Liberty Press, The; Wichita, Kan. - Vol. 15 Nbr. 12, August 2009
Here again, we have the dark-haired, slender-but-muscular butch and the blonde, slight-but-steely femme (is that a Law of Lesbian Romance that nobody told me about?), inexplicably drawn to each other but separated by their pasts and an uncertain future. When the family is the source of pain, we tend to blame ourselves instead of an evil social system, and many of us try to exorcise the pain with alcohol, drugs, overeating, and even violence against ourselves or other people.
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Military Review - Vol. 89 Nbr. 5, September 2009
In doing so, he draws on a wide array of published and archival sources to assert that the American advisors "invented" South Vietnam's post- 1954 institutions and infrastructure - essentially building a nation where none existed before. According to the author, by the time of the Tet Offensive in January 1968, the nation-building campaign in southern Vietnam had completely failed.
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Middle East Journal, The - Vol. 63 Nbr. 4, October 2009
[...] since the Autumn issue is the last of the calendar year, it has traditionally carried an "Annual Table of Contents," which was little more than a compendium of the four tables of contents which appeared in the previous year. Since making the Journal available to subscribers in an electronic edition, however, much fuller electronic search and retrieval capabilities are available through the Ingenta website at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mei/mei.
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Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. - October 01, 2009
In has latest book. Living and Loving Out Loud, Dr. Cornel West discusses his life's great passions.... loud and clear. The author's note states 'this is a work of non-fiction. Conversations have been reconstructed to the best of my recollection.' The book reveals a man who many believe redirected the conversation on race and justice in America, and who is often at the center of the storm in any intellectual, social, religious or educational activity/debate pertaining to the suffering masses,...
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society - Vol. 119 Nbr. 2, April 1999
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Schick's book, a revised version of his 1987 Chicago doctoral ...... Central to the work is the second section: an extensive "Corpus of Sites," constituting about half of the book (pp. 225-484), which is particularly thorough ...
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life - Nbr. 1999, October 1999
THE SPLENDOR OF FAITH: THE THEOLOGICAL VISION OF POPE JOHN PAUL II. By AVERY DULLES, S. J. Herder & Herder. 204 Pp. $19. 95 paper.
The book started out with a course Father Dulles taught ...... But, as a succinct summary of the "theological vision" of John Paul II, this book, reflecting an astonishing command of the texts ...
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Middle East Journal, The - Vol. 63 Nbr. 4, October 2009
Not only was King 'Abd al-'Aziz seen as a champion of the Arab world for pressing Britain and the US on the "Palestinian question" but, as Rosemarie points out, the first talk of a Majlis al-Shura (representative council) in Saudi Arabia was prompted by the 1948 creation of Israel and the subsequent war. [...] it is a fitting memorial to a life of valuable scholarship.
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Liberty Press, The; Wichita, Kan. - Vol. 16 Nbr. 2, October 2009
[...] I'm glad I had the guts to fork over the cash for it a couple of decades ago. What's fun about this book is the cheap gin, the New York Speakeasies, the wellmeaning but airheaded roommate, the blowsy landlady, the cross-country train rides, the sexual frustration, and the eventual and quite satisfying end of said frustration.
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society - Vol. 119 Nbr. 2, April 1999
By TAZIM R. KASSAM. McGill Studies in the History of Religions. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1995. Pp. xiv + 424.
This book addresses a broad range of issues related to the ...... The book also includes a partial survey of scholarship on ...
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