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When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "I love to read, you get real neat ideas. I really like books about animals and biographies. I'm writing my autobiography now. Oh, I also really like Judy Blume books. " Her enthusiasm for reading is evident as she tells you about the Judy Blume book she just read, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970). Jenny reads almost every night at home. Jenny's classmate throu...

The book is clearly written and makes available a wide range of issues concerning the style of Bacon's writings and his politics. Highly recommended to both general and academic libraries at all levels.'-CHOICE

Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: thediffering approaches of the U.S. and the (former) Soviet Union to Middle Eastpolicy, Central Asia, and South Asia... provide grounds for self-criticism and theexploration of new directions." -- John L. Esposito..".recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." -- Journal ofThird World StudiesRussian, Central Asian, and American scholarsappraise recent political and reli...

Philip J. Kain deftly demonstrates the historical antecedents to and continuing relevance of Karl Marx's thought. Kain reveals the unappreciated pluralism of Marx, how it has endured and how it will continue to adapt to the challenges of modern day thought such as feminist theory.

While recent criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic's enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime's leading defenders, particularly Brutus.

(Women in the Civil Rights Movement) helps break the gender linethat restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, andplaces them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement thatre-made America.... It is an invaluable resource which helps set historystraight." -- Julian Bond ..". remains one of the bestsingle sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in thedesegregatio...

It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life", declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short and deceptively simple, while many are autobiographical and reveal her most intimate thoughts about motherhood, her struggle with alcohol, her love for a young man, and more.