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Renaissance Venice is generally portrayed as a city of harmony and consensus. This book offers a sharply different view by highlighting the history of religious dissent in this early modern city. Drawing on sixteenth-century records from archives of the Roman Inquisition, John Jeffries Martin reconstructs the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics--those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform....

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Now parents can teach their preschool children to read and write with a revolutionary system developed by a respected educator, sponsored by IBM and tested by the Educational Testing Service.

The book focuses on a number of topics that commonly arise in the UK in drafting and negotiating of a commercial lease. Topics are dealt with at varying levels of detail: in the case of Assignment, for instance, only the tests that a landlord might seek to impose in a lease that is a new tenancy are covered. When it comes to Break Rights, on the other hand, greater depth is provided.

In "More than Chains and Toil, " Joan Martin explores the experiences of enslaved women and the realities of their social world to uncover the interrelationships among moral agency, work, and human meaning. She then reflects ethically on the implications such a distinct perspective on labor might have for women in contemporary African American communities and for broader discussions about the meaning of work in American society.

Martin and Archambault evoke the beauty and the mystery, the sounds and the silences of rain. Their marvelous ear for the melodies and rhythms of language, combined with Endicott's spare, almost abstract paintings, creates a lyrical book with haunting power. Full-color illustrations.

A dozen suitably assorted five- or six-year-olds point out different parts of the body, each accompanied by half of a rhymed couplet".--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review.