It wasn’t his case...his girl...or his problem...but Johnny Liddell had a personal interest in this little caper. He didn’t ask to be the Feds’ “receiver” on a pass of inside info on the smuggling racket, but he was. He didn’t ask to have a couple of hoods beat the living daylights out of him to get the info back, but they did. As a matter of fact, for the first time in his life, Johnny Liddell wasn’t asking for trouble. But when a lovely doll invited him to see her later, and murder turned later into never again, Johnny asked in—in to the bloody end.
What Price Prejudice? examines the long tradition of antisemitism by giving an overview of the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Frank Eakin's work will help Christians to reflect seriously and objectively upon history and theology - and their impact on Jewish-Christian relations." "The book is written so that it will serve for use both in the classroom and by church/synagogue groups. Discussion questions follow each chapter to stimulate discussion and encourage further reflection on the issues addressed."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to women's masturbation classes in Shanghai, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific and engaging human stories, he also elucidates the neuroscience that distinguishes male and female biology, shows us how all parents' brains change during the first weeks of parenthood, and finally how men's and women's responses to age differ worldwide based not on biology but on their earlier life habits. Starting with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous observation that one is not born a woman but instead becomes a woman, Browning goes on to show equally that no one is born a man but learns how to perform as a man, and that there is no fixed way of being masculine or feminine. Increasingly, the categories of "male" and "female" and even "gay" and "straight" seem old-fashioned and reductive. Just visible on the horizon is a world of gender and sexual fluidity that will remake our world in fundamental ways. Linking science to culture and behavior, and delving into the lives of individuals challenging historic notions, Browning questions the traditional division of Nature vs. Nurture in everything from plant science to sexual expression, arguing in the end that life consists of an endless waltz between these two ancient notions.
The story of the 1966 NCAA Championship game, the first time that a team with an all-black starting five, Texas Western, faced a team with an all-white starting five, Kentucky. Don Haskins was the Texas Western coach.
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofFrank Norriswhich areMcTeague and The Octopus. Naturalism describes the details of everyday existence, expressing the social milieu of the characters. Frank Norris concentrated on society's seamier side and the travails of the lower classes as the focal point of his writing. Novels selected for this book: - McTeague - The Octopus This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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