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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how the momentous events that have occurred over the last two decades--including two Gulf wars, the occupation of Iraq, and the rise of terrorism--can only be understood in light of this chilling legacy.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Edelman blends gospel passages with her own personal prayers, and her reverence for the young brings a depth to this book that goes well beyond the words. --Los Angeles TimesA wonderfully warm, poignant, and truly touching and attractive anthology. --Archbishop Desmond M. TutuHere are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideals are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Marian Wright Edelman shares her own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn to this book for guidelines and support--again and again.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Edelman blends gospel passages with her own personal prayers, and her reverence for the young brings a depth to this book that goes well beyond the words. --Los Angeles TimesA wonderfully warm, poignant, and truly touching and attractive anthology. --Archbishop Desmond M. TutuHere are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideals are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Marian Wright Edelman shares her own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn to this book for guidelines and support--again and again. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Edelman blends gospel passages with her own personal prayers, and her reverence for the young brings a depth to this book that goes well beyond the words. --Los Angeles TimesA wonderfully warm, poignant, and truly touching and attractive anthology. --Archbishop Desmond M. TutuHere are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideals are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Marian Wright Edelman shares her own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn to this book for guidelines and support--again and again. …

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Breathing Space is the story of Heidi Neumark and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation encounter even more powerful forces of hope and renewal. This story of a community creating space for new life and breath is also the story of a young woman-working, raising her children, and struggling for spiritual breathing space. Through poignant, intimate stories, Neumark charts her journey alongside her parishioners as pastor, church, and community grow in wisdom and together experience transformation. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Culture and Truth is a call for a new approach to thinking and writing about culture. Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static, monolithic culture, and of detached, objective observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and the unavoidability of subjectivity. In this edition, a new introduction gives powerful reasons for protecting diversity within and outside the academy.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. An exciting array of choices, or a litany of oppressive stereotypes? These personal ads---like so many gendered representations in the contemporary U.S.---offer us both. This volume takes up the challenge of such questions, central to understanding gender in the United States. Taken together, the articles in this collection articulate and combine two senses of 'negotiating gender.'.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult, she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 1990s San Francisco-drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers. But she found herself yearning for something she would eventually call God. Surprised by God is a memoir of a young woman's spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate, a story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism, without sacrificing either. It's also an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice-and it shows why, perhaps, doing this in today's world requires more effort than ever.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. At thirteen, Danya Ruttenberg decided she was an atheist. As a young adult, she immersed herself in the rhinestone-bedazzled wonderland of late 1990s San Francisco-drinking smuggled absinthe with wealthy geeks and plotting the revolution with feminist zinemakers. But she found herself yearning for something she would eventually call God. Surprised by God is a memoir of a young woman's spiritual awakening and eventual path to the rabbinate, a story of integrating life on the edge of the twenty-first century into the discipline of traditional Judaism, without sacrificing either. It's also an unflinchingly honest guide to the kind of work that goes into developing a spiritual practice-and it shows why, perhaps, doing this in today's world requires more effort than ever.…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. Nobody's Children is an intense look at child welfare policies on abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption. Elizabeth Bartholet, one of the nation's leading experts on family law, challenges the accepted orthodoxy that treats children as belonging to their kinship and their racial groups and that locks them into inadequate biological and foster homes. She asks us to apply the lessons learned from the battered women's movement as we look at battered children, and to question why family preservation ideology still reigns supreme when children rather than adult women are involved. Bartholet asks us to take seriously the adoption option. She calls on the entire community to take responsibility for its children, to think of the children at risk of abuse and neglect as belonging to all of us, and to ensure that Nobody's Children become treasured members of somebody's family.…

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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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