“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” presents a collection of compelling case studies in the area of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. These chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequ...

Idiosyncrasies is the second poetry book written by Author Adam Thomas Applebaum and his 7th Book Published to date. Take a deep dive into the amalgamation of 15 years of casually writing poetry and 10 years of Independent Publishing. In it you should find a mixture of poems of multiple themes from the introspective to the spiritual, and funny. There are also poems about

In Dissonance, the debut mystery novel by author Adam Thomas Applebaum, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a world where furries and humans coexist in a precarious balance.Our protagonist, a silver blue fox who transforms from nurse to forensic anthropologist, finds herself caught up in a high-stakes murder mystery, set against the backdrop of a society struggling to reconcile its differences.As tensions mount and passions flare, our heroine must navigate a co...

Philanthropy has become a staple of American society and culture. Associations, endowments, foundations, and limited dividend companies have funded education, culture, healthcare, religion, and social welfare.Yet American philanthropy is not as exceptional as it appears to European observers. American philanthropy was built upon European and Mediterranean precedents and evolved through the constant influence of philanthropic practices in other parts of the world.This book e...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.This eighth volume brings together case studies of Jewish heritage and Jewish history in the Caribbean, China, Europe, and North America from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. It includes chapters about the Jewish presence in Ancient China, the building of synagogues in the Atlantic World, Jewish soccer culture, Jewish migrat...

This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football in the 1870s from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina. It will be the very first account of football that does not treat this sport in isolation but brings together the phenomenon of football with the conditions in nineteenth-century high schools and...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is an annual series dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.The ninth volume of The Yearbook of Transnational History brings together six case studies that interrogate the idea of a “special relationship” in international affairs, asking what makes certain bilateral ties stand out, how they are sustained, and whether their distinctiveness rests on sentiment, strateg...

Leslie Green is a leading figure in late-20th and early-21st century legal philosophy. He has made important contributions on topics as varied as legal positivism, political obligation, the limits of government, and the regulation of pornography. Green's work is marked by its striking originality and approachability, as well as his willingness to see questions in the philosophy of law as integrated with wider questions of moral, political, and social theory. Named after one of Professor Gr...

This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country’s social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context. The author argues that most developments in German culture, society, and politics throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were caused by wider global and transnational trends. A history of the German people rather than the German state, the book focusses on non-state and non-government actors, intercultural t...

This time in our society is unlike any other. People communicate daily without ever having to speak face to face, news breaks around the world in a matter of seconds, and favorite TV shows can be viewed at our convenience. We are, simultaneously, a people of connection and isolation. As Christians, how do we view our faith and personal ministry in this culture?Adam Thomas invites you to explore this question using his unique, personal, and often humorous insight. Thomas notes, "" The Inter...

When the newly ordained Episcopal priest Rev. Calvin Harper arrives in Victory, West Virginia, to be the pastor at an ailing parish, he has no idea how much he still has to learn about being a priest. Thankfully, Ruby Redding takes the young man under her wing and teaches him everything she has learned throughout her long, storied life. Seminary never taught Calvin that the only true way to be a witness to God's presence in this world is to remain in relationship with people no matter what...

The Passion Of Christ is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Thomas Adams (1583–1652 was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; while he was a Calvinist in theology, he is not, however, accurately described as a Puritan. He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan. Much of the information about Adams comes from title-pages and dedications in ...