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Three small-time crooks plot to carry out a midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business.

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Challenging the wisdom that we need less government, this book maps out a different road for the future, a road paved by a government actively engaged in effecting positive changes in all areas of social concern.

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Challenging the wisdom that we need less government, this book maps out a different road for the future, a road paved by a government actively engaged in effecting changes in all areas of social concern.

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While other authors have generally focused on European manifestations of the carnival, McGowan identifies and analyzes a particularly American form of the carnival, which systematically operates to codify race and space within the United States.

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This collection of mostly original essays by scholars and Catholic Worker activists provides a systematic, analytical study of the emergence and nature of pacifism in the largest single denomination in the United States: Roman Catholicism.

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This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

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This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

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The American Catholic Church has received much negative press in recent years, from priest abuse scandals to the investigation of nuns. But the heart of the church runs much deeper than these challenges, and the Catholic faith in America continues to evolve. American Catholics...

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Leveson charts the transformation of America and the economic conservatism and market orientation that resulted in the renaissance of capitalism, as well as the long cycle upswing of economic restructuring.

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A growing body of research informs us that an effective, efficient fight against chronic American poverty, producing benefits far exceeding costs, is possible. It begins by protecting children from developmental risks. This book describes those risks, along with the programs a...

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American Christian Support for Israel covers the first five Arab-Israeli wars and discusses Israels security concerns and why countless American Christians enthusiastically sided with Israel. While most liberal Christian leaders were critical of Israels relations with Arabs, conservative Christians became Israels best friends.

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American Christian Support for Israel covers the first five Arab-Israeli wars and discusses Israels security concerns and why countless American Christians enthusiastically sided with Israel. While most liberal Christian leaders were critical of Israels relations with Arabs, conservative Christians became Israels best friends.

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This book examines the role and influence of American Christians in fostering the emigration of Soviet Jews and ending the cultural and religious discrimination against them. It contributes to an understanding of the complexities and nuances of interreligious affairs between Christians and Jews and of human rights in the 1970s and 1980s.

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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood, shaking off the Depression launched an wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including "Citizen Kane", "Rebecca", "The Lady Eve", "Sergeant York", and "How Green Was My Valley".

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America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a world of luxury goods.

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The 1970s was a decade if social upheaval that challenged the foundations of American culture. The director-driven movies of the 1970s reflected the turmoil, experimenting with narrative structures, revising traditional genre conventions. This book examines the range of films that marked the decade of 1970.

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During the 1980s, American cinema underwent various transformations. Filmmakers responded to the social, political, and cultural conditions of the time. Hollywood also launched a long-awaited cycle of films about the Vietnam war, but science fiction remained the era's most popular genre. This book examines the films that marked the decade of 1980.

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