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Little Allyson loves to sit on the fire escape and say hello to her neighbors and friends. But, everyone is just too busy today to see her wave!

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Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation examines the controversial causation issue. That causes produce their effects and can be known to do so is the view that Averroes defends in his Tahafut Al-Tahafut, where he summarizes and evaluates the debates about causation--debates that took place over several generations between the philosophers and the theologians of medieval Islam. Drawing from his Tahafut, his commentaries, and other writings, ...

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History often provides insight into the present. Consider the American South one hundred and fifty years ago, for example. There, human rights and economic servitude were compressed onto a single domain for black Americans. They became a means of production that could be bought and sold as a commodity. In many parts of the South, it was forbidden to teach blacks to read. Control by law of education, part of culture, was found necessary to subo...

Louis Phillips may be one of the great undiscovered playwrights of our day. The imagination, humor, and variety of his many plays is truly astonishing. THE ENVOI MESSAGES is a perfect example of his great talent.Set in the Midwest during the Depression, this play is about a twelve year-old girl who works for Western Union, delivering messages both real and imaginary.As Stanley Kramer has written in a special foreward for this edition: "The pro...

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Over six decades after the polemical Sacco and Vanzetti case, in which the two anarchist Italian immigrants were convicted of first-degree murder and executed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Young and Kaiser revisit the case's evidence as well as the key actors who determined its outcome. The authors situate their meticulous reexamination of the court evidence and prosecuting and defense arguments within the long-standing dispute between...

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Now back in print with a new cover design! Winner of the inaugural Beatrice Hawley Award in 1986"Linnea Johnson's poems are strong and ardent and credible, full of wisdom and indignation. They tell stories we need to hear, sung with the pounding verve of the blood behind them."--Adrienne Rich "Readers of Linnea Johnson's first published collection of poems will know her vision. No one is spared once eye touches page: every passion and purge kn...

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: Henry VIII King Lear Loves Labours Lost Measure for Measure Pericles

In three separate episodes Fox wants to play with his friends, but duty, in one form or another, always interferes.

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Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: Truman CapoteMarguerite DurasJay McInerneyIrwin Shaw

For more than thirty years, the prospect of unlimited fusion energy has attracted scientists and the public. Joan Lisa Bromberg's book documents the history of the American magnetic fusion reactor program.