Abigail Brenner's Books

Life Matters

Stories of Transition, Healing, and Hope

By: Abigail Brenner, M.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Life Matters

Stories of Transition, Healing, and Hope

By: Abigail Brenner, M.D.

No matter how difficult it might seem, change is always positive. Life Matters: Stories of Transition, Healing, and Hope, by psychiatrist and interfaith minister Abigail Brenner tackles the transitions in our lives and shows how they can empower us. Brenner moves through all cycles of life, letting the people going through these transitions tell their own stories. A young parent adjusts to life with a newborn. A young adult, ready to move out and make a new life, finds her own voice. From the stress of moving from a familiar place to an unfamiliar one, to finding the job that feeds your soul as well as your wallet, Life Matters shows you how you can get through these changes and come out on the other side a better person. Learn to chart your feelings, advises Brenner. Assert yourself and get the support you need. For true healing to occur, she states, you must become an active participant and advocate of your own wellness. The key lies in the pursuit of balance within the self: taking care of your body, having an optimistic attitude about yourself and life, and connecting to a source of spiritual belief. A physical crisis has the enormous potential of becoming a healing moment. " Do not shy away from your own light," says Brenner. Life is all about change and this warm and inspirational book can help you make the most of all your transitions. From the foreword by Bernie Siegel, MD: "When something happens to alter our life or we learn something new, we have to begin a new life if we are to survive...It is not an accident that the universal therapeutic theme is for all of us to be born again and the changes and transitions of life become the labor pains of self-birth and worth the experience, since they create a new you." Author: Love, Magic, and Mudpies and 365 Prescriptions for Living Praise for Life Matters--- " Most people live their lives according to Mark Twain's comment, 'I'm all for progress; it's change I don't like.' In Life Matters: Stories of Transition, Healing, and Hope, Dr. Abigail Brenner shows how embracing life's passages can lead to transformation and fulfillment, and how we can summon the courage to live life more fully." Larry Dossey, MD Author: Healing Words and The Power of Premonitions " To be alive is to go through one phase after another, some large and some small. This insightful book will help you change thoughtfully. It will help you to be changed and not just go through the motions and the struggles. It will help you be vital and engaged in all areas of life. The transitions are the tough spots. Keep this book handy for them." Thomas Moore Author: Care of the Soul and A Life at Work

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

CreateSpace

Published Date

ISBN 10

1453636951

ISBN 13

9781453636954

Replacement Children

The Unconscious Script

By: Rita Battat Silverman,Abigail Brenner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Replacement Children

The Unconscious Script

By: Rita Battat Silverman,Abigail Brenner

Few tragedies are felt as deeply as the loss of a child, whether by death or incapacitation. For many families, the echoes of this pain are even detected in the lives of subsequent children or in an older child whose life has been redirected as a result of this loss. Replacement children share a common experience, one in which they are, often unconsciously, allocated to fill a void left in the family. They are burdened with the daunting task of relieving the family's unprocessed grief. Replacement Children: The Unconscious Script is a complex and fascinating overview of people caught up in the arduous mission of having to carry on for another. Authors Silverman and Brenner present a wealth of research and compelling personal stories about this profound and under explored phenomenon. This first-of-its-kind book offers new understanding to assist individuals, families, and the therapeutic community in finding answers to address this often overlooked issue. It is the authors' hope that this book may serve as a catalyst for new awareness and insight into this phenomenon.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Published Date

ISBN 10

1937818357

ISBN 13

9781937818357

Women's Rites of Passage

How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women's Rites of Passage

How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner

Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742547485

ISBN 13

9780742547483

Transitions

How Women Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner MD

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Transitions

How Women Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner MD

Throughout their lives, women go through big changes, but what makes some women embrace these moments while others feel as if they are about to fall apart? Psychiatrist Abigail Brenner believes that the answer lies in how we consciously mark these changes and allow them to change us. Full of personal stories and case histories, Transitions explores the passages that are meaningful to contemporary women and then supplies the tools, creative projects, and rituals to honor these occurrences. Full of provocative discussions, inspiring personal stories and anecdotes from Brenner, Transitions is dedicated to helping women identify, respond to, and celebrate their times of growth.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

268

Published Date

ISBN 10

1451558082

ISBN 13

9781451558081

The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year

The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns

By: Abigail Brenner M.D.,Erika Landau M.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year

The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns

By: Abigail Brenner M.D.,Erika Landau M.D.

