Comparing America to the empires of the past, such as the British, Roman, and Incan empires, young adults are encouraged to consider the beneficial and negative impact that today's imperial system has on the world as a whole and the various effects American dominance will have on other nations and peoples in years to come. Reprint.

Canada in the late 1970s was beset by severe constitutional and economic problems. Public debate on these issues, dominated by the ideas of Pierre Trudeau, was extremely limited in scope and failed to provide any compelling sense of hope for the future. James Laxer and Robert Laxer seek out the roots of this dilemma with an analysis of the basic strategies of the Liberal Party's system of governing Canada, instituted by Wilfrid Laurier and refined by the governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent and Lester Pearson. The political legacy that Pierre Trudeau inherited in 1968, they argue, was flawed in both its methods of dealing with an enduring French Canadian nationalism and its shaky underpinnings in Canada's branch-plant economy. First published in 1977, The Liberal Idea of Canada remains a wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the ideological foundations of Canada's dominant political party.

James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University , Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, and even a fiction writer.

Provides tips, tactics and protocol for teenagers, covering a wide variety of social situations. Topics include eating out, dating, special occasions, being a guest, holding a conversation, parties, and job interviews. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

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Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. "A beguiling debate on state morality versus personal morality...hammers away at the rich dramatic themes of loyalty and betrayal". -- Toronto Star

The essay "Anti-Semitism on the Left" (pp. 37-51) appeared previously in English in "Dissent" 29, 1 (1982); it appeared first in German in "Merkur" 337 (1976).

THE STORY: The scene is a country estate in the declining days of Czarist Russia, the home of an old and ailing professor, his young wife, and various other family members. For years the estate, under the management of Uncle Vanya, brother of the p

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France's leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg's Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and the difficulties of reintegrating into a society in which too many neighbors denounced them or ignored their pleas to save their children. Affirming the new status of Jewish culture, Grumberg's plays insist on the recognition of Jewish identity and uniqueness within the majority societies of Europe. This volume offers the first English translation of three of Grumberg's prize-winning plays: The Workplace ( L'Atelier , 1979), On the Way to the Promised Land ( Vers toi Terre promise , 2006) and Mama's Coming Back, Poor Orphan ( Maman revient, pauvre orphelin , 1994). Presented in the order of the history they record and steeped in Grumberg's personal experience and insights into contemporary Parisian life, these plays serve as documentary witnesses that begin with the immediate postwar reality and continue up to the end of the twentieth century. Seth Wolitz provides notes on the plays' themes, structures, characters, and settings, along with an introduction that discusses Grumberg's place within the emergence of French-Jewish drama and a translation of an interview with the playwright himself.

Looks at a variety of education reforms and innovations over the past one hundred years to find the best approach to teaching.

"John van Hengel started the world's first food bank in 1967 and went on to create a network of food banks through Feeding America. The concept of getting food that would otherwise be wasted to people who are hungry has spread throughout the world. Gottesfeld's warm text and Agatha's lively art shows that there's no shame in being hungry - the shame lies in how long it took for someone to figure out how to feed people! All it took was one person with a good idea to change things"--

"This book is a reference guide to the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It provides detailed maps and analysis of the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian land, and places that Occupation and conflict within the context of Israel's matrix of control of the Palestinians on the ground" --

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First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.

Jerome Rothenberg's Poland /1931, a continuing series of ancestral poems, has been appearing in installments over the course of five years, published in limited edition by various small presses.

Such favorite blues, gospel, and folk songs as The Roving Gambler, Old Gospel Ship, and Hallelujah, I'm a Bum are accompanied by a comlete elucidation of guitar-playing styles