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 Christopher R. Seitz, "The Elder Testament: Canon, Theology, Trinity" English | ISBN: 1481308289 | 2018 | 310 pages | PDF | 3 MB The Elder Testament serves as a theological introduction to the canonical unity of the Scriptures of Israel. Christopher Seitz demonstrates that, while an emphasis on theology and canonical form often sidesteps critical methodology, the canon itself provides essential theological commentary on textual and historical reconstruction.  Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Deconstruction of Sex " English | ISBN: 1478013427 | 2021 | 120 pages | PDF | 4 MB [center]  Jonathan Barth, "The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America" English | ISBN: 1501755773 | 2021 | 396 pages | PDF | 11 MB In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas.  Kay Brainerd Slocum, "The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries " English | ISBN: 1138103284 | 2018 | 352 pages | PDF | 7 MB On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout Europe, generating a widespread cult which endured until the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, and engendering a fascination which has lasted until the present day. The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries contributes to the lengthy debate surrounding the saint by providing a historiographical analysis of the major themes in Becket scholarship, tracing the development of Becket studies from the writings of the twelfth-century biographers to those of scholars of the twenty-first century.  Toby Green, "The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality" English | ISBN: 1787385221 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 671 KB Since the onset of the pandemic, progressive opinion has been clear that hard lockdowns are the best way to preserve life, while only irresponsible and destructive conservatives like Trump and Bolsonaro oppose them. But why should liberals favor lockdowns, when all the social science research  The Complete Christmas Story: Two books that tell the whole story by Glenn Pease English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B075NZN5JH | 285 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb What is the gift God has given us in the birth of Jesus? There are several, but the main is the forgiveness of sins and eternal life in Heaven. That is an amazing thing. He forgives us of all our sins and gives us the opportunity to spend eternity in Heaven with him.  Maria José de Abreu, "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil" English | ISBN: 1478009713 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 919 KB [center]  Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" English | ISBN: 0190915196 | 2021 | 160 pages | PDF | 8 MB What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.  Victor Coelho, "The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones " English | ISBN: 1107651115 | 2019 | 242 pages | EPUB | 3 MB The Rolling Stones are one of the most influential, prolific, and enduring Rock and Roll bands in the history of music. This groundbreaking, specifically commissioned collection of essays provides the first dedicated academic overview of the music, career, influences, history, and cultural impact of the Rolling Stones. Shining a light on the many communities and sources of knowledge about the group, this Companion brings together essays by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, players, film scholars, and filmmakers into a single volume intended to stimulate fresh thinking about the group as they vault well over the mid-century of their career. Threaded throughout these essays are album- and song-oriented discussions of the landmark recordings of the group and their influence. Exploring new issues about sound, culture, media representation, the influence of world music, fan communities, group personnel, and the importance of their revival post-1989, this collection greatly expands our understanding of their music.  Chris Rhomberg, "The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor" English | ISBN: 0871547171 | 2012 | 400 pages | PDF | 4 MB When the Detroit newspaper strike was settled in December 2000, it marked the end of five years of bitter and violent dispute. No fewer than six local unions, representing 2,500 employees, struck against the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, and their corporate owners, charging unfair labor practices. The newspapers hired permanent replacement workers and paid millions of dollars for private security and police enforcement; the unions and their supporters took their struggle to the streets by organizing a widespread circulation and advertising boycott, conducting civil disobedience, and publishing a weekly strike newspaper. In the end, unions were forced to settle contracts on management's terms, and fired strikers received no amnesty. In The Broken Table, Chris Rhomberg sees the Detroit newspaper strike as a historic collision of two opposing forces: a system in place since the New Deal governing disputes between labor and management, and decades of increasingly aggressive corporate efforts to eliminate unions. As a consequence, one of the fundamental institutions of American labor relations―the negotiation table―has been broken, Rhomberg argues, leaving the future of the collective bargaining relationship and democratic workplace governance in question. The Broken Table uses interview and archival research to explore the historical trajectory of this breakdown, its effect on workers' economic outlook, and the possibility of restoring democratic governance to the business-labor relationship. Emerging from the New Deal, the 1935 National Labor Relations Act protected the practice of collective bargaining and workers' rights to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment by legally recognizing union representation. This system became central to the democratic workplace, where workers and management were collective stakeholders. But efforts to erode the legal protections of the NLRA began immediately, leading to a parallel track of anti-unionism that began to gain ascendancy in the 1980s. The Broken Table shows how the tension created by these two opposing forces came to a head after a series of key labor disputes over the preceding decades culminated in the Detroit newspaper strike. Detroit union leadership charged management with unfair labor practices after employers had unilaterally limited the unions' ability to bargain over compensation and work conditions. Rhomberg argues that, in the face of management claims of absolute authority, the strike was an attempt by unions to defend workers' rights and the institution of collective bargaining, and to stem the rising tide of post-1980s anti-unionism. In an era when the incidence of strikes in the United States has been drastically reduced, the 1995 Detroit newspaper strike stands out as one of the largest and longest work stoppages in the past two decades. A riveting read full of sharp analysis, The Broken Table revisits the Detroit case in order to show the ways this strike signaled the new terrain in labor-management conflict. The book raises broader questions of workplace governance and accountability that affect us all. |
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