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The Poetics of Space מאת Gaston Bachelard The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead th...

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Widening the Circle: The Power of Inclusive Classrooms מאת Mara Sapon-Shevin The Power of Inclusive Classrooms is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as “disabled” and “special needs,” are welcome on equal terms.In opposition to traditional models of special education, wher...

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Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers) מאת Octavia E. Butler The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copiesDana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son...

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Our World: Photographs by Molly Malone Cook Text by Mary Oliver מאת Mary Oliver Photographs and prose from the world Molly Malone Cook and poet Mary Oliver shared for forty years   Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, is one of the most celebrated poets in America. Her partner Molly Malone Cook, who died in 2005, was a pho...

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Reason and the Rationalization of Society (The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1) מאת Jürgen Habermas "The THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION represents a major contribution to contemporary social theory. Not only does it provide a compelling critique of some of the main perspectives in 20th century philosophy and social science, but it also presents a systematic synthesis of the many themse which hav...

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The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation מאת Thich Nhat Hanh There have been more than 250,000 copies sold of this famous introduction to Buddhist meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle stories and exercises show us how to use the practice of...

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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood מאת Rashid Khalidi A timely and compelling examination of the Palestinian dilemma, named one of the 100 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly In Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi dissected the failures of colonial policy over the entire span of the modern history of the Middle East, predicted the mel...

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Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth מאת Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New PrefaceThe only authorized American editionMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled ...

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Red Bird מאת Mary Oliver Mary Oliver’s twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years...

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Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud מאת Herbert Marcuse A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud"A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication."-Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times...

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The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditation Exercises for Healing and Transformation מאת Thich Nhat Hanh An important and beautiful book about how we can bring peace and joy into our lives. Reading this rare book on the refinement of meditation practice is meditation itself. --JOAN HALIFAX, author of The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the EarthAny one of these meditations, if practice...

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Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty מאת Mark Winne In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates ...

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The critical spirit - ESSAYS IN HONOR OF HERBERT MARCUSE Kurt H Editor Wolff

The critical spirit - ESSAYS IN HONOR OF HERBERT MARCUSE מאת Kurt H Editor Wolff

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The colonizer and the colonized מאת Albert Memmi

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The Great Transformation מאת Karl Polanyi One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver...

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Goethe : four studies by albert schweitzer Albert Schweitzer

Goethe : four studies by albert schweitzer מאת Albert Schweitzer

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times מאת Howard Zinn "An inspiring autobiography . . . in the tradition of Martin Luther King"s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." "—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, National Public RadioBeacon Press is proud to publish a new edition of the classic memoir by one of our most lively, influential, and engaged teachers and acti...

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Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman מאת Leslie Feinberg With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey hrough history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression...

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Homo Ludens מאת Johan Huizinga A Study of the Play-Element in Culture...

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The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace מאת Howard Zinn A stirring anthology of writings about peace and nonviolence from Buddha to Arundhati Roy As you read this, America is at war. President Bush declared a "war on terrorism" and 90 percent of the American people believed he was doing the right thing. But is there another way? From Buddha in the pre-Ch...

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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives מאת Louise DeSalvo Professor of English Highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo offers the first detailed writing program designed for healing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to overcome the emotional and physical wounds that arn an inevitable part of life. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of...

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Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses מאת Stacy Mitchell In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and dimini...

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Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information מאת Anna Rubino This is the story of a gutsy journalist who challenged power—and succeeded. WandaJablonski was an investigative reporter, publisher, and power broker who came to wield exceptional influence on twentieth-century geopolitics by shedding light on the secretive world of oil from the 1950s t...

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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East מאת Rashid Khalidi Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in ...

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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 מאת James H. Cone "American religious thought at its best."—Michael Eric Dyson, author of I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.From the birth of Black Theology to James Cone's seminal work on the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the philosophy of Malcolm X, to the importance of the ...

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The golden tradition - JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT IN EASTERN EUROPE Lucy S Dawidowicz

The golden tradition - JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT IN EASTERN EUROPE מאת Lucy S Dawidowicz

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Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America מאת Geoffrey Canada The author of Fist Stick Knife Gun brings powerful new insight to the lives of boys in America today: "More and more I have become concerned with what boys think they should be, and what they believe it means to be a man." He lays out the little-understood history of drugs and their marketing to inn...

