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Under the Influence is a riveting book that speaks directly to the adverse effects of the insatiable quest of enticing entities for the power to control the behavior of other human beings. It promises to take you on a journey through unchartered domains, where rulers function within unseen worlds. It will also reveal what the perpetual battle between good and evil is all about, and the ultimate prize is your very soul! Under the Influence will...

The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. Revolutionary Sparks is a broadgauged discussion of freedom of expression in America that begins by studying the period after the Civil War and Reconstruction when new and unsettling i...

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An 'oppositional narrative" based on Shakespeare's "King Lear", "Queen Bea" explores what happens when the king becomes a queen and when an ancient tale is translated into a contemporary idiom. "Blanchard's book is bound to become a classic for women's studies and contemporary literature courses alike because it grounds an engaging second wave feminist novel in explicating essays that both honor and explode the typical canon of options used." ...

Three unlikely conspirators-an eleven-year-old girl, a retired government investigator, and an activist teacher--work together to block the privatization of a local spring for profit--by initiating action to prevent an out-of-town investor from establishing a water bottling plant. Their collaboration, within the contexts of community organizing and a natural disaster, leads to meaningful transformation for each of them. How they come to trust ...

In Where? Xavy, the endearing narrator of Who? is invited by Grace, her old friend from the Baltimore women's community, to investigate the disappearance of a friend's daughter. Their reunion in Vermont after twenty years of separation provides the home base for an inquiry leading Xavy high and low, from coast to coast, and beyond. Issues of faith, mercy and redemption play out within a contemporary tangle of belief systems and allegorical exp...

This novel of ideas describes change in the lives of a student, Jessie Adamson and her faculty, Dr. Sophie Green, as well as to their innovative graduate program. Moving through the program, Jessie overcomes obstacles and faces tragic life events to discover meaning and fulfillment. Sophie, facing retirement, reflects upon her long teaching career and mulls over the state of education in the United States. The program, designed to place studen...

Who? explores the identities of two narrators, the identities of the missing persons they focus upon, and the identities of a particular community of women at a particular time in history. It provides a fictional but authentic glimpse into an urban women's liberation community of the 1970's and 80's, thus offering insight into the larger Who of this tale. This glimpse occurs within more intimate, less public settings of this movement and throu...

Wandering Potatoes focuses on life choices made by five women in an Irish-American family: Kate O Neill, who in 1839, marries, against her father s will, and emigrates to America, Brigid, daughter of Kate, who travels west in 1877 with her husband and children to witness the death of Crazy Horse, Eileen, Brigid s daughter, who in 1900 leaves an Oregon convent after ten years as a nun, Helen, Eileen s daughter, who sails in 1949 across an ocean...

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Who? explores the identities of two narrators, the identities of the missing persons they focus upon, and the identities of a particular community of women at a particular time in history. It provides a fictional but authentic glimpse into an urban women's liberation community of the 1970's and 80's, thus offering insight into the larger Who of this tale. This glimpse occurs within more intimate, less public settings of this movement and throu...

Wandering Potatoes focuses on life choices made by five women in an Irish-American family: Kate O Neill, who in 1839, marries, against her father s will, and emigrates to America, Brigid, daughter of Kate, who travels west in 1877 with her husband and children to witness the death of Crazy Horse, Eileen, Brigid s daughter, who in 1900 leaves an Oregon convent after ten years as a nun, Helen, Eileen s daughter, who sails in 1949 across an ocean...