Documenting Latin America focuses on the central themes of race, gender, and politics.   These themes are especially important for understanding and evaluating the history of Latin America, where identities were forged out of the conflicts, negotiations, and intermixing of peoples from Europe, Afr[...]

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a k[...]

Designed to cover the requirements of the National Curriculum, this book's features include a flexible resource for teaching the National curriculum, an integrated approach to language study at all stages, a range of authors, poets, and playwrights from different centuries and cultures. Activities h[...]

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's reputation as a recognized expert on the Corinthian correspondence has been built on the original solutions he has offered to perennial problems. Brought together for the first time in one volume, each of the sixteen articles anthologised here deals with one or more verses i[...]

The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional subject of "pure" philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical theory examines sp[...]

What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You. Revised edition.

Happiness has been written about by everyone from the Dalai Lama ("The Art of Happiness") to Daniel Gilbert ("Stumbling on Happiness"), but in "Happy At Last "Richard O'Connor takes a fresh look at what happiness is, why we are happy (or not) and how we can stay happy. How? He says we can rewire our[...]

A snowy January night. A cat that beat the odds. A man whose life would be forever changed. This is the remarkable story of Toby Jug, the extraordinary cat who thought he was human."Paw Prints in the Moonlight" is the truly special tale of one kind man and the cat that changed his life. Set in the r[...]

"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was[...]

Illus. in full color. Beth wishes she were more like Molly, who doesn't mind if boys hide dead bugs in her desk, and who tells big kids to get lost if they tease her. "Beth is flattered when Molly invites her to stay overnight at her house in the country; when the girls get lost, Beth is the one who[...]