German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social transformation, focusing on German-born craft workers and the key roles they played in the economic and political life of the wage-earning population of antebellum America. ......
The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series That Captivated Amer
On the 50th anniversary of the historic 1967 World Series acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen shows how the Red Sox and Cardinals waged an epic battle for baseball supremacy that captured the imagination of weary Americans looking for escape from the urban riots, racial turmoil, and antiwar protests that were roiling 1960s society.
Fleeing from Nazi Europe in the late 1930s, Austrian-born Karl Konig and his colleagues founded the first Camphill community, for children with special needs, outside Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. The seven essays by König in this book explain the principles behind what would grow to become a worldwide movement. ......
ISBN-13: 9781782504979
(Paperback)
Publisher: FLORIS BOOKS Imprint: KARL KONIG ARCHIVE SERIES
Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict
We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist's interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It's hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each party's ......
This non-fiction narrative is an entertaining look at labor struggles, anarchist politics, and proletarian culture in Chicago, the heart of the radical labor movement in the turn-of-the-century United States. Through the story of its central character, anarchist carpenter Anton Johannsen, The Spirit of Labor pulls the reader into a vibrant, gritty ......
The Process, Meaning and Criteria For Mastering NLP (POD)
This fully revised edition represents the core of a brilliant Richard Bandler master Training. It also includes significant contributions from other master trainers, including Eric Robbie, Wyatt Woodsmall, Tad James, Christina Hall and the late Will McDonald. Providing a deeper understand of the true genius of the co-developer of ......
Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and theological approaches, resulting in a multidisciplinary analysis of a global phenomenon. ......
Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
A collection of essays exploring musical sounds and worship practices within Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity. Combines ethnographic case studies with theoretical reflection informed by social science, musicological, religious studies, and theological approaches, resulting in a multidisciplinary analysis of a global phenomenon. ......
Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association.Crossing the color line with revivalism among working-class Southerners.In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ......
