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The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader
Scholarship has portrayed A Philip Randolph, a black trade unionist in America as an atheist and anti-religious. Taylor places him within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She shows that his religiosity covered a spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs.
From September 2011 to September 2012, Ambassador Nasser Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar presided over the 66th session of the world's parliament - the United Nations General Assembly. This book looks inside the organization, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, its successes and struggles.
Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America's most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker draws on lessons from socialist movements in ......
Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America's most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker draws on lessons from socialist movements in ......
Thinkers From Many Countries Address the Political, Economic, and Social Problems of Our Time
In this book, intellectuals from around the world make specific recommendations for a wide range of political, economic and cultural concerns. Discussion topics include the links among democracy, development and the market economy; collapsing global development visions; and more.
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
