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The Book of Life

|9780822961819|Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011| Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here…

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Race and Renaissance

…global issues: civil rights with the Vietnam War; affirmative action with the movement against South African apartheid. As such, the study draws on both sociology and urban studies to deepen…

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The Spectator and the Topographical City

…adopts the viewpoint of the spectator to study three of Pittsburgh’s terrestrial rooms: the downtown Golden Triangle; the Turtle Creek Valley with its industrial landscape; and Oakland, the cultural and…

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The Dispute of the New World

…the Old World versus the New, and how each viewed the other at a vital turning point in history. | Antonello Gerbi|| History / Europe / General History / General…

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Models Of Nature

…the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study‘s impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first…

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