The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year offers new parents a clear, comforting companion devoid of the "musts" and "shoulds" that abound in other new baby books. Rather than focusing on rigid guidelines to development, it acknowledges that babies are people, and they do things in their own time and ways. The authors are both parents, one of them with the additional benefit of being an experienced pediatrician, and their advice and suggestions are all based on medical knowledge and the latest advice on the baby grapevine. The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year content also includes: The moment of birth and beyond – what a newborn looks like, what the tests will be like, feeding, bonding, and taking the baby home. Clear explanations of milestones for the first year of life, broken up by quarters – and how they may vary from baby to baby. Advice and suggestions on feeding, caring for, and interacting with baby over the year. Teething, sleeping, crawling, pooping – how things happen and change as the months pass. Common illnesses, appropriate foods, necessary equipment, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

438

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101513721

ISBN 13

9781101513729

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

By: Abigail Wood

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

By: Abigail Wood

The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs, well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century, presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317181271

ISBN 13

9781317181279

Flowers for Dead Girls

By: Abigail Collins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Flowers for Dead Girls

By: Abigail Collins

Seventeen-year-old Astra’s life hasn’t been easy. She has no friends, an absent father, and a mom everyone thinks is crazy. Plus, one huge secret: she can talk to ghosts. Astra inherited her mom’s gift, but sometimes it feels more like a curse. Especially when she meets Isla, who's sweet, cheerful, and absolutely gorgeous. She’s just the right kind of girl to bring Astra out of her shell—and maybe more. The only problem? She’s dead. When Isla enlists Astra’s help with her so-called bucket list, Astra intends to do just enough to help her move on to the afterlife. She doesn’t plan on getting close to her, and she definitely doesn’t plan on falling in love. By the time the list is finished, Astra realizes that her gift might not be such a bad thing after all. But Isla has secrets of her own. And when the truth behind her death is discovered, even Astra’s love might not be enough to convince her to stay.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Bold Strokes Books Inc

Published Date

ISBN 10

1636795838

ISBN 13

9781636795836

Moses Montefiore

Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero

By: Abigail Green

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Moses Montefiore

Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero

By: Abigail Green

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century—and one of the first truly global celebrities. His story, told here in full for the first time, is a remarkable and illuminating tale of diplomacy and adventure. Abigail Green’s sweeping biography follows Montefiore through the realms of court and ghetto, tsar and sultan, synagogue and stock exchange. Interweaving the public triumph of Montefiore’s foreign missions with the private tragedy of his childless marriage, this book brings the diversity of nineteenth-century Jewry brilliantly to life—from London to Jerusalem, Rome to St. Petersburg, Morocco to Istanbul. Here we see the origins of Zionism and the rise of international Jewish consciousness, the faltering birth of international human rights, and the making of the modern Middle East. With the globalization and mobilization of religious identities now at the top of the political agenda, Montefiore’s life story is relevant as never before. Mining materials from eleven countries in nine languages, Green’s masterly biography bridges the East-West divide in modern Jewish history, presenting the transformation of Jewish life in Europe, the Middle East, and the New World as part of a single global phenomenon. As it reestablishes Montefiore’s status as a major historical player, it also restores a significant chapter to the history of our modern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

560

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674056442

ISBN 13

9780674056442

Shakespeare for Young People

Productions, Versions and Adaptations

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shakespeare for Young People

Productions, Versions and Adaptations

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a rich variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare's plays and the stories and characters at their heart. Shakespeare for Young People is the only comprehensive overview of such productions and adaptations, and engages with a wide range of genres, including both British and American examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books (including Manga), animations and original novels. The book combines an informative guide to these interpretations of Shakespeare, discussed with critical analysis of their relative strengths. It also includes extensive interviews with directors, actors and writers involved in the projects discussed'.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

255

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441188053

ISBN 13

9781441188052

Competing Visions of Empire

Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

By: Abigail L. Swingen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Competing Visions of Empire

Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

By: Abigail L. Swingen

Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies, particularly the use of enslaved Africans, and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping, often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300189443

ISBN 13

9780300189445

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

By: Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life — from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

431

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192548476

ISBN 13

9780192548474

A History of German Jewish Bible Translation

By: Abigail Gillman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A History of German Jewish Bible Translation

By: Abigail Gillman

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped showcase the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature and the foundational text of modern Jewish identity. This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish translations as part of a larger cultural project. Looking at four distinct waves of translations, Abigail Gillman juxtaposes translations within each that sought to achieve similar goals through differing means. As she details the history of successive translations, we gain new insight into the opportunities and problems the Bible posed for different generations and gain a new perspective on modern German Jewish history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022647786X

ISBN 13

9780226477862

Rage

Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism

By: Abigail R. Esman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rage

Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism

By: Abigail R. Esman

2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Current Events In the days after 9/11, Abigail R. Esman walked the streets of New York haunted by a feeling that was eerily familiar: the trauma of violence that hovered in the air. Friends, family, and strangers moved, walked, even stood as she herself had done earlier as a victim of domestic battery and abuse. Since then, Esman, a journalist who specializes in writing on terrorism and radicalization, has studied the connections between domestic abuse and terrorism and the forces that inspire both forms of violence. In Rage: Narcissism, Patriarchy, and the Culture of Terrorism Esman brings into focus the complex web that ties them together, illuminating the terrorist psyche and the cultures that create it. With this new approach to understanding terrorism and violence, Esman presents clear explanations of pathological narcissism and its roots in shame-honor cultures—both familial and sociopolitical—through portraits of terrorists and batterers, including O. J. Simpson, Osama bin Laden, Anders Breivik, and Dylann Roof. The insights of psychiatrists, former white supremacists, Islamist terrorists, national security experts, and others elaborate her thesis, while Esman’s own experiences with abuse and the aftermath of 9/11 on the streets of New York City further enrich the narrative. At a time when so many lives are threatened by public violence and terrorism, understanding the forces that incite them has become crucial, and finding solutions, urgent. Esman proposes social and policy initiatives aimed at reducing violence while engendering social equality and enriching women’s rights. Such proposals, she argues, are essential to overcoming the cultural and political forces that hinder progress toward security and peace. This groundbreaking book sheds new light on the roots of violence and terrorism while advancing proactive measures to protect our values and traditions of justice, equality, and freedom.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Potomac Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1640122311

ISBN 13

9781640122314

Radical State

How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West

By: Abigail R. Esman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Radical State

How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West

By: Abigail R. Esman

This insightful, on-the-ground narrative looks at how radical Islam is affecting our society and how our own response is endangering the very democratic values we have hoped to spread around the world—and preserve at home. In Radical State: How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West, author Abigail R. Esman argues that in large measure, it is actually jihad which has emerged victorious over democracy, not only because of the actions of Muslim terrorists, but because of our own response to extremist Islam in the West. With the best of intentions, Western (European) countries have permitted antidemocratic, ultraconservative Islamic beliefs and traditions to flourish in their societies as they've responded to the influx of Muslim immigrants to their shores, largely as a result of the guest-worker programs which began in the 1960s and 1970s across Europe. But this multicultural approach has only backfired, creating cultural wars in which even the most intolerant and undemocratic of belief systems and values have been permitted, as governments have turned a blind eye to such atrocities as honor killings, anti-Semitism, the spread of literature extolling violence, and calls for the destruction of the democratic state. Esman focuses her narrative on the Netherlands, oft regarded as the most free, stable, and tolerant nation in the West, the paragon of democracy and tolerance. Using Holland as an example, she demonstrates the collapse of democratic values that has occurred in other Western countries—including America—as we struggle against radical Islam. In doing so, she shows how the Western response to the threat of radicalization has at times gone to dangerous extremes, counterbalancing the multiculturalists' indulgence of radical Islam with the creation of restrictive, nearly-totalitarian laws and measures that are as destructive and toxic to our future-to free thought, free speech, and equal rights. Radical State uniquely articulates the dissolution of democratic values that have resulted from the actions of both left- and right-wing approaches to the problem. More importantly, the book strives to resolve the critical question of "what went wrong"—because to set things right again requires understanding how it all broke apart—and we must set it right, or jihad's victory over democracy will be complete, and sooner than we may realize.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313348480

