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On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brooklyn with hundreds of home-ward-bound commuters aboard. As the train rumbled down a short hill between Prospect Park and Ebbets Field in the very heart of Brooklyn, the unthinkable happened: the motorman lost control and the train left the tracks as it curved into a tunnel at the foot of the hill. ...

Stories with no substance. Talking heads without a clue. "Team" coverage that still misses the big picture. Overheated hype. Cute chatter. Film at eleven. Is it any wonder more and more of us count less and less on the news? "It used to be that a news story told you who, what, where, when, how, and why, " Art Athens writes. "Now the story might tell you who, or it might tell you when, but there's a good chance that when it's over (which won't ...

Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife, Katherine, who started a new life in the American industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. Committed to a socialist dream, they struggled to improve the lot of their fellow immigrants and, at the same time, to raise a family in the midst of the turbulence surrounding them. Their efforts contributed to the long-lived struggle to improve working cond...

Oleg Davydov's Inside Out examines Russia's foreign economic relations from 1992 to 1997, a period of drastic change and transformation. During these years, as it underwent the change from state monopoly to free market, Russia's economy was rebuilt and the very principles of foreign trade redefined. After 1992, both industrial and agricultural enterprises in Russia were unchained and received the right to trade freely without any permission fr...

Presents an investigation of the ongoing methodical reconstruction of Catholic moral theology.

From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the influence of Marxist ideas has expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. This work analyzes how postcolonial African regimes under varying degrees of Marxist influence have interacted with the Catholic Church and affected the accomplishment of its mission.

A wonderful collection of articles, stories, poems, and drawings that pokes fun at the revered institution of higher education. Nothing is sacred in this collection and, indeed, all is permitted. Everything sacrosanct in the scholarly world is subject to witty inspection.Included are writings by Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Ogden Nash, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Andy Rooney, John Barth, E. B. White, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, as well as artwork by H...

Edith Wyschogrod presents the first full-length study in English of the important contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It is a revision of the author's earlier study and includes discussions of his recent writings as well as current scholarship. Dr. Wyschogrod's extensive discussion of Levinas's relation to Judaism, especially his use of literature from the Torah and other religious writings, will be of interest to religious schol...