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A comprehensive work available on all three of India's Jewish communities. It brings together methods and insights from religious studies, ritual studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, and folklore. It also discusses the strategies that each community developed to maintain its Jewish identity.

An account of the legal and political struggles that created the right to privacy and won constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose abortion. It details both the unheralded contributions of the young lawyers who filed America's first abortion rights cases and also the inside-the-Supreme Court deliberations that produced Roe v Wade.

Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a 'Buddhist'? This book brings together some of the leading voices in Buddhist studies to examine the debates surrounding contemporary Buddhism's many faces.

While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. Studying the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, this title argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society.

Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as 'a finger in the wound'. This book explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in a study of the civil war and its aftermath. It investigates the notion of Quincentennial Guatemala, which has given focus to the overarching question of Mayan - and Guatemalan - identity.

Of interest to lay readers and specialists alike, this book focuses on the meaning of the American Constitution as the Supreme Court has interpreted it. It treats various aspects of the Constitution and different constitutional topics in alphabetical order, in more than 1,000 short essays.

An analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths that shows the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. It discusses certain parallels between Navajo religious ideas and contemporary scientific cosmology.

This is the first in a four-volume sesquicentennial California history series to celebrate the 150th birthday of the state of California. This volume of essays investigates traditional historical subjects and also explores such areas as environmental science, women's history and Indian history.

A companion to the three-volume verse translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy". It consists of a collection of commentaries on the first part of the "Comedy", with an essay for each canto. It aims to provide a guide that is adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history.

A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. This volume presents his work and extends the poetic accomplishment that influenced a generation.

An exploration of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, which looks at the life-and-death dilemmma. Using case studies, Anspach examines the role of parents, doctors, nurses and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns should be saved by medical technology.

An anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. It contains sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire). It also contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction.

This text presents an analysis of two neglected paintings devoted to the French Revolution. John Zoffany's "Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10 1972", and "Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers", both represent events that helped turn the English against the Revolution.

Chronicles the emergence and transformation of hemophilia community. This book sets the story within our national political landscape - where the disease is also a social, psychological, and economic experience.

This is a biography of American writer Jane Bowles. She produced a small collection of work including the novel "Two Serious Ladies", her play "In the Summer House" and a book of stories, all characterized by her elliptical way of seeing things.

Captures the intellectual and religious encounter between Augustine and Vergil. The text seeks to open a door not merely on the content and formation of Augustine's ideas, but also on the meaning of Vergil's poetry at a time of political and religious change.

This study of early Greek exploration makes a contribution to discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. The text focuses in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War.

This guide explains how the principal imaging devices work and how they help physicians save lives. It explains the medical technologies that might come to play important roles in the readers life, and for those who wish to explore the issues of the associated benefits, costs, and risks.

The Pure Land sect of Japanese Buddhism is one of the strongest Buddhist sects in Japan, with three and a half million followers. In this book, the author provides a detailed, objective account in English of the life and thought of its founder, Honenbo Genku (1133-1212), known as Honen.

This history examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. Central to the study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes.

A study which argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic and social nature. Drawing on tribal religions and practices and from theorists and thinkers, the author seeks to expand our awareness of this complex human activity.

Challenges many of the tenets of establishment ecology. This title presents a convincing case that disorder is what makes the natural world work, and that clinging to romantic notions of nature's grand design only saps the strength of the conservation movement.

A study of Charles Seeger, who left his mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology and avant-garde musical composition. It explores his writing, highlights his influences and studies connections Seeger made between music, the humanities and the sciences.

This collection of essays challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West. Essay topics range from tourism to immigration, from environmental battles to inter-ethnic relations, and from law to film.

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. Chicago was becoming 'an October sort of city even in the spring'. Narratives of decline became building blocks of the postindustrial urban literature. This book examines these narratives as they played out in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan.

Explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century BC Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty emblazoned its coins with the dynamic image of Thundering Zeus, led this historic movement by breaking free of the Seleucid Empire and building a strong independent state in Central Asia.

This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. The author offers a model for community studies that links local culture and global capitalism.

Features essays that address the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the conventional polar opposition between a majority 'white monoculture' and a marginalized 'minorities of color multiculture.' This book takes issue with such a dichotomy by showing how experiences of American Jews can undo conventional categories.

In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the US remains one of the most unusual and controversial movements in America history. The author explores the complicated realm of Cuban American identity.