136 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Syracuse University"
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Will to Freedom
Balas, Egon
978-0-8156-0930-8Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist...
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Story of Daughters of Quchan
Najmabadi, Afsaneh
978-0-8156-2791-3In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event took all Iran by storm and shortly after the opening of the new parliament in 1906 relatives of these women demanded that parliament punish those responsible. Najmaba...
42.73€ (41.09€ sin IVA) -
Formation of the Modern State
Abou-El-Haj, Rifa'at
978-0-8156-3085-2Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.
28.33€ (27.24€ sin IVA) -
One Step Toward Jerusalem
Bacskai, Saandor
978-0-8156-3543-7Originally published in 1997, Bacskai's powerful ethnography portrays the political, religious, and individual forces that came to bear on the Orthodox Jewish tradition as it struggled for survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust in Hungary. Jews who returned to their homes eagerly reestablish...
85.23€ (81.95€ sin IVA) -
"What! Still Alive?!"
Rice, Monika
978-0-8156-3553-6"What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors left unparalleled testimonies of their first impressions with the Jewish historical commissions from...
85.23€ (81.95€ sin IVA) -
Graves of Upstate New York
D'Imperio, Chuck
978-0-8156-3575-8Graves of Upstate New York presents a fascinating look at the lives and deaths of 100 legendary Americans who are laid to rest in Upstate New York. D'Imperio takes readers on a journey across the state, visiting an array of famous New York grave sites, from Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, and James...
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Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements
978-0-8156-3564-2Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance. When authorities respond to strategic nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and violence, they often undercut their own legitimacy, precipitating significant reforms or even governmental ove...
92.11€ (88.57€ sin IVA) -
Tenants and Cobwebs
Naqqash, Samir
978-0-8156-1108-0Samir Naqqash's stirring novel Tenants and Cobwebs nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot unfolds during a time of great turmoil: the rise of Iraqi nationalism and anti-Jewish sentiment...
49.37€ (47.47€ sin IVA) -
Myth of Psychotherapy
Szasz, Thomas
978-0-8156-0223-1This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy. "Szasz extends the conviction he first expressed in The Myth of Mental Illness that the concept of mental illness is both erroneous and immoral; ergo, the treatment thereof must also be immoral. Moreover, since...
28.13€ (27.05€ sin IVA) -
My Bird
Vafi, Fariba
978-0-8156-0944-5In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman's struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife and young mother living in a low-income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon...
34.12€ (32.81€ sin IVA) -
Palestinian Women's Activism
Jad, Islah
978-0-8156-3614-4Jad traces the transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine. Offering one of the first intensive studies of Islamist women's activ...
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Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period
Brownson, Elizabeth
978-0-8156-3628-1In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Her extensive archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's posi...
85.37€ (82.09€ sin IVA)