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In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change The

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Follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know others, in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already known through shocking images and worrying statistics. This book is about the intimacy of the encounter, the practical and ethical dilemmas of research and the fun of engagement in the city's outback.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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An international exploration of how our physical environments shape and define us

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Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group takes up, whose voices prevail, and what the group

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How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents How much does it influence our children More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries.

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A moving look at justice run amok in Iran now more timely than...