Authors:Michael Ashcraft, Dereck Daschke,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: reader, documentary, movements, religious, new
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814707033
ISBN-13: 9780814707036
New Religious Movements is a highly unique volume, bringing together primary documents conveying the words and ideas of a wide array of new religious movements (NRMs), and offering a first-hand look into their belief systems. Arranged by the editors according to a new typology, the text allows readers to consider NRMS along five interrelated pathways—from those that offer new perceptions of existence or new personal identities, to those that center on relationships within family-like units, to those movements that highlight the need for recasting the social order or anticipate the dawn of a
Author: Arthur Bonner
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: india, movements, social, apocalypse, averting
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 1990
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822310481
ISBN-13: 9780822310488
There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews over many months while traveling almost 20,000 miles within India seeking out the underclass and social activists who together are beginning to mobilize for social change at the bottom of Indian society. Working in areas torn by violence, Bonner offers a terrifyingly accurate portrait of a s
Author: Amy Dempsey
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: guide, modern, art, encyclopaedic, essential, schools, movements, styles
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-04
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0500283761
ISBN-13: 9780500283769
A profusely illustrated, cross-referenced guide to more than a century of stylistic and conceptual revolution in art. Art in the modern era has come to be defined by its styles, schools, and movements. The three hundred discussed here provide an introduction and a guide to the major developments in Western painting, sculpture, architecture, and design during one of the most dynamic and exciting periods in art history. One hundred main entries are presented in broadly chronological order, from Impressionism in the nineteenth century to Earth Art, Sound Art, and Internet Art in the twenty
Author: Lakshmi Bhaskaran
Publisher: RotoVision
Keywords: styles, contemporary, design, movements, key, times, using, designs
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 2880468167
ISBN-13: 9782880468163
Designs of the Times is an essential, one-stop reference and inspiration resource for graphic designers, students and design writers. In addition to providing a grounding in each historical movement/style, each section shows contemporary uses of the style in multi-disciplinary design, enabling the reader to see how each style has evolved and can be applied.Reference and research material are a must for any designer/design studio. Designs of the Times provides all the essential information needed to tackle any design brief with confidence and ease. The key traits of each style are also summariz
Authors:Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: key, guides, routledge, concepts, social, movements
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2010-11-09
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 041543114X
ISBN-13: 9780415431149
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: • the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century • the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s • the rise of contemporary ‘network’ movements Key American, European and global social movements are addressed, with each entry related to contem
Author: Terence Diggory
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: literary, movements, poets, school, new, york, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816057435
ISBN-13: 9780816057436
Authors:Tom Mertes, Walden F. Bello (contributor), Bernard C
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: possible, really, world, movements, movement
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2004-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 1859844685
ISBN-13: 9781859844687
Charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and activists…the Zapatistas’ Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader João Pedro Stedile, and many more…discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalizat
