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Theatrical shows and ascetic lives
This book provides an original and rewarding context for understanding the prolific fourth-century Christian theologian John Chrysostom and the religious and social world in which he lived. Blake Leyerle analyzes two highly rhetorical treatises by this early church father attacking the phenomenon...
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Searching for life
FROM THE BOOK:"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you."—A found child after being returned to her familySearching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of...
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Roots of rebellion
Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900–1914 by Victoria E. Bonnell is a landmark study of the forces that shaped the Russian labor movement in the years leading up to the First World War and the revolutions of the early twentieth century. Drawin...
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Adult education in transition
This sociological analysis examines the adult education system in California, exploring its development over the past 25 years as a distinct entity within the public education framework. The study approaches adult education not only from an educational perspective but through a sociological lens,...
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The origins of the seder
The Origins of the Seder: The Passover Rite and Early Rabbinic Judaism delves into the transformation of the Passover celebration from its biblical roots to the structured Seder ritual we recognize today. Focusing on Mishnah Pesahim 10, this study examines how rabbinic Judaism redefined the festi...
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History and will
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought delves into the ideological, philosophical, and historical dimensions of Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary vision, focusing on the unique interplay between historical determinism and subjective will in his thought. Against the back...
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The custom house of desire
The Custom-House of Desire: A Half-Century of Surrealist Stories is an intriguing anthology that explores the breadth and depth of surrealist storytelling over a fifty-year period. Through the lens of both imagination and desire, the collection reveals how surrealist writers challenge conventiona...
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Divine passions
Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and the minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behi...
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Rooting in a useless land
In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising tw...
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The deficit and the public interest
Political time is counted not in years, but in issues—the Depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the Cold War did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. In the 1980s, the federal budget loomed as the dominant issue by which all others were considered and has become a concern tha...
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Dignity and vulnerability
In this significant addition to moral theory, George W. Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. ...
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Growing prosperity
In this elegantly argued book, political economists Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison examine America's great surge of economic expansion in its historical context to demonstrate the causes for the vibrancy of our economy. A Century Foundation Book
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Aunt safiyya and the monastery
This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tel...
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Unesco general history of africa, vol. iv, abridged edition
Volume IV of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships...
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Gender trials
This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for wo...
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