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Lessons from Nature, Vol.3 of 3 is the third in a series of poetry books on nature, with poems about plants, flowers, skies, trees, birds, bugs, etc. The author has been writing for 25 years and loves observing what happens in nature. If you enjoy reading nature poetry, you will enjoy this book.

La presente edición contiene notas provenientes de las ediciones de Alfredo Zayas, Roberto Agramonte y Alicia Conde.

La presente edición contiene notas provenientes de las ediciones de Alfredo Zayas, Roberto Agramonte y Alicia Conde.

"A Chaplain's Reflections" is a book in inspirational Christian poetry that was used during the eight years Mr. Bevington was Protestant Chaplain of Angela Hospice, Livonia, Michigan. By using scripture, stories, poetry and his harmonica, Mr. Bevington was able to help dying patients, their families and friends face their difficult times, giving them hope in place of despair.

Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys’ development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys’ lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals boys’ early ability to be emotionally perceptive,...

Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, and have children. While conventional wisdom suggests that all women, regardless of race, must sacrifice romance and family for advanced educations and...

A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even...

This book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely, Y.T. Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the ‘other’ can attend to the struggles that entail...

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Theatrical characters’ dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher. Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play re-examines the ontological status of theatre and its fictional objects through the "possible worlds" thesis,...

On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggŭn assassinated the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life,...

In 1943 the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would become the Air Commandos, a unit that marked a milestone in tactical operations in support of British ground forces invading Burma. William T. Y'Blood tells the story of how these daring American aviators trained and went into combat using unconventional...

In this insightful study, Paul Y. Hammond, an experienced analyst of bureaucratic politics, adapts and extends that approach to explain and evaluate the Johnson administration’s performance in foreign relations in terms that have implications for the post–Cold War era. The book is structured around...

The Bridal Canopy, Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s mock epic novel, is an elaborate frame story encompassing dozens of Hassidic tales. Set in early nineteenth-century Galicia, the plot is part quest, part comedy of errors,   progressively departing from its opening tone of realism. It is the...