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The Death Penalty
This fascinating volume, focusing on the death penalty, presents primary source materials like the text of court rulings and dissenting opinions, as well as analysis and opinion on the rulings. Readers will understand how the courts, through their rulings, have helped to shape the death penalty as we know it.
Living Through the Vietnam War
Using the words and recollections of individuals who experienced life in the United States during the Vietnam era of the Cold War, this volume discusses how American life was changed and shaped by the longest war in American history. In separate chapters the volume presents the words of the U.S. government, the views of those against the war, the experiences of soldiers and veterans, and the ways in which Vietnam was portrayed in media and popular culture.
Vietnam War Crimes
Discusses some of the atrocities that occurred during the Vietnam War, and presents arguments for why they were committed, why they were covered up, and the positive and negative reactions by the American and Vietnamese people to these crimes.
A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings
This collection of studies, reflecting developments in feminist exegesis over the last few years in Europe and the United States, includes treatments of key female figures ('Tamar and the "Coat of Many Colours"' by Adrien Janis Bledstein; 'Michal, the Barren Wife' by Lillian R. Klein; 'On Centering a Fringe Figure: The Wife of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 14:1-18' by Uta Schmidt; 'The Widow of Zarephath and the Great Woman of Shunem: A Comparative Analysis of Two Stories' by Jopie Siebert-Hommes), and a new examination of a biblical threesome, 'Saul, David and Jonathan: The Story of a Triangle? A Contribution to the Issue of Homosexuality in the First Testament' by Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli.
Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I
In this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and between one another in the contemporary world. These goal of these essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for discovery of meaning and method.
Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah
This volume brings together disparate views about biblical texts in the books of Samuel, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and examines their influence in the life of contemporary communities, demonstrating how today's environments and disorders help readers to acquire new insights into such texts. The contributing scholars hail from different continents - from East Asia to the United States to Europe to South Africa and Israel - and count themselves as members of various Jewish and Christian traditions or secularist ways of life. But, in spite of their differences in location and community membership, and perhaps in the spirit of the times (2020 and its global discontents), they share preoccupations with questions of ethics in politics and life, 'proper' death, violence and social exclusion or inclusion. This volume offers readers a better understanding of how politics and faith can be melded, both in ancient and contemporary contexts, to serve the interests of certain classes and societies, often at the expense of others.
Investigation of So-called "rackets".
Also investigates the problem of crime prevention in general. Oct. 3, 1933 hearing was held in Detroit, Mich; Oct. 23, 24, 1933 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Aug. 14, 15, Nov. 23, 24, Dec. 21, 1933 hearings were held in NYC, Jan,31, 1934 hearings were held in Washington.
