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In collecting the kind of reportage that all too rarely appears in this age of media triviality and corporate conglomeration, Muckraking! documents an alternative journalistic tradition, one marked by depth of vision, passion for change, and bravery. From the Stamp Act to the abolition movement to the Vietnam war, from the fight against patent medicines to the elimination of labor spies, from the integration of baseball to the safety of govern...

From the creators of the bestselling "The Explorabook" come innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures. With instructions in this book, one can construct a Brazilian carnival instrument, play a peg solitaire game from Madagascar, or count like an Egyptian. Illustrations throughout.

This sequel to The Closing Circle details why most attempts to "save" the environment have failed, and what we must do to rectify things now.

This is the first in a three volume set of carefully chosen gospel commentaries. It conveys a pro-found richness from a variety of experts.

In this second in a three-volume set, Father Rotelle's carefully chosen selections onvey the richness and the importance of the modern era--that tradition is ongoing and does not stop with just the Fathers of the Church. Leading the reader through the Sunday liturgical readings of Year B, it can be used as a resource for homilies or sermons, or for reflection.

A meditation for each of the Sunday Gospels, Year C

An analysis of the development of the "Marian profile" concept in Von Balthasar

A Russian novel in the grand tradition of Nabokov and Gogol. As small-town scholar becomes immersed in reconstructing the life of a turn-of-the-century philosopher, the two begin a metaphysical conversation across time, painting a fascinating picture of Russia throughout the century and the crippling effects of Soviet power on the Russian psyche. Translated by Helena Goscilo.

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at the height of Gorbachev's power in 1985 but not published in Russian until 1992, the novel is a profound meditation on Russia's past and present, and a subtle examination of the crippling effects of Soviet power on the nation and on the Russian psy...

Following the critical success of his magisterial ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOCIALISM, Donald Sassoon and a distinguished group of European scholars examines the extent to which the end of the Cold War has contributed to the redefinition of left-wing strategy and goals and the extent of the convergence between "right" and "left".

An Indian "Waiting to Exhale", this hilarious and moving new novel by the award-winning author of "Anita and Me" is the indelible portrait of a group of Indian women living in London and what happens when one of them makes a documentary starring the other two.

Angela of Foligno has risen from relative obscurity to a prominent rank among the most significant representatives of the Franciscan and Christian mystical tradition. The scorching yet feminine way in which she narrates her dramatic love affair with the passionate ldquo, suffering Godmanrdquo, strikes a chord in contemporary readers. The intensity of her account has no match in Christian mystical literature.Selections from Memorial the first p...

The fastest wit in the East" ("The New York Times Book Review") is back with his off-beat, wide-ranging style. Now, with an eye to the social and political experience of writers, Leonard adopts a broad definition of exile and explores Primo Levi's exile of survival, Bruce Chatwin's self-imposed exile in travel, as well as the work of Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Phillip Roth, Barbara Kingsolver, and Don DeLillo, among others.

In this funny, articulate, right-on-the-money look at being a new mother in the '90s, Maushart explores the first true generation of feminists becoming mothers.

With almost one-third of all working people today earning wages below the official poverty line, community coalitions around the country have responded by proposing "living wage" ordinances at the municipal level. This book analyzes the specifics of this new economic concept, as well as documents the results of its implementation in cities around the nation. Illustrated.

The first comprehensive examination of the economic concept now being implemented across the nation with dramatic results.

THE UNKNOWN STORY OF THE MAN WHO LED AMERICA'S MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN TO RESCUE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST Now in paperback, A Race Against Death tells the story of Peter Bergson, the man who made it impossible for American leaders to plead ignorance of German atrocities and organized America's most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust. A Race Against Death utilizes extensive firsthand interviews to present Peter Bergson's own ...

Final volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation of Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as being of a different level of excellence from practically anything else in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expo...

A collection of primary source materials that reveal the secret U.S. policy debates over South Africa.

This collection of essays by the author of "Smoke and Mirrors" covers everything from America's fear and loathing of the sixties to Nixon's secret love affair with Elvis, from the Reagan gerontocracy's "theology of greed" to the Gulf War "turkey shoot", from riots in Los Angeles to "ethnic cleansing" at the 1992 Republican Convention.