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The Female Man (Bluestreak) מאת Joanna Russ It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael--four alternate selves from drastically ...

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Israel and the arab world - ABRIDGED EDITION Aharon Cohen

Israel and the arab world - ABRIDGED EDITION מאת Aharon Cohen

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Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy מאת Mark Doty From Mark Doty, one of our finest poets, a delicate and sensual literary essay. Part memoir, part art history, part meditation, this hybrid volume uses the great Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century as a departure point for an examination of uestions about our relationships with thi...

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House of Light מאת Mary Oliver Winner of a 1991 Christopher AwardWinner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book AwardThis collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. "Oliver's poems are thoroughly convinc...

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Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East מאת Rashid Khalidi A lucid and provocative analysis of the legacy of the Cold War in the Middle East   During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological ...

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Why I Wake Early: New Poems מאת Mary Oliver “Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of forty-seven poems.”—Frederick and Mary Brussat, Spirituality and HealthPraise for Owls and Other Fantasies:“Mary Oliver is beautiful and accurate in this book of poetry and prose abo...

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Thirst: Poems מאת Mary Oliver Now in paperback: the national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet "To read Thirst, Mary Oliver's most recent book of poems, is to feel gratitude for the simple fact of being alive." —Angela O'Donnell, America Magazine Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize...

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60 on Up: The Truth About Aging in America מאת Lillian B. Rubin The Golden Years? You've got to be kidding. Part serious, part comic, these words reflect our ambivalence about aging in the twenty-first century. Is it a blessing or a curse? With refreshing candor and characteristic wit, best-selling author Lillian Rubin looks deeply into the issues of our graying...

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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century מאת Robin D.G. Kelley Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a succe...

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Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics מאת Starhawk Featuring narrative, chants, songs, and rituals, Dreaming the Dark (100,000 copies sold) brilliantly combines the world of magic and spirituality with the world of political and social change. This fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author. Dreaming the Dark is [Starhawk's]...

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The Blooming of a Lotus: Revised Edition of the Classic Guided Meditation for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness מאת Thich Nhat Hanh Companion volume to the best-selling The Miracle of Mindfulness   One of the world’s great meditation teachers offers guided exercises that will bring both beginning and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves, thei...

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Walden (Concord Library) מאת Henry David Thoreau On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classicFirst published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau"s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a n...

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The Gnostic Religion מאת Hans Jonas The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity...

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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff מאת Fred Pearce A global journey to find the sources of all the stuff in one man’s life—and its social and environmental footprintWhere does everything in our daily lives come from? The clothes on our backs, the computers on our desks, the cabinets in our kitchens, and the spices behind their doors? U...

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The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World מאת Donald Rothberg Donald Rothberg has committed his life to two vocations: social change and exploring the depths of human consciousness to awaken our deeper spiritual nature. In his work as a dedicated teacher, activist, organizer, and writer, he has aimed to bring these two paths together and to reveal ho...

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The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World מאת Jonathan S. Adams In The Future of the Wild, conservationist Jonathan S. Adams mixes fascinating case studies of species and landscapes with conservation science and history to explain why it’s time to think big. Only by saving large tracts of land and the wildlife corridors that connect them can we hope ...

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's \ building for1970u.s. foreign policy for the peace Roscoe Pound

's \ building for1970u.s. foreign policy for the peace מאת Roscoe Pound

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Studies in hysteria Joseph; Freud Breuer

Studies in hysteria מאת Joseph; Freud Breuer

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Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses מאת Stacy Mitchell An expert’s in-depth exploration of the enormous impact of mega-retailers—and what communities and independent businesses can do A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communi...

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Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us מאת Carole Joffe In an America where abortion has been legal for over thirty-five years, the procedure can be surprisingly inaccessible: even in cases of rape, imminent threat to the mother’s life, or complicated miscarriage—and even with a willing doctor. How did the post–Roe v...

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Evidence: Poems מאת Mary Oliver Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth, “To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears,” Evidence is a collection of forty-seven new poems on all of Mary Oliver’s classic themes. She writes perceptively a...

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Ancient law Sumner Henry Maine

Ancient law מאת Sumner Henry Maine

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Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the DIlemma of Black Patriotism מאת Roger Wilkins An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States...

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Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels מאת Hella Winston When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen tells the stories ...

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Souls in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on theStreets מאת Craig Rennebohm Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people on the streets of Seattle who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, he tells the evocative stories of persons who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual support—like...

