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Black Christians and White Missionaries
As the centers of world Christianity shift toward Africa and Latin America, the impact of these areas on the development of Christianity becomes increasingly important. In this book one of the world’s leading...
Yale French Studies, Number 104
Encounters with Levinas
Thomas TreziseEditor’s Preface Leora BatnitzkyEncountering the Modern Subject in LevinasSamuel MoynTranscendence, Morality, and History:...
The Fourth R
Conflicts Over Religion in America’s Public Schools
A timely and engaging story of two centuries of controversy—and sometimes violence—over prayer in America’s public schools Contrary to popular belief, God has certainly not been kicked out of the public...
Fine and Dandy
The Life and Work of Kay Swift
The first biography of a composer who broke the gender barrier on Broadway Kay Swift (1897–1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Best...
Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution
Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of “Great Code,” but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated...
The Cuckoo
Announcing the 2003 recipient of the oldest annual literary prize in North America The winner of the 2003 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus’s The Cuckoo, chosen by...
Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists
Second Edition
Transcendentalism was the name given to the New England movement of the 1830s and 1840s that brought together Romanticism in literature and social reform in politics. Its partisans argued for the rights of women, the...
Nietzsche's Task
An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil
When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until “around the year 2000.” Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by...
The Empirical Stance
What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and...
Print the Legend
Photography and the American West
A compelling story of how the new medium of photography and the new American frontier came of age together—illustrated with scores of stunning images This prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of...