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The Making of Little Saigon intricately weaves the stories of activists, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars who shaped Little Saigon in Orange County, California, into a cherished haven for Vietnamese refugees. Each narrative, spanning oceanic crossings to forging a new home, resonates with a history of pain, beauty, disunity, solidarity, failure, and resilience, reimagining community building through storytelling in the US"--

Dr. A.A.Y. Kyerematen: Cultural Prince of Africa is a biographical study of Ghana-born cultural anthropologist, Dr. A.A.Y. Kyerematen.

Afrocentric Innovations in Higher Education supplants the historical notion of higher education as an individual endeavor with pioneering perspectives that outline interventions that enhance the education of people of African descent in areas of student services, teacher preparation, career preparation, and the role of Africana Studies in HBCUs.

The Talmud comprises a massive collection of rabbinical debates from late antiquity. This volume explicates one tractate within it, Nazir, concerned with self-imposed abstentions: no wine or product of the grapevine, no cutting of bodily hair, and no contact with a human corpse.

The Mind of the Leader provides psychosocial and communication tools for effective leadership. With case vignettes and old-world parables, filled with uncommon wisdom, it promotes the cultivation and ultimately, the embodiment of highly desirable personality traits for successful leadership.

Person-centered Politics, in dialogue with some of major contemporary philosophers and thinkers, proposes a renewed vision of politics by presenting a renewal of the real social and transcendent dimensions of personal existence

What If Sparta Ruled An Empire? After centuries of conquest, the Spartan Empire dominates the known world. Its lands stretch from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Persian Gulf in the east, and from the Nile in the south to the Danube in the north. With the last of their enemies defeated, the Spartans are the unquestioned rulers of the world. But many people living within the Empire's borders hate their new masters, and an uprising ...

This book analyzes the facts and law as to nuclear weapons and the policy of deterrence. It demonstrates that such weapons cannot lawfully be used and that the policy of deterrence is risky and unlawful. It urges that the U.S. take the lead in delegitimizing these weapons and seeking abolition.

This book analyzes the facts and law as to nuclear weapons and the policy of deterrence. It demonstrates that such weapons cannot lawfully be used and that the policy of deterrence is risky and unlawful. It urges that the U.S. take the lead in delegitimizing these weapons and seeking abolition.

The scope and subject of Rising Light focuses on the mystery of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ and his hope-filled promise to us of our own bodily resurrection from the dead.

This book focuses on issues in astronomy, cosmology, physics, matter theory, philosophy, and theology vital to the "Copernican Revolution." It describes efforts among individuals advocating different world views to fit new ideas compatibly into broad perspectives reflecting four traditional patterns of interpretation: teleological, mechanical, occultist, and mathematico-descriptive.

A Sephardi Turkish Patriot explores the life of Gad Franco (1881-1954), a prominent Sephardi journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, who worked relentlessly for the Jewish community's belonging to the national Turkish polity, and for the consolidation of the rule of law. This historical biography, written by his grandson, takes the reader from fin-de-siècle Izmir, to the Istanbul of the Roaring Twenties and beyond, tracing his footsteps, inclu...

The central mission of this book is to provide additional context to an ongoing discussion regarding Black liberation and proper allyship. This book will use the term co-conspirator as a preferred descriptor for Black/non-Black liberation-collaboration and provide a more direct ask of journeying anti-racist white Americans.

A spiritual quest typically begins with a critical shock or loss, one that casts us back upon ourselves to question the meaning of life. Should our suffering affect us deeply enough, it will plummet us into our hearts, where the hidden treasures of life are to be found. Should we happen to fully let go, we will let go into what IS, and thus, adversity and pain fulfill their natural roles. From that point onward, our emphasis and priorities c...

This is a unique tale about the first non-Frenchman to ever own one of the Montrachet Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, France. Weaved throughout entertaining stories that celebrate the history of this world renowned region, is the chronicle of an American breaking through cultural barriers to find adventure and success.

This novel is a suspenseful and candid portrayal of the rewards and challenges of life at the cutting edge of modern science.

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in 1953. During those years, Stalin's economic policies turned the Soviet Union into an industrial giant with all industries under State management and control. The State was, Stalin and the Party. ...

In this book the author's explore the lives of Soviet citizens who were declared "enemies of the people" during Joseph Stalin's dictatorship and were exiled from the Soviet Union, detained in city prisons, sent to prison labor camps located in Siberia, or executed.

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