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Too Good to Be True

By: Benjamin Anastas

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Too Good to Be True

By: Benjamin Anastas

Acclaimed writer Benjamin Anastas s searing, utterly moving memoir of fathers and sons, crushing debt and infidelity, and the first, cautious steps taken towards piecing a life back together.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547913990

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9780547913995

An Underachiever's Diary

A Novel

By: Benjamin Anastas

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An underachiever compares himself to his overachieving brother. The two are twins. The diarist is William, son of politically correct yuppies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the comparison is in such fields as toilet training, school and girls. A sardonic look at the values of our society.

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Dial Press Trade Paperback

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0385343043

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9780385343046

The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

A Novel

By: Benjamin Anastas

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The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

A Novel

By: Benjamin Anastas

When Reverend Thomas Mosher, the young black pastor of the Pilgrims' Congregational Church, vanishes without a trace, the congregants are left to grapple with the ensuing crisis.

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Macmillan

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0312420684

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Too Good to Be True

By: Benjamin Anastas

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Too Good to Be True

By: Benjamin Anastas

Acclaimed writer Benjamin Anastas s searing, utterly moving memoir of fathers and sons, crushing debt and infidelity, and the first, cautious steps taken towards piecing a life back together.

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How the Jews Defeated Hitler

Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

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How the Jews Defeated Hitler

Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism

By: Benjamin Ginsberg

One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where and by what means. True, many Jews were poorly armed, outnumbered, and without resources, but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth of passivity is solely that—a myth. The author describes how Jews resisted Nazism strongly in four major venues. First, they served as members of the Soviet military and as engineers who designed and built many pivotal Soviet weapons, including the T-34 tank. Second, a number were soldiers in the U.S. armed forces, and many also played key roles in discrediting American isolationism, in providing the Roosevelt administration with the support it needed for preparing for war, and in building the atomic bomb. Third, they made vital contributions to the Allies—the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain—in espionage and intelligence (especially cryptanalysis), and fourth, they assumed important roles in several European anti-Nazi resistance movements that often disrupted Germany’s fragile military supply lines. In this compelling, cogent history, we discover that the Jews were an important factor in Hitler’s defeat.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442222395

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9781442222397

Reinventing Human Services

Community- and Family-Centered Practice

By: Benjamin Higgins

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Reinventing Human Services

Community- and Family-Centered Practice

By: Benjamin Higgins

Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the difficulty of the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain, Canada, and the United States to develop a new paradigm for social work practice, one that integrates individual, family, and community levels of practice and reconceptualizes professional-community relations. The interdisciplinary team of authors includes scholars, researchers, and practitioners from the disciplines of economics, urban planning, communications, criminal justice, psychology, marriage and family therapy, education, and social work.

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Routledge

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1351493957

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9781351493956

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban

By: Glenn Theodore Seaborg,Benjamin S. Loeb

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Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban

By: Glenn Theodore Seaborg,Benjamin S. Loeb

Glenn Seaborg, the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission during the Kennedy administration, presents a detailed history of what seems the innocent days of nuclear arms control. He throws light on the actions of President Kennedy and the personality of Khrushchev, who is portrayed as a skillful rhetorician deeply concerned with slowing the arms race. According to the author Senate ratification of the limited test ban treaty in 1963 was only a partial victory, since he had hoped for a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing. Seaborg concludes with a plea for a ban under the terms of which neither side would be able to conduct any tests.

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Univ of California Press

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0520043324

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9780520043329

Empire of Objects

Iurii Trifonov and the Material World of Soviet Culture

By: Benjamin M. Sutcliffe

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Empire of Objects

Iurii Trifonov and the Material World of Soviet Culture

By: Benjamin M. Sutcliffe

Although understudied in the West, Iurii Trifonov was a canonical Soviet author whose lifetime spanned nearly the whole of the USSR's history and who embodied many of its contradictions. The son of a Bolshevik murdered on Stalin's orders, he wrote his first novel in praise of the dictator's policies. A lifelong Muscovite, he often set his prose in the Central Asian peripheries of the USSR's empire. A subtle critic of the communist regime, he nonetheless benefited from privileges doled out by a censorious state. Scholars have both neglected Trifonov in recent years and focused their limited attention on the author's most famous works, produced in the 1960s through 1980s. Yet almost half of his output was written before then. In Empire of Objects, Benjamin Sutcliffe takes care to consider the author's entire oeuvre. Trifonov's work reflects the paradoxes of a culture that could neither honestly confront the past nor create a viable future, one that alternated between trying to address and attempting to obscure the trauma of Stalinism. He became increasingly incensed by what he perceived as the erosion of sincerity in public and private life, by the impact of technology, and by the state's tacit support of greed and materialism. Trifonov's work, though fictional, offers a compelling window into Soviet culture.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299344002

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9780299344009

Ararat in America

Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

By: Benjamin F. Alexander

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Ararat in America

Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

By: Benjamin F. Alexander

How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group's population. Against the backdrop of key geopolitical events from the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide to the creation of an independent and then Soviet Armenia, it explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and the relationship that existed between partisan leaders and their broader constituency. Rather than treating the partisan conflict as simply an impediment to Armenian unity, Benjamin Alexander examines the functional if accidental role that it played in keeping certain community institutions alive. He further analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion. A detailed political and social history, this book integrates the Armenian experience into the broader and more familiar narratives of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War in the USA.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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075564882X

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9780755648825

Crusade and Mission

European Approaches Toward the Muslims

By: Benjamin Z. Kedar

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Crusade and Mission

European Approaches Toward the Muslims

By: Benjamin Z. Kedar

This wide-ranging study of medieval Europe's response to the challenge of Islam examines the relationship between ideas of crusade and mission, between European projects for military conquest and those for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity. Covering the years from the emergence of Islam to the fourteenth century, Benjamin Z. Kedar discusses not only the crusades and the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem but also the confrontation of Catholics and Muslims in Sicily and Spain. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400855616

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The Jews of the Soviet Union

The History of a National Minority

By: Benjamin Pinkus

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The Jews of the Soviet Union

The History of a National Minority

By: Benjamin Pinkus

This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521389267

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The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

A Novel

By: Benjamin Anastas

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The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

A Novel

By: Benjamin Anastas

When Reverend Thomas Mosher, the young black pastor of the Pilgrims' Congregational Church, vanishes without a trace, the congregants are left to grapple with the ensuing crisis.

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Book's by Benjamin Anastas

Too Good to Be True

Too Good to Be True

An Underachiever's Diary

An Underachiever's Diary

The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

Too Good to Be True

Too Good to Be True

How the Jews Defeated Hitler

How the Jews Defeated Hitler

Reinventing Human Services

Reinventing Human Services

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban

Empire of Objects

Empire of Objects

Ararat in America

Ararat in America

Crusade and Mission

Crusade and Mission

The Jews of the Soviet Union

The Jews of the Soviet Union

The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance

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