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"Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. This volume offers an account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. It is an account of a heroic rescue.

This guide is aimed at singers and singing teachers interseted in the French song repertoire. In a clear and concise way, using examples from well known song settings, it sets out the basics of French versification, showing how an understanding of verse techniques can enhance the enjoyment and interpretation of the French melodie.

Slave Religion remains the preeminent synthesis of the religious life of slaves in the United States. This new edition will consider the developments in the study of slavery, the religious encounter, religious culture, and reactions to the books over the past twenty five years, as well as the ways the author would write it differently today.

Focuses on the metaphysics and the philosophy of language and mind. This work tackles a philosophical question whose origin goes back to Descartes: What am I? The self is not a mere thing among things - but if so, what is it, and what is its relationship to the world?

Explores a model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on the studies of the oral/written interface in medieval and Greco-Roman contexts, this book argues that in ancient Israel, Biblical texts emerged as a support for an educational process in which written and oral dimensions were intertwined.

Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. This work examines the influence of this Frenchman on twentieth-century American musical life, through his development of the flute and flute pedagogy, his promotion of new genres and repertoire, and works dedicated to him.

The short story has a long rich history in Brazil, and this anthology collects the best examples from the last 125 years. The collection is edited by a leading authority in the field who has provided a critical introduction.

A biography of Waldon Pond, interweaving social, cultural, and environmental history. The author details the geography of the pond, Thoreau and Emerson's experiences at the place over their lifetimes. This book is illustrated with original maps of Thoreau Country and historic photographs.

Presents an account of the development of national culture in India using classical music as a case study. This book demonstrates how the emergence of an "Indian" cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices. It deals with how a nation's imaginings - from politics to culture - reflect rather than transform societal divisions.

Based on over a thousand interviews and survey data from more than 55,000 families spanning five continents, this work is an account of how the conditions of work threaten children, women and men, and the infirm. It addresses problems faced by working families in industrialized and developing countries.

Analysing the transformation in beliefs and practices relating to black beauty in the 1960s and pre-Civil Rights Movement and later black beauty pageants, Ain't I A Beauty Queen? goes into beauty parlours, late-night political meetings, and college campus organisations to study how black women were symbols and participants in the reshaping of black racial identity.

'Thinking Orientals' is a study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of 20th-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity and also analyses the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

Since the third edition of this book on behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry, there have been so many important developments in the study of brain/behaviour relationships that the current edition represents a very thorough revision. The authors have maintained the structure of the first three editions.

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion is an anthology of primary sources, which charts a map of American music and musical life through the words of composers, performers, writers and "the people." The anthology contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000 ranging from William Billings to Qbert, from psalmody to rap.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of Methodist practice, tracing its evolution from the earliest days up to the present. Using liturgical texts as well as written accounts in popular and private sources, Karen Westerfield Tucker investigates the various rites and seasons of worship in Methodism and examines them in relation to American society.

Offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. Concentrating mainly on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, this book also covers indigenous peoples in a variety of areas of South and Central America. It also argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples.

In this enlightening and highly-praised collection of essays, extensively revised, Lewis explores the vast common heritage shared by Islam and the West, the history of the troubled relationship, and the perceptions each side holds of the other. This is a matchless guide to the backgroud of Middle East conflicts today from an eminent authority.

In this book, Unger attacks the commonly held idea that some qualities exist apart from the physical world and are more a matter of our perception, such as colours. Instead Unger argues that these qualities should be reconsidered as fundamentally physical. He then uses this idea to reengage the basic issues of metaphysics.

The first comprehensive history ofthe Washington press corps during the twentieth century. The book shows how reporters crafted rules of the trade to improve relations with their sources, but harmony bred a conspicuous compatibility with the political establishment that brought the press corps into disrepute.

A guide for anyone involved in caring for the seriously and chronically ill or dying. This book presents the thinking on how spiritual care can be integrated into traditional caregiving. It discusses aspects of spirituality, such as presence, ethics, and relationships, and delves into a number of specific religious and theological traditions.

Lake BaikalSiberias immense and threatened Sacred Sea is the magnet that draws a veteran environmental journalist and his brother around the world and back by train and boat. On this classic journey of discovery, the author takes the measure of the planet, humanity, Russia and his own self as reflected in the worlds greatest lake.

Echoing through Western culture for more than two millenia, Sophocles' Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destinies.