Bella Abzug’s promotion of women’s and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats’ “New Politics” insurgency is a biography for our times.Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York’s Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar move...

Significant recent advances in the imaging of the lower urinary tract are comprehensively presented in this handbook. It offers information on both imaging examinations and interventional techniques with all the modern modalities, including MRI and ultrasound.The contributors are all experts in clinical urology; their varying and at times conflicting opinions track the fast-moving pace in the field and demonstrate the complexity of the subject. The approach is disease-oriented, thou...

Eine neue Sprache für die Grundbegriffe des ChristentumsEntlang von 24 Schlüsselbegriffen legt Christopher Zarnow zentrale Inhalte des christlichen Glaubens aus. Sein Buch lädt ein, die Ideen des Christentums neu zu entdecken – und mit ihnen den Reichtum und die lebensorientierende Kraft der Religion überhaupt.Das Christentum ist traditionell eine Religion der großen Worte. Manchen erscheinen sie zu groß in spirituell eher wortkargen Zeiten. Aber ob vom »Re...

Suffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate—a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020—a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at...