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Brooklyn Boy (TCG Edition)

Donald Margulies

Brooklyn Boy (TCG Edition)

“A terrific production . . . American playwright Donald Margulies’ self-reflective, dream reverie comedy drama Brooklyn Boy is tough, insightful, bittersweet, funny and ultimately wise.”— The Hollywood Reporter “Those who know Margulies’ plays will find his familiar themes here: the inevitable transformations wrought by aging, the complex hands linking parents and children, the uneasy dance between commercial and artistic success....

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Donald Margulies

Stage Writers Handbook

Dana Singer

Stage Writers Handbook

•Audience includes those who buy The Daramatists Sourcebook. •May be revised every 2-3 years. (Possibly an on-going project.

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Dana Singer

Storefront Church

John Patrick Shanley

Storefront Church

Some of Shanley’s sharpest comic writing in years His intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics remains distinctive and invigorating.”  Charles Isherwood, New York TimesThere’s a deeper philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his language to acquire the heft and timbre of a serious moral debateWe taste bitterness, but also much that is sweet.”  David Cote, TimeOut New...

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John Patrick Shanley

Undesirable Elements

Ping Chong

Undesirable Elements

"The cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing. Ping Chong creates a tremendous tapestry of lives."—Twin Cities Reader This three-piece volume of Undesirable Elements, the community-specific theater works series, examines the lives of those born into one culture but living in another. Each production grows out of an extended residency, during which Ping Chong and his collaborators conduct interviews of community members and then create a script that...

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Ping Chong

Sight Unseen and Other Plays

Donald Margulies

Sight Unseen and Other Plays

Includes: Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic, The Model Apartment, What's Wrong with This Picture?, and Sight Unseen.. With a palpable affection for the traditions of the stage and a taste for surreal comedy, Margulies «manages to transform what might have been kitchen-sink drama into theatre that is unsettling, imaginative and quite hilarious»–Howard Kissel, New York Daily News

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Donald Margulies

A Master Builder

Henrik Ibsen

A Master Builder

"Wallace Shawn is one of the most complex and uncompromising moralists of the American theater." – Ben Brantley, New York Times"At once the U.S.'s most profound and overlooked playwright." – David HareThis translation and adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness by Wallace Shawn, a writer known for his own bleakly hilarious and provocative plays, was used by legendary director André Gregory during fifteen years of work on a theatrical production which, instead...

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Henrik Ibsen

Ahad Ha-am

Israel Kipen

Ahad Ha-am

A classic text on Zionism for the 21st Century. Since its initial publication in 1997, 'Ahad Ha-am: The Zionism of the Future' has become the definitive and standard study of one of Zionism's most towering and influential figures. The republication of this classic text as an e-book is a cause for celebration for students of history, academics and the general public. No one knows Ahad Ha-am better or is better suited to deal with the life and thoughts of the icon of...

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Israel Kipen

Dance Lest We All Fall Down

Margaret Willson

Dance Lest We All Fall Down

An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia...

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Margaret Willson

The Jewish Life Cycle

Ivan G. Marcus

The Jewish Life Cycle

In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life–from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years�the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement,...

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Ivan G. Marcus

Sanctuary and Asylum

Linda Rabben

Sanctuary and Asylum

The practice of sanctuary�giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger�may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern asylum policies in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, contrasting them with the role that courageous individuals and organizations have played in offering refuge to survivors of...

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Linda Rabben

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers

Andrew Walker

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis. They argue that such crises have been used to support political objectives of state expansion and control in the uplands. They have also been used to justify the alternative directions advocated by an array of...

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Andrew Walker

Autobiographical Jews

Michael Stanislawski

Autobiographical Jews

Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as the truth, and, to a lesser extent, the new cognitive neurosciences, Michael Stanislawski analyzes a number of crucial and complex autobiographical...

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Michael Stanislawski

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Mode...

Ruth R. Wisse

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

I. L. Peretz (1852�1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz�s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.

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Ruth R. Wisse

What We Talk about When We Talk abo...

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)

Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses?...

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Studying the Jewish Future

Calvin Goldscheider

Studying the Jewish Future

Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish communities and asserts that «the quality of Jewish life has become the key to the future of Jewish...

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Calvin Goldscheider

Irish Fairy Legends

T. Crofton Croker

Irish Fairy Legends

Come sit by the fire — a world of enchantment awaits you in this treasury of classic Irish stories by folklorist T. Crofton Croker. From 1812 to 1816, he roamed southern Ireland, listening to his countrymen's stories of pixies, leprechauns, and other supernatural creatures. The result is one of the first collections of Irish fairy tales on record — and it's often considered the finest. Told in plain but colorful language with charming illustrations that capture the...

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T. Crofton Croker

The Crowd

Гюстав Лебон

The Crowd

One of the most influential works of social psychology in history, The Crowd was highly instrumental in creating this field of study by analyzing, in detail, mass behavior. The book had a profound impact not only on Freud but also on such twentieth-century masters of crowd control as Hitler and Mussolini — both of whom may have used its observations as a guide to stirring up popular passions. In the author's words, «The masses have never thirsted after the truth. Whoever can...

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Гюстав Лебон

School Photos in Liquid Time

Marianne Hirsch

School Photos in Liquid Time

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and...

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Marianne Hirsch

The Gods of Greece and Rome

Talfourd Ely

The Gods of Greece and Rome

The deities of the ancient world — from the famous denizens of Olympus to anonymous river nymphs and sea monsters — come to life in the pages of this classic guide. Richly readable, informative, and colorful, it is drawn mostly from the great epics of Homer and the works of Apollodoros, an Athenian scholar of the second century B.C. Not only does it define the myths in terms of their influence on Western literature, it also depicts the role of the deities in everyday life,...

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Talfourd Ely

Six Ethics: A Rights-Based Approach...

Christian Volz

Six Ethics: A Rights-Based Approach to Establishing an Objective Common Morality

New Book Addresses Crippling Nature of Irrational Belief in the 21st Century Christian Volz's Six Ethics takes both a philosophical and a pragmatic approach to addressing the dangers posed by irrational belief, and proposes a framework for creating a legal and social environment where rationality and spirituality might be reconciled. In the 21st century, as international business continues to expand and the Internet and other means of global...

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Christian Volz

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

The Gift

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Lewis Hyde

Champions...Plus

Gary Elettra DeVaul

Champions...Plus

A summer thunderstorm pursued Mark Thallander as he drove from Massachusetts to Maine after playing the organ for a morning church service in Worcester. Dinner awaited him, but Mark never arrived. The car hydroplaned at the exit from the turnpike, just minutes from his destination. A deafening silence followed the explosion of the accident. Then an unseen woman's voice spoke to Mark. Turn off the engine. Keep talking. Later, in a hospital forty miles away, surgeons had...

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Gary Elettra DeVaul

Capital

Rana Dasgupta

Capital

'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD FOR LITERARY REPORTAGE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him – he 'fell in love and in hate with it' – and fifteen...

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Rana Dasgupta

To Sing with Pigs Is Human

Jane C. Goodale

To Sing with Pigs Is Human

Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology�s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests of New Britain, an island in the vast territory of Papua New Guinea. Even in the last half of the twentieth century, the Kaulong�s contact with the outside world through government patrols and missionaries has been minimal. Their story enhances our understanding of Melanesia and...

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Jane C. Goodale

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