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Behind the scenes at a creationist theme park with a mission to convert visitors through entertainment Opened to the public in July 2016, Ark Encounter is a creationist theme park in Kentucky. The park features an all-timber re-creation of Noah's ark, built full scale to creationist specifications drawn from the text of Genesis, as well as ......
The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
This title examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War of 1846-1848, through the daily experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp and on the march.
Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Offers a fresh view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian and psychoanalytic criticism, this work shows that literary engagements with grief offered ways of challenging deepseated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.
Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Tracing the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, this work offers a different view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion.
Why are today's adults more like adolescents, in their dress and personal tastes, than ever before? Why do so many adults seem to drift and avoid responsibilities such as work and family? This book gives us a vision of what it means to be an adult and makes sense of the longest, but least understood period of the life course.
Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Black women in marginalized communities is at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. This book shows that the threat of violence to black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.
Citizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict, heal ......
