How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a broad historical, geographic, and religious spectr...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Radiation protection technician job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application...

Meditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday lifeLike a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there’s no clocking out. Organized around the hours of the day, Foxes for Everybody gives voice to the marvels, fears, absurdities, and astonishments of parenthood. These essays offer twenty-four glimpses into how we experience time, our families, our planet, and all...

Published in 1848, Catherine Ann Crowe's The Night-Side of Nature: Ghosts and Ghost-Seers is an ambitious Victorian inquiry into apparitions, haunted places, clairvoyance, dreams, mesmerism, and other phenomena that unsettled the boundaries between the material and spiritual worlds. Combining reported testimony, anecdotes, folkloric motifs, and critical reflection, Crowe adopts neither the sensationalism of the Gothic tale nor the reductive certainty of orthodox skepticism. Her episodic, d...

628 pages, 34 images, 51 contributorsViolence Against Women examines a wide range of relationships that may be affected by intimate partner violence and takes a culturally sensitive, international approach to issues underpinning family violence, dating violence, and the injuries children suffer when their caregivers perpetrate violence. This text offers insight into a variety of subjects affecting women domestically and internationally.These subjects includ...

The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster, and step-parenting; life with ...