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The Death Of Old Man Rice - A True Story Of Criminal Justice In America

by Martin L Friedland

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Downsizing Prisons - How To Reduce Crime And End Mass Incarceration

by Michael Jacobson

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 After overseeing the largest city jail system in the US, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. Here, he argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce crime nor create more public safety.
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Essential Papers On Zionism

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The Broadway Musical - Collaboration In Commerce And Art

by Bernard Rosenberg e Ernest Harburg

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 Three out of four Broadway-bound musicals fail to get there, and many of those that do, ultimately fail. This title looks at the industry's successes and failures in an effort to understand the phenomenon of mass collaboration that is Broadway.
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Essential Papers On Jewish Culture In Renaissance And Baroque Italy

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 Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
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Essential Papers On Jewish Culture In Renaissance And Baroque Italy

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 Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian usurer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
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Essential Papers On Jewish-Christian Relations In The United States - Imagery And Reality

by Naomi W. Cohen

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 These papers address the central question of how classical Christian images of Jews have been acted out or muted in interreligious encounters in the USA. The book is organized according to the salient issues that divide Jews from the Christian majority, with sections on anti-Semitism.
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Essential Papers On Israel And The Ancient Near East

by Frederick E. Greenspahn

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 Archaeological discovery of documents from the Near East has fuelled the debate as to the Hebrew Bible's relationship with the world. The biblical view that Israel "dwells apart" is belied by the Israelites' vulnerability to worldly attractions and cultural similarities with their neighbours.
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Freedom To Differ - The Shaping Of The Gay And Lesbian Struggle For Civil Rights

by Diane Helene Miller

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Recovery From Addiction - A Practical Guide To Treatment, Self-Help, And Quitting On Your Own

by Robert Granfield e William Cloud

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 Suitable for health care professionals, from social workers to school counselors, responsible for referring clients to drug and alcohol recovery programs, this book introduces readers to their options, from inpatient and outpatient programs and approaches which do not call for life-long abstinence from the substances now causing the problem.
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Flying Out With The Wounded

by Anne Caston

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 Offers a collection of poems that are striking in its powerful representation of humanity and its dramatic use of language. This title explores the inner recesses of the human mind and body, delving into the murky shadows where individuals fear to tread. It plays with different points of view and keeps readers on their toes.
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The Politics Of Survivorship - Incest, Women'S Literature, And Feminist Theory

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 Explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship.
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Scholars Of The Law - English Jurisprudence From Blackstone To Hart

by Richard A. Cosgrove

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 Charting the history of English jurisprudence through its key figures - William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Austin, Henry Maine, Thomas Erskine Holland, and H L A Hart, this book argues that jurisprudence must return to its interdisciplinary roots and draw upon economics, politics, and sociology.
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States Of Rage - On Cultural Emotion And Social Change

by Renee R. Curry

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 What is the relationship between rage and power(lessness)? How does rage relate to personal or social injustice? Can we ritualize rage or is it always spontaneous? Finally, what provokes rage and what is provocative about it? This book contains essays that focus on the psychological and social origins of rage, and, its relationship to the self.
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Essential Papers On The Talmud

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 Offers a collection of teachings and traditions that contains within it the intellectual output of hundreds of Jewish sages who considered all aspects of an entire people's life from the Hellenistic period in Palestine (c 315 BCE) until the end of the Sassanian era in Babylonia (615 CE).
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Essential Papers On Jews And The Left

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God Is A Conservative - Religion, Politics, And Morality In Contemporary America

by Kenneth J. Heineman

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 Explaining the role of religion in conservative politics in modern America, the author reveals the religious nature of contemporary conservatism, offering an intriguing look at the social history of moral politics, and the tremulous aftershocks of the New Deal. It examines the Bush presidency and the rising influence of the Conservative Right.
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Essential Papers On Hasidism

by Gershon David Hundert

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 A comprehensive view of the history, beliefs and practices, and sociology of the Hasidic movement founded by Israel Baal Sheen Tov, this simultaneously provides a reflection of the development of the scholarly understanding of Hasidism from the 18th century to the present.
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The Atlas Of American Society

by Alice C. Andrews e James Fonseca

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 Provides a geographic window on the pressing social issues of our time. This book covers topics such as: cultural diversity and immigration; income, poverty and unemployment; lifestyle risks including drug abuse, smoking and auto fatalities; access to medical care; medical costs; status of women, and senior citizens; marriage and divorce and more.
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Essential Papers On Kabbalah

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 Provides the reader with a sense of the historical range of Kabbalah, as well as examples of various kinds of approaches, including those of intellectual and social history, history and phenomenology of religions, motif studies, ritual studies, and women's studies. This book discusses mystical motifs, theological ideas and devotional practices.
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Essential Papers On Jewish-Christian Relations In The United States - Imagery And Reality

by Naomi W. Cohen

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 These papers address the central question of how classical Christian images of Jews have been acted out or muted in interreligious encounters in the USA. The book is organized according to the salient issues that divide Jews from the Christian majority, with sections on anti-Semitism.
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Essential Papers On Hasidism

by Gershon David Hundert

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 A comprehensive view of the history, beliefs and practices, and sociology of the Hasidic movement founded by Israel Baal Sheen Tov, this simultaneously provides a reflection of the development of the scholarly understanding of Hasidism from the 18th century to the present.
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The Education Of The Southern Belle - Higher Education And Student Socialization In The Antebellum South

by Christie Anne Farnham

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 Provides us with an intimate picture of the social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women, and their legacy for higher education. This book also examines the impact of slavery on faculty and students.
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Essential Papers On Kabbalah

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 Provide a sense of the historical range of Kabbalah
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