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This book explores the exceptional Jewish educational success in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the latter half of the twentieth century. Illuminating the impact of these developments on the local Jewish community in revitalizing Jewish education, the book offers a constructive vision relevant to Jewish education and planning across the United States.

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The subject of midlife has been dominated by the woes of agingmenopause, divorce, hormone replacement therapies, aging parents, and fleeing children. First, women relinquish old ways, untying themselves from the past and mourning the losses of youth and its illusions.

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Based on interviews, theory, and practice, this book guides women through the processes of examining present realities, letting go of outdated behaviors, and refocusing on a spirited future during their midlife years.

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Synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic.

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Based on three years' fieldwork with a group of Bangladeshi young men in inner-city London, this book attempts to explore the mythologies and realities of contemporary Asian youth experience.

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Based on three years' fieldwork with a group of Bangladeshi young men in inner-city London, this book attempts to explore the mythologies and realities of contemporary Asian youth experience.

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An important book which contributes the dispassionate, independent and objective comment that has been missing from media debate on the effects of our immigration policies. It provides a wealth of data on the make-up of Australia's immigrant intake and the ability of immigrants to establish a place in their new country.

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The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.

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The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.

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This book provides a historical overview of athletics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the current social educational significance of these athletic programs. It also provides a conceptual framework that contributes to the debate on college athletics and higher education, in general, and athletics at HBCUs, specifically.

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During the late 19th century, Baku was an important centre for collecting information on neighbouring Muslim countries. This tradition was maintained, resulting in an extensive and unique collection of documents. This catalogue lists documents published between the 1870s and the 1990s.

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The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture.

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How did 19th-century women determine what behaviors and attitudes constituted femininity, and how did one generation pass on to another those social attitudes and adaptations deemed proper and necessary for womankind

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A gripping social history of America in 1915, roiled by one of the most controversial films of all time

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Focusing on counter and sub-cultural contexts, this book investigates the role of dress in the creation and assertion of Black identity. From the home-dressmaking of Jamaican women, through to the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary streetstyles, Black Britons, African Americans and Jamaicans have been establishing a variety of Black identities.

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Within each state, the documents are arranged into sets on specific topics such as immigration laws, welfare and public education laws, and jury and testimony laws. Although in general the editor lets the documents speak for themselves, he introduces each set of documents with commentary pointing to the themes in the documents.

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Brings together essays that seek to expand our understanding of the role of government in: shaping cities and metropolitan regions; consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and, the connection of place, space, and race in the era of globalization.

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This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the critical discourse of the blackness of black. In addition to Saidiya Hartman's axial concept of the "afterlife of slavery," the book explores Frank Wilderson's "Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin Warren's "black nihilism."

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Working from the premise that the Puritan construction of America as a return to Eden endures into American literature of the 20th century, Medoro focuses on the rhetoric of cyclical regeneration, blood, and damnation that accompanies this construction.

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