Search Results - World History, The Human Experience

Mind, modernity, madness the impact of culture on human experience / by Greenfeld, Liah

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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World : Blighted Bodies / by Richardson, Kristina L.

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Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

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Rethinking darkness : cultures, histories, practices /

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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /

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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

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Climate changed : refugee border stories and the business of misery / by Briggs, Daniel (Criminologist)

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Secrecy and insurgency : socialities and knowledge practices in Guatemala / by Posocco, Silvia

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It keeps me seeking : the invitation from science, philosophy, and religion / by Briggs, Andrew, Halvorson, Hans, Steane, Andrew M.

Exploring grief : towards a sociology of sorrow /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Towards a sociology of grief -- historical, cultural and social explorations of grief as an emotion; Part I Grief and history; 1 Grief in modern history: an ongoing evolution; 2 Diversity in human grieving: historical and cross-cultural perspectives; 3 The impact of the two world wars on cultures of grieving: grief in England, 1914-1980; Part II Grief and literature…”
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Clothes and monasticism in ancient Christian Egypt : new perspective on religious garments / by Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid

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Information and liberation writings on the politics of information and librarianship / by Durrani, Shiraz

Table of Contents: “…To inform is to liberate -- Setting the scene (1) : rocking the boat -- Veterinary information in Kenya (1979) -- Lessons in Kenyan librarianship : leadership, management and the library worker (1984) -- Rural information in Kenya (1985) -- Agricultural information services in Kenya and third world needs (1987) -- Libraries, communication & development in Kenya : the missing political factor (1990) -- Human rights and information in Kenya : a question of political power (1994) -- The mirage of democracy in Kenya (1994) -- Independence in Kenya and the lost opportunity (1998) -- Information relevance, equality and material security : the Kenyan experience (1998) -- Politics of information, information for politics -- Setting the scene (2) : a mere librarian doing research -- The politics of food (1983) -- The other Kenya : underground and alternative literature (1997) -- Information in Kenyan liberation struggle : facts and fiction (2000) -- Voices of resistance : underground publishing in Kenya, 1963-1998 -- Setting the scene (3) : no equality of conditions -- The search for social justice -- Black communities and information workers in search of social justice (1999) -- Combating racism in library and information services (2000) -- Struggle against racial exclusion in public libraries (2000) -- Equality : a service development approach (2000--SD, PJ) -- Mainstreaming equality, meeting needs (2003--SD/ES) -- Create a people-orientated public library service (2004) -- Creating a new library, creating a new library manager (2005) -- Comments on "new direction in social policy" (2005) -- The challenge for libraries in a multicultural society (2007) -- Politics of information and resistance -- Capitalism and socialism : has the contradiction been resolved? …”
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