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  • Night without End

    The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland

    Edited by Jan Grabowski, Engelking ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    An unprecedented history of the Holocaust within Poland during World War II.Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly ninety-eight percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Jesus

    by Wilhelm Haller, Stephen A. Engelking ...
    Willi Haller was not a theologian but an industrialist. Within the framework of his commitment to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, he also lectured on theological topics. In the following lecture he critically deals with some statements concerning the question of power. For him, violence and powerlessness belong together. We hope that his statements will challenge us to take a stand and so a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tiny Transit

    Cut Carbon Emissions in Your City Before It's Too Late

    by Susan Engelking ...
    A transportation expert shares how you can cut carbon emissions in your city, improve health and safety, and promote sustainability.Tiny Transit is a how-to guide for cities, mayors, and local governments searching for practical ways to cut carbon emissions. Susan Engelking, founder of Tiny Transit Strategies™ and executive director of the Institute for Community MicroMobility, describes an ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Footprints of Five Generations

    by C.W. Schmidt, Stephen Engelking ...
    There are yet among us men and women who braved the dangers and hardships of a frontier life in order that we may be enjoying the advantages and wealth of the present. Some of these have not great wealth and while others are drawing a small pension from the State, there are still others who are in dire poverty and never expect to ride on a concrete highway for pleasure and recreation. What they ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Great Acceleration

    An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

    by J. R. McNeill, Peter Engelke ...
    The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • An Honest Death

    Life's End and Humanist Funerals

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary LondonAn Honest Death is an intimate and moving ethnographic account of funerals for people who don’t believe in God or an afterlife. Focusing on secular funeral celebrants of the British Humanist Association (now called Humanists UK), the book examines how their ritual work is geared toward helping realize a secular ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Limits of Meaning

    Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

    Edited by Matthew Engelke, Matt Tomlinson ...
    Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from around the globe, the authors in this volume suggest that in order to analyze meaning productively, we need to consider ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Jews of the Lionheart

    by Eugen Rispart, Major Wm. Schonfield T.D., Stephen A. Engelking ...
    In the Middle Ages, during the reign of King Richard of England, a terrible anti-Semitic massacre took place in York in 1190. The city's Jewish community was trapped by an angry mob within the tower of York Castle. Members of the community chose to commit suicide rather than be murdered or forcibly baptized by the attackers.Eugen Rispart's great epic, crammed full of incidents, accurate in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Prussia

    by Gertha von Dieckmann, Stephen Engelking ...
    So many heroes have been lost to history and this book attempts to bring the reader's attention to two great men who by working in harmony were able to transform the fate of Prussia. Gertha von Dieckmann originally wrote this book in German in 1930. Today, the book contains so many intimate insights into the workings in the administration of the Prussian states during and after the French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God's Agents

    Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series Book 15 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    The British and Foreign Bible Society is one of the most illustrious Christian charities in the United Kingdom. Founded by evangelicals in the early nineteenth century and inspired by developments in printing technology, its goal has always been to make Bibles universally available. Over the past several decades, though, Bible Society has faced a radically different world, especially in its work ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Think in Public

    A Public Books Reader

    by Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani, Stacey Balkan, Imani Perry, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nathan Connolly, Matthew Engelke, Philip Gorski, Kim Phillips-Fein, Max Holleran, Najwa al-Qattan, Jeremy Adelman, Destin Jenkins, Andrew Perrin, Kieran Setiya, Shannon Mattern, Jill Lepore, Suzy Hansen, James Vernon, Lynn French, Salamishah Tillet, Matthew Clair, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Plotz, Christopher Schaberg, Eli Rosenblatt, Barbara Cassin, Rebecca Falkoff, Haruo Shirane, Karl Ashoka Britto, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Marah Gubar, Anne E. Fernald, Namwali Serpell, Tess McNulty, Mark McGurl, Nicholas Dames, Jan Mieszkowski, Karen Dunak, Daegan Miller, John R. McNeill ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished ... Read more

    $20.99 USD