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143, [5] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo) ; Half-title: Mr. Dickinson's second vindication of God's sovereign free grace. ; "To the reader" signed: Thomas Foxcroft. Boston April 26 1748. ; "Books sold by Rogers and Fowle in Boston."--p. [145-147].

1. A Social History of Cattle Trading in Weimar Germany -- 2. Trust and Cattle Trading -- 3. Constituting Trust through Official Authority -- 4. Destroying Trust by Force under Nazism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Note on Primary Sources Cited in Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects -- About the Author.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Grandma Name Quiz -- Grandmother Names -- Celebrity Grandmas -- Grandmother Stories -- Amazing Grandmas -- Famous Grandmas -- International Grandmother Names -- Grandmother Names by Personality -- Perfect Pairs -- Grandma's Grandbaby Planner -- Grandma's Playbook -- Dos, Don'ts, and Advice -- Grandma Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of education.

Using the example of various representatives of the Frankfurt School, the book works out a normative orientation that is to be understood here as "Critical Humanism". The author argues that Critical Humanism is not a contemplative appropriation of a humanistic culture, but a political practice of critical social research.

"Inspired Citizens enhances our understanding of how political role models function and affect political behavior in the United States. It explores what impact role models have on political participation and on candidate emergence, building a political science theory of role model effects which the author terms Inspired Citizenship Theory"--

"This book looks at a women's empowerment NGO in Iran that struggled to connect its clientele with global notions of feminism. Clients found that the Western-informed concepts preferred by the center's staff read as upper-class. The author theorizes a sensitive relationship between global and situated notions of feminism"--

"This biography for early readers examines the life of Ruby Bridges, the first African American student to integrate a school, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes table of contents, author biography, timeline, glossary, index, and other informative backmatter."--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Entries -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Essays -- Changing Depictions of Gender and Sex -- Changing Depictions of Wives and Girlfriends -- Changing Depictions of Motherhood -- Changing Concept of Work and Domesticity -- Changing Nature of Content Creation -- A-Z Entries -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.

This book examines the influence of China on the founding of the United States. The author analyzes how the Founding Fathers recognized China s distinct approaches to agriculture, architecture, and philosophy and drew from them as they sought to establish a political identity and heritage for the United States

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Why Violence? -- 1. Violence and Social Order -- 2. Sexualized Violence against Women -- 3. Sexual Harassment and Rape -- 4. Police Violence Against Black People -- 5. Political Violence Against Black People -- Conclusion: The Continuing Significance of Violence -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

The author examines the relationship between the political control of territory by non-state violent actors (VNSA) and the effectiveness of these actors in realizing their political objectives. He frames these two phenomena as interrelated and explores the very conditions of their interdependence against the backdrop of robust empirical data.

This book answers questions such as What is 'misinformation'? Why does it matter? How does it spread on the internet? How can we counteract its worst effects? The text ends with an author-designed, practical, easy-to-use model allowing users to effectively analyse the quality of trending content.

Cover -- Half-title -- About the author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Quote -- Taking Bourdieu to Town -- Prologue -- 1 Bourdieu in the Urban Crucible -- 2 The Bitter Taste of Territorial Taint -- 3 Marginality, Ethnicity, and Penality in the Neoliberal Metropolis -- Epilogue: Bourdieu in the City, the City in Bourdieu -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.

"In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government"--