Civil Society and the Family, Paperback - ***

This enlightening book challenges conventional distinctions between the family and civil society as it uncovers how civic values and practices are ...

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The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now av...

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Sabonia is about society in ancient times under going civil wars on one hand and a global threat in the other. Segregation, violence, it must stop,...

Reducere. In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, w...

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As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences a...

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Censorship, Harvard storytelling, judges making law, pseudoscience, and dinosaur deception Those are just some of the answers that explain how Amer...

DescriptionIn this "revelation" of a biography (USA TODAY), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriv...

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Soldiers in the Union Army volunteered for many reasons--to reunite the country, to put down the southern rebellion. For most, however, slavery was...

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