This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentime...

The Australian Macadamia cookbook celebrates Australia's native nut, the macadamia, and utilizes them in a wide variety of way. Deborah Nelson has compiled this cookbook based on her love of good food and the wonderful produce available in Australia. She has lived overseas and travelled extensively enjoying local foods in many parts of the world. Deborah has used her experience and appreciation of food to write recipes that utilize macadamias in a variety of ways, to celebrate her unique A...

Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted...

Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted...

Diane Arbus, Hannah Arendt, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag und Simone Weil haben heute den Status von Ikonen. Doch während sie wegen ihres Eigensinns und ihrer Stärke mittlerweile als weibliche Identifikationsfiguren gelten, schlugen ihnen lange Zeit massive Anfeindungen entgegen, die bis zu Vorwürfen charakterlicher Deformation reichten. Angeprangert wurde der kalte und unsentimentale Blick, der ihre Werke prägte – für Frauen damals wie heute ein Skandal. Deborah Nelson spürt in...

The first introductory and illustrated biography of the civil rights icon.The untold story of Pauli Murray, activist, lawyer, poet, and Episcopal priest, who broke records and barriers throughout her life. Friend to Eleanor Roosevelt, colleague to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and student of Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray's life was nevertheless not always an easy one. Her commitment to fighting for the rights of women and all places her firmly in history. A celebration of...

If you want to excel in the world of Human Resource Management and take your career to new heights, then keep reading…Inside, you will discover:A detailed insight into the basics of the SHRM certification – from registering on the portal to answering the exam questions with confidencePowerful exam-taking strategies handpicked to help you pass with flying colorsHow to evolve as a leading HR personnel – from personal...

Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021) belongs to the most creative, wide-ranging, rigorous, and demanding voices in twentieth-century Protestant theology. Over a long and distinguished career, Jüngel grappled with topics such as revelation, responsible talk about God, God's triunity, Christology, the nature of theological language, analogy, divine and human freedom, love, atheism, and theological approaches to the state. In all this, he had followed, perceptively yet critically, in the footsteps not...

Best of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts: Wildlife Portraits is jam packed full of 28 extraordinary animal scroll saw projects. These tried and true favorites are plucked from the archives of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts, the foremost periodical on scroll sawing. Join your favorite authors, including Kathy Wise, Gary Browning, Charles Dearing, and Lora Irish, as they scroll handsome projects from the animal kingdom. Scroll saw patterns include birds, pets, sea life, North American wildli...

Organizado por Paulo Henrique Ferreira, sócio-fundador da Barões Brand Publishing, o livro Brand Publishing na Prática reúne a expertise de 18 profissionais das áreas de comunicação e gestão de grandes marcas, como ENGIE, Vale, Fundação Dom Cabral, Beauty Fair, Cooxupé, Marfrig e Transfero. Com prefácio de Andrew McLuhan, a ideia da obra é mostrar como a criação de conteúdos proprietários constrói confiança, gera engajamento real e produz resultados sustentáveis. Composto por 216 páginas, ...

In this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest, we share some of the presentations from recent Symposiums which show the diversity of interests and expertise of AMORC members on a variety of mystical topics.

Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of gender roles in ancient-or modern-pastoralist societies, this book helps to fill an empty niche in our understanding of how sexual roles and identities have shaped ...