ISBN 13

9780313348488

Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World

Fourth Global Report : the World Health Organization/International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (WHO/UNION) Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, 2002-2007

By: Abigail Wright,Matteo Zignol,WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World

Fourth Global Report : the World Health Organization/International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (WHO/UNION) Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, 2002-2007

By: Abigail Wright,Matteo Zignol,WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been recorded at the highest rates ever, according to this new report that presents findings from the largest survey to date on the scale of drug resistance in tuberculosis. This fourth global report is based on information collected between 2002 and 2006 on 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries. It also found that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a virtually untreatable form of the respiratory disease, has been recorded in 45 countries. The primary aim of this report is to share survey and surveillance data on drug resistance in TB. The data presented here are supplied largely by the program managers who have led the work on surveys, but also heads of reference laboratories as well as principle investigators that may have been hired to assist the national Tuberculosis Program with the study.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

143

Publisher

World Health Organization

Published Date

ISBN 10

9241563613

ISBN 13

9789241563611

The Future for Planners

Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK

By: Ben Clifford,Susannah Gunn,Andy Inch,Abigail Schoneboom,Jason Slade,Malcolm Tait,Geoff Vigar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Future for Planners

Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK

By: Ben Clifford,Susannah Gunn,Andy Inch,Abigail Schoneboom,Jason Slade,Malcolm Tait,Geoff Vigar

Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest. Nearly half of UK planners are now employed in the private sector, with complex inter-relations between the sectors including supplying outsourced services to local authorities struggling with centrally-imposed budget cuts. Drawing on new empirical data from a major research project, ‘Working in the Public Interest’, this book reveals what it’s like to be a UK planner in the early 21st century, and how the profession can fulfil its potential for the benefit of society and the environment.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Policy Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1447366026

ISBN 13

9781447366027

Imperial Power and Regional Trade

The Caribbean Basin Initiative

By: Abigail B. Bakan,David Cox,Colin Leys

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Imperial Power and Regional Trade

The Caribbean Basin Initiative

By: Abigail B. Bakan,David Cox,Colin Leys

The election of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States in November 1980 opened a new chapter in international relations; U.S. foreign policy shifted from an alliance-based, consensual approach to one based on a more overt use of its immense economic and, above all, military power. This policy entailed some stark choices for the U.S.A.’s allies and neighbours and, above all, for the small countries of Central America and the Caribbean. This revealing book tells the story of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), through which the new assertion of U.S. hegemony in the region was expressed. The CBI entitled “friendly” countries of the region (i.e., excluding Cuba, pre-invasion Grenada and Nicaragua) to military and economic aid plus incentives, modelled on the so-called “Puerto Rican miracle,” so as to reorient their trade towards the U.S.A. The authors carefully compare the claims made for the CBI with its underlying political objectives and examine its actual impact on regional development through detailed case studies of the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad. Also examined are the impact of the CBI on Caribbean regional integration and the responses of Canada and Britain, the two other major countries with long-standing political and economic interests in the Caribbean. What emerges from this investigation is the way the CBI reflects the U.S.A.’s historic quest for regional dominance, rather than a new era in Caribbean development.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0889202206

ISBN 13

9780889202207

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be

By: Abigail Pelham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contested Creations in the Book of Job

The-World-as-It-Ought- and-Ought-Not-to-Be

By: Abigail Pelham

In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham reads the Book of Job both ‘forwards’—examining the perspectives on creation presented by Job and his friends and corrected by God’s authoritative voice from the whirlwind—and ‘backwards,’ demonstrating how the epilogue explodes readers’ certainties, forcing a reappraisal of the characters’ claims. The epilogue, Pelham argues, changes the book from one containing answers about creation to one which poses questions: What does it mean to make the world? Who has the power to create? If humans have creative power, is it divinely sanctioned, or has Job, acting creatively, set himself up as God’s rival? Engaging more thoroughly with Job’s ambiguity than previous scholars have done, Contested Creations explores the possibilities raised by these questions and considers their implications both within the book and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004230297

