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Selin Bengi Gumrukcu (Izmir University, Turkey)
Turkey witnessed a period of intense street protests and clashes that rose and fell from the late 1960s until the coup d'etat held in September 1980, with student protests entering…
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Giedre Kubiliute, Ian R. Lamond
This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a Critical Event Studies lens, offering new perspectives on protests and social…
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De Nichols
Discover the power of words, images and much more in this analytical and thought-provoking look at protest art.
John Morison
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Joseph Kestner
The social novel in 19th-century Britain has been considered the effort of a mostly male canon of writers. In this study, first published in 1985, Kestner challenges that assumption, arguing…
The development of equitable relationships and outcomes among Indigenous communities, resource development companies, and governments in Canada is slow and uneven. Protest and Partnership brings together expert contributors to ask…
Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities…
Protestantism during the early modern period is predominantly presented as a European story. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, this volume advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant…
Jessica Lack
An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter.
Ray E. Boomhower
Examines how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc's horrific self-immolation on June 11, 1963.
This book analyses how generations of university and college students in the Global South have responded to issues such as problems in their own universities as well as standing up…
This book analyses how generations of secondary and high school students in many countries have been thoughtful, committed and effective political actors, particularly over the past decade.
Cindy Bell
A clean cozy mystery with endearing friendships! The future of Dune House is on the line when a new development is approved in the small beachside town. The residents are…
In the wake of a global wave of mobilisation, this book offers an unprecedented interrogation of protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Using international case studies…
Michael P. Young
DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest chronicles the history of the DREAMers--the term used to describe undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Based on interviews with lead…
Sara M. Butler
In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure - pressing with weights. Using this punishment as a lens…
Wayne H. Bowen
This book argues that the Protestant Reformation was an existential threat to the Catholic Habsburg monarchy of the sixteenth century and the greatest danger to its political and religious authority…
Anthony Hope
Mrs. Maxon Protests, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
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Michael Head
This book explores the issue of how to defend and extend democracy in a new era of rising protests, social unrest and political discontent globally. It examines the historical, social…
James Baldwin
"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."-Toni Morrison
This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest…
Gavin Ortlund
These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In What it Means to Be Protestant, Gavin Ortlund draws…
Edward B. Davis
"This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science and religion in early twentieth century America"--
Jonathan A. Seitz
With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China evaluates the role of nineteenth-century British missionaries in the early development of the cross-cultural relationship between China and the English-speaking…
Ailynn Collins
In June 1989, thirteen-year-old Min and her activist parents attend a peaceful protest in Tiananmen Square, but their lives turn upside down when the military shows up bringing chaos and…
Viktoriia Muliavka
The Class Gap in Protest Participation discusses a theoretically grounded empirical analysis of the relationship between class and protest involvement across Central Eastern and Western Europe.
James C Ungureanu
The story of the "conflict thesis" between science and religion--the notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the two--is part of our modern self-understanding. As the story goes, John William…
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Tamra B Orr
Around the world, peaceful protests have successfully changed the course of history in the fight for equality. The suffragettes marched for the right to vote. Young women risked their lives…
This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a…
Christine Platt
Young reporter Frankie and her news crew of beloved toys learn why and how people protest as this engaging series continues.
There's breaking news on TV at Frankie's house-a protest…
Max Weber
Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, this remarkable volume holds its own as one of the most significant books of…
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Ousseina D. Alidou
Examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social change.
The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest is one of the longest, biggest (and victorious) The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest of 2020-21 is one of the…
Thanks to art’s ability to communicate and influence, it has always had a charged relationship with activism and politics.
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 - 8 July 1933), was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure…
Attila K Molnar
While in the 16-17th centuries about the two thirds of the Hungarians belonged to the Reformed Church, the presence of the "spirit of capitalism" and the "protestant ethic" is rather…
Sadie Thatcher
Three recent college graduates have taken it upon themselves to being down one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world for its evil practices through the distinguished…
Ian D'Alton
Ian D'Alton has, for many decades, been regarded as one of the foremost voices detailing and capturing the Protestant experience in the Republic of Ireland. This work is a collection…
Paul Wilhelm Schmidt, Francis Henry Jones
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Valleri J Robinson
This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities…
