pIn his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine the longitude where history gathers in the name we never are. The poems seek to speak beyond

In 1987, Allan Bloom\'s iThe Closing of the American Mind iwas published a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America--and Americans--unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing. p

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pWhen we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones--iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with

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Living Magic The Realities Underlying The Psychical Practices And Beliefs Of Australian Aborigines is a book written by Ronald Rose that explores the spiritual and mystical practices of Indigenous Australians. The book delves into the beliefs and practices of Aboriginal cultures, including their belief in the Dreamtime, the spiritual realm, and the power of shamans and healers. Rose also examines the

When career criminal Jack Dempster gets caught and put away for five years in prison, he finds time to seriously reconsider his chosen line of work. Before he can make any serious decision, some old acquaintances track him down with a proposal. They want him to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. With the help of an inside man, he\'s to lead a small group of professionals on a daring robbery of the El Dorado

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pIn four weeks, three days, two hours, and one minute, three time continuums will collide over Lamb School. Evil will be able to take over the world if ten-year-olds Lisa and App can\'t stop it. Lisa\'s ability to control time isn\'t going to be enough to win this one. Can Lisa and App organize the group of misfit students into a working team in time to face the evil Ticktock, ticktock...p

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It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin who would soon become Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenge the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night

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In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In Ordinary Life, Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life together--and, no, she isn\'t contemplating a divorce.

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Kant\'s Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet\'s book posits it as examining a genuinely independent sphere of human life. In her in-depth account of Kant\'s Critical philosophical system, Sweet argues that the Critique addresses the question

pThe definitive guide for scholars and fans alike to all things Masterpiece and Mystery! - Booklist Starred Review - In 1971, Masterpiece Theatre debuted on PBS. Fifty years later, America\'s appetite for British drama has never been bigger. In this book, Nancy West provides a fascinating history of this beloved program.p

In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber\'s writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism and the scope and limits of social science itself. He has also included some shorter extracts from Weber\'s less familiar

Peru u-revu is the sacred responsibility to have children. This responsibility is foundational to the human experience, and to the experience of being Jewish. Of Mirrors Apple Trees The Lomdus of Peru u-Revu comes to analyze a. the philosophy of this mitzvah, b. how this philosophy is derived from analyzing the mitzvah\'s parameters, and c. how this philosophy is derived from analyzing the mitzvah\'s

This work, which is an evergreen classic, covers the history of the British Army from the Norman Conquest down to the Cardwell reforms of 1870, when commission by purchase was finally abolished. The very last chapter of the work looks at the British Army up to 1914.The Naval and Military Press have reprinted this valuable and timeless work in its entirety, faithful to the originals in all respects.