ISBN 13

9789004230293

Rogue Archives

Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

By: Abigail De Kosnik

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rogue Archives

Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

By: Abigail De Kosnik

An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving. The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, hackers—have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural memory, building freely accessible online archives of whatever content they consider suitable for digital preservation. In Rogue Archives, Abigail De Kosnik examines the practice of archiving in the transition from print to digital media, looking in particular at Internet fan fiction archives. De Kosnik explains that media users today regard all of mass culture as an archive, from which they can redeploy content for their own creations. Hence, “remix culture” and fan fiction are core genres of digital cultural production. De Kosnik explores, among other things, the anticanonical archiving styles of Internet preservationists; the volunteer labor of online archiving; how fan archives serve women and queer users as cultural resources; archivists' efforts to attract racially and sexually diverse content; and how digital archives adhere to the logics of performance more than the logics of print. She also considers the similarities and differences among free culture, free software, and fan communities, and uses digital humanities tools to quantify and visualize the size, user base, and rate of growth of several online fan archives.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

MIT Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0262544741

ISBN 13

9780262544740

Critical Political Studies

Debates and Dialogues from the Left

By: Abigail B. Bakan,Eleanor MacDonald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Critical Political Studies

Debates and Dialogues from the Left

By: Abigail B. Bakan,Eleanor MacDonald

Written as a tribute to the remarkable intellectual career of Colin Leys, the debates in this book deal with some of the most pressing problems confronting the majority of citizens in both first world and third world contexts. Their contributions provide the confidence to pursue new possibilities that permit a more optimistic, if critical, outlook. Topics covered include contemporary debates about globalization and the nation state, African development, prospects for British socialism after Blair, social movements, and current issues in political and social theory. Contributors include Laurie Adkin (University of Alberta), Abigail Bakan, Bruce Berman (Queen's University), Manfred Bienefeld (Carleton University), Alex Callinicos (University of York, UK), Bonnie Campbell (University of Quebec at Montreal), Michael Chege (University of Florida), Radhika Desai (University of Victoria), Lauren Dobell (PhD candidate, Oxford University), Phil Goldman (Queen's University), Banu Helvacioglu (Bilkent University, Turkey), Robert Jessop (University of Lancaster, UK), Colin Leys (emeritus, Queen's University), Eleanor MacDonald, Marguerite Mendell (Concordia University), Leo Panitch (York University), Anne Phillips (London School of Economics and Political Science), and John Saul (Atkinson College, York University).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773569561

ISBN 13

9780773569560

Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

436

Publisher

Hoover Institution Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

081799873X

ISBN 13

9780817998738

Tyranny Comes Home

The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism

By: Christopher J. Coyne,Abigail R. Hall

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tyranny Comes Home

The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism

By: Christopher J. Coyne,Abigail R. Hall

Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Emboldened by the relative weakness of governance abroad, the U.S. government is able to experiment with a broader range of social controls. Under certain conditions, these policies, tactics, and technologies are then re-imported to America, changing the national landscape and increasing the extent to which we live in a police state. Coyne and Hall examine this pattern—which they dub "the boomerang effect"—considering a variety of rich cases that include the rise of state surveillance, the militarization of domestic law enforcement, the expanding use of drones, and torture in U.S. prisons. Synthesizing research and applying an economic lens, they develop a generalizable theory to predict and explain a startling trend. Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics. It gives us alarming insight into incidents like the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case—which tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1503605280

ISBN 13

9781503605282

What's Wrong with Fat?

By: Abigail Saguy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What's Wrong with Fat?

