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By addressing, through empirical research, the many facets of racial dynamics in higher education, this timely book offers not only strong arguments for the necessity of affirmative action policies, but also ways of building a research agenda that tests notions of fairness, merit, and the benefits of diversity.

Becoming Campesinos" argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. The author maintains that the understanding of popular-class unity conveyed by the term "campesino" originated in the interaction of post-revolutionary ideologies and agrarian militancy during the 1920s and 1930s. The book us...

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This compilation of remarkable quotations is a treasure trove of perceptive wisdom, beautiful thoughts, and sharp wit gleaned from the words of memorable Jewish writers of the past: Theodor W. Adorno, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Mary Antin, Hannah Arendt, Sholem Asch, Sir Alfred J. Ayer, Isaac Asimov, Vicki Baum, Walter Benjamin, Irving Berlin, Maurice Blanchot, Allan Bloom, Louis D. Brandeis, Hermann Broch, Joseph Brodsky, Lenny Bruce, Elias Canetti,...

Mukherjee, whose short story collection "The Middleman" won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, presents a masterful meditation on marriage and family ties.

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When two high-school students, Gordo and Darwin, sneak into the laboratory of the mysterious scientist Jonas Masterton in order to "borrow" one of his inventions--to use it on a date with a beautiful girl--they accidentally discover a basement full of top-secret documents concerning black rockets that are launched every month from modified nuclear silos towards the dark side of the Moon...

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Originally published by the University of Chicago Press in 1918, this volume aims to throw light upon the various economic questions which arise in connection with war. It covers the economic background of war in general, the economic reorganization required in view of the necessities of a world-war, and the economic questions involved in the reorganization of the industrial system at the end of World War I.