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The first collection of its kind, this book explores the difficult challenges that face any government as it determines when to treat dissent--as expressed in opinion or action--as legitimate political behavior and when to regard it as a threat to individuals and society. The readings, by leading North American scholars, examine an array of subjects including dissent and national security, the concept of subversion and its implications, the li...

This volume is the first to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contribution to the development of the American consciousness. Fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence.

This informative first-time translation of the autobiography of Pierre-Clement de Laussat (1756-1835), offers a portrait of the middle-man in the transaction of 1803 which gave the United States the Louisiana territory.

Edgell Rickword served in the Artists Rifles in World War I and returned to England ripe for a change. One of the sharpest critical minds of the century, he edited the influential Calendar of Modern Letters. In the 1930's he became a declared radical and a communist, helping to establish Left review and visiting Spain during the Civil War. His collaboration with leading radicals at the time make his story a history of the growth of socialist c...

In this collection of six startling journeys into the heart of mystery and fear, Frank and Joe encounter a fiendish scarecrow that walks and talks and stalks its victims, a ship piloted by ghosts, the dungeon of a Scottish castle that is haunted by a cruel and notorious pirate, and more.

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" comes a light-hearted, inspirational account of an encounter with a modern-day messiah. In "Illusions", Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that make our souls fly, showing that people don't need airplanes to soar, and that messiahs can be found everywhere.

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A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of S words that reveal a spectacular story! With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The S Files is a chi...

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In this book, Huston Smith and David Ray Griffin propose religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity. Huston Smith proposes the perennial philosophy or primordial tradition, and David Ray Griffin offers postmodern process theology. The ultimate issue debated is whether we should return to a traditional religious philosophy or seek a new never-before-articulated worldview. The debate covers the following issues: the rela...

Offers a synthesis of knowledge about the origins and manifestations of sexual animosity between men and women within a societal context. The book is intended to be of interest to practitioners in the fields of marital therapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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For readers of Chinese descent, this entertaining book adds to understanding their heritage. For others, it brings an appreciation of things Chinese.

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Here's a long overdue first collection bound to gladden anybody who cares for poems rich in sense and sensibility. Rosenmeier is a brilliant musician of ideas who advances the traditions of earlier American poets, yet achieves work rooted in her time and place, distinctively her own. --X. J. Kennedy

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The proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress are published in three volumes which contain almost 100 essays on the prehistory of Kant's philosophy, the transcendental analytic and dialectic, Kant's practical philosophy, his anthropology, and his theories of art and science.