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Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Math
The annual collection of the finest in recent short fiction encompasses the works of both established and new authors and is accompanied by a contributors' notes section featuring commentary by
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Speaking directly to America's black women, the president of Spelman College makes concrete suggestions about breaking down the walls that hold them back and urges them to take an active role in makin
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The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewi
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Biblical Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism that believed in Jesus and revered the Torah as the core of her scriptures. Restoration is a riveting argument for a return to that original bibl
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Traces the history of the black family from its roots in Africa, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Depression, and the civil rights movement, to the present, arguing that black families cannot be m
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A celebration of the popular television series points out all the bloopers, errors, equipment oddities, and picayune plot discrepancies in the program's 1992-1993 season, as well as trivia questions,
Amid the ongoing debate about today's pressing economic problems, far too little attention is being paid to the implications of current economic policies for the future. Laurence J. Kotlikoff shows in
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In the course of what is, superficially, an ordinary life, whose dates span the 1920s to the year 2021, Jean Serjeant, a woman of exceptional curiosity, muses on diverse questions, great and small
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This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in Ame
Rose-Ackerman sees recent advances in law and economics as an opportunity to tackle some of the failings of the US state. She proposes a progressive and positive agenda of reform rather than simple re
In his latest play, States of Shock, Sam Shepard turns a bizarre anniversary party into a grisly yet hilarious reopening of the wounds of war, sex, and family betrayal. This volume also includes Shepa
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In 1967, city leaders decided to open Boston's established Jewish neighborhoods to blacks, making mortgage funds available to those who wanted to buy or build houses there. This policy quickly wiped o
A guide to maintaining relationships while in recovery shows readers how to change their familys' perceptions, explain recovery to friends and co-workers, say "no," and get the most out of a twelve-st
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, th
In Martin Luther King's now legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, he hoped for a time when "little children... will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." It is
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