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Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Hélène Cixous, Peggy Kamuf, Eva Hoffman

Hélène Cixous

Translated by Peggy Kamuf

An inventive literary account of Cixous’s remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust.

ISBN: 9780823287628

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Boss of Black Brooklyn

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823288694

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That Further Shore

John D. Feerick, Thomas J. Shelley

John D. Feerick

This book is the autobiography of a lawyer, born in the Bronx of immigrant parents, who practiced law, served as dean of Fordham Law, participated in framing the Constitution’s Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and served as President of the New York City Bar Association and chair of State Commissions on government integrity.

ISBN: 9780823287352

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In Your Eyes I See My Words

Pope Francis, Marina A. Herrera, Ph.D., Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

Pope Francis

Edited by Antonio Spadaro, S.J.

Translated by Marina A. Herrera, Ph.D.

In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 2 contains Pope Francis’s homilies and speeches spanning from 2005 to 2008. Continuing what began in the first volume of this three-volume publication,...

ISBN: 9780823287598

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In Your Eyes I See My Words

Pope Francis, Marina A. Herrera, Ph.D., Antonio Spadaro, S.J., Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

Pope Francis

Edited by Antonio Spadaro, S.J.

Translated by Marina A. Herrera, Ph.D.

An extraordinary opportunity to understand the vision of Pope FrancisPope Francis is a first in many ways: the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit, the first Francis,...

ISBN: 9780823285600

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Radio Active

William O'Shaughnessy

Radio Active is William O’Shaughnessy’s fifth collection of essays, on-air interviews, tributes and eulogies, endorsements, recollections of an evening, and more from “perhaps the finest...

ISBN: 9780823286706

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America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Stephanie N. Brehm

This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert’s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.

ISBN: 9780823285303

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Sacred Shelter

Susan Greenfield

Edited by Susan Greenfield

Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-heartedness and faith. At a time when national homelessness is on the rise, and when the discriminatory and punitive social conditions that create it are getting worse, Sacred Shelter celebrates the personal dignity of each and every individual and insists on our communal need to listen to each other.

ISBN: 9780823281190

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Bad Faith

Andrew Feffer

Bad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.

ISBN: 9780823281152

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Maurice Blanchot

Christophe Bident, John McKeane

Christophe Bident

Translated by John McKeane

Maurice Blanchot: a Critical Biography attempts a critical and theoretical biography by drawing on unpublished documents and interviews with those close to the writer. It tracks the life and work of one of the most important novelists and critics of the twentieth century, who influenced many writers, artists, and philosophers, not least those of French theory.

ISBN: 9780823281756

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In the Shadow of Genius

Barbara G. Mensch

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York TimesIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author...

ISBN: 9780823280452

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Oh Capitano!

Rudolph J. Vecoli, Francesco Durante, Donna R. Gabaccia, Elizabeth O. Venditto

Rudolph J. Vecoli and Francesco Durante

Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia

Translated by Elizabeth O. Venditto

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.

ISBN: 9780823279876

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Counter Institution

Nandini Bagchee

Counter Institution is a history of three re-purposed buildings in the Lower East Side--Peace Pentagon, ABC No Rio, and El Bohio--that have been used by activists as their headquarters to launch various actions over the past forty years.

ISBN: 9780823279265

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Out of the Ordinary

Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka, Jacob Lau, Cameron Partridge, Susan Stryker

Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka

Edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

ISBN: 9780823280391

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Pure Act

Michael N. McGregor

A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author’s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax’s distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.

ISBN: 9780823276820

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Neighborhood Success Stories

Carol Lamberg, Gale A. Brewer, Ruben Diaz, Jr.

Carol Lamberg

This book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.

ISBN: 9780823279203

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The House of Early Sorrows

Louise DeSalvo

A stunning collection of one writer’s beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.

ISBN: 9780823279302

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A Shot Story

David Borkowski

David Borkowski was nearly shot to death during a botched robbery when he was 15. Soon before turning 40, he obtained a Ph.D. in Literature and Rhetoric from the CUNY Graduate School. He is now a Professor of English. A Shot Story describes that journey.

ISBN: 9780823278749

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Paul Hanly Furfey

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

ISBN: 9780823276776

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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Alexander Jefferson, Lewis H. Carlson

Alexander Jefferson

With Lewis H. Carlson

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending...

ISBN: 9780823274383

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Mario Cuomo

William O'Shaughnessy

Governor Mario Cuomo’s life and accomplishments are part of the public record, but in Mario Cuomo: Remembrances of a Remarkable Man, William O’Shaughnessy gives readers an exclusive and a deeply...

ISBN: 9780823274260

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Before the Fires

Mark D. Naison, Bob Gumbs

Mark D. Naison and Bob Gumbs

People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard...

ISBN: 9780823273539

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Red Apple

Phillip Deery

Through five case histories, the book provides a snapshot of political persecution in mid-twentieth century America.

ISBN: 9780823271795

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Teaching While Black

Pamela Lewis

Chronicles the experiences of a black female teaching in public schools in the South Bronx in the era of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core. Addressing “high stakes” that go beyond tests, Teaching While Black examines how and what one must teach poor students of color.

ISBN: 9780823271412

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The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown

Craig Saper

Biography of Robert Carlton “Bob” Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more.

ISBN: 9780823271467

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Autobiography & Biography

Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Boss of Black Brooklyn

That Further Shore

In Your Eyes I See My Words

In Your Eyes I See My Words

Radio Active

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Sacred Shelter

Bad Faith

Maurice Blanchot

In the Shadow of Genius

Oh Capitano!

Counter Institution

Out of the Ordinary

Pure Act

Neighborhood Success Stories

The House of Early Sorrows

A Shot Story

Paul Hanly Furfey

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Mario Cuomo

Before the Fires

Red Apple

Teaching While Black

The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown

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