Righteous Rebels

Righteous Rebels
Author: Patrick Range McDonald
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2016-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1938849949

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit’s unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF’s life-saving efforts, its battles against (and alliances with) governments and various political establishments, and its work today to provide free HIV treatment and prevention services to vulnerable, lower-income people in more than thirty countries. With unrestricted, insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World Health Organization. He interviews AHF’s key players, including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and he travels to AHF outposts around the globe, from Miami to Uganda, Cambodia to Russia, Estonia to South Africa. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a passionate, smart, and tenacious “people power” organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of the world. Beyond its work as a highly effective global AIDS organization, the AHF story also provides a blueprint for every kind of righteous rebel who wants to make the world a better place.

The Axial Age and Its Consequences

The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Author: Robert N. Bellah
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674067401

This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.

Race, Romance, and Rebellion

Race, Romance, and Rebellion
Author: Colleen C. O'Brien
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813934907

As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O’Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child—O’Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources—fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises—to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation.

Chinese Aesthetics and Literature

Chinese Aesthetics and Literature
Author: Corinne H. Dale
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791460221

Featuring the work of renowned scholars, this anthology provides an introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature.

Royalist Rebel

Royalist Rebel
Author: Anita Seymour
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1781590680

Based on the story of the real historical figure of notorious Elizabeth Murray, Countess Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, who lived at Ham House, a Jacobean mansion built on the River Thames at Petersham, throughout the reigns of Charles I, Cromwell's Protectorate, Charles II, James II, and William and Mary, and who was deeply embroiled in the politics of the Civil War.

Heritage of China

Heritage of China
Author: Timothy Hugh Barrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1990-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520064416

The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enrich and broaden our own contemporary worldview.

Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolution

Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolution
Author: Amorah Quan Yin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 217
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1591438217

The Pleiadian Emissaries of Light provide this fascinating chronicle of human spiritual evolution from a galactic perspective. This wider history of our solar system restores the long-forgotten connection of humankind with Venus, Mars, Maldek, and Earth. The truth about our ancient past is uncovered, helping us to remember the experiences that have caused us to function dualistically, and guiding us toward karmic wholeness as unified and divine beings.

Righteous Rebels

Righteous Rebels
Author: Patrick Range McDonald
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-10-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1938849949

In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit’s unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive, global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF’s life-saving efforts, its battles against (and alliances with) governments and various political establishments, and its work today to provide free HIV treatment and prevention services to vulnerable, lower-income people in more than thirty countries. With unrestricted, insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World Health Organization. He interviews AHF’s key players, including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and he travels to AHF outposts around the globe, from Miami to Uganda, Cambodia to Russia, Estonia to South Africa. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a passionate, smart, and tenacious “people power” organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of the world. Beyond its work as a highly effective global AIDS organization, the AHF story also provides a blueprint for every kind of righteous rebel who wants to make the world a better place.

A Maimonides Reader

A Maimonides Reader
Author: Moses Maimonides
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1972
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780874412062

Major selections from Maimonides' writings, including Guide to the Perplexed, Mishneh Torah, his essays, correspondence, and commentaries. The definitive one-volume English presentation. This book will provide a deeper understanding of Maimonides with translations of the original text.

American Literature in Context after 1929

American Literature in Context after 1929
Author: Philip R. Yannella
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444390430

American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great Depression onward. The book covers political ferment of the 1930s; post-World War II anti-Communism; post-war affluence; suburbanization and demographic change; juvenile delinquency, mental illness and the perception of the U.S. as a “sick” society; and post-1965 immigration. It draws on a range of sources, from magazine and newspaper accounts to government reports and important non-fiction, to show how writers engaged the issues and events of their times. Includes a historical timeline, featuring key literary works, and historical events.