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  • The Empress

    by Tanika Gupta ...
    Series series Student Editions
    Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887.At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim, step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen; the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen Victoria who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India over which she rules, but has never seen.Through narrative, music ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Culture and Anarchy

    by Matthew Arnold ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Religion in Diaspora

    Cultures of Citizenship

    Edited by Sondra L. Hausner, Jane Garnett ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world. It illuminates religious understandings of citizenship, association and civil society, and situates them historically within diverse cultures of memory and state traditions. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rescripting Religion in the City

    Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

    by Alana Harris ...
    Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Spectacular Miracles

    Transforming Images in Italy, From the Renaissance to the Present

    by Jane Garnett, Gervase Rosser ...
    Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images, for example the belief that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep or produce miraculous cures. Although discomforting to widely-held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the Middle Ages into the present, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Culture and Anarchy

    by Matthew Arnold ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

    by Linda C. Dowling ...
    "Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature"Dowling's study is an ... Read more

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  • Autobiography

    by John Robson, John Stuart Mill ...
    One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography - are among ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Culture And Anarchy

    by Matthew Arnold ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

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  • Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

    Selections and Commentaries

    Edited by Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae ...
    Series series Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
    Florence Nightingale is best known as the founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. It is not generally known, however, that Nightingale was at the forefront of the religious, philosophical, and scientific though of her time. In a three-volume work that was never published, Nightingale presented her radical spiritual views, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • John Fisher and Thomas More

    Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads

    by Robert J Conrad Jr ...
    In 1929, nearly four hundred years after the deaths of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, G.K. Chesterton observed in words equally attributable to Fisher, “Blessed Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is not quite so important as he will be in a hundred years.”Judge Robert J Conrad, Jr. anticipates ... Read more

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