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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws atten

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Provides the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo-Australian law came to be recognised by the High Court of Australia. This title identifies questions of cultural diversity and self-determination in exploring the role of native title in the reshaping of Australian identity.

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Released to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, Not Guilty accompanies a major Channel 4 documentary, to be screened in July, 2017.

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Traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Presenting the history of Judaism from the Bible onwards, this book shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity.

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Alluring, provocative, and enlightening, "Nothing but the Truth So Help Me God" reveals the powerful and positive aspects of female relationships. From the online social network for all women, A Band of Wives, this book brings together essays, poetry, and artwork that will change the way people look at the women in their lives.

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Pompoms, blackberries and Value Village: Take a stroll through the thoughts of one of Canadas most intriguing poets and thinkers.

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An inside look at inherited wealth in the USA, exploring the complex meanings of money and success in American society. An introduction, new to this edition, explores whether America's privileged class will play a leadership role in the 21st century.

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The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.

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Demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. This title traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred.

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"Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre's key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural a l'urbain and supplementary texts. On the Rural reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle"--

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"Originals! profiles the lives and accomplishments of hundreds of African American women throughout history in fields including entertainment, business, education, religion, politics, literature and journalism, civil rights, nonprofit organizations, the military, and science and medicine"--

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"Originals! profiles the lives and accomplishments of hundreds of African American women throughout history in fields including entertainment, business, education, religion, politics, literature and journalism, civil rights, nonprofit organizations, the military, and science and medicine"--

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Focusing on the gendered nature of childhood and adolescence, this book investigates social relations from the standpoint of the experience of children and adolescents, with the aim of contributing to developing understanding of the structures of gender and generation.

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