In an effort to discover the truth about his family, the author uses DNA testing and interviews to learn the real story behind his paternity and that of his eight brothers and sisters. What the DNA reveals, and how the author and siblings handle it, serves as a lesson to anyone undertaking ancestry research.
11 lectures in Dornach, September 8-19, 1924 (CW 318)Today we hear a great deal about holistic medicine--an approach to healing that integrates body, mind, and spirit. For Rudolf Steiner, healing is not possible unless it takes into account all the dimensions that make up a human being-both visible and invisible. Unless we begin to understand ......
The Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depth and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance--a distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis center. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus Cafagña has led us through the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his ......
This book shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Empirically grounded contributions show the crucial impact of such entertainment professionals on the making of artistic careers and cultural products.
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and ......
Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The author focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth
The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 192s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in California, a pivotal occupation for male Chinese immigrants. Servants of both sexes accounted for ......
A fast-growing legal system and economy in medieval and early modern Rome saw a rapid increase in the need for written documents. Brokers of Public Trust examines the emergence of the modern notarial profession -- free market scribes responsible for producing original legal documents and their copies.Notarial acts often go unnoticed, but they are ......
The Legendary Story of the NFL's Greatest Two-Way Fullback
This book tells the remarkable story of a small-town athlete from the farming plains of Minnesota who became one of the greatest players in NFL history.