By: Abigail Saguy

What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199857083

ISBN 13

9780199857081

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami

Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968

By: Abigail Cloud

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami

Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968

By: Abigail Cloud

In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs, shades, and wilis. Some of these creatures seduced men into dancing until they died -- punishment for inconstancy or lured them into love. For Cloud, the dark gravity that holds these enchanters to the earth is the same as our own and thus these demons are as everyday as air. Sylph filters our world through the lenses of dance, folklore, and history, revealing our contemporary lives to be dreamlike and prismatic. "In the blink the mouse spent to disappear, I loved you," avows the sylph. The cost of her ascension -- and ours -- is steep: "our price speech, our forgetting breath." Such are the stakes in this complex, seductive, and stunning debut.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

LSU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

080715766X

ISBN 13

9780807157664

Theorizing Feminism

Parallel Trends In The Humanities And Social Sciences, Second Edition

By: Anne C. Herrmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Theorizing Feminism

Parallel Trends In The Humanities And Social Sciences, Second Edition

By: Anne C. Herrmann

In the past three decades, feminist scholars have produced an extraordinary rich body of theoretical writing in humanities and social science disciplines. This revised and updated second edition of Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, is a genuinely interdisciplinary anthology of significant contributions to feminist theory.This timely reader is creatively edited, and contains insightful introductory material. It illuminates the historical development of feminist theory as well as the current state of the field. Emphasizing common themes and interests in the humanities and social sciences, the editors have chosen topics that remain relevant to current debates, reflect the interests of a diverse community of thinkers, and have been central to feminist theory in many disciplines.The contributors include leading figures from the fields of psychology, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, art history, law, and economics. This is the ideal text for any advanced course on interdisciplinary feminist theory, one that fills a long-standing gap in feminist pedagogy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

481

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

042997390X

ISBN 13

9780429973901

The Social Life of Gender

By: Raka Ray,Jennifer Carlson,Abigail Andrews

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Social Life of Gender

By: Raka Ray,Jennifer Carlson,Abigail Andrews

The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

258

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

148331300X

ISBN 13

9781483313009

Communication in a Civil Society

By: Shelley D. Lane,Ruth Anna Abigail,John Gooch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Communication in a Civil Society

By: Shelley D. Lane,Ruth Anna Abigail,John Gooch

Uncivil acts and messages too often color our experience with others. Communication in a Civil Society offers an alternative way to teach and learn about communication. Every chapter focuses on communication based on respect, restraint, and ethical choices.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

743

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315450380

ISBN 13

9781315450384

Reimagining Social Medicine from the South

By: Abigail H. Neely

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reimagining Social Medicine from the South

By: Abigail H. Neely

In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa. The PCHC's focus on medical and social factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africa's systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. To understand Pholela's successes and failures, Neely interrogates the “social” in social medicine. She makes clear that the social sciences the PCHC used failed to account for the roles that Pholela's residents and their environment played in the development and success of its program. At the same time, the PCHC's reliance on biomedicine prevented it from recognizing the impact on health of witchcraft illnesses and the social relationships from which they emerged. By rewriting the story of social medicine from Pholela, Neely challenges global health practitioners to recognize the multiple worlds and actors that shape health and healing in Africa and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

110

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1478021586

ISBN 13

9781478021582

Women's Rites of Passage

How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women's Rites of Passage

How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

By: Abigail Brenner

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

274

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742547485

ISBN 13

9780742547483

Voting Rights--and Wrongs

The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections

By: Abigail M. Thernstrom

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Voting Rights--and Wrongs

The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections

By: Abigail M. Thernstrom

n this provocative book, Abigail Thernstrom argues that southern resistance to black political power began a process by which the act was radically revised both for good and ill. Congress, the courts, and the Justice Department altered the statute to ensure the election of blacks and Hispanics to legislative bodies ranging from school boards and county councils to the U.S. Congress.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

A E I Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0844742724

ISBN 13

9780844742724

My Jewish Year

18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

By: Abigail Pogrebin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

My Jewish Year

18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

By: Abigail Pogrebin

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin’s My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author’s journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, some for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the religious calendar. Whether in search of a roadmap for Jewish life or a challenging probe into the architecture of Jewish tradition, readers will be captivated, educated and inspired by Abigail Pogrebin’s My Jewish Year.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

243

Publisher

Fig Tree Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1941493211

ISBN 13

9781941493212

The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year

The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns

By: Abigail Brenner M.D.,Erika Landau M.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Essential Guide to Baby's First Year

The Most Current Thinking and Advice on Year-One Milestones, Care, and Concerns

By: Abigail Brenner M.D.,Erika Landau M.D.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

438

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101513721

ISBN 13

9781101513729

Book's by Abigail Brenner

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email