Deeply researched and beautifully written, Parvati Sharma's portrait of Akbar the Great brings alive as never before a man imperfect and extraordinary, who ruled for fifty years and has lived in the Indian imagination for close to half a millennium.
Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and extensive rather than exceptional. A Kaleidoscope of Identities reveals the more elusive elements of sex, gender, and sexual life which are often difficult to capture in quantifiable variables.
Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and extensive rather than exceptional. A Kaleidoscope of Identities reveals the more elusive elements of sex, gender, and sexual life which are often difficult to capture in quantifiable variables.
Years of studying and teaching in different academic settings have provided Inoue-Smith with many experiences and observations that led her to think about the components of professor's daily lives. This book focuses on how reflection and self-understanding helps scholars to excel in their teaching and their careers.
Explores the beautiful and complicated mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregiving for an ill or aging mother and offers tips and suggestions for overcoming the more difficult aspects while celebrating and cherishing the more comforting features.
Surviving and Thriving in Poland, Israel, and the United States
Never forget. This stirring memoir of Polish Holocaust survivor Samuel Ron is structured as a Q&A with students, in order to reflect the decades he has spent educating groups about his survival from four Nazi concentration camps, and his many contributions to the founding of the modern State of Israel.
A Jewish Heart: A Struggle for Status and Identity in Asia is at once the saga of a modest charitable grant in 1903, an unimagined windfall ninety years later, and a history of Progressive Judaism in Asia. Enriched with profiles of key players, the author rootsthe narratives in the entrepreneurial and philanthropic activities of two legendary ......
Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into English, A Japanese Mission to 17th Century Rome: Date Masamune's Cosmopolitan Dream presents a nuanced history of the Keicho Mission (1616-1620), a little-known embassy sent to Europe by ......
