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A SEASON FOR REDEMPTION

Barak, Ronald S.
From one of Americas newest and most engaging novelists comes the gripping story of a political system gone awryand those who feel compelled to fix it. Detective Frank Lotello is investigating a murderhis first time back on the job following the sudden death of his wife. Its a doozy. Three prominent D.C. politicians are brutally murdered. Capitol Hill is in a panic. There are some who whisper the three had it comingtheir corruption had played a significant role in the collapse of the economy. When local businessman Cliff Norman is arrested, the whole town breathes a sigh of relief, especially the politicians. Though Norman had motivehe lost his business and home in the financial crisis, and his son died of a rare cancer when his insurance carrier refused to pay for experimental treatmentLotello suspects Normans involvement may only be the tip of the iceberg. The more he investigates, the more he uncovers, including a disturbing connection to the White House. Normans trial begins. An angry nation rallies behind an unlikely folk hero. Judge Arnold Lambert and a fiercely-divided jury confront a question that threatens to tear the country apart. Were Normans actions legally justified by a widespread and growing political abuse of trust? Lotello races to unravel the truth before the jury reaches a verdict that may alter the course of U.S. history. Fast-paced and eerily plausible, a season for redemption is the debut of a compelling new author. For more information, visit www.aseasonforredemption.com.
Self Published 2009

Socialist thought: a documentary history

Albert Fried,Ronald Sanders
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the Aymara must now become more Indian. This groundbreaking study of the contemporary encounter between Catholic missionaries and Aymara Indians is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation," which upholds the beliefs and practices of a supposedly pristine Aymara culture as indigenous expressions of a more universal Christianity. Addressing essential questions in cultural anthropology, religious studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies, Catechizing Culture is a sophisticated documentation of the widespread shift from the politics of class to the politics of ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Columbia University Press 1992 619 pages

Thinking Palestine

Ronit Lentin
This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who theorise 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An indispensable read for any serious scholar.
Zed Books 2008-04-01 264 pages

Some of my best friends are blues

Scott, Ronnie
In this book, leading musician, jazz club founder, and compere Ronnie Scott recalls the highlights, tribulations, multiple frustrations and moments of intense musical gratification in running his leading London jazz club, due to celebrate its 45th year in October 2004. He also writes of his early days as a musician and band-leader. The book is full of his wry and witty observations and is informed by a shrewd appreciation of the eccentricities of human nature.
W.H. Allen 1979 125 pages

The United Nations Human Rights Council: a critique and early assessment

Freedman, Rosa
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council's mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission's flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council's form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission.This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council has fulfilled its mandate.
Routledge 2013 330 pages

The Picasso Papers

Krauss, Rosalind E.
Was Picasso a modern Midas who not only turned the trash of everyday life into the gold of Cubist collage but also gave new value to the work of Old Masters? Or was he a monster counterfeiter who mercilessly raided the styles of others? In The Picasso Papers, Rosalind Krauss suggests that the reason we still ask these questions is that modernism itself is a hall of mirrors in which "counterfeit" and "genuine" both reflect the same condition. Krauss brings Picasso's pastiche of other artists brilliantly into focus as the "sublimated" underbelly of Cubism, refashioned in the bright, clean style of Picasso's neoclassicism?a defense that is its own form of practicing the forbidden.
Diane Pub Co 1998 268 pages

Despised and rejected

Allatini, R.
Despised and Rejected was very much ahead of its time in its depiction of homosexual love and desire, in Antoinette's 'crushes' and slow acceptance that she won't be able to be in love with a man, in its honest attitude to the war, and in the radical way it links maleness with belligerence and being gay with the refusal to kill. And it is a book that longs for Britain and Europe to be united. Dennis sees that 'the roads and railways that had been made throughout Europe to connect one country with another had been torn up to form frontiers and sever the connection.' He wishes that 'the barriers of racial hatred and racial envy be swept away; art and civilisation arise once more in place of murder and barbarity.' Despised and Rejected is brave; and it is balanced, generous, sane and civilised.
Persephone Books 2018-04-19 363 pages

The Rainbow Cat and Other Stories

Rose, Fyleman
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
BiblioLife 2009-05-20 126 pages

Another year in Africa

Zwi, Rose
They came from the stetl to a new land, to a new life. Another year in Africa, they said, another year in exile. Old bonds break as they adjust from the old world of pogroms to their new life in Africa. Six-year-old Ruth is haunted by memories of tragedy and persecution that are not even hers. Award-winning author, Rose Zwi, evokes with tenderness the 1930s and 40s with a tale of loss of innocence alongside the stirrings of Apartheid.
Spinifex 1995 172 pages

Speak the truth, laughing: nine stories and a novella, House arrest

Zwi, Rose
Rose Zwi's stories embrace people from different countries and cultures drawn together by a common humanity. Her characters range from a political activist who is house-arrested, to the child of immigrant parents caught between two cultures; from a city-educated woman returning to the arid homeland of her tribal grandfather, to a Rabbi and his wife in an East European shtetl; from a solitary dingo in a small Australian town, pursued to its inevitable end to a farmer obsessed with returning his land to its natural state.
Spinifex 2002 197 pages

Computers and typography 2

Rosemary Sassoon
This second volume of Computers and Typography reflects the new developments in this rapidly-changing field. It complements, without in any way supplanting, Volume 1 through an extensive elaboration of issues that were considered only briefly by its precursor. Presented as a series of integrated case studies and interviews, the book includes information on: - the skills needed for quality website design, - the impact of computers upon publishing and corporate design, - the use of computers within the educational field, - the progress of child-oriented typefaces, and - issues in screen layout when designing educational and training software. The clarity and breadth of each presentation makes this a valuable book for all concerned in education, training, design, and typography and so will attract a wide and varied readership.
Intellect 2003 158 pages