Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King's legacy that continued through the decades that followed. Creating the first national holiday to honor an African American was a formidable achievement and an act of resistance against conservative and segregationist opposition.Congressional efforts to commemorate King began shortly after his assassination. The ensuing political battles slowed the progress of...

Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long before Israel, the name is found in an Egyptian list as one group in the land of tent-dwellers, the Shasu. This is the starting-point for Daniel E. Fleming's sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. In his analysis, the Bible's 'people of Yahw...

This book is an attempt to develop a dialogue between the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Porter's Thomistic theory of the natural law, and the virtue of solidarity as expressed in Catholic Social Teaching. It seeks to explore the implications that such a dialogue would have for our understanding of moral reasoning. Attentiveness to Vulnerability rests on the hypothesis that it is possible to develop a set of robust links between these thinkers and bodies of thought--markedly differen...

The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible undertakes a comprehensive re-evaluation of the Bible's primary narrative in Genesis through Kings as it relates to history. It divides the core textual traditions along political lines that reveal deeply contrasting assumptions, an approach that places biblical controversies in dialogue with anthropologically informed archaeology. Starting from close study of selected biblical texts, the work moves toward historical issues that may be illuminated by b...

When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers? This book investigates how and why the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) project leadership in South America, post-Soviet Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, respectively, and in what ways their main regional challengers respond. Based on a systematic conceptualization of the types and drivers of leadership and conte...

Two classic illustrated anthologies, now combined in one convenient volumeJames Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated into one convenient and richly illustrated volume, with a new foreword that puts the translations in context.With more than 130 readin...

BOND VS BLOFELDIn the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s trail has gone cold – and so has 007’s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. She’s the daughter of a powerful Corsican crime boss who thinks Bond's hand in marriage may be just the thing to settle his volatile daughter. But Bond's chances at marital blis...

Treatise on Tolerance (1763) is Voltaire's urgent brief against religious fanaticism and judicial cruelty, framed by the Calas affair. Combining forensic analysis with humane rhetoric, he dissects testimony, surveys comparative religions, and marshals history—from St. Bartholomew's Day to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes—to urge civil concord. The prose is lucid and ironic, a model of Enlightenment polemic that weds reason to sentiment and appeals to natural law and common interest. V...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You check your phone again. Three minutes since the last time. Nothing new sits there, just the same message you've already read six times, hunting for a meaning that isn't in the words themselves. You're not crazy. You're not too much. You're doing exactly what any smart, capable woman does when she's been handed a puzzle instead of a partner.Here's what nobody tells you about loving a man like this. It doesn't feel like being unloved. Th...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Every woman has watched it happen. One woman gets chased, spoiled, and adored without seeming to try. Another does everything right and still ends up invisible. The difference was never luck, and it was never about being harder to get. It comes down to something men rarely explain, because most of them have never had to put it into words before.This book does.Written from the other side of the table, by a man who has spent years wa...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most men don't run out of things to say because they lack material. They run out because half their attention is locked up managing how they're coming across, leaving almost nothing left over for the actual conversation happening in front of them. This book isn't a collection of lines to memorize. It's a complete rework of the mindset underneath every awkward silence, every rehearsed opener that falls flat, and every conversation that quietly stal...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You've asked yourself the same question more times than you can count. Why does he pull away right when things are finally going well. Why does the closeness that felt so real last week suddenly feel like it never happened at all. If you've spent nights replaying conversations for evidence of what you did wrong, wondering whether you're simply too much for someone who claims to love you, this book was written for exactly that confusion.Lov...