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Rev. William Sloane Coffin (19242006) for half a century stood as a force for progressive religion in America and in the world. He became famous in the 1960s, when he was chaplain at Yale University, for his very public opposition to the Vietnam War. He was indicted by the government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., was jailed as a Freedom Rider, and became one of the most forceful Christian voi...

The decade that gave the world Krazy Kat, Rube Goldberg, and Buster Keaton also marked the emergence of Jacques Vache. A bold jaywalker at the crossroads of history, and an ardent exemplar of freedom and revolt, Vache challenged all prevailing values, from church and state to white supremacy, and was especially gifted at the fine art of ridiculing the dominant ethics and aesthetics of the emerging age of imperialism. Conscripted into the Frenc...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for LiteraturePerhaps the most American of American classics, The Grapes of Wrath follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. It is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

In preparation for the Halloween parade, Gus must do two things create the best costume and learn to march.

Gus's Mom sends him to karate camp for his birthday, but Gus and Bean have to put up with Billy when they get there.

Gus and friends prepare for the Easter egg hunt at school with a giant chocolate egg for first prize.

This volume collects Star Wars: droids special, Star Wars: droids #1-6, Star Wars: droids volume two #1-8, and Star Wars: the protocol offensive comic books originally published by Dark Horse Comics, as well as 'Artoo's day out, ' a comic story originally published by Topps in Star Wars galaxy magazine #1"--T.p. vers

In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the future -- imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come - to redefine the present. Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by political ...

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It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic.

On an April evening in 1955, a teenage boy named Dewey Finn died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. River of Heaven begins some 50 years later and centers on the story of Dewey's boyhood friend, Sam Brady, whose solitary adult has been formed to a large degree by what happened in the days leading up to that evening on the tracks. It's a story Sam woul...

Chasing Cans is rodeo slang for barrel racing, a competition that can bring its winners money and fame. To Gail McCarthy, a horse vet turned stay-at-home mom, chasing cans also stands for the ambitious pursuit of empty career goals at the expense of personal and family tranquility. While Gail is wrestling with this question in her own life, she witnesses a mystifying riding accident that kills a neighbor, a barrel-racing trainer. Whether it's ...

The past few decades have witnessed scientists gaining a considerable understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of human diseases, especially of cancer. Studies of the molecular basis of carcinogenesis have led to the realization that cancer is fundamentally a disease of genetic alterations. The multiple genetic changes in cancer are predominantly the result of accumulating mutations that have occurred in the genome over time. These genetic ...

Writing from personal experiences from more than thirty years of ministry, Dr. Betty Price helps readers who are having trouble understanding God's promises. The second of two volumes is loaded with incredible life lessons, encouragement, and reminders, e

Discusses twelve cold cases in Northeast Ohio involing murders and abductions.

It was bad enough when Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's foremost discriminator and die-hard empiricist, had to accept that the cosmos was shortly to rewrite its basic operating system, replacing rational cause-and-effect with detestable magic. Now he finds himself cast forward several centuries, stranded in a primitive world of contending wizards and hungry dragons, and without his magic-savvy alter ego. Worse, some entity with a will powerful en...

The Study Notebook contains a note-taking guide for every lesson in the Student Edition. This notebook helps students: Preview the lesson, Build their mathematics vocabulary knowledge, Organize and take notes using graphic organizers, Increase their writing skills, and Prepare for chapter tests.

Offering a powerful new tool to build secure, high-quality software, this resource helps developers think like a software cracker so they can find and patch flaws before harmful viruses, worms, and Trojans can rampage systems. Traditional software programmers and testers learn how to make fuzzing a standard practice.

Now thoroughly updated, this edition covers all the fundamentals of satellites, ground control systems, and earth stations as well as digital communications, digital processing, and engineering of satellite systems.