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In this follow-up to his bestselling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family, religion journalist Mark Pinsky explores the role that the animated features of Walt Disney played on the moral and spiritual development of generations of children. Pinsky explores thirty-one of the most popular Disney films, as well as recent developments such as the 1990s boycott of Disney by the Southern Baptis...

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In this insightful and accessible book, religion journalist Mark Pinsky takes the curious reader on a tour of the fascinating world of Sun Belt evangelicalism. Pinsky, religion reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, uses his unique position as a Jew covering evangelical Christianity to help nonevangelicals understand the hopes, fears, and motivations of this growing subculture and breaks down some of the stereotypes of evangelicalism.

Finally...a self help book that recognizes the realities of the corporate world. Corporate America is populated with millions of middle managers whose current lot in life seems to be preordained. These middle managers go to work every day wondering how they can escape the mire that is middle management. They are further exasperated by the general belief that they are both smarter and more capable than their bosses. WIN-WIN MY ASS! is a unique,...

Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.

How Jewishness and feminism converged in the life histories of twentieth-century activists

Studying American Jewish feminism from 1960s and '70s, this book examines how second-wave feminist activists retrospectively construct their identities as Jews and how these constructions have changed throughout their lives. It demonstrates that Jews share a unique relationship to gender, influenced by their experiences and perspectives as Jews.

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Explores the dreams and nightmares of small towns - their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. This book considers how small towns can be small-minded - in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial.

Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus. Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces. Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciation And invention, is this the image of the promised end? All music haunted by all the music of the dead forever. Becky haunted forever by Pearl the daughter she abandoned For love, O try my tra-la-la, ma la belle, mah walla-w...

The coronary circulation is central to sustaining myocardial viability. Unlike the cir­ culations of most other organs, if the coronary circulation becomes insufficient to sustain myocardial contractile function, overall quality of life rapidly declines and life can abruptly end. In partnership with the cerebral circulation, the coronary circula­ tion plays a central role in sustaining life. However, unlike the cerebral circulation, whose func...

A self-contained account of the theory of positive harmonic functions for second order elliptic operators, using an integrated probabilistic and analytic approach.

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David's life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human...

Stochastic parallel displacement.- Diffusion processes in bounded domains and singular perturbation problems for variational inequalities with Neumann boundary conditions.- Elliptic estimates and diffusions in Riemannian geometry and complex analysis.- Stochastic differentials and quasi-standard random variables.- A random product of markovian semi-groups of operators.- Large deviations for Markov processes and the asymptotic evaluation of cer...

This 10-session study, for youth and adults, embarks on an exploration of the religious themes prevalent in the popular animated comedy series. Each session correlates to a chapter in the book and suggests an episode for viewing prior to the discussion.

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Americans, it seems, have a history of self-medicating for pain. The high profile and increasingly widespread cases of prescription pain medication abuse that we're seeing today serve as the latest chapter in America's long-standing love/hate relationship with painkilling drugs. In this fascinating, informative, and timely book, Dr. Drew Pinsky and other leading experts in the fields of addiction and recovery discuss why Americans are using dr...

History of My Heart, " winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, first appeared in 1984. In "The New Republic, " J.D. McClatchy called it "one of the best books of the past decade." It is Pinsky's third volume of poems--and an ideal introduction to the work of a vital and original contemporary American poet.

From An Explanation of America:LAIR Robert Pinsky ? Inexhaustible, delicate, as ifWithout source or medium, daylightUndoes the mind, the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the roadWhispers, through a mile of woods ... Later, how quiet the house is:Dusk-like and refined, The sweet Phoebe-note Piercing from the trees, The calm globe of the morning, Things to read or to write Ranged on a table, the brainA dark, stubborn cur...