The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports provides the first international survey of extreme sports, which include a wide variety of physical pursuits and activities such as bungee jumping, dirt biking, sky surfing, and rock climbing: individualist, adventure-type sports rather than traditional team sports. "Extreme" also refers to the antisocial attitudes and uncompromising values associated with these new sports, attitudes and values that are often in sharp contrast to those of more conservative, mainstream, and middle-class sports. This volume is a state-of-the-art summary of where extreme sports are today, where they have come from, and how they are likely to grow and change in the years ahead.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports

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The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the first publication of its kind since 1898, is the work of more than one hundred internationally recognized experts from nearly a dozen countries. It has been designed to satisfy the growing thirst of students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for knowledge about China. It makes the entire span of Chinese history manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years.

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 1 (Color PB)

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

The African American Community in Rural New England: W. E. B. Du Bois and His Boyhood Church (formerly published in hardcover as Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois: A History of the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church) is a story of a small New England church's role in the national civil rights movement. Featuring more famous figures such as Du Bois, this book also tells the story of the church's lesser known members who struggled to keep it in existence, all the while fighting for their rights in a shifting social climate. The African American Community in Rural New England is the often heroic tale of a small group of African Americans who founded and have maintained their church in a small New England town for nearly 140 years. The church is the Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the town is Great Barrington, Massachusetts - the hometown of the leading African American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois attended the church as a youth and wrote about it; these writings are one source for this history. The book gives readers a broad view of the details of the church's history and recounts the story of its growth. Du Bois plays a crucial role in the national fight for social justice, of which the church was and remains an important part.

The African American Community in Rural New England: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church

Levinson, David

Religion & Spirituality

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 1

Historical

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 2 (B&W PB)

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 3 (B&W PB)

The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (1979-2015) provides a riveting new way to understand twenty-first-century China and a personal look at the changes that have taken place since the Reform and Opening Up era started in 1979. One hundred key individuals from this period -- including politicians and government officials, film directors, activists, writers, and entrepreneurs from the mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan -- were selected by an international group of experts, and the stories were written by more than 70 authors in 14 countries.

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 4 (B&W PB)

Kerry Brown

THE WASTE LAND and Other Poems: 100th Anniversary International Edition

ELIOT, T.S.

Community & Culture

Asian Cuisines: Food Culture and History of Asia from Japan and China to Afghanistan and Turkey (A Berkshire Essential) is a compilation of expert-written articles on national and regional cuisines as well as agriculture, important foodstuffs, and social and economic issues throughout the world's largest and most diverse continent.

Asian Cuisines

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

E. N. Anderson

Regional & International

"This survey of utopias, which spans from Plato to the twentieth century, was Lewis Mumfords first success. He was particularly interested in what he calls utopias of reconstruction, models for reshaping an imperfect world. Beginning with a survey of famous utopian ideas and writings, he moves from Platos Republic, Mores Utopia, Andreæs Christianopolis, Bacons New Atlantis, Campanellas City of the Sun, Fouriers phalanxes, Cabets Icaria, Bellamys Looking Backward, Morriss News from Nowhere, and finally on to H.G. Wellss utopian fiction. He then produces the essence of a checklist for assessing how closely a society comes to utopian ideals, looking at work and standards of living, housing, democratic (or not) governance, sex and marriage, the raising of children, our relationship with nature, and the importance of the arts and creativity. A century later, the book stands not only as an introduction to the work of a maverick scholar who had worldwide influence, but also suggests ways to approach a future even more challenging than that faced by Mumfords post-war generation. Mumford delves into issues that remain relevant today: social equity in his chapter on the country house, for example, and the relationship between science and the arts in his concluding chapter about how we can find, or build, utopia. "The first study of utopias I read was Mumfords The Story of Utopias, and while there have been many surveys of Western utopian literature since then, several of which argue with Mumford, it remains an excellent introduction. Since he struggled with the idea throughout his life, it is also essential reading for anyone interested in his thought." Lyman Tower Sargent, author of Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction"--

The Story of Utopias: 100th Anniversary Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

MUMFORD, Lewis

Sociology

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