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Joseph's Choice-1861
In the early days of the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather's abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs or side with the slave owners and Southern rights supporters in his home town of Branson Mills, Kentucky. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715910
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Dorothy Day A Radical Devotion
Dorothy Day and Robert Coles first met over thirty-five years ago when he worked in her Catholic Worker soup kitchen. They remained close until her death in 1980. Coles' volume is based on many years of conversations, correspondence, and tape-recorded interviews he shared with her. More than a biography, this candid portrait confronts the seeming contradictions of Day's life and lets her unravel them in her own blunt style: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mother who raised her child in a most unorthodox 'family'; her struggles with loneliness and pride; her devout religious conservatism coupled with her radical politics. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461403969
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The Inflationary Universe The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
The first-hand account of Alan Guths paradigm- breaking discovery of the origins of the universe stating that the big bang was set into motion by a period of hyper-rapid inflation lasting only a billion-trillion-trillion of a second. Paper. DLC: Inflationary universe. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508629
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Bapu Kuti Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi
Social and economic activities in Mahatma Gandhi's last home located at Sevċagrċama ċAâsrama, Wardha. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717287
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COLLINS COBUILD-ACTIVE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
'Collins Cobuild: Active English' offers learners of English all the words they need to be able to use English with confidence. It has been designed for intermediate learners wishing to speak, write and read with confidence. This edition contains the 6000 most important words in English. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715730
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Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women A Critical Interpretation of Her Work
Tracing the extraordinarily varied and productive half-century writing career of Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), Veronica Makowsky provides fascinating glimpses of the life of a woman who broke the barriers against female journalists, advocated socialism, struggled with the precepts of Greenwich Village free love, was one of the founders of the Provincetown Players, participated in the sessions of the feminist Heterodoxy Club, placed women's concerns on the stage as a playwright and actress, and wrote about a turbulent century of American women with courage, optimism, sensitivity, and love. This is the first full-length book about Glaspell's works, including the fiction and lifewriting that bracketed her relatively brief career as the playwright best-known for the one-act drama Trifles. Also the author of many other plays, including the Pulitzer prize-winning Alison's House, a number of collected and uncollected short stories, nine novels, and a biography of her husband, the iconoclastic George Cram Cook, Glaspell was an artist of formidable, but little-acknowledged talent. Makowsky places Glaspell's work in its biographical and cultural context, with particular attention to Glaspell's depiction of women's roles over a century of American history, offering a provocative, interdisciplinary analysis of the status of women in the early twentieth century. In addition, she examines closely Glaspell's use of the maternal metaphor and her depiction of women in the role of mothers. Scholars, critics, and students of American drama and women's fiction, as well as those interested in theater, will delight in this absorbing and revelatory study which rescues one of America's literary 'foremothers'from relative obscurity, challenging canonical ideas about the circumstances that lead to literary 'greatness'. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461662654
- Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women A Critical Interpretation of Her Work
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Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730)
Focusing on a historical time and place rich with implications for the interactions among law, religion, and sexual morality, Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy is an incisive analysis of the tension between the prescriptive and the practical aspects of law. As Catholic Reform penetrated and was institutionalized in Early Modern France, legal codes reveryed further than before into realms of moral behavior. James Farr reveals how Burgundy's dominant, elite legal community attempted to impose new laws and regulations to recover a social order they believed had been destroyed in the upheavals of the sixteenth century. Among their chief objectives was the imposition of patriarchy to be accomplished by the construction of a more rigorous gender hierarchy and a greater disciplining of sexual passions. As a series of moral codes governing the disposition of human bodies, the new order of morality established authority over the sexual behavior of priests, courting couples, victims of seduction or rape, and prostitutes, among others. In practice, however, the exigencies of criminal procedure transformed the written rules into a resource of strategic power, often used by judges and litigants to achieve ends quite different from those originally intended. Informed by recent theoretical insights from legal anthropology and French social theory, and making use of a variety of original sources, particularly the court records of moral crime, Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy draws an important, systematic link between the histories of sexuality and criminality at a time when there was no clear distinction between sin and crime. It will be essential reading for scholars andstudents of French history, social history, legal history, and the history of sexuality. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461662667
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Suffering and Moral Responsibility
In this work, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he claims that it is an objective psychological condition, amenable to measurement and interpersonal comparison, although its accurate assessment is never easy. Mayerfeld goes on to examine the content of the duty to prevent suffering and the weight it has relative to other moral considerations. He argues that the prevention of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that the duty to relieve suffering is much stronger than most of us acknowledge. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717789
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Tramps Like Us Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Based on three years of ethnographic research with Bruce Springsteen fans, and informed by the author's own experiences as a fan, Tramps Like U5 is in interdisciplinary study of the ways in which ordinary people form special, sustained attachments to Springsteen and his music and how those attachments function in people's daily lives. An insider's narrative about Springsteen fans -- who they are, what they do, and why they do it -- this book also explores the phenomenon of fandom in generaL. The text oscillates between fans' stories and ideas and the author's own anecdotes, commentary, and analysis. Cavicchi challenges the stereotypes of fans as obsessive, delusional, and even mentally ill, and explores fandom as a normal cultural and social phenomenon. He argues that music fandom is a useful and meaningful behavior that enables people to shape identity, create community, and make sense of the world. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717794
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These Things I Wish
An inspirational essay celebrating the simple pleasures of life and the virtues of an earlier time--including humility, self-sufficiency, quiet wisdom, and personal strength--is accompanied by the author's evocative illustrations. 50,000 first printing. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108819
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A Return to Love Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles
An internationally acclaimed author and philosopher, Marianne Williamson reveals how we every can become a miracle worker by accepting the 'God' within us and by the expression of love. Whether our psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career or health, Williamson shows us how love is the potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108883
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Matters of Chance A Novel
Here is a captivating novel about the marriage between a couple and the Second World War that changed it all for them and their daughters. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108902
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A Dream of Wolves A Novel
From the author of the critically acclaimed novels 'A Brother's Blood and 'The Blind Side of the Heart comes a brilliant tale of a decent man's struggle to choose between his past and his future, between the woman he once loved and the woman he now loves. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108928
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Divorce Poison Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex
Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children’ s respect, their affection -- even, in extreme cases, contact with them. Backed by twenty-five years of experience in helping families, Dr. Richard Warshak presents powerful strategies for dealing with everything from tainted parent-child relationships in which children are disrespectful or reluctant to show their affection to disturbances in which children virtually disown an entire side of the family. Divorce Poison offers advice on how to: Recognize early warning signs of trouble React if your children refuse to see you Respond to rude and hateful behavior Avoid the seven most common errors made by rejected parents This groundbreaking work gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children and provides legal and mental-health professionals with practical advice to help their clients and ensure the welfare of children. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461108943
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