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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History מאת Thomas Norman DeWolf In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Is...

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Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streetsof New York מאת Kai Wright Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life’s basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky wa...

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Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-TradingDynasty in U.S. History מאת Thomas Norman DeWolf A trailblazing memoir about one family's quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliation   In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thous...

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The Rastafarians מאת Leonard E. Barrett The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic study of the culture, religion, history, ideology, and influence of the Rastafarians of Jamaica. "Barrett offers the most comprehensive study to date of the Rastafarians." —Bulletin of the Center for the Study of World Religions "The most thorough,...

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I Wanna Take Me a Picture: Teaching Photography and Writing to Children מאת Alexandra Lightfoot "Ewald"s project is wonderful because it lets kids speak for themselves; instead of being passive subjects for the lens, they eagerly harness it tothe engines of their imaginations."—Andy Grundberg, The New York TimesWritten for parents and teachers, I Wanna Take Me a Picture is filled with anecdo...

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Without a Map: A Memoir מאת Meredith Hall A New York Times Bestseller and 2007 Book Sense SelectionMeredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother relu...

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Whitehead's theory of reality Ah Johnson

Whitehead's theory of reality מאת Ah Johnson

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Israel and the arab world, abridged edition Aharon Cohen

Israel and the arab world, abridged edition מאת Aharon Cohen

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Another Kind of Public Education: Race, the Media, Schools, and Democratic Possibilities (Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Lecture and Book Series) מאת Patricia Hill Collins Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins opens this brilliant new book on race and education by describing how in her senior year at the Philadelphia High School for girls, near the end of a public school education that “had almost silenced me,” she was invited to deliver ...

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The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq מאת Helen Benedict More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the mil...

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Teaching Toward Freedom מאת William Ayers In Teaching Toward Freedom, William Ayers proposes a new way of looking at the craft of education: how it can be used in authoritarian ways at the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order—or, as he envisions it, as a way for students to achieve "their fullest democr...

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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 מאת Stephen Puleo "Dark Tide is the definitive account of America’s most fascinating and surreal disaster.” —John Marr, San Francisco Bay GuardianShortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorg...

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The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays מאת Mary Oliver From a poet who teaches us the beauty and magic of the natural world comes a reminder that this world includes “the creatures, with their / thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their / infallible sense of what their lives / are meant to be.”In The Truro Bear and Other Adventures<...

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Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason (The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 2) מאת Jürgen Habermas "One of the broadest, most comprehensive, elaborate and intensely theoretical works in social theory. Social theory and philosophy may never be the same again." (Philosophy and Social Criticism)...

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Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars מאת Jay Wexler After ten years spent riddling over the intricacies of church/state law from the ivory tower, law professor Jay Wexler decided it was high time to hit the road to learn what really happened in some of the most controversial Supreme Court cases involving this hot-button is...

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Why I Wake Early מאת Mary Oliver Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems, all written within the last two years, wach exhibiting the power and grace that have ceo...

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Living When a Loved One Has Died מאת Earl A. Grollman When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way." If someone you know i...

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New and Selected Poems, Volume Two מאת Mary Oliver Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America’s foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself—along with works chosen by Oliver from six of ...

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Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled מאת Nancy Mairs A Life Among the NondisabledIn a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit....

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Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project מאת Betsy McAlister Groves "This is a valuable book to alert parents and therapists to the pain that children go through after witnessing violence."—T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.In Children Who See Too Much, Betsy Groves debunks the myth that young age is a protector against the lasting effects of witnessing violence in the home...

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Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants מאת David Bacon For two decades David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. A...

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The Court and the Cross: The Religious Right's Crusade to Reshape the Supreme Court מאת Frederick S. Lane While President George W. Bush has appointed two Supreme Court justices during his terms in office, the next president may be in a position to appoint up to three new justices, replacing one third of the Court. This relatively high number could drastically alter future Supreme Court ruling...

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Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia מאת Garry Leech A firsthand account of Colombia's turmoil by a journalist who was held captive by rebel guerrillas Independent journalist Garry Leech has spent the last eight years working in the most remote and dangerous regions of Colombia, uncovering the unofficial stories of people livin...

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Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm מאת Steven Apfelbaum From an internationally recognized restoration ecologist, the twenty-first-century sequel to the best-selling classic A Sand County AlmanacRenowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the b...

