In his famous Manifesto of 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff called for an end to the more than fifty-year practice of polygamy. Fifteen years later, two men were dramatically expelled from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles for having taken post-Manifesto plural wives and encouraged the step by others. Evidence reveals, however, that ......
Magic realism set in the Mildura area, from the author of Still Life with Allen Keys. The squawking parrot knows it all, the secret keeper of this land, of wine and river, war and love, and dreams men brought to river bank. Part family saga, part love story, and told over three generations by an unreliable parrot. “A most marvellous tale.”
Solid State Physics provides a broad introduction to some of the principal areas of the physical phenomena in solid materials and is aimed broadly at undergraduate students of physics and engineering related subjects. The physical properties of materials are intimately related to the crystalline symmetry of atoms as well as the atomic Species ......
In this collection, philosophers, social psychologists, and social scientists approach contemporary social reality from the viewpoint of solidarity. They examine the nature of solidarity and explore its normative and explanatory potential.
Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned ......
Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned ......
Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
''Solidarity and Fragmentation should be required reading for anyone involved in the current labor movement -- indeed, for anyone interested in the prospects for radical change in America. . . . It is radical history at its best, speaking directly to the descendants of radicals and social visionaries about the lessons of their past.'' -- Monthly ......
Rebecca Todd Peters argues for an ethic of solidarity as a new model for how people of faith in the first world can live with integrity in the midst of global injustice and shape a more just future. Solidarity Ethics seeks to address the economic and social structures of our globalized context.
Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California
Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.
