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A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics

A guide to creating treasure hunts that teach and share the special places in your community.

Offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers the American eastern seaboard, eastern Canada and the West Indies, as well as the trans-Atlantic links to Western Europe and West Africa.

Points the way to all the tantalizing treats and terrifying treasures that remain tucked away in overlooked museums, private collections, and forgotten recesses of this very special region

A leading cultural historian explores the complex interactions of Jewish and American cultures.

Experts in a variety of disciplines explore women's new roles in sport, politics, corporate America, and the professions, identifying arenas of success as well as persistent limits and barriers to women's leadership.

A pioneering collection of personal accounts from criminal justice scholars, practitioners, and activists, and from current and former prisoners themselves.

Exoticism has flourished in western music since the 17th century. This text explores the ways in which western composers have used exotic elements for dramatic effect. It examines the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists such as Mozart and George Harrison.

An exploration of the crack cocaine trade from the perspective of the American sellers. The author examines the underlying motivations for selling crack, describes the social organization of dealing, and explores how dealers protect transactions from law enforcement, police, and other criminals.

An exploration of the inner workings of the individuals, corporations, and government agencies implicated in the self-interested abuse of their economic and societal privilege.

In this collection of essays, sociologist Dorothy E. Smith develops a method for analyzing how women (and men) view contemporary society from specific gendered points of view

Although Michel Foucault's ideas on sexuality, ideology, and power have established him as one of this century's most influential thinkers, the implications of his work for feminists continue to be the subject of heated debate. This book fosters a dialogue between Foucault and contemporary feminism.

The newest offering, full of wit and wisdom, from the award-winning author of Famous Last Words

New Prose Poetry by the author of The Babies

Funny and frightening, moving and unsettling, the prose poems in Mark's debut collection take readers on a wild ride

Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced-out of necessity-to make meals of their fellow survivors.

Welcome to Boston in the early years of the republic. Prepare to journey by stagecoach with a young man moving to the "bustling city"; stop by a tavern; eavesdrop on clerks and customers in a dry-goods shop; get stuck in what might have been Boston's first traffic jam; and enjoy arch comments about spouses, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and poets.

Welcome to Boston in the early years of the republic. Prepare to journey by stagecoach with a young man moving to the "bustling city"; stop by a tavern; eavesdrop on clerks and customers in a dry-goods shop; get stuck in what might have been Boston's first traffic jam; and enjoy arch comments about spouses, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and poets.

The first English translation of two stories from Rilke's earliest prose work.

An engaging novel of human dilemmas that find unusual solutions.

A collection of 22 essays by distinguished scholars on the Jewish response to antisemitism worldwide over the past 200 years.

Description and analysis of the distinctive culture that developed in southern New Hampshire and southern Maine during the colonial period.

This bilingual edition of the 15th-century poet's work incorporates recent scholarship.

A major American thinker of the 20th century muses on anarchism.

How Harry S. Truman overcame the doubters, the haters, and the do-nothing congress to recapture the presidency and save America

There are some two hundred TV markets in the country, but only one-Boston, Massachusetts-hosted a Golden Age of local programming. During TV's heyday, not only was Boston the nation's leader in locally produced news, programming, and public affairs, but it also became a model for other local stations around the country.

Inside one of New England's most infamous murders

An invaluable introduction to the arts and sciences for students, parents, and anyone curious about the nature of a liberal education