Poet and essayist Fawaz Turki begins his search for answers in the hallways of the 1983 Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers. He then recalls his family's flight into Lebanon when he was eight, childhood in a refugee camp and the streets of Beirut, and years spent in Australia, France, and the United States in search of his identity, both ......
For over forty years, Dr Marvin Brown served the medical needs of the inhabitants in and around a small town in central New York State. Throughout the challenges, frustrations, rewards, and triumphs of his chosen path, Dr Brown was blessed with the unfailing love and support of his beloved wife and children. This book talks about Dr Marvin Brown.
Offers tributes in the form of elegies and homages to the almost forgotten people and places and times past that range in subject matter from Henry James' return to America in 1904, to the hoboes of the thirties, to present-day Florida.
Tells the story of Heinz Hartmann's struggles, tragedies, and joys. This book offers stories about his medical practice, the similarities and differences he has discovered between various religions, and the 'missionaries' who have tried to convert him. It is the story of a doctor who has spent his life healing the scars left by the Nazis.
In Max Weber: A Skeleton Key Randall Collins gives a concise overview of the work of one of sociology's greatest classic thinkers. The many strands of Weber's theorizing and the breadth and scope of his historical comparisons are here brought clearly into focus. This is an ideal text for students in sociology.
In Max Weber: A Skeleton Key Randall Collins gives a concise overview of the work of one of sociology's greatest classic thinkers. The many strands of Weber's theorizing and the breadth and scope of his historical comparisons are here brought clearly into focus. This is an ideal text for students in sociology.
In 1890, Aunt Puss Hooks, Spurger's outstanding citizen, was not known beyond the boundaries of Tyler County, Texas. She represented a way of life as it was lived in her day and a type of people who were among the unsung builders of our nation. Belonging to a generation that had its advent immediately following the Civil War, she was one of the ......
Eric Kaminsky, a 22-year-old music student was robbed, stabbed, and then thrown on the tracks of a New York City subway, where he died. Here, Eric's mother gives an account of this senseless tragedy. She describes the pain she suffers from the loss of her only child and exposes the inadequacies of our flawed criminal justice system.
