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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Many people are familiar with the story of Jewish support for the American civil rights movement, but this history has another side one that has not been fully told until now. Outlines a compelling image of relations between the two communities. In "Shared Dreams, " Rabbi Schneier reiterates our commonality, as upheld by Martin Luther King, Jr., and fuels the reader to continue to work for the advancement of race relations among all God s children. from the Preface by Martin Luther King III "Shared Dreams "brings to life the impressive, surprising, and long-neglected history of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. s efforts in support of the Jewish community. This is a story that sheds new light on the commitment and the relationship between the Jewish and African-American communities as they have struggled together to fight for justice and civil rights in our nation, and our lives. Features Summary At critical moments int he life of the American Jewish community, of Israel, and of the plight of Soviet Jews, Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped in as an advocate to speak out for the human and civil rights of Jews... Author Marc Schneier (Author), Martin Luther King (Author) Publisher Jewish Lights Publishing Release date 20090722 Pages 240 ISBN 1-58023-273-6 ISBN 13 978-1-58023-273-9

 Andrew's Brain by E. L Doctorow (Paperback)   This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times-funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew's Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.  

About the product Facsimile of the 1860 first edition published in Boston by the American Tract Society; The Black Heritage Library Collection. 8vo; original black cloth; spine silver gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 102. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good condition. A treatise on the history of the slave trade and its abolition, the original publication of which coincided with the increasing tension between the states of the Union on the eve of the American Civil War. Clark argues against any revival of the trade, and expresses America's guilt at the continuation of an internal trade in the human species by several states.

About the product First American edition: The British first edition was published by John Murray in the preceding year. 8vo; original brown pebbled cloth, ornately blocked in blind to boards, and lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 426 + publisher's catalogue; folding frontis.; folding map; numerous plates and illustrations in text. Cover very worn and bumped; binding shaken; bottom fore-corner torn from front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout; trace of damp-stain to gutters, becoming more extensive in the rear endpaper, appendix and final leaves. (Tenri Africana 2045; Mendelssohn I, p. 518) Pioneering account of all aspects of life in Madagascar at the time, detailing particularly the efforts of Ellis to establish a mission on behalf of the London Missionary Society. The ethnographical and natural history plates are a special feature, and the author's love of gardening is evident in the attention paid to the island's botany. William Ellis: Three Visits to Madagascar, during the Years 1853-1854-1856. Including A Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People

Subtitle: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945  Author: Robert J. Hanyok Publisher: Dover Publications (2012) ISBN-10: 0486481271 ISBN-13: 9780486481272 Condition: Very Good. Some wear to cover, edges and corners. Else a very good copy. Binding: Softcover Pages: 196 Dimensions: 23.3 x 16.4 x 1.6 cm +++ by Robert J. Hanyok +++ This recent government publication investigates an area often overlooked by historians: the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. A guide for researchers rather than a narrative study, it explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. In addition, it summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years and deals at length with the fascinating question of how information about the Holocaust first reached the West.The guide begins with brief summaries of the history of anti-Semitism in the West and early Nazi policies in Germany. An overview of the Allies' system of gathering communications intelligence follows, along with a list of American and British sources of cryptologic records. A concise review of communications intelligence notes items of particular relevance to the Holocaust's historical narrative, and the book concludes with observations on cryptology and the Holocaust. Numerous photographs illuminate the text.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel Leon-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of time. At the book's first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a classic in anthropology," a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars. Like no other people in history, the ancient Maya were obsessed by the study of time. Their sages framed its cycles with tireless exactitude. Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture. In this absorbing work Leon-Portilla probes the question, What did time really mean for the ancient Maya in terms of their mythology, religious thought, worldview, and everyday life? In his analysis of key Maya texts and computations, he reveals one of the most elaborate attempts of the human mind to penetrate the secrets of existence. Features Summary In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel Leon-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of time... Author Miguel Leon Portilla (Author), C. Boiles (Translator), F. Horcasitas (Translator) Publisher University of Oklahoma Press Release date 19900901 Pages 256 ISBN 0-8061-2308-7 ISBN 13 978-0-8061-2308-0