The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the 'Little-Middles' - a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the...więcej »
A new selection of letters, statements, and interviews reveals the preoccupations, thoughts, and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the twentieth century’s most influential and important artists....więcej »
The formal healthcare system in Nigeria is near collapse and the National Health Insurance Scheme has failed to improve coverage. In this situation, a well-organized quality rural medical and surgi...więcej »
Free to be Me
Do you ever wake up some days, and wonder,
'What on earth is this all about?', 'Where am I going? 'What's wrong with me? 'Who am I?'
Do you hear yourself saying, 'I can't d...więcej »
This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author s...więcej »
It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inher...więcej »
In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Frierson moves comedy from the margins to the center of the American Civil Rights Movement. Freedom in Laughter reveals how stand-up comedians Dick Grego...więcej »
This book brings a study conducted with two mental health teams, in the context of two Centers of Psychosocial Attention - CAPS, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, focusing on Phenomenology.Psychiatric Ref...więcej »
Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination withou...więcej »
In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America might ...więcej »
Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition f...więcej »
In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works. French cinema, however, appears to undergo a transformation as it...więcej »
The work consists of an exhibition memorial of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her impressive trajectory as one of the women who inscribed her name in the History of Humanity. It is a theoretic...więcej »
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health f...więcej »