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Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks-and what blacks owe themselves. In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation sever...

Here are both scientific findings and Catholic teaching to show that the theory of Evolution is just not compatible with Catholic teaching, common sense or scientific data. It presents powerful evidence in a brief manner, posing many unanswered problems for the Evolution theory.

At the opening of this masterful debut novel, Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents' lives: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning, Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has lost, the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who ...

In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. to the tears found in today's films. Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings of Plato and Darwin to the paintings of Picasso to modern medical journals, he unearths the multiple meanings and uses of tears.

A collection of short stories, selected by the South's most venerable writers who are all affiliated with the Fellowship of Southern Writers, celebrates the distinctness of the Southern experience, and features writers as Doris Betts, Barry Hannah, William Henry Lewis, and others.

Writings that span more than thirty years and range from idyllic reflections on nature to unmerciful satires on impending Armageddon.

In his accompanying volume to Brightest and Best: A Companion to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Sam Portaro offers meditations for each of the weekdays for the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.

In 1985, the shape of the DC Universe was irrevocably changed by the legendary 12-issue series "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Now, the epic that saw the heroic deaths of the 1960s Flash, Barry Allen and the original Supergirl, as well as the consolidation of DC's multiple Earths into a single, unified world, is collected at last in a trade paperback. This powerful tale features virtually every DC super-hero ever, plus countless villains, support...

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