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This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheim's mostimportant book." -- Paul Mendes-Flohr..". magnificentin sweep and in execution of detail." -- Franklin H.LittellIn To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way toJudaism's renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions -- about God, humanity, and revelation -- have been severely challenged. He tests the resourceswithin Judaism for healing the breach between secularism ...

..". the specificity and breadth of this (work) makes it unique....lively reading... particularly recommended for academic collections with a strongfocus in Russian history." -- Library Journal..". aremarkable new collection of essays... The book reads like a literary hybrid ofcookbook, historical treatise, and novella, its subject is, literally, the essenceof life itself.... Glants and Toomre deserve further praise for the book'sconsistent, a...

The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor by Anna Bek (1869-1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolutionary change, extraordinary challenges, and unprecedented opportunities. Written in a lively and compelling style, Anna Bek's memoir reveals not only the experiences but also the motives and values of women who sought education, independence, and self-sufficiency, the obstacles they enco...

A bold, energetic, and lively musical biography on one of Africa's most popular and controversial stars, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti--the flamboyant originator of the "Afrobeat" sound and self-proclaimed voice of the voiceless.

The conversion to sound cinema is routinely portrayed as a homogenizing process that significantly reduced the cinema's diversity of film styles and practices. Cinema's Conversion to Sound offers an alternative assessment of synchronous sound's impact on world cinema through a shift in critical focus: in contrast to film studies' traditional exclusive concern with the film image, the book investigates national differences in sound-image practi...

Southern Seed, Northern Soil captures the exceptional history of the Beech and Roberts settlements, two African-American and mixed-race farming communities on the Indiana frontier in the 1830s. Stephen Vincent analyzes the founders' backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color from the Old South. He traces the migration that culminated in the founding of the two communities. He follows the settlements' transformations through the pioneer ...

To Bear Any Burden is necessary to understand the most significantaspect of the Indochina wars: the human one." -- Tran Van Dinh, author of BlueDragon White Tiger: A Tet Story"At least this reader wouldlike to spend hours if not days talking to each of the people within thesepages." -- Jack Reynolds, Network Correspondent, NBC..".remarkable insight into the human aspect of the war." -- LibraryJournalThe 48 American and Asian veterans, refugees...

We can usually expect something fresh and different to emerge fromAustralia, and this study is no exception." -- AmericanCinematographer"An important contribution to cinemahistory. . . especially impressive in its analysis of the French cinema industry, in terms of both mode of production and personnel, and in its analysis of the Frenchtechnological base." -- Richard AbelFrom 1930 to 1960, France produced some of the most famous films ever mad...

The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts agreat deal of what we think we know... it will certainly be read seriously inChicano/a studies." -- Women's Review of Books Emma P rezdiscusses the historical methodology which has created Chicano history and arguesthat the historical narrative has often omitted gender. She poses a theory whichrejects the colonizer's methodological assumptions and examines new tools foruncove...

Jean-Fran¿s Bayart is Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationals, Paris.Stephen Ellis is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre at Leiden and former editor of Africa Confidential.B¿rice Hibou is a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique attached to the Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noir, Bordeaux.