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Part of an 8 volume series, this author's abridged version of his longer work of the same title illustrates the status of the Muslim woman in Islam which differs from what is assumed in society today.

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Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage

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Contains essays that reveal a concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. They discuss the psychological stages of woman's development, the moon and matriarchal consciousness, Mozart's Magic Flute, the meaning of the earth archetype for modern times, and the fear of the feminine.

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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe. This work provides a comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany.

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This is an account of the origins, founders and practices of a 19th-century secret order. Access to rare material informs this account of the brotherhood's chequered history, with texts of the teachings and a variety of documents included.

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More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would a

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There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It considers themes in the history of discrimination. It provides analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in Greco-Roman world.

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Makes the case that the conventional understandings of Jesus and the origins of Christianity are wrong: that Jesus' core teachings were not a break from Jewish beliefs and that Jesus was embraced by many Jews as the Messiah of the ancient Jewish texts.

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Esther Benbassa tells the tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. She reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair.

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First and only book of speeches on racism, community, freedom, and politics in the U.S. by international icon Angela Davis.

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Finally back in print, the classic, powerful first-hand account of Nazi persecution of gay people.

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In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillard's own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world.

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Brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.

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Talks about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.

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Super-charged work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Between Riverside and Crazy.

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Part of an 8-volume series, this author's abridged version of his longer work of the same title illustrates the status of the Muslim woman in Islam which differs from what is assumed in society today.

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An engaging account of the ways in which over hundreds of years Indigenous and Southeast Asian people across Australia have traded, intermarried and built hybrid communities. It is also a disturbing expos of the persistent sometimes paranoid efforts of successive national governments to police, marginalise and outlaw these encounters.

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What were the twelve labors of Herakles Why did Zeus turn himself into a shower of gold What was the name of the guard-dog of the Underworld Which two-faced Roman god gave his name to the month January What is the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx This book answers these questions.