice Cream and features an arsenal of sauces toppings mix-ins and accompaniments such as Lemon Caramel Sauce Peanut Brittle and Profiteroles capable of turning simple ice cream into perfect scoops of pure delight From the Hardcover editionPromise with Star Light: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Guan XiaoXiao. 2020
He had a secret crush on her for ten years, married for three years, and for 13 whole years, he…
had given her the best years of his life. But even so, he couldn't even match up to a single hair on his heart!He tore her bones, tore her tendons, drank her blood.In the end, he had even forced her to stab him five times in front of him.Perfect Revenge: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Never. 2020
One day, the latest news on the forum: According to people familiar with the matter, this forum infatuated with Brother…
Yi from bending to straightening overnight, the beautiful photo of the host of the foreign language version of the beauty forum was exposed!Upon seeing the news, all his friends immediately sent Xu Meng their most sincere concern: If you don't do it, you don't die.Disgusted mouth straight scrape tantalizing dog attack true repentance sometimes can not control oneself to fly self to suffer during the period of being a human againLovesick Dream: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Qing Xi. 2020
In order to get pregnant with An Yichen's child, Leng Ning had used all sorts of tricks, begging, luring, and…
even drugging.However, it was useless.He saw through all her tricks and made her look like a clown.In order to divorce her and marry someone else, he did not hesitate to give her the ugly name of cheating.Let her go clean, homeless, people scold.City of Sparrows
By Eva Nour. 2020
Based on a true story — the thoughtful, raw, and ultimately heartening tale of a young man fighting for survival…
in a city under siegeGrowing up in Syria in the 1990s, Sami&’s childhood was unremarkable. His day-to-day life largely sheltered him from the horrors of the authoritarian government, until he founded a successful internet company—which landed him on the regime&’s radar. Suddenly Sami finds himself in jail, then forcibly enlisted into the Syrian army during the early days of a fast-growing civil uprising. Assigned to the mapmaking division, Sami yearns to simply serve his time and go home, even as he finds himself literally charting the course of the army&’s response to the growing revolt. The situation that hits him full-force when he receives a text from his girlfriend: &“They&’re shooting at us.&” With that, Sami realizes that it is not enough to endure Assad's regime -- he has to resist. He has to return home, to the city that will become known as the "capital of the revolution." Based on true events as told to journalist Eva Nour, City of Sparrows is the story of coming of age under siege and the power of hope in the face of unfathomable loss.You are Better than Time: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Gu JiuJiu. 2020
Han Congan had a secret.She guarded it for a full seven years, but in the end, she was unable to…
defend it. Instead, it became a type of refining poison.He had killed his best friend and sister, and had become a thorn in his side that Shen Jiannan hated to the bones.As love came to an end, she could only jump into the surging river with a body full of wounds to atone for her sin and confess her love.Stars are not as Bright as You: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
By Xiao Ru. 2020
He was the aloof CEO, and she was the most ordinary single mother.He thought it was a simple revenge.In the…
end, her figure entered his dreams every night.Thus, when it was time to act, he would make his move.A certain CEO said, "Woman, I've fallen for you."A certain baby girl said, "Daddy, you are so handsome. Can I marry you when I grow up?""Sister, you said your favorite man is mine."The CEO hugged all of them, including the woman who was about to run away. She smiled and said, "All of them are mine."Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas
By Natalia Ginzburg. 2020
Two novellas about family life and fraudsters by one of the twentieth century's best Italian novelists.Valentino and Sagittarius are two…
of Natalia Ginzburg's most celebrated works: tales of love, hope, and delusion that are full of her characteristic mordant humor, keen psychological insight, and unflinching moral realism. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents, who have no doubt that their handsome young son will prove to be a man of consequence. Nothing that Valentino does--his nights out on the town, his failed or incomplete classes--suggests there is any ground for that confidence, and Valentino's sisters view their parents and brother with a mixture of bitterness, stoicism, and bemusement. Everything becomes that much more confused when, out of the blue, Valentino finds an enterprising, wealthy, and strikingly ugly wife, who undertakes to support not just him but the whole family. Sagittarius is another story of misplaced confidence recounted by a wary daughter, whose mother, a grass widow with time on her hands, moves to the suburbs, eager to find new friends. Brassy, bossy, and perpetually dissatisfied, especially when it comes to her children, she strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Scilla, and soon the two women are planning to open an art gallery. It turns out, however, that knowing better than everyone can hide a truly desperate naïveté.