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Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era

In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention. While other attempts at women's international cooperation and transnational feminism have led to cultural imperialism or imposition of American ways on others, Jessica M.Frazier reveals an instance when American women crossed geopolitical boundaries to criticize American Cold War culture, not promote it. The American women Frazier studies not only solicited Vietnamese women's opinions and advice on how to end the war bu...

The Routledge History of Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

The Routledge History of Human Rights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a "new internationalism" in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of Nations, and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization, and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms, laws, institutions, and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic, political, and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the...

Hindu Worldviews
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Hindu Worldviews

Theory as a practice for becoming the world -- 13 Conclusion: The art of being human in the Hindu cosmos -- The arts of self: Hindu dualism -- The world of ideas: theory as visionary practice -- Notes -- Introduction: Hindu worldviews and global theory -- Theories of self in classical Hinduism -- Bodies made of substances and modes -- Agency and the art of the self -- Becoming the world through reason -- Theories of everything -- Practices of materiality: Structuring and transformative rituals -- Bibliography -- Primary texts -- Other works -- Index

Reality, Religion, and Passion
  • Language: en

Reality, Religion, and Passion

Radical doubt about the truths that govern life has posed a problem for thinkers in many different cultures and periods. This study uncovers the solutions offered by a postmodern Western thinker, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and an early modern Indian thinker, Rupa Gosvami, each of whom offers a renewed postskeptical vision of a revitalized life that is firmly rooted in the transcendental truths of reality.

Knowledge and Information
  • Language: en

Knowledge and Information

We have come a long way from the religions, myths and foundation stories that created the bedrock of man s early understanding of the world and everything in it, and our stock of knowledge has increased exponentially in recent times. In this volume leading scholars in the arts and sciences discuss how knowledge and information have been preserved and transferred throughout history, bringing us up to today s digital age and the multiple challenges it presents, not least with regard to our personal data. Amid growing tension between a cognitive elite and those who feel excluded from public discourse and decision making, alongside increasing friction in academia over freedom of interpretation and expression, will our information society turn out to be an era of enlightenment or are we entering a new dark age for knowledge?

No Meat Athlete
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

No Meat Athlete

"Combining the winning elements of proven training approaches, motivational stories, and innovative recipes, No Meat Athlete is a unique guidebook, healthy-living cookbook, and nutrition primer for the beginner, every day, and serious athlete who wants to live a meatless lifestyle. Author and popular blogger, Matt Frazier, will show you that there are many benefits to embracing a meat-free athletic lifestyle, including: Weight loss, which often leads to increased speed; Easier digestion and faster recovery after workouts; Improved energy levels to help with not just athletic performance but your day-to-day life; Reduced impact on the planet. Whatever your motivation for choosing a meat-free ...

Hanoi's War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Hanoi's War

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam. Hanoi's War renders transparent the internal workings of America's most elusive enemy during the Co...

Rules for Visiting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Rules for Visiting

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-06
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  • Publisher: Granta Books

'Midway through my fortieth year, I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future, my mind so full of things said and not said, done and undone, I no longer understood how to move forward' May is at a crossroads. Although her career as a gardener for the university is flourishing, the rest of her life has narrowed to a parched routine. Her father is elderly, her brother estranged, and she keeps her neighbours at arm's length. The missing element, she realises, might be friendship. As May sets off on a journey to visit four neglected friends one-by-one, she holds herself (and them) to humorously high standards, while at home she begins to confront the pain of her past and imagine for herself a different kind of future. May's quest becomes an exploration of the power, and perhaps limits, of modern friendship.

On the Rez
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

On the Rez

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-05-04
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

Pizza Girl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

Pizza Girl

Perfect for fans of Coco Mellors, R. F. Kuang and Yomi Adegoke, this electrifying debut charts the unlikely relationship between a pregnant teenage pizza delivery driver and a stressed-out, middle-aged mum.