In essays that engage practical, methodological, and to reflect upon their own research. In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoretical questions, these contributors assess the gains-but also the obstacles and perils of research that traverses national boundaries.
In essays that engage practical, methodological, and to reflect upon their own research. In essays that engage practical, methodological, and theoreti...
Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled. At the heart of this book is an apparent paradox. Although postwar Germany provided its disabled veterans with generous benefits, they came to despise the state that favored them. Disabled men proved susceptible to the Nazi cause....
Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently...
Not long after the world was created, Lilith, the first woman, was expelled from the Garden of Eden. She built an ark, a magic box, in which future biblical women could hide their most prized possessions. And so, Lilith s Ark became a place for women to share their own experiences of adolescence with future generations of girls...
The women of Torah grew up at a time when gender roles were rigidly defined and girls were considered women at an early age. Still, the Torah hints that young biblical women faced challenges similar to those that teenagers encounter today: first loves,...
Not long after the world was created, Lilith, the first woman, was expelled from the Garden of Eden. She built an ark, a magic box, in which future...
This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.
This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and s...
At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes? This absorbing book offers surprising answers to these questions, uncovering the roots of today's consumer society and investigating the forces that shape consumer desires. Richly illustrated, Household Gods chronicles a hundred years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping, and possessions. Exploring a wealth of unusual records and archives, Deborah Cohen locates the...
At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passio...
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican transnational world, a world created through the interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program's principal protagonists...
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to ...
Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the modern weight crisis. Based on her own extensive research, as well as the latest insights from behavioral economics and cognitive science, Cohen reveals what drives the obesity epidemic and how we, as a nation, can overcome it. Cohen argues that the massive increase in obesity is...
Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estim...
A Cry of Every Woman's Heart ... to be Loved captures the essence of this truth in the stories of thirteen fictional (based on the Bible) women of the past whose thoughts and longings are timeless. Using the symbols of Israel, this book brings forth the richness of our heritage in the Messiah and His people, as well as His great love for us. The settings and the customs may be different, but the deepest desires in the hearts of women throughout the ages remain the same. As you walk down ancient paths with these women, you will experience a fresh encounter with the One who loves you and came...
A Cry of Every Woman's Heart ... to be Loved captures the essence of this truth in the stories of thirteen fictional (based on the Bible) women of the...
This is the story of a Jewish man's journey to seek truth and to finally find it in his Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus), with the help of an American pastor named Deborah. And it is a story of romance after the shock, grief and trauma of divorce. The Ninja and The Pastor met and were healed together as they walked in "His Way"
This is the story of a Jewish man's journey to seek truth and to finally find it in his Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus), with the help of an American pastor n...