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The Cathedral of the World: A Universalist Theology מאת Forrest Church In the spring of 2008, Forrest Church wrote what he believed would be his final work, Love & Death. But when an experimental cancer treatment gave him a temporary new lease on life, Church saw he had a chance to tie up the one loose end in his remarkable oeuvre: his vocation as...

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Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm מאת Steven I. Apfelbaum Renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise." Few have taken Leopold’s vision more to heart than Steven I. Apfelbaum,...

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Nature and Walking (The Concord Library) מאת Ralph Waldo Emerson Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. "Certain writings should be read together, and these two make perfect partners. A beautiful new volume."-Walking...

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Kabir: Ecstatic Poems מאת Kabir Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir’s im...

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Of stars and men Harlow Shapley

Of stars and men מאת Harlow Shapley

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A history of messianic speculation in israel : from the first through the seventeenth centuries Abba Hillel Silver

A history of messianic speculation in israel : from the first through the seventeenth centuries מאת Abba Hillel Silver

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Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl מאת Susan Campbell Growing up fundamentalist and female-and maturing into a feminist By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn't he? She went to his house three times a week, sat in his living room, listened ...

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The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women מאת Nicola Denzey When Nicola Denzey leads tour groups into the Roman Catacombs, participants are struck by the splendor of the burial chambers—many of which were created by or for women. In The Bone Gatherers, Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with text records, in an unprecedented way: to resur...

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The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here מאת Carmine Sarracino Whether deconstructing Bratz dolls or the tragedy of Abu Ghraib, this urgent book reveals that porn has become the mainstream and the mainstream has become porn   Sarracino and Scott argue that we no longer have to purchase pornography to get porn because we increasing...

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Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages מאת Patricia A. Gozemba Through engaging storytelling and powerful photographs, Courting Equality takes readers through the volatile public debate following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts—from the court cases to the protests and, finally, the weddings!   ...

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Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention that Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great מאת Lynda Morgenroth Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the ci...

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Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl מאת Susan Campbell By the age of twelve, Susan Campbell had been flirting with Jesus for some time, and in her mind, Jesus had been flirting back. Why wouldn’t he? She went to his house three times a week, listened to his stories, loudly and lustily sang songs to him. She even professed her love ...

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Life Work מאת Donald Hall Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always." —Louis Begley, The New York Times"A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness. . . ....

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The Geography of Childhood (The Concord Library) מאת Gary Paul Nabhan Why Children Need Wild PlacesIn this unique collaboration, two naturalists ask what may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wildness than at any other time in human history. "This thoughtful presentation, testifying to children's need for direct contact with nature, has valu...

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Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation מאת Eboo Patel A young Muslim activist explains our critical need to counter the recruitment of youth by religious fundamentalistsActs of Faith is Eboo Patel’s remarkable account of coming of age and coming to understand what led him toward religious pluralism rather than hatred. His story is a hopeful...

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I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases מאת Mark Tushnet For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court casesIf American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers’ rights, and m...

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The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day מאת Stephen Puleo In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters of the North End: Sicilians lived next ...

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Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue מאת Leslie Feinberg This stirring call for tolerance and solidarity from the acclaimed activist and author of Transgender Warriors collects Leslie Feinberg's speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. Leslie Feinberg is author of the underground classic Stone Butch Blues....

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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America מאת Geoffrey Canada When award-winning educator and activist Geoff Canada was growing up in the Bronx, the "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Weaving in and out of his stark storytelling is a coge...

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The Saint of Kathmandu: and Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands מאת Sarah LeVine With the deft evocations of a master storyteller and the exhaustive knowledge of a scholar, LeVine takes us on a quest to understand the role of religious belief in everyday life around the globe. She writes of uneasy relations between Islam and spirit possession in a Nigerian...

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Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist מאת Bill Ayers A gripping memoir of America in the '60s, of idealists turned radicals, and of a life lived on the run In February 2008, in the heat of the Democratic primary elections, speculations began circulating in the media about a connection between presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, a former ...

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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico מאת Miguel Leon-Portillo A new expanded version of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as told by Aztec voices—with a new Postscript by the editorFor hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel ...

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The spirit of the common law \ roscoe pound Roscoe Pound

The spirit of the common law \ roscoe pound מאת Roscoe Pound

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New and Selected Poems: Volume Two מאת Mary Oliver Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America’s foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents thirty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself—along with works chosen by Oliver from six of...