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This text depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews and written sources, the author surveys the interplay between fundamentalist theology and fundamentalist practice.

An assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together a group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell and Robert Jay Lifton.

In this illustrated volume, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth - some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened - not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines and even industries.

An exploration of the biological, social and economic causes of tropical deforestation and remedies appropriate to the biology and culture of diverse regions and localities. The authors look at the relationships between forests and poverty, and examine successes and failures in agroforestry.

This work explores basic pre-Columbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses on the Central Mexican Aztecs (the "Mexica"), who believed in multiple souls that gave humans their shared and individual characteristics and survived the body after death.

Traces the history of the bonding myth and explains its continuing popularity despite its demonstrated lack of validity. Ever also shows how it reflects a tendency in society to accept "scientific" research without question and without awareness of how it can be distorted by professional agendas.

An account of the life of the German composer, Johannes Brahms. It draws on a wide array of documentation to illuminate Brahm's personality; his outlook as a composer; his activities as a pianist, conductor, scholar and traveller; his friendship with the Schumanns; and more.

The first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes, this work narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.

A lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl, and how it discovers how to live responsibly on the land.

A collection presenting, in English, the lives of 11 Russian women from the 19th century, as told in their own words. Toby Clyman and Judith Vowles introduce and annotate each memoir, and they set the writings in the context of Russian and western autobiographical traditions.

This text offers ideas on how America can respond to changing public health and ecological risks and create sound environmental policy for the future.

Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